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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Matty on August 06, 2015, 04:43:51 PM
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streams are up...here we go
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Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
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skimmed though the whole album i like what i heard on everything thing except the trap flow but it was minor so i didn't really mind it everyone came correct im so glad dre left out most those old washed up rhetorical like daz and gotti and the rest best thing he did that's why 2001 was a success and aftermath wasn't production was amazing this def candidate for album of the year
2015 best year in hip hop in who knows how long
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2 songs in this shit is fuckin different and awesome! Yea no doubt this will be like 2001 ... will take time to settle in ... then boom!
EDIT: Oh fuck "It's All on Me" one of the best I'ver heard in YEARS! WOW
"Had this nigga Eazy askin for his car back homie"
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looks like satisfiction will be the first single. however i don't like it.
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"All I think about is making classics" - Dr. Dre on ISSUES ... dope :o
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ok the intro is on shit is already epic 8)
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ok the intro is on shit is already epic 8)
LOLS wait till you hear the guy killing it on the horn at the end. FUCKIN classic shit! Reminds me of the Busta Rhymes/Rick James in the ghetto horn shit wow.
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this is on some next level shit! even Cube and Snoop switched their style of rappin ...! its classic!
even tho there are no g-funk beats all the beats are dope ! some next level west coast shit !
talkin to my diary and its all on me really touched me !
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INSTANT CLASSIC IN TYPICAL DRE FASHION
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its not classic but i do like the new sound
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'It's All On Me' is a lot more soulful than the first two tracks 8)
they went hard though, but i prefer this one so far. it sounds like Justus may have written Dre's part!
this next track is even better! 8)
really funky beat and that anderson dude is killing it 8)
chain sounds! :D
ok 'satisfiction' easily has the best beat so far! this is what i expected from a 'detox' club banger, almost like something quik would do. one with cube was also nice 8)
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Dre is going to ressurect Xzibit's carrier like a muthafucka.
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Dre is going to ressurect Xzibit's carrier like a muthafucka.
NAPALM.
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Dre is going to ressurect Xzibit's carrier like a muthafucka.
NAPALM.
My fav album ever but this is on another level. Never heard X like this and I'm into his music since day one. He's monster. Like always on Dre beats. Nobody can touch him.
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Dre is going to ressurect Xzibit's carrier like a muthafucka.
NAPALM.
My fav album ever but this is on another level. Never heard X like this and I'm into his music since day one. He's monster. Like always on Dre beats. Nobody can touch him.
Yea Napalm my favourite album before this (I think - its early). Louis 13 is classic Dre/Xzibit! 8)
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FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK ONLY THE DOC ONLY THE DOC ONLY THE DOC Bitches can drop masterpieces.
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FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK ONLY THE DOC ONLY THE DOC ONLY THE DOC Bitches can drop masterpieces.
CO-SIGN!
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Good to see early reviews on here have people showing support and not hating... I'm waiting to buy the real thing so I'm not rushing to stream
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the album is dope but i can't help but miss the melodies from dudes like mike elizondo and dawaun parker. all the groovy soulful stuff is ace, lots of old school influence, but some of the trap tempo ones aren't so amazing. digging the ice cube and 'satisfiction' as ones that could be singles! 8)
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I Just love the angry flow this album has. kinda like marshall mathers lp in its prime.
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fuck it, downloading it now... if these reviews are all accurate it sounds like I'll be buying it anyway
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Heard the whole album... "It All Falls On Me" one of the best records I've heard in... ages
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Dre 'I aint hearing nothing that I consider classic'.
i'm sure that doesn't include Kendrick's LPs.
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Heard the whole album... "It All Falls On Me" one of the best records I've heard in... ages
'It's All On Me'?
definitely one of the best tracks, could have done with some more tunes like this. seemed like the JT dude came through, nice soulful track.
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its a solid project but not a classic. the word classic is thrown around way to freely these days..
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank You Dre!
All the vets delivered, Beats on Point, Album flows nicely.
Kinda have a dark feel to it, Love it!
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Now Even this sounds dope hopefully its gets released as a bonus
https://www.youtube.com/v/ar7kdQya5js
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Darkside Gone (Feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
I'm on this song right now and holy shit this is next level :o :firedevil:
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Album is full of GOOD SONGS. Bunch of good shit. This shit is probably better than 90% of the queer shit that's on today. BUT.....you have to be a fanboy to say this is a classic. This isn't 2001 or Chronic. It's missing the CLASSIC tracks. There isn't a standout BEAT. It isn't revolutionary. I was expecting this though, considering Dre didn't put his all in this. It didn;t really have the DR DRE signature/change the game type sound. It's isn't as consistent as his other shit. Still great album though. You can't hate on this. This is still better than most shit but it's half-assed compared to Dre's standards.
