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Besides slamming Napster, Dr. Dre ... appeared in a related story by demanding that Musicmaker.com immediately remove any of his songs from their website. Musicmaker is a custom-compilation and download site, and it had recently announced a licensing deal with Dr. Dre's former label, Death Row Records. The Musicmaker website listed 27 of Dr. Dre's songs for use in custom compilations.
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Dre (born Andre Young, February 18, 1965) became involved in hip-hop during the early '80s, performing at house parties and clubs with the World Class Wreckin' Cru around South Central Los Angeles and making a handful of recordings along the way. In 1986, he met Ice Cube, and the two rappers began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label started by former drug pusher Eazy-E. Eazy tried to give one of the duo's songs, "Boyz-n-the Hood," to HBO, a group signed to Ruthless. When the group refused, Eazy formed N.W.A. -- an acronym for Niggaz With Attitude -- with Dre and Cube, releasing their first album in 1987. A year later, N.W.A.
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Allegedly, some time ago Dr. Dre requested permission from Lucasfilm, the purveyor of the THX technology, to use the famous sound for incorporation into one of his songs. According to Lucasfilm, they denied Dr. Dre's request to use the sound.
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The turn of the millennium ... saw Dre use his gifts to influence the technological future of music. Dre joined popular heavy metal band Metallica and the Recording Industry Association of America in suing Napster, a popular web site where members swap MP3s. In each suit, the complaints focused on copyright infringement. Dre submitted a list of more than 900,000 songs that he wanted removed from the website. Napster ultimately agreed to block songs that record companies wanted out of their trading software, but subsequent royalty agreements mean that many songs that Dre has performed or produced are now available on Napster.
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