Dre album” was a punch line in and of itself, thanks to the good doctor’s mythically delayed, over-ten-years-in-the-making third album, which, since 2001, was set to be called Detox. Before last week, the phrase “the forthcoming Dr. First, there is the fact that it exists at all. Dre’s new album, Compton: A Soundtrack, is a pleasant surprise. “I just wanted to do something special for Compton,” the producer said.In so many ways, Dr. I just wasn’t feeling it.”Ĭompton, however, is an album he’s proud of. I worked my ass off on it, I don’t think I did a good enough job, and I couldn’t do that to my fans and I couldn’t do that to myself, to be perfectly honest with you. I’m gonna keep it all-the-way 1,000 with you, seriously. “The reason Detox didn’t come out was because I didn’t like it. “This is something you’re not gonna hear many artists say,” he said. Regarding why he put the kibosh on Detox, Dre explained on The Pharmacy that it wasn’t up to snuff. “I kept it under wraps, and now the album is finished. “During principal photography, I felt myself going to the studio and being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album,” Dre said on his Beats 1 program The Pharmacy earlier this month. Dre” and serves as a companion piece to the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, which will hit theaters next Friday. Compton, Dre has said, will be his “grand finale.”Ĭompton is subtitled “A Soundtrack by Dr. Its release also signals an end to years of speculation about the release of Detox, the long-in-gestation, mythical album which he says he has abandoned.
Dre songs and feature appearances by Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, the Game and Xzibit, among others. When it comes out, the record will boast 16 new Dr. We would just go into the studio, put up the track and for some reason, the stars aligned and we killed it, man.” “As a matter of fact, most of the lyrics are written by us three. “The new artists I got like King Mez and Justus, these two guys actually came in and just grinded with me throughout the entire project,” Dre said. Speaking to Lowe, Dre mentioned the help he got from emerging artists on the album.
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