Dr. Dre

His parents married in 1964, separated in 1968, and divorced in 1972.

His mother later remarried to Curtis Crayon and had three children: sons Jerome and Tyree (both deceased) and daughter Shameka.

Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American record producer and rapper.

He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founded and was the president of Death Row Records.

Andre Romell Young was born in Compton, California, on February 18, 1965, the son of Theodore and Verna Young.

His middle name is derived from the Romells, his father's amateur R&B group.

In 1976, Dre began attending Vanguard Junior High School in Compton, but due to gang violence, he transferred to the safer suburban Roosevelt Junior High School.

The family moved often and lived in apartments and houses in Compton, Carson, Long Beach, and the Watts and South Central neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

Dre has said that he was mostly raised by his grandmother in the New Wilmington Arms housing project in Compton.

His mother later married Warren Griffin, which added three step-sisters and one step-brother to the family; the latter would eventually begin rapping under the name Warren G.

Dre is also the cousin of producer Sir Jinx.

Dre attended Centennial High School in Compton during his freshman year in 1979, but transferred to Fremont High School in South Central Los Angeles due to poor grades.

He attempted to enroll in an apprenticeship program at Northrop Aviation Company, but poor grades at school made him ineligible.

Thereafter, he focused on his social life and entertainment for the remainder of his high school years.

Dre's frequent absences from school jeopardized his position as a diver on his school's swim team.

After high school, he attended Chester Adult School in Compton following his mother's demands for him to get a job or continue his education.

After brief attendance at a radio broadcasting school, he relocated to the residence of his father and residence of his grandparents before returning to his mother's house.

Young began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1985, and later found fame with the gangsta rap group N.W.A.

The group popularized explicit lyrics in hip hop to detail the violence of street life.

During the early 1990s, Young was credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of West Coast G-funk, a subgenre of hip hop characterized by a synthesizer foundation and slow, heavy production.

Former labelmate Tairrie B claimed to that Young assaulted her at a party in 1990, in response to her track "Ruthless Bitch".

Young's solo debut studio album The Chronic (1992), released under Death Row Records, made him one of the best-selling American music artists of 1993.

It earned him a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance for the single "Let Me Ride", as well as several accolades for the single "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang".

That year, he produced Death Row labelmate Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle and mentored producers such as his stepbrother Warren G (leading to the multi-platinum debut Regulate...G Funk Era in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin Daz Dillinger (leading to the double-platinum debut Dogg Food by Tha Dogg Pound in 1995), and would later mentor other producers including Mel-Man and Scott Storch.

In 1996, Young left Death Row Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment.

He produced a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath, in 1996, and released his second solo album, 2001, in 1999.

He signed Eminem in 1998 and 50 Cent in 2002, and heavily produced their output while they were signed with Aftermath.

Through the label, Dre signed other artists including the Game, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic, Busta Rhymes, Eve, and Rakim, among others.

He has won seven Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.

Rolling Stone ranked him number 56 on the list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Outside of music, Young has acted in films such as Set It Off, The Wash, and Training Day.

Accusations of Young's violence against women have been widely publicized.

Following his assault of television host Dee Barnes, he was fined US$2,500, given two years' probation, and ordered to perform 240 hours of community service, part of which he fulfilled by making an anti-violence public service announcement.

A civil suit was settled out of court.

During the 2000s, Young focused on producing other artists, occasionally contributing vocals.

In 2015, Michel'le, the mother of one of his children, accused him of domestic violence during their time together as a couple.

Two weeks following the release of his third album, Compton in August 2015, he issued an apology to the women "I've hurt".

The abusive relationship is portrayed in her 2016 biopic Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le.

Lisa Johnson, the mother of three of Young's children, stated that he beat her many times, including while she was pregnant.

She was granted a restraining order against him.