The album's three singles became top ten Billboard singles. The Chronic spent eight months in the Billboard Top 10. The Chronic reached number three on the Billboard 200 and has been certified triple platinum with sales of three million copies in the United States, making Dre one of the top ten best-selling American performing artists of 1993. The title derives from a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is an homage to Zig-Zag rolling papers. It features many appearances by then-emerging American rapper Snoop Dogg, who used the album as a launch pad for his own solo career. It includes insults towards Ruthless and its owner, the former N.W.A member Eazy-E. Dre's first solo album after he departed the hip hop group N.W.A and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. Recording sessions took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records. The Chronic is the debut studio album by the American hip hop producer and rapper Dr.

The chronic 2001 tracklist