Dr. Dre to release his first Album after Fifteen Years

© Gabe Ginsberg LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 23: Rapper/producer Dr. Dre speaks at Universal Pictures Special Presentation Summer of 2015 and Beyond during 2015 CinemaCon at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on April 23, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe…


Dr. Dre, the iconic hip-hop producer, has a new album coming out. Really. He’s been teasing an album called Detox, the follow-up to 2001 and his seminalThe Chronic, for years. Now we finally have confirmation, via Billboard, that a separate new Dre album will come out this week. It’s called Compton: A Soundtrack, released in tandem with the N.W.A. biopicStraight Outta Compton. Dre didn’t join the recentN.W.A. reunion, leading some to wonder what was up (he had introduced the film’s initial trailer back in February). Turns out he’s just been busy prepping the album. Dre said that the album, which drops on August 7, will be his “grand finale.”


"I was leaving the set, coming to the studio and I felt myself just being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album,” he says in clip below. “And I kept it under wraps. And the album is finished.”


Regarding the aforementioned, now never-to-be-released Detox, Dre explained that it didn't come out because "it just wasn't good," adding that, "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 just wasn't feeling it."

Culled from MSN.com