Angus Batey

Music producer, Apple executive and N.W.A. rapper recently announced that he would be releasing his first album since 1999, featuring guests such as Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg amongst many others. From his humble beginnings with the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, to his brash coming out party with N.W.A., and now as a mentor to some of the greatest recent talent in rap, the Compton-born producer has never eased his stranglehold on the game. Ranked at the top of the Forbes rich list in 2014, Andre Romelle Young, aka Dr. Dre is set to become one of the first hip-hop billionaires in the world! . Follow the inside story of how it all began for Dr. Dre as we take a journey though his pinnacle producer years right through to his lucrative partnership with Apple.

Intimates of the band, music critics and others tell the story behind The Prodigy, the British band that took the rave scene by storm in the 1990s with its incendiary blend of techno, industrial, punk, and alt-rock stylings. Former Prodigy guitarist Gizz Butt (who provided the legendary licks on "Their Law" collection of singles) reminisces about touring with the guys, while hip-hop author Angus Batey and disc jockey Joe Muggs analyze the tunes.