Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
1992 · Death Row · Compton, California
- Artist
- Dr. Dre
- Title
- Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
- Release
- The Chronic
- Year
- 1992
- Label
- Death Row
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Compton, California, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · West Coast Hip Hop · Gangsta Rap
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
West Coast Hip Hop / Gangsta Rap artist, born Andre Romelle Young on 18 February 1965 in Compton, California, USA - another member of N.W.A, and co-founder of well-known hip hop label Death Row Records. Vietnam War tracks included: "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" (1992) as a solo artist. He also featured on the song "The Dayz of Wayback" (1991) with N.W.A, as well as "Crack a Bottle" (2009) (with Eminem and 50 Cent), which both referenced the Vietnam War.The song "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" (Interscope Records # P1 57128) used Vietnam to describe a bad trip on drugs: "smoke go in your lungs like that, you get lifted, calm, and if it's the bomb, taken away like Calgon, Vietnam". Calgon was a reference to an old commercial slogan.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
West Coast Hip Hop / Gangsta Rap artist, born Andre Romelle Young on 18 February 1965 in Compton, California, USA - another member of N.W.A, and co-founder of well-known hip hop label Death Row Records. Vietnam War tracks included: "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" (1992) as a solo artist. He also featured on the song "The Dayz of Wayback" (1991) with N.W.A, as well as "Crack a Bottle" (2009) (with Eminem and.