Rolling Stone - 12/11/03, p.128
Ranked #137 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[Dr. Dre] funked up the rhymes with a smooth bass-heavy production style and the laid-back delivery of then-unknown rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg."
Rolling Stone - 5/13/99, p.53
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone - 3/18/93, p.40
4 Stars - Excellent - "...A hip-hop masterwork full of big beats and little surprises....THE CHRONIC drops raw realism and pays tribute to hip-hop virtuosity..."
Spin - 9/99, p.122
Ranked #8 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Entertainment Weekly - 1/8/93, p.54
"...No one in the pop universe makes more visceral--or more visual--music than he does....THE CHRONIC storms with rage, strolls with confidence, and reverberates with a social realism that's often ugly and horrifying..." -
Rating: A+Q - 12/99, p.76
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Q - 1/94, p.82
Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a mature, progressive, marvelous new record..."
Q - 1/94, p.85
Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993.'
Q - 12/02, p.122
"...Chock-full of impossibly thrilling basslines....Hugely influential..."
Vibe - 12/99, p.157
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe - 6/02, p.109
Ranked #6 in Vibe's "Top 10 rap albums" - "...Dre's decade-defining opus introduced the world to the laid-back luxury of Californian 'G-funk'....The game would never be the same."
The Source - 2/93, p.55
4.5 Stars - Excellent Plus - "...Following the hype behind one of his hardest tracks ever, 'Deep Cover,' Dre has unloaded all over this album with the same furified intensity....An innovative and progressive hip-hop package that must not be missed..."
Village Voice (3/94, p.5) -
Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) -
Ranked #6 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Personnel: Dr. Dre (keyboards, drum programming); Chris Clairmont (guitar); Katisse Buckingham (flute, saxophone); Colin Wolfe (keyboards, bass guitar); Justin Reinhardt (keyboards).
Audio Mixers: Dr. Dre; Chris "The Glove" Taylor.