By the way, That Premier beat is SICK! Just wish Cube and Snoop spit on it.
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Awesome album, I think I like it a bit more than 2001... (which had several stone-cold classic tracks, but also quite a few skippable tracks)
Not as great as The Chronic though, but I didn't expect it to be...
Best tracks, 10/10: "One Shot One Kill", "All In a Day’s Work", "Just Another Day", "Genocide"
Great tracks, 9/10: "Talking To My Diary", "Loose Cannons", "Issues"
Good tracks, 8/10: "Animals", "Darkside/Gone", "Deep Water", "For the Love of Money", "Satisfiction"
Didn't really like these tracks: "Medicine Man", "It’s All On Me", "Talk About It"
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This album is fucking awesome
Beats are amazing
Kendrick kills it, eminem kills it, even Dre sounds fresh
Snoop sounds crazy on one shot kill, never heard him like that before
The game track is a straight west coast banger!
Hooks and melodies are dope
Amazing album....thank you Dr. Dre
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Awesome album, I think I like it a bit more than 2001... (which had several stone-cold classic tracks, but also quite a few skippable tracks)
Not as great as The Chronic though, but I didn't expect it to be...
Best tracks, 10/10: "One Shot One Kill", "All In a Day’s Work", "Just Another Day", "Genocide"
Great tracks, 9/10: "Talking To My Diary", "Loose Cannons", "Issues"
Good tracks, 8/10: "Animals", "Darkside/Gone", "Deep Water", "For the Love of Money", "Satisfiction"
Didn't really like these tracks: "Medicine Man", "It’s All On Me", "Talk About It"
LOL (http://media.giphy.com/media/2XskdWz9y363OIIeLPq/giphy.gif)
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Love hearing Dre on "All in a Days Work"
"Best believe I'm in the BUILDING!!" 8) 8)
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Fucking Good Ass album!!! Diggin everything i heard so far.
Will there be Actual CDs sold at Best Buy, Target etc...??? I need an actual CD with the booklet etc...
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Thoughts after first listen.
1. I kinda don't want to see production credits for this. I'm cool just knowing Dre had his hands on everything. If it were 1994 every song would just say produced by Dr. Dre anyway.
2. I'm trying not to compare it to his previous albums. It's weird because the album just came out of the blue. 2001 had a long build up to the album release (live performances, guest production etc).
3. I'm glad it feels like an album. There's a common energy/vibe in all the songs. I like that.
4. A few of the hooks do walk the line of being corny.
5. Bone Thugs sample is tight.
6. Not sure that it met my expectations. It went right when I was thinking left. Not a let down, just not what I was expecting.
7. New (to me) artists on this sound cool. I wish Kurupt was on it tho.
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Fucking Good Ass album!!! Diggin everything i heard so far.
Will there be Actual CDs sold at Best Buy, Target etc...??? I need an actual CD with the booklet etc...
i saw 21st somewhere for CDs i think, so 2 weeks from now. seems about right.
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Just put on my Beats™ Studio Headphones. This is probably the best sounding album I've ever heard.
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iTunes version is out... 8)
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cant believe they sampled this guy, smh
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The overall sound of the album dissapoints me a great deal ... Dre misses the likes of Storch , Elizondo or even Batson a lot ...
Beats lack "musicality" and melodies ... It's like Compton dropped in 1999 and 2001 in 2015
I won't even talk about some of the trap flows :-X
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Fucking Good Ass album!!! Diggin everything i heard so far.
Will there be Actual CDs sold at Best Buy, Target etc...??? I need an actual CD with the booklet etc...
i saw 21st somewhere for CDs i think, so 2 weeks from now. seems about right.
Thanks... lbuy the i-tunes tmw then the movie next friday & actual cds in stores the friday after. August is a GOOD month. Hoping the actual cds will have bonus cuts not on i-tunes such as a Best Buy exclusive etc....
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Beats lack "musicality" and melodies ... It's like Compton dropped in 1999 and 2001 in 2015
I feel opposite. I always felt let down by the simplicity of a lot of the 2001 era beats compared to his early/mid 90's stuff. This sounds more complex. It's interesting. It's the type of thing you can pick up new sounds every time you listen.
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Just put on my Beats™ Studio Headphones. This is probably the best sounding album I've ever heard.
I'm thinking the same thing
Listening to iTunes version now, quality much better than the stream!
