Shortly after, Interscope began the main promotional campaign displaying a new release date, 'October 26th 1999', and a new logo that drops the subtitle No Seeds. Years later, in an interview with Sticky Fingaz, he stated the song featuring himself and RBX was in fact the Eminem song 'Remember Me?', which, at Eminem's request, was put aside for his then-upcoming album, The Marshall Mathers LP. Amongst the roster of guests listed on the posters were rappers Sticky Fingaz and RBX, who neither were featured on the finished album. Dre's album would now be named Chronic 2001: No Seeds through teaser posters displaying a 'Summer '99' release date. Īfter the release of Death Row's Chronic 2000, Interscope announced that Dr. According to his lawyer Howard King, 'both sides agreed that we'd allow the other to use the title, and then let the public decide which one they preferred'. When Aftermath heard that Priority and Death Row planned to use the same name for their album, Dre sought legal action. Dre's album when notification for the trademark use was required by his label, Aftermath Records.

Death Row owned the trademark for The Chronic as did Interscope Records who previously distributed the Death Row catalogue. However, this version of the album was scrapped after Dre's departure from Death Row Records.Īfter the creation of Aftermath Entertainment, the album was initially titled Chronic 2000 until Priority Records, who had become Death Row Records' new distributor decided, in conjunction with Death Row's founder and then-CEO Suge Knight, to call their newest compilation album Chronic 2000. In 1995, the original successor to The Chronic was to be titled The Chronic II: A New World Odor (Poppa's Got A Brand New Funk). 2001 received generally positive reviews from critics, many of whom praised the production and music, although some found the lyrics objectionable. It produced three singles that attained chart success and has been certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA) as of August 2015 the album has sold 7,800,000 copies in the United States. Billboard 200 chart, selling 516,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number 2 on the U.S. Dre and Mel-Man, as well as Lord Finesse, and features several guest contributions from Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Eminem, and Nate Dogg.Ģ001 exhibits an expansion on Dre's debut G-funk sound and contains gangsta rap themes such as violence, crime, promiscuity, sex, drug use, and street gangs.

It was released on November 16, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records as the follow-up to his 1992 debut album, The Chronic. 2001 (also referred to as The Chronic 2001 or The Chronic II) is the second studio album by American rapper and hip hop producer Dr.

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