knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr.r ♪ - ooh, boy. snoop doggy dogg and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy, they knocked the door down, baby. - ♪ nothin' but a g thing, baby ♪ ♪ two loc'ed out niggas, so we're crazy ♪ - 70% of rap music, including gangster rap, was purchased by whites. - growing up in saint paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world, based on this music. - other music is more like a fairy-tale story, where now we can hear somebody else's history, basically, and understand where they're coming from. - ♪ bow wow wow, yippy-yo, yippy-yay ♪ ♪ death row's definitely in the, house ♪ - "the chronic" made hip-hop digestible to everybody. it was a hip-hop tsunami, and we didn't see it coming. - death row record's gonna be the next motown, you know what i'm saying? - mm-hmm. - "the chronic" album was the foundation, and we gonna keep rolling on until the house is finished. - ♪ it's the bow to the wow ♪ ♪ creepin' and crawlin', yiggy-yes y'all-in'