Juxtapoz Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Juxtapoz MagazineInstagram)「What hasn't been written about Dr. Dre's The Chronic? It introduced us to Snoop Dogg, G-Funk, Death Row Records and a sound that was Los Angeles through and through. Released on December 15. 1992 in the heyday of MTV, Dre mixed an ultimate attitude and production wizardry for which he and collaborators created the most iconic album of early 1990s rap. Dr. Dre rolling up in a lowrider in LA at the beginning of the video for "Nuthin' But A G Thang" still is cemented in mind. Black White Sox hat, a lanky, young Snoop Dogg in the backroom with an LBC hoodie? The Chronic had a LOOK. That it was recorded and released in the months following the LA Riots made this feel like a very specific tale of Los Angeles. A listen today and it feels like a time capsule. It also feels like escapism, which is perhaps what the cover is telling us. • Copying the old Zig-Zag wrapper design, Dre had a sly nod to the name of the album itself. Wikipedia notes, "The choice of a member of this French North African regiment as a Zig-Zag icon originates from a folk story about an incident in the battle of Sevastopol. When the soldier's clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from a musket cartridge." In Kimberly Holt's design, Dre was the zouave soldier, the mastermind and innovator behind this project, front-and-center, the ringleader. • Over the last 27 years, The Chronic and Dre has gone through many stages of respect and controversy, from his brillliant use of Parliament-Funkadelic samples to admitting to being abusive to girlfriends from that time. Assessing art in retrospect is so often too messy to avoid mentioning. But this cover is iconic, and elicits such a feeling of that time that its worth looking at what one piece of art can convey to an entire era. That Dre's production would introduce a whole new generation to the likes of George Clinton and funk forefathers in the process was essential. Many would argue that this was the first true crossover rap album, and a multi-platinum status tells of that legacy. You can't tell the history of popular music without Andre Young, and this was his magnum-opus. #juxtapozsoundandvision」6月16日 23時18分