not to jack the post, but I remember somewhere in an interview Tip dropped that Dre was somewhat influenced by The Low End Theory when he made The Chronic. Probably more by the overall 'sound' of the album fitting what people would identify with jazz and the attention paid to the technical aspect of the sound coming thru the speakers.

The Chronic was an R&B Rap album aesthetically in that the sound quality was so smooth and clean and the cleanness was a positive trait to have by the aims of the album. I can't really remember an album having sound quality that clean like the poster above mentioned.