Enjoying media spotlight, N.W.A's example triggered the rap genre's movement toward hardcore, gangsta rap. As the 1990s closed, if largely through N.W.A's own splintering—yielding successful solo music careers and franchises for Ice Cube and for Dr. Dre, whose 1991 departure dissolved the group—N.W.A's ripple effects had reshaped rap, R&B, and pop music, influencing pop culture.