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Just put on my Beats™ Studio Headphones. This is probably the best sounding album I've ever heard.
I'm thinking the same thing
Listening to iTunes version now, quality much better than the stream!
8) bumping full quality now. then i really gotta go to bed ;D
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It's a good album but it's too strained for my taste. It's definitely Dre's "heaviest" solo album. I prefer lithe, carefree music that you can just grove too, which of course was one of the beauties of G-Funk. You can tell that Kendrick Lamar's approach to album-construction has deeply influenced and shaped Dre in this era. This is by turns the most intellectual Dre album, so if that's your cup of tea, you'll happily drink this up.
Production-wise, of course the studio-craft sonically on display here is impecable, which is to be expected, but Dre hasn't been in his prime for decades now (imo it was early to mid 90s). Then again, I wasn't hoping for anything more than "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" level of quality from the GOAT producer. Still, this isn't a game-changer like Dre's best work.
All in all, it's a good album, certainly not a typical dated sounding album by an old, washed up rapper. In fact, this is very modern, if not an attempt to push modernism forward a bit. But two things: 1) again, the tone and tempos are not really my steez and I agree there's not much music built around core melodies on this album and 2) this sounds like the kind of album Dre could put out every couple years if he were hungry enough to actually consistently make music.
But it doesn't matter; Dre's legacy has been cemented for a long time, and this won't alter it in any either direction, better or worse.
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It's a good album but it's too strained for my taste. It's definitely Dre's "heaviest" solo album. I prefer lithe, carefree music that you can just grove too, which of course was one of the beauties of G-Funk. You can tell that Kendrick Lamar's approach to album-construction has deeply influenced and shaped Dre in this era. This is by turns the most intellectual Dre album, so if that's your cup of tea, you'll happily drink this up.
Production-wise, of course the studio-craft sonically on display here is impecable, which is to be expected, but Dre hasn't been in his prime for decades now (imo it was early to mid 90s). Then again, I wasn't hoping for anything more than "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" level of quality from the GOAT producer. Still, this isn't a game-changer like Dre's best work.
All in all, it's a good album, certainly not a typical dated sounding album by an old, washed up rapper. In fact, this is very modern, if not an attempt to push modernism forward a bit. But two things: 1) again, the tone and tempos are not really my steez and I agree there's not much music built around core melodies on this album and 2) this sounds like the kind of album Dre could put out every couple years if he were hungry enough to actually consistently make music.
But it doesn't matter; Dre's legacy has been cemented for a long time, and this won't alter it in any either direction, better or worse.
GHEA sorry Detox is a Myth this album is fucking sick and will be cemented in DRES legacy. Enjoy it or check yourself before you wreck youself.... HAahhah
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The album is banging.... the beats are pretty crazy and musically just up there.
I agree that it does not have the Radio Friendly joints as 2001 did but in all honesty this album beats the shit out of anything thats been put out in the last five-six years easy....
I think this album is going to grow on everyone even more within the next few days.... Genocide & For the Love of Money Remix are slammin
Do you guys think the album will continue to get mad press/good reviews/vibes?
It's nice to see the focus back on DRE and the West!
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Well well well, I need to listen more deeply because so far I can't give a proper opinion...
All I can say is that Anderson .Paak is annoying to my ears and Dre should be glad that K.Dot is on his team because his delivery on this album is amazing
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Dre should've got Bone Thugs for "For The Love Of Money." The trap sound to it was dope, BUT can never top the BONE original with EAZY.
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FUCK!
Why didn't Cube or Snoop rap on that Premier track smh?? The more I listen to it the more pissed I get! That shit was sick!
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Had to come back to the dub when I heard the album dropped 8)
Five songs in and really liking the sound and production. Dre's flow is pretty unusual for him. The album sounds heavily influenced by Kendrick, which could be both a good and bad thing.
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never been a big fan of Dr Dre and his friends , i cant stand eminem but at least the album sound original and fresh. so far there are a few dope songs i feel like Deep Water and talking to my diary
the west in on top right now and was on top before this album ;D
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I wish Loose Cannons used the beat from Xzibit's verse throughout the whole song 8)
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Loose cannons, one shot one kill, issues is my shit, those go hard as fuck! Medicine Man is what I expected "Detox" to sound like... cool to see that Premier and Dre moment and it was crazy to hear Big Hutch with Dre again ... But that One Shot One Kill though 💀🔫 killer
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Record is hot, some of the shit is fucking BANGING! :scarface:
Well done Dre, well done.
