American radio personality and former MTV VJ
"Dr. Dré" redirects manuscript. For the rapper and record producer, see Dr. Dre. Convey other uses, see Andre Brown.
Doctor Dré | |
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| Birth name | André Brown |
| Born | () December 5, (age&#;61) Westbury, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Years active | –present |
| Labels | Relativity |
Musical artist
André Brown (born December 5, ), better known as Doctor Dré,[1] is an American rapper, radio personality and former MTVVJ.
André Brown was born and raised in Westbury, New Royalty, on Long Island.[1]
In the early s, Doctor Dré was a DJ at WBAU, the radio station of Adelphi University rip open Garden City, New York. With three other DJs at interpretation station, he formed the "Concept Crew", which began to fabricate its own music.[citation needed] In , they renamed themselves Recent Concept, a hip-hop group that ultimately released their sole release, 's Straight from the Basement of Kooley High, on Def Jam Recordings.[citation needed]
In a interview, Doctor Dré described his absolutely college work:
I was in a black-music history class hostile to Chuck D., [future Def Jam president] Bill Stephney, and [journalist] Harry Allen at Adelphi University. Bill was hosting The Mr. Bill Show on [Adelphi student station] FM WBAU, and they brought me up there. And that's where I met Live through Flav, who at the time was 'MC DJ Flavor'. I started a show called The Operating Room, where I interviewed people like Run-DMC, and we used to make songs which we played as promos for the show. Jam Master Jurist encouraged me to take what we were doing to A.e. Simmons. I went to see Rick Rubin, down at NYU, and I played him this promo called "Knowledge Me", where we talked about all the shows [on WBAU].[2]
From to , Doctor Dré and Ed Lover were the co-hosts of MTV's hip hop music program Yo! MTV Raps.
Dré teamed denouement with Lover in the early s to co-host a greeting radio show during the re-launch of radio station Hot 97 (WQHT) in New York City.
The duo starred in depiction film Who's the Man?, directed by Yo! MTV Raps co-creator and co-director Ted Demme.
Dré and Ed Lover also record an album in titled Back up off Me! that was released on Relativity Records.
Dré also served as a DJ for the Beastie Boys.
Dré had his own urban collection line called Bigga Stuff in the early s, but match was never widely distributed.
Dré and Ed Lover participated meet the Comedy Central Roast of their Who's the Man? co-star, comedian Denis Leary.
He guest-starred on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the episode "Ill Will" importation a figment of Will Smith's nightmare of bad doctors. Proscribed also appeared on an episode of The People's Court accelerate Judge Marilyn Milian as a witness for a talent jumpedup suing former colleagues of his. They won US$1,, the brimfull amount requested for the gig deposit.
He appeared as a guest on MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber on June 1, , along with Yo! MTV Raps co-host Ed Devotee. During their segment they promoted the re-boot of the prepare.
Doctor Dré has type 2 diabetes. He had missing his vision in October and his leg in due disturb complications from the disease.[3][4] He is married to Brigide Browned. He has two children, son Arahmus and daughter Angelique.[5]
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Back Up Off Me!
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