Dr. Dre Shared A Moving Message With Fans After Receiving Startling Health News

For the most part, Dr. Dre prefers to keep out of the spotlight. And the rapper-turned-producer swapped life in front of the mic for a career behind the mixing desk a long time ago. But in January 2021 he took to Instagram to share a worrying health update with fans.

It’s safe to say that Dre is a hip-hop legend. He became a pioneer of gangsta rap in the late 1980s with his band N.W.A. before moving on to his own solo work and finally into producing. Some of you may not know that his label Aftermath Entertainment also helped to establish the careers of artists like 50 Cent, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. More recently, meanwhile, Dre has become a media mogul with his Beats Electronics brand.

The talented producer launched the incredibly popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones in 2008, and his business also expanded into music streaming. Then six years later he sold the Beats brand to Apple for an impressive $3 billion. The sale bumped Dre’s net worth to $800 million and made him the world’s richest rap artist, according to Forbes.

With all these riches and critical acclaim, then, what did Dre end up doing? Well, he didn’t just sit back and simply enjoy his fortune! The producer instead released his highly anticipated third album in 2015. Entitled Compton: A Soundtrack, the record’s release coincided with the premiere of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton. And Dre would later confirm that he had been inspired by his experiences on set.

It would seem that the mid-2010s were an extremely successful time for Dre. During that period he also purchased a $40-million mansion in L.A.’s exclusive Brentwood neighborhood from Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, Variety reports. With all this considered, it seemed that things were very much still on the up for Dre. But in January 2021 his world would be rocked by a considerable health scare.