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The album is exactly what I expected and wanted. A cohesive piece of work that is really best listened to all the way through.
Thanks Dre, we needed this.
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Album is full of GOOD SONGS. Bunch of good shit. This shit is probably better than 90% of the queer shit that's on today. BUT.....you have to be a fanboy to say this is a classic. This isn't 2001 or Chronic. It's missing the CLASSIC tracks. There isn't a standout BEAT. It isn't revolutionary. I was expecting this though, considering Dre didn't put his all in this. It didn;t really have the DR DRE signature/change the game type sound. It's isn't as consistent as his other shit. Still great album though. You can't hate on this. This is still better than most shit but it's half-assed compared to Dre's standards.
By the way, That Premier beat is SICK! Just wish Cube and Snoop spit on it.
Yup.
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its a solid project but not a classic. the word classic is thrown around way to freely these days..
+1
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Love the album. West Coast been producing some great music this year Kendrick, Vince Staples and now Dre.
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Love the album. West Coast been producing some great music this year Kendrick, Vince Staples and now Dre.
overall been a great year for hiphop
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Love the album. West Coast been producing some great music this year Kendrick, Vince Staples and now Dre.
overall been a great year for hiphop
Don't forget Dizzy Wright.
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sorry mane this album is trash, what a waste for dre he shouldn´t delete detox..atleast detox would have got ghetto g-funk shit..this is Hollywood gay shit..
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interesting for the first listen.
gonna check later again.
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sorry mane this album is trash, what a waste for dre he shouldn´t delete detox..atleast detox would have got ghetto g-funk shit..this is Hollywood gay shit..
I agree with you. This album sucks. The beats are horrible compared to Dre's other albums. What a fucking noise to my ears! :-\ Is THIS what we waited 16 years for?!?!
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Rolling Stone -
Dr. Dre Dissects 'Compton,' Kendrick Lamar, Eminem on Beats 1
"I want this album to be inspiring. I want it to be motivational. So that was the foundation throughout the entire record," rapper says
By Daniel Kreps August 7, 2015
Dr. Dre talked the inspiration behind 'Compton," Kendrick Lamar and Eminem in an in-depth Beats 1 Interview FilmMagic
As the clock struck midnight EST to mark the August 7th arrival of Dr. Dre's Compton, the rapper-producer joined Zane Lowe on Beats 1 to discuss his first LP in 16 years. Dre's interview came just hours after he streamed his new album exclusively on Apple Music, and he discussed the all-star Compton, his "grand finale," in depth. "It's crazy that it's been 30 years and this is only my third album," Dre said.
After opening fittingly with 2001's "The Next Episode" and Compton's "One Shot One Kill," Lowe opened their conversation by admitting that Compton exceeded his expectations. After the album's opening "Intro," the first two rappers to appear on Compton are a pair of lesser known MCs, King Mez and Justus. "For my last two albums, that's what I've done. I don't want to go out and get the new hot artist that's out right now just to put it on my album and help it sell," Dre said. "I like working with new artists."
Kendrick Lamar was once one of those "new artists" that The Chronic rapper took under his wing, and Dre lauded his fellow Compton rapper. "It's a really strange thing to watch Kendrick work. Like he hears the music, I'm waiting for him to pick up a pen and pad, but he doesn't do that. He just paces back and forth in the studio, and the next thing you know there's an incredible verse coming out of his face," Dre said of Lamar's work on "Genocide." "Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist and he's gonna be here for awhile, because this guy is seriously talented."
Dre also told Lowe that, following the dissolution of Detox, he didn't think he would record another album. However, after being inspired by working on the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton and laying down three tracks, "I felt a [great album] coming. I know that feeling after being in it for so long," Dre said. "So I just said, 'I'm going for it' and really started blacking out in the studio." As for whether Dre, a borderline billionaire, could still generate the fire and inspiration needed to create a top-notch hip-hop album, he admitted that no amount of money could replicate the feeling he gets from making a hit record.
Dr also talked about Compton's "Medicine Man," which features Eminem. "We just love being in the studio recording," Dre said of his longtime collaborator and protégé. "We're in there not trying to be okay, not trying to be good; we're trying to be great. Do we accomplish that? Absolutely. Do we miss every now and then? Absolutely. But the vibe and energy we bring to the studio is, 'Let's do something great.'"
Finally, Dre opened up about the concept behind Compton and the LP's personal closing track, "Talking to My Diary." "I want this album to be inspiring. I want it to be motivational. So that was the foundation throughout the entire record," Dre said. "The record is just me reflecting and I'm basically just talking to myself. It's just me in the room and I'm talking to myself."
