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Here, Dr. Dre performs onstage with Eminem during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 15, 2018, in Indio, California.
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In June 2020, Dre’s wife of 24 years filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Rappers Ice Cube, left, and Dr. Dre attend Ice Cube’s star-unveiling ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on June 12, 2017, in Hollywood, Calif. The two were part of the original lineup of seminal hip hop group N.W.A and served as producers on the 2015 biographical drama about the group, “Straight Outta Compton.
Rapper LL Cool J, left, greets music mogul Dr. Dre at the premiere of HBO’s “The Defiant Ones” at the Time Warner Center on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, in New York.
MC Ren, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and DJ Yella of N.W.A speak at the 31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 8, 2016, in New York.
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Fields on April 2012 in Indio, California. The rappers surprised the crowd when they performed with a hologram of Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996.
Dr. Dre performs at the 2013 BET Experience at Staples Center on June 29, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Dr. Dre, left, and Ice T in a scene from the 2012 documentary “Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap,” about the development and rise of rap music.
Eminem and Dr. Dre perform at the 2011 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Dr. Dre on the field before the Boston Red Sox take on the the New York Yankees on April 4, 2010 during Opening Night at Fenway Park in Boston. Dre was promoting the Boston Red Sox version of his Beats by Dr. Dre headphones.
Dr. Dre founded Beats Electronics, the maker of his iconic headphones, in 2006, with record company executive Jimmy Iovine. He shows them off here on Jan. 7, 2009, at CES in Las Vegas.
Dr. Dre at a rehearsal for Chris Rock’s television program on Nov. 5, 1999, in New York.
In 1992, Dr. Dre released his debut solo album, “The Chronic.
Members of the rap band N.W.A, from left: MC Ren, DJ Yella, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre.
N.W.A released their game-changing album “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988.
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