Speaking with Dan Patrick, Ice recalled that Knight had visited him in his hotel room to gently convince him to pony up some dough for the contributions - an incident that Ice told Patrick was not quite as threatening as has since been speculated. Next, Knight applied a little squeeze to one of the hottest rappers of the early '90s: Vanilla Ice, whose first studio album "To the Extreme" had included a handful of songs written by an associate of Knight's publishing company. In an interview with Spectrum News, Harris recalled that he acted as a shadow co-founder of the label that would become Death Row, and he even helped to manage it in its early days while behind bars on drug charges (via Classic Album Sundays). Shortly after the release of Documentary, tension between The Game and 50 Cent ignited, resulting in The Game leaving Aftermath Entertainment in mid-2006 and G-Unit Records in mid-2005.First, Knight hooked up with notorious drug kingpin Michael "Harry-O" Harris. Rapper, The Game, who signed with the label in 2003, also released his début album The Documentary through a joint venture with 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records in 2005. Aftermath released 50 Cent’s multi-platinum major label début album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ through a joint venture with Shady Records in 2003. Several more artists were signed to, and later dropped from Aftermath, including Hittman, Truth Hurts, and Last Emperor. The album went on to be certified 6x platinum. Dre’s follow-up to his 1992 album, The Chronic. The album topped the Billboard albums chart, went on to be certified quadruple platinum, and arguably became the label’s first successful release.Īlso in 1999, Aftermath released 2001, Dr. The following year, Eminem’s major label debut, The Slim Shady LP was released. Upon recommendation from Interscope Records head, Jimmy Iovine, Aftermath signed now multi-platinum rapper Eminem in 1998. Legal troubles forced Truth Hurts to leave the label, and Rakim’s highly anticipated comeback album that was shelved due to production conflict also forced his departure. Veteran rapper Rakim also signed with the label. His album, however, was shelved, and King Tee also left the label. Aftermath’s next release was supposed to be by rapper King Tee. Dre himself, debuting atop the Billboard 200 and being certified platinum, it sold below commercial expectation. Despite the highly anticipated album featuring production and cameo appearances by Dr. In the autumn of 1997, Aftermath released the first, and only, collaborative project by hip hop super-group, The Firm (comprised of AZ, Foxy Brown, Nas, and Nature). Dre had been too slow to get the “ball rolling” on her project. Before the year’s end, however, she abruptly left the label, claiming that Dr. In 1997, Dawn Robinson announced her departure from the R&B group En Vogue and that she had signed with Aftermath.
Dre Presents the Aftermath was released towards the year’s end, featuring artists who were amongst the label’s first signees (most of the acts featured, however, quickly became disassociated with the company). Dre quickly launched Aftermath Entertainment through Interscope Records (which at the time was Death Row’s distributing label). Upon his departure from Death Row Records in March 1996, Dr.
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