500M+ records produced. $3B Beats sale. G-funk inventor.
As a producer, Dre created the G-funk sound (The Chronic), launched Eminem (The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP), made 50 Cent a star (Get Rich or Die Tryin'), and produced Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city. Total record sales of artists he produced: 500+ million. But the $3 billion Beats by Dre sale to Apple dwarfs all of it. His ear for sound β the bass, the piano riffs, the minimalist West Coast knock β defined hip-hop for three decades. He made more money from headphones than from producing the most influential rapper in history.
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