Fantastic Voyage
Bryan Dobbs looped Lakeside's 1980 hit, and Coolio rode it to number three dreaming of somewhere trouble-free.
Bryan Dobbs looped Lakeside's 1980 hit, and Coolio rode it to number three dreaming of somewhere trouble-free.

Dre put music under Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's a cappella original, and Snoop made the story his.

Snoop wrote the hook but label trouble kept him off the record; Warren G took it to number nine.

Sam Sneed and J-Flexx started it as 'The Heist'; Dre and Cube's first record together since N.W.A.

A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.
DJ U-Neek's beat, Shatasha Williams on the hook, and the harmonized Cleveland flow Eazy-E had to be talked into releasing.

Predator-era Cube with Das EFX in tow; the remix rode the Message beat to number one R&B.

A Mothership Connection sample, RBX writing Dre's verses, and the Grammy win that turned it into a hit.

Eminem wrote the verses as a reference for Snoop Dogg, by Dre's account, and Dre kept the guide vocal.

Warren G looped four bars of Michael McDonald in a Long Beach bedroom, and Nate Dogg sang his half.

Dre and Mel-Man built it on a David McCallum orchestral cut from 1967, arranged by Axelrod, and Nate Dogg closes.

Dre stacked Atomic Dog over Parliament and Funkadelic, and Snoop's debut single walked straight into the top ten.
Dr. Dre produced it, George McCrae supplied the sample, and Snoop's unhurried drawl became the West Coast blueprint.

Jay-Z wrote every line of it, Scott Storch played the piano figure, and Dre's seven-year album silence ended.

Roger Troutman's talk box over a Joe Cocker sample, and Shakur's first single after Death Row sprang him from prison.

Dre built G-funk on a Leon Haywood sample, handed Snoop the mic, and gangsta rap reached number two.