Dr. Dre
 

No posts on the Dre album that is out on Friday?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compto...ack_by_Dr._Dre

I can't wait.

could be interesting

I kinda love the album cover. I have no clue what this things gonna sound like though

Not expecting much but I hope he's back.

This will be good imo. Heard his interview and he seems very motivated/inspired.

A ****ing Dre album :cool:

This is out tonight guise.

I can hardly contain myself!

http://static3.businessinsider.com/i...n-suitcase.jpg

Is available to stream now on iTunes but I can't find it on the radio on it and it won't open when I click this - https://itunes.apple.com/station/idra.1027639986

Why :(

DM working now, meant to cli k "I have iTunes"

Woah the whole album is fire! Or maybe I'm just too excited to have anything new from Dre hahaha

This album is leaking everywhere!

If you get a HQ link send me a PM?

I like the album a lot.

Posts in hiphop forums with florence avatar.. +1

Also, link plz?

Cheers for the PM JWB, its cool. Vowels are you sorted as well?

I don't use torrents. JWB messaged me, I guess I'll just have to wait.

I will send you a Dropbox and direct download link in about 10 mins.

well I am really loving Compton after my first couple listens. probably not as good as 2001 and possible The Chronic but really what is. I think kendricks features are better than anything he did on TPAB (sans king kunta) too.

Vowels please confirm you got the album.

Haven't heard the album yet but I look forward to hearing it soon.

album is a banger

i am a bit pleasantly surprised by this tbh

we've been hearing about detox for like a decade... and i was pretty skeptical, thinking if detox ever did drop it might be disappointing... not that dre doesn't have the potential to make another comeback album, just that it's pretty unpredictable. he's been seemingly absent from the industry for the most part for quite a while, in terms of as a solo artist. and it's really hard to tell where an artist is going to be artistically after so much time... he might deviate into a completely different direction in an attempt to stay relevant but fail to connect. or he might just come with a mediocre rehashing of his old style and sound stale and outdated. i was a bit afraid the latter might happen.

but he didn't really do either one. the album sounds modern and innovative, yet with hints of the old G funk style interwoven within. it's not G funk but it maintains that influence, the same way that G funk isn't P funk but maintained that connection.

also... i know a lot of people prefer 2001, but to me the original chronic was miles ahead of 2001. and i love 2001. but the chronic was such an iconic album... it basically defined new subgenre of rap music. 2001 was an updated and modern (for 1999) version of that style... but it didn't offer much in the way of innovation. it more or less polished and perfected the G funk style in an accessible fashion. and it was a great album to listen to for that. but it didn't change the game.

this new album sounds more innovative to me. not that it will be the kind of game changer that the chronic was, but it's definitely not the same old dre.

What's this a soundtrack too? The new NWA movie? Or is it just Dre's way of being "artsy" like Kendrick with Good Kid labeling it a "Short film"?

Yeah JWB The Chronic is far better than 2001, I can't see how anyone would think 2001 was the better album of those two.

Tracks 1-9 are perfection, then it falls off a bit with that pointless interlude, then is back with a bang.

Unreal production on that album.

The beats on this new album are not as pots and pans as on 2001 as well.

@Justthefacts yeah, but it's inspired by the film.

Regardless of how this movie does, or this record for that matter, if an N.W.A reunion ignites from this I'll be the happiest man alive.

I doubt that will happen but it'd be good. No Eazy though. I think I read once his son would take his place.

I have pretty much the opposite take on this album as you. To me, the first six tracks set the bar pretty low but after that the album gets a lot better.

For the record, I think The Chronic and 2001 are about equal and have no idea what you mean by "pots and pans".

I think Kendrick Lamar could fit the bill

Na I'm talking about The Chronic there when I said 1-9 are perfection, before $20 Sack Pyramid comes along, not this album.

I mean, on The Chronic there are less sounds in the beats, on this it sounds more overdone. Probably not the right term tbh but you get what I mean.

Not sure what you mean. You said the new one was less pots and pans than 2001. How does The Chronic come into it? And what does "less sounds in the beats" mean?

What does pots and pans mean?

lol i got the gist of what you meant even though i've never heard that term before

I meant The Chronic sorry.

I do actually mean less sounds in the beats. On Nuthin But A G Thang I can hear about three or four. This isn't the same.

Do you mean the production isn't as full sounding? I'd agree with that. That's something I don't like about The Chronic compared to 2001 or even compared Doggystyle. It's a little thin sounding. Not as bad as NWA but close.

how anyone could like g funk yet diss the chronic/nwa is beyond me

janszoon are you a subversive agent of the illuminati sent to crush our spirits or what?

Yeah that's what I mean.

FWIW I don't like Straight Outta Compton aside from two tracks but I really like the second album. It has the better beats IMO.

I like both The Chronic and NWA. That doesn't mean I think everything about them is perfect.

i agree, nothing is perfect, but honestly i really wouldn't change anything about it.. but do you rate 2001 production over the chronic? cause that's the impression i was getting

i'll even take elif4zaggin over 2001

edit- should clarify, by production i mean overall vibe from the beats... not production value in the more technical sense since obviously that continues to improve along with technology, simply as a function of time.

Your edit is basically asking if I like 2001 better than The Chronic and the answer is that I like them the same, I just think they have different strengths. I do think that the production on The Chronic isn't as good as 2001 though (or Compton for that matter). And I mean production in the usual way the word is used about music—the quality of the sounds and the way in which they fit together. The Chronic is very mid-range sonically, the low end is flat and the high end often isn't strong either. This isn't a result of the march of time since there are much older albums that are better produced and even his production on Doggystyle one year later is far better.

you could be right... i honestly don't know much about the technical side of production/recording technology... but what i was asking was basically "do you prefer the beats on 2001" rather than do you prefer it overall as an album

the distinction i was making about the recording quality vs the beats overall is that to me, there are some hip hop albums that sound relatively low quality/lo-fi and yet i prefer them that way... sort of adds to the aura of the music for me. i think the simplicity of the early g-funk beats (see: the chronic, regulate, efil4zaggin, some too $hort records) and even of some later g-funk influenced music like master p's ice cream man or 2pac's don killuminati (which were released 2 years after doggystyle) actually adds to the music. for example.. i would say i like the beat on "bitches aint ****" more than anything on 2001. it doesn't sound as polished or fine-tuned... but i actually like it better that way. just sounds raw and gangster as **** to me.

I only liked 3 songs from this thingy

I get this was just a spur o the moment lets make a soundtrack cus he prob had like 300 songs and ideas just pilling up because he has not released a abum since like what 2001


sounds like Artys Mature Dre to me not a Classic Hip hop album

Didn't know anything about it, I will check it out! Thanks.

It was all right on the first spin. I haven't been into hip hop for quite some time now, so I find it hard to digest.

Nice and gritty like horrorcore, but very offbeat and progressive sounding, not really my thing, but it may grow on me.