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Turn Off The Lights
Producer
Dr. Dre (West Coast)
Performing artist
Wrecking Crew
Mixing engineer
Doctor Dré
Distributor
Macola Record Company
Manufacturer
Macola Record Company
Executive producer
Lonzo
Record company
Kru-Cut Records
Date1987
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (Diameter): 11 13/16 in. (30.004 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1999.389.30.A,.B
Text Entries“Turn Off The Lights” is a single released in 1987 by The World Class Wreckin Cru, produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, and released under Kru-Cut Records.
World Class Wreckin' Cru was an Electro-Rap group from the Los Angeles area that formed in the early 1980s. Originally formed by Compton club owner Alonzo Williams, also known as DJ Lonzo (Alonzo Williams, b. 1957), members included Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young, b. 1965), Cli-N-Tel (Marquette Hawkins, b. unknown), DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby, b. 1967), Shakespeare (Barry Severe, b. unknown), Michel'le (Michel'le Denise Toussant, b. 1970) and Mona Lisa Young (b. unknown). World Class Wreckin' Cru became one of southern California's most popular Rap acts.
Front cover: Four men are positioned in four corners holding a string attached to a light bulb. A woman has a picture in the center of the four squares. The World Class is printed on the top. Wrecking Cru is printed on the bottom. Turn Off is printed on the left. The Lights is printed on the right. Back cover: The track list and credits are listed.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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