Fans waited over 15 years for Dr. Dre to drop
Detox, his oft-delayed, endlessly hyped third
solo album. But that day never came, and it
never will.
Luckily, though, the production legend offered
one hell of a consolation prize: His Compton
album, which dropped last week, just days
ahead of the release of the N.W.A biopic,
“Straight Outta Compton.”So how did Detox go from one of the most
talked about albums — everyone from Eminem
to Kendrick Lamar and most people in between
hinted at its existence over the last decade-and-
a-half — to a scrapped project?
“I had between 20 and 40 songs for Detox, and
I just couldn’t feel it,” Dre explained to Rolling
Stone for their new cover story. “Usually, I can
hear the sequence of an album as I’m going, but
I wasn’t able to do that. I wasn’t feeling it in my
gut. So I really thought I was done being an
artist.”
Clearly, he wasn’t. And it seems to be paying
off.
Not only are fans and critics praising the album,
but HitDailyDouble is predicting that it will sell
almost 300,000 copies in its first week.
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