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I love Dre, but I think the hype for this album will be impossible to live up to. Still, hopefully it will be solid.

Slim da Mobsta?

I would have loved to hear this album if he had managed to put it out in the mid 200s with 50 Cent, Game and Eminem on the majority of the vocals.

Exactly. I thought 2001 was a crushing disappointment after all the hype and especially when compared to "The Chronic."

The guy unfortunately released one of the greatest rap albums of all time, as a debut album. Nothing that follows will ever be that good.

I love the original Chronic, but I like 2001 even more. However, I completely acknowledge this is because I heard 2001 before I ever heard the original Chronic. 2001 was one of the first CDs I ever bought and this surely adds something to it for me.

Yeah woulda been great to had have DETOX a couple years ago with Em, Game, Busta, Bishop, Cube...


I like Chronic 2001 more.

Dr. Dre Talks The Detox Wait, “Under Pressure” Frustration And Instrumental Album

Fiending for a check-up with the Doc? Peep a few excerpts from VIBE’s August/September cover story on Dre. Dre to hold you down till August 13. Interview by: Jerry Barrow

ON THE DETOX HOLD-UP:
When you first announced Detox did you think it would take this long?
Absolutely not. I thought it would take at worst case a couple of years. For example, actual work time on The Chronic was nine months and actual work time on my last album, 2001, was about 10 months. The actual work time on this album is about half of that, where I’m seriously focusing on it. There is always something coming up. Like signing talent, old and new.

ON DEALING WITH MUSIC LEAKS:
So “Under Pressure” leaking was killer.
It was a little bit more frustrating because at least “Crack a Bottle” had a hook on it. I wouldn’t be as mad at a leak if the song was done.

Can you blame the fans for wanting to hear something after all this time?
Absolutely not. I’m not mad at the fans. I’m mad at the person that leaked the shit. I have no idea how it got out. It’s not even worth looking to see who did it. It happens. The most painful part about it is that I’m passionate about what I do so people should hear it in the right form.

There were some other reference tracks that leaked with T.I. and Ludacris lyrics. Were those legit?
Two of them were. Somebody actually hacked into our emails, so that made our red flags go up. We’re in a new age and that’s a sign: Wake up motherfucker. You have to be more careful with your shit. That’s all there is to it. I know what’s up now.

ON A COMING INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM:
You mentioned a hip-hop album without rapping. Will we ever hear a Dr. Dre instrumental album?
Oh yeah, that’s in the works. An instrumental album is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I have the ideas for it. I want to call it The Planets. I don’t even know if I should be saying this, but fuck it. [Laughs.] It’s just my interpretation of what each planet sounds like. I’m gonna go off on that. Just all instrumental. I’ve been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. I’ve been doing this for about two years now just in my spare time so to speak. I wanna do it in surround sound. It’ll have to be in surround sound for Saturn to work.


AFTERMATHMUSIC.com

So Dre is mad at the person who leaked "the shit" but it is not worth looking into? He also said that the actual work time on this album was half of his other albums, 9 months and 10 months. Man would I love to actually work on something for only about 5 months in a 10 year period. Get the fucking thing done already and stop talking about signing new talent when you should already have enough talent around you to get it done.

Don't you know how difficult it can be acting in a Dr. Pepper commercial?

Haha, the inspiration for his instrumental album is hilarious.

Thanks for the updates.

The fact that there is nothing happening?

Whatever, Dre. This is becoming worse than Guns N Roses, only cheaper.

HAHA. Well yeah, I guess. Any news is something, even if it leads to more jokes.

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So will Detox be streamed wirelessly into the Beats headphones?

In a perfect word, yes. Me and Jimmy talk about this all the time. It was supposed to be my album promoting the headphones, but it’s gonna be the other way around now. It’s gonna be a two-for-one thing. As soon as we finish this interview I’m going into the studio and get it on. I know it’s taking a long time but it’s not 100 percent work on my album that I’m doing every day. That’s why it’s taking so long. It’s been almost ten years since my last album [It’s actually been more than 10 years. —Ed.] but I haven’t been sitting on my hands. Keeping it real with you, I just started really getting involved in it and really feeling it this year. Around January or February. Before now I was kind of doing it more out of obligation, but now I really feel it inside and it’s pouring out right now. Music comes out much better when you’re in that frame of mind.

Eight years passed between Chronic and 2001, so you’re not that late yet.

Right. And I’ve got a few classic albums in between that with Em and 50.

When you first announced Detox did you think it would take this long?

Absolutely not. I thought it would take at worst case a couple of years. For example, actual work time on The Chronic was nine months and actual work time on my last album, 2001, was about 10 months. The actual work time on this album is about half of that, where I’m seriously focusing on it. There is always something coming up. Like signing talent, old and new.

Looking at your signings of artists like Raekwon, Rakim and Marsha Ambrosius, are you just a hard boss or did it just not work out?

I’d say it’s a little bit of both. I’m a perfectionist on one hand. I always say talent gets you in the building but whether our personalities mesh, that’s an entire different thing. I have fun when I’m working. It’s not a job for me. And I’m in a position where I really don’t have to do it if I don’t want to. So it has to feel right. When you get in the studio with an artist, the personalities have to mesh. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with my personality or theirs, it’s just: Do they work together or not? That seems to be a factor. All of the artists that I started working with and we didn’t finish, we’re still cool. It’s just a matter of this thing doesn’t work together. The ones that do work together, ka-boom. You see the results.

So “Under Pressure” leaking was a killer.

It was a little bit more frustrating because at least “Crack a Bottle” had a hook on it. I wouldn’t be as mad at a leak if the song was done.

Can you blame the fans for wanting to hear something after all this time?

Absolutely not. I’m not mad at the fans. I’m mad at the person that leaked the shit. I have no idea how it got out. It’s not even worth looking to see who did it. It happens. The most painful part about it is that I’m passionate about what I do, so people should hear it in the right form.

There were some other reference tracks that leaked with T.I. and Ludacris lyrics. Were those legit?

Two of them were. Somebody actually hacked into our emails, so that made our red flags go up. We’re in a new age and that’s a sign: Wake up motherfucker. You have to be more careful with your shit. That’s all there is to it. I know what’s up now.

Was “In Da Club” for Detox?

No. That track was done for D12. We were in the studio and D12 was in the studio. Em was there. It didn’t happen with D12 and Em took the track with him, and he is the one that handed the track to 50.

You’ve had so much fun doing Chronic and 2001. So why would you want to detox? What is there to “detox” from?

You have to see it. It’s not really detoxing. What I’m doing is gonna say “Detox” but it’s gonna have that red circle with that line through it. Hearing it and seeing it are two different things. Once you see it, it’s like “Oh.”

So the idea is not detoxing?

Exactly.

Full Dr. Dre Vibe interview
http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=2627

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Hoping for another update from gerrythedon?....


We probably won't see this thing get finished and released until late 2011...probably November or something..

Will give it to ya when known.

Dre finally releases a track from Detox. "Kush" featuring Snoop & Akon.

The production is pretty sweet on this song and Dre's verse is good, too.

Listen here:

link for Kush

http://www.drdre.com/kush

http://troubledsoulsunite.files.word...eat-eminem.mp3

I didn't really like that track. I feel that it is too noisy and that Em is trying to hard to be forceful with the lyrics.

Totally agree on that. The finished version may sound different on the actual album.

I kind of felt like Snoop sounded fairly weak (shocker) on the Kush track.