Earlier in the day, before the album debuted on Apple Music, Dre talked Compton on Beats 1. "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 told Lowe. "As a matter of fact, most of the lyrics are written by us three. We would just go into the studio, put up the track and for some reason, the stars aligned and we killed it, man."
Dre also revealed that all of his artist royalties from the album would go towards the building of a new performing arts center and entertainment facility in Compton. "I feel it's the right thing to do and I hope everybody appreciates the work I put into this album," he said. "We've reached out to [Compton Mayor] Aja Brown quite a few times in the last month or two. I've been really trying to do something special for Compton and just couldn't quite figure out what it was. She actually had this idea and she was already in the process of working on it. I said, 'Boom, this is what we should do.'"
10 Things You Learn About Dr. Dre on 'Compton'
Key revelations gleaned from hip-hop mogul's first album in 16 years
By Rolling Stone August 6, 2015
dr. dre
"I want it all," raps Dr. Dre on his new LP. "Goddamn it, I'm too old/I forgot I have it all."
He was rich long before Apple dropped $3.2 billion on him to buy Beats by Dre.
"I remember selling instrumentals off a beeper/Before the headphones or the speakers," Dre raps, reminiscing about bygone days, on "Talk About It." "I was getting money 'fore the Internet/Still got Eminem checks I ain't open yet."
He suffers from some pretty baller senior moments too.
"I want it all," the 50-year-old superproducer declares on the same track, before catching himself: "Goddamn it, I'm too old/I forgot I have it all/But Andre still young enough to say 'Fuck y'all.'"
He can still build a nasty beat out of the tiniest details...
"Genocide" — helmed by L.A. producer and Dre collaborator Dem Jointz — is both sumptuous and abrasive, slipping a lazily descending bass line beneath a whip-snap snare that sounds like sampled static. (The virtuoso Kendrick Lamar cameo doesn't hurt either.)
...and he can even build a nasty beat around a trumpet solo.
Numerous songs on Compton feature the horn-playing of young Baltimore jazz musician Dontae Winslow, who closes out the LP with a wild, extended solo (and who also composed the album's opening orchestral flourish.)
He still has no love for the police...
On "It's All on Me," he recounts the origins, in his youth, of N.W.A's landmark single "Fuck tha Police": "Any given day, like, what the fuck?/Face down on the pavement with the billy clubs/Took that feeling to the studio and queued it up/Now it's 'Fuck tha Police' all up in the club."
...but, despite tracks that allude to the police killings of Michael Brown ("Animals") and Eric Garner ("Deep Water"), he also has seemingly little patience for anyone who cites economic deprivation or institutional racism as excuses for not being as successful as him.
"Anybody complaining about their circumstances lost me, homey," he announces on "Darkside/Gone." "We ain't even talking/Fuck that energy, fuck up off me." This may be the one Dr. Dre lyric that Fox News pundits could love.
His relationship to women, at least in his music, remains...complicated.
Dre has never been one for progressive approaches to gender in his music. The track "Issues" ends with a prolonged, out-of-nowhere skit in which a woman is murdered violently, for no apparent reason, then carried into the woods and buried.
(So does Eminem's, while we're on the subject.)
"I even make the bitches I rape cum," Marshall Mathers brags on "Medicine Man."
He's dubious when it comes to the fitted look dominant in hip-hop fashion these days:
The poster boy of creased Dickies isn't having it with skinny legwear: "What the fuck is going on?" he asks on "Medicine Man." "These niggas in tight shit like in the fucking Matrix."
He's made posthumous peace with Eazy-E, his onetime-partner-turned-foil, whom he believes is smiling on him from heaven.
The album ends with a celestial vision of N.W.A's demented co-founder — the late M.C. born Eric Wright — floating angelically overhead. "I know Eazy can see me now/Looking down through the clouds," Dre raps on "Talking to My Diary." "Regardless, I know my nigga still proud."
