Dr. Dre The Chronic (2-LPs)

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."
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
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..."
Ranked #8 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
"[A]n album that transformed hip-hop, popularized a brewing subgenre, and introduced the world to Snoop Dogg."
"...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+
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a mature, progressive, marvelous new record..."
Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993.'
"...Chock-full of impossibly thrilling basslines....Hugely influential..."
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
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."
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.
Paste (magazine) - "One of the best albums of the '90s; one of the best hip-hop albums of all time; one of the best debut albums ever made; when giving The Chronic its due, there's no shortage of superlatives to choose from."
Pitchfork (Website) - "He collapsed the distance between the lawless Los Angeles of the persona he created for himself and the real one right outside Solar studios, giving his songs texture wherever possible..."