Research Catalog

Title

• Rollin' with Dre : the unauthorized account : an insider's tale of the rise, fall, and rebirth of West Coast hip hop / Bruce Williams, with Donnell Alexander.

Author

Williams, Bruce, 1964-

Publication

New York : One World, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Alexander, Donnell

Description

xiii, 164 p., [16] of plates :; ill. ; 25 cm.

Summary

• "I'm about to blow the top off everything I saw," writes Bruce Williams, the long-time best friend and right-hand man to Dr. Dre, and a prime mover at Aftermath, one of the most successful start-up labels in music history. In Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account, Williams gives us an unprecedented inside look at - and the up-and-down story of - two decades of hip-hop culture and "The Life".
• As Dre's confidant and the problem-solver to a stable of artists and others who came to know him as "Uncle Bruce", Williams was either there when the action went down or close enough to feel the hollowpoints whiz by: Dre perfected the gangsta era's signature sound displayed on his highly influential album The Chronic and its Snoop Dogg-helmed follow-up, Doggystyle, getting out from under Death Row Records, the lable Dre co-founded with impressario Suge Knight; launching the careers of Eminem, 50 Cent, and The Game.
• Williams lays it out in black and white, from dish on Tupac Shakur's chaotic rise and fall to the deadly feud between Tha Row (formerly Death Row Records) and the East Coast MCs and big-shots, from Suge's legal battles to Dre's reconciliation with Eazy-E before E's untimely demise from AIDS, from the hard-won "overnight" successes of Snoop and Eminem to what it was like rollin' with giants and legends-in-the-making - and living the life (and bearing the burdens) as a bona-fide master of the game.
• Williams takes us on a wild ride, showing us the never-before-seen side of the infamous West Coast scene. With one foot firmly planted in the Hollywood establishment and the other in the sex-and-violence-drenched netherworld of the hip-hop music industry, Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account is the impossible-to-put-down story of music icons and the culture that created the soundtrack of a restless generation. (Publisher).

Subjects

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Geschichte 1985-2007
• Hip Hop
• Rap musicians > California > Los Angeles
• Sound recording executives and producers > California > Los Angeles > Biography
• Williams, Bruce, 1964-
• Dr. Dre, 1965-

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Funk Family Feud -- Chapter 1. Straight Outta Bunkie -- Chapter 2. Military Stuntin' -- Chapter 3. Freak Who Rocked My World -- Chapter 4. Black Hollywood -- Chapter 5. In tha Lab with tha Doctor -- Chapter 6. California Love -- Chapter 7. From 4-H to Death Row -- Chapter 8. Un-Eazy Lessons -- Chapter 9. Birth of Beef -- Chapter 10. Darling Nikki -- Chapter 11. Giving Suge His Due -- Chapter 12. Beyond Beef at Benihana -- Chapter 13. Vivian -- Chapter 14. G'd Up Enough -- Chapter 15. More Money, More Problems -- Chapter 16. Detox -- Chapter 17. Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop -- Chapter 18. Givin' Props.

ISBN

9780345498229 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007041910

OCLC

177058521

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library