Dr. Dre's first album in 16 years picks up on themes he's been exploring since the N.W.A days.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dr-dre-dissects-compton-kendrick-lamar-eminem-on-beats-1-20150807
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/10-things-you-learn-about-dr-dre-on-compton-20150806
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Love the album. West Coast been producing some great music this year Kendrick, Vince Staples and now Dre.
overall been a great year for hiphop
Don't forget Dizzy Wright.
he sucks
hes a drake clone
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Im A Be Real This Fukin Album Has No Connection With NWA Period,The Only OG Artist Is Cube,Snoop,Cold 187um,Its A Fukin Soundtrack Where The Fuk is MC Ren and then he could of added king t,wc,dj quik,mc eiht and so on,this is a big disappointment,if i would of paid for this i would been pissed!!!!And Tell U Straight Up!!! Keep On Hustlin(Feat.Jeezy,Bun B,Nate Dogg) Off The G Funk Era Part II Murders every fukin song off this wack shit,real talk,but to eachs own!!! Sorry But Wtf Does Next level west coast have to do with this movie,not a damn thing sorry but this shit is wack,really
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Great album! There are like two tracks that i skip but the rest is off the hook... best tracks so far: Darkside/Gone, Loose Cannons, Deep Water, Talking to My Diary
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Im A Be Real This Fukin Album Has No Connection With NWA Period,The Only OG Artist Is Cube,Snoop,Cold 187um,Its A Fukin Soundtrack Where The Fuk is MC Ren and then he could of added king t,wc,dj quik,mc eiht and so on,this is a big disappointment,if i would of paid for this i would been pissed!!!!And Tell U Straight Up!!! Keep On Hustlin(Feat.Jeezy,Bun B,Nate Dogg) Off The G Funk Era Part II Murders every fukin song off this wack shit,real talk,but to eachs own!!! Sorry But Wtf Does Next level west coast have to do with this movie,not a damn thing sorry but this shit is wack,really
nobody wants them washed up rappers lol
dre made the right choice on with the new
you think people were going to buy a ost with some old ass rappers and old ass beats FUCK NO
wake the fuck up
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Dr Dre – Compton first listen review: 'This is not someone coasting on reputation'
Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr Dre has been delayed for so long that even hardcore fans might have had doubts. But it’s a stunning comeback that cements the rapper’s place in history
Still a perfectionist ... Dr Dre
Andrew Emery
Friday 7 August 2015 08.12 BST
When your stake in a company making not particularly great headphones has pushed you close to being a billionaire, does it matter to you if your new album is relevant or not? More to the point, when you’ve had your hand in some of the biggest selling hip-hop records of all time – guiding the career of Eminem and Snoop Dogg, helping to invent gangsta rap, writing the blueprint for G-Funk – do you even need to be judged cutting edge in 2015? Haven’t you been there, done that? If you’re Dr Dre, such a concern could be trifling. But from listening to Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr Dre, his first album since 1999’s 2001 (and only his third album since 1992’s debut the Chronic) it actually seems to matter to him as much as ever.
Dre has been going long enough to call Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa contemporaries, yet in 2015, he’s still able to drop onto a Kendrick Lamar track and sound like he’s only just arrived. His gift for rejuvenation is remarkable and, far from phoning it in, he has already scrapped this comeback album (when it was known as Detox or, to give it its official title “The long-awaited Detox”) simply because he wasn’t happy with it, sales be damned. There’s still something of the perfectionist about him.
Yet there was also a nagging sense, even among longtime fans, that Dre’s best days could be behind him. When did he last craft a masterpiece? Is he too busy mugging in Eminem videos to drop something as epochal as 1992’s The Chronic? Are the Kendrick collaborations just a chance for the new star to doff his cap at a legend before he’s put out to pasture?
Lots of questions, and only Compton can begin to answer them. He sets his stall out early, roping in fresh new guests but waving his walking stick too: “I’m too old I forgot I got it all, but Andre young enough to still get involved” he rhymes on opener Talk About It. And he is. He wisely avoids retreading old stylistic ground and nor does he try to skew too young for the clubs. Instead, he captures much of the manic, musical joy of Kendrick’s recent instant classic To Pimp a Butterfly, an album made for the headphone experience. Hip-hop fights for elbow room with blues, scat, doo-wop and funk by the fistful. It’s the restless, soulful brew of a man who hasn’t put out his own long-player this millennium.
The introspection of Darkside/Gone, with its shout out to colleague turned adversary Eazy-E, makes way for the chaos of Loose Cannons and the even more hyper Issues. The latter features a reunion with Ice Cube, but what’s most thrilling is the surplus of ideas, with something always happening at the margins, pulling the groove into different areas. This is not someone coasting on reputation; this is someone cementing their place in history.
Snoop Dogg feeds off the energy, turning in his best guest shot in years on the viciously propulsive One Shot One Kill, and Gang Starr legend DJ Premier is similarly inspired, his work on Animals helping to make it an instant standout. If there’s a false note, it’s Eminem’s verse on Medicine Man. It’s structurally brilliant, but he falls into his familiar habits of shouting a lot and trying to say the most offensive thing in the room. He succeeds, and temporarily takes you out of the story the album has thrillingly told.
What’s particularly impressive is how Dre, inspired by the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, has captured the past of his hometown – The Game, Snoop, Cube, Cold 187um (of oft-overlooked legends Above the Law, whose debut album was produced by one Dr. Dre back in 1989) – and mixed it perfectly with the present. Asia Bryant, Jon Connor, Justus, King Mez and Anderson Paak, among others, are all newcomers who more than justify their presence here. Dre and NWA aren’t simply the past, a moment preserved in amber – with Compton he’s shown us something new under the Californian sun.
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sorry mane this album is trash, what a waste for dre he shouldn´t delete detox..atleast detox would have got ghetto g-funk shit..this is Hollywood gay shit..
I agree with you. This album sucks. The beats are horrible compared to Dre's other albums. What a fucking noise to my ears! :-\ Is THIS what we waited 16 years for?!?!
Yeap, this is garbage. The beats, the rhymes. That Diary song is ok. Rest is skip, skip skip... All those Detox songs was better than this. Kush, I need a doctor. :-\
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sorry mane this album is trash, what a waste for dre he shouldn´t delete detox..atleast detox would have got ghetto g-funk shit..this is Hollywood gay shit..
I agree with you. This album sucks. The beats are horrible compared to Dre's other albums. What a fucking noise to my ears! :-\ Is THIS what we waited 16 years for?!?!
Yeap, this is garbage. The beats, the rhymes. That Diary song is ok. Rest is skip, skip skip... All those Detox songs was better than this. Kush, I need a doctor. :-\
Ok ok, it's not 1992/96/99 anymore :) so we know that Dr Dre didn't record new material which gonna sound "vintage" or anything. So, I think we have (at least) to try listen the whole album carrefully before sayin we "hate" it. I mean, if Dre wanted "Compton : A Soundtrack" to be released, it's because he think we should listen it. This is Dr Dre from 2015. And, like others, I think that I prefer he put out Compton than this boring project Detox. I give a (fast) listen to this last Dr Dre "solo" effort, this is not my type of ish but I think there's a few interesting things.
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DJ Premier on the Making of “Animals,” Working With Dr. Dre on “Compton” (Interview)
While DJ Premier has known Dr. Dre since the late '80s, the two legends of their respective coasts had never made music together, but that just changed with the release of Dre's Compton album, the first project from the gangster rapper turned production god turned headphone mogul in 16 years.
It all started about a year ago when Dre called Premo, asking him if he had any beats for a new project. At the time Premier didn't know anything about this mystery project except that Dre assured him that Detox had been scrapped, but when the good doctor calls, you answer. So Premier sent him a folder of five beats and kept his fingers crossed. It was just hours later though when he heard back.
"I was headed to Korea, the plane was literally lifting off, and my phone goes off," DJ Premier told me when I reached him by phone. "And he [Dre] goes, 'Yo, this is amazing, this is dope.' I thought wow, what timing, right on liftoff. At least I got that text to let me know I was on the right track."
Premier hoped for the best and the two stayed in touch, but it became clear that Dr. Dre was so busy working on the N.W.A. movie it would be a while before anything firm crystallized. Fate, however, would continue to bring Premier into Dr. Dre's mysterious project. Premier got connected with Anderson .Paak during work on a collaborative project with Russian producer BMB Spacekid that would result in "Til Its Done." The trio parted ways, but shortly after they finished Premier got another call from Paak, who had continued to write to another beat they had created.
"The Freddie Gray murder by the police happened, the riots in Baltimore jumped off, so Anderson hit me up and said he was really angry about what had happened, that he had made a song about it," recounted Premier. "At the time it was called 'FSU', which means Fucking Shit Up, talking about how they treats us like animals, the only time they turn the cameras on is when we're fucking shit up."
They planned on releasing the song as a loose single to show their support for Baltimore, but at the same time Anderson .Paak was fortioutusly meeting with Dre and told Dre that he and Premier had just finished working together. "Paak played it for him and Dre said, 'This totally fits this soundtrack I decided to do for the movie' - music inspired by the film, it's not in the movie. Dre wanted to rap on it, so since the song was already finished we changed the arrangement, and he had me come out to L.A. to work on it," said Premier.
And just like that, after decades of waiting for the hip-hop planets to align, DJ Premier was in Dr. Dre's home studio making music, working to seamlessly blend Premo's classic east coast sound with Dre's boming west coast DNA. "We started off by getting on the mic, talking shit," said Premier. "And then I started scratching, cutting in other cuts: Eminem, Ed O.G., Torae, Rhettmatic was there and gave me a line to scratch and close it out. And it was real cool, making magic happen. But I kept quiet until now."
All we know as listeners is the final product that hits our ear drums, but my conversation with DJ Premier is a reminder that making hip-hop history is rarely simple, almost never straightforward. It can take years filled with delays, coincidences and magical moments to create even a single song, but when that song sounds like "Animals," it's all worth it. It feels so good to finally be inside Compton.
Nathan S., The DJBooth (http://www.djbooth.net/index/news/entry/2015-08-07-dj-premier-dr-dre-compton-interview)
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I've decided I'm not buying the album.
I'm waiting for YouTube videos n that will suffice....
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I just got in off the 3rd shift. Will give my full opinion after I take a power nap. This has been 16 years in the making. From what I've heard so far..this is one of them joints that will have to grow on the masses. He should still drop Detox though imo
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The only track I'm not really liking is 2. “Talk About It” (Feat. King Mez & Justus), but after that the album just gets better and better. All the features come correct & this whole album just feels like it's on another level.
This will be definitely classed as a classic 8)
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David Gutterman approves this album! I like it! Celebrating Dre day!
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I just got in off the 3rd shift. Will give my full opinion after I take a power nap. This has been 16 years in the making. From what I've heard so far..this is one of them joints that will have to grow on the masses. He should still drop Detox though imo
not really 16years in the making...
after Detox was scrapped(2012-2013)
this album was produced in 2013-2015.
Only "old" songs are "Loose Cannons" "Talk to My Diary"
my album review in a few minutes...
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my album review in a few minutes...
Ahah, I think some people r waitin for ur opinion Mr Theo ;)
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its a solid project but not a classic. the word classic is thrown around way to freely these days..
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yawn! the phrase: "the word classic is thrown away way to freely these days..." is thrown away way to often these days
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Album is full of GOOD SONGS. Bunch of good shit. This shit is probably better than 90% of the queer shit that's on today. BUT.....you have to be a fanboy to say this is a classic. This isn't 2001 or Chronic. It's missing the CLASSIC tracks. There isn't a standout BEAT. It isn't revolutionary. I was expecting this though, considering Dre didn't put his all in this. It didn;t really have the DR DRE signature/change the game type sound. It's isn't as consistent as his other shit. Still great album though. You can't hate on this. This is still better than most shit but it's half-assed compared to Dre's standards.
By the way, That Premier beat is SICK! Just wish Cube and Snoop spit on it.
i sign under every fucking word of it.
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instant classic for sure...i'm really feelin' it.
favorite tracks after the first listen: genocide, it's all on me, all in a days work, loose cannons, issues, satisfiction, animals, talking to my diary...
i'll definetly gon bump it again today 8) 8) 8)
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So after a quick listen... All I can say is I'll need a couple more listening sessions lol
It's very different from the other Dre albums. First of all, there's a different vibe on a lot of the tracks. It's leaning more towards modern trap drums/hi-hats.
Dre/Game/Snoop and a couple others surprised me with their flow, going the Kendrick Lamar kind of screamish/broken voice rap. I didn't even recognize Snoop at first on One Shot One Kill. For me, it will probably take a while to appreciate it because I used to listen to the more laid-back Dr Dre sound, and this is going in a very different direction.
There's multiple layers of sounds and voice effects. Multiple beat transitions, hooks and filters. It's very jazzy, mixed with an old-school kind of vibe with modern drums.
I like it overall, I feel like I'll need some time to digest eveything and kind of ''wipe'' my brain from the kind of sound I anticipated from a new Dre album, after listening to 2001 probably way too much. That being said, it's so clean and well mixed. The way each song transitions into each other, the sequencing of the album... You can tell from the get go it is a Dre album.
My favorite track so far has been Animals. I always dreamed of a DJ Premier/Dr Dre collab and it is everything I dreamed of. Paak is killing it on this joint.
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3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I couldn't even pick my top 5 from the album so here's my top 10... all of these tracks are either 4.5/5 or 5/5 rating status 8)
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Dope read, and real dope joint in the album..
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Very average and disappointed. too much R and B and no track that hits you straight away like Still Dre.
Sounds like a Kendrick album. With Kenricks shit being succesful Dre must have thought he has to make shit like that in 2015 to be like.
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So after a quick listen... All I can say is I'll need a couple more listening sessions lol
It's very different from the other Dre albums. First of all, there's a different vibe on a lot of the tracks. It's leaning more towards modern trap drums/hi-hats.
Dre/Game/Snoop and a couple others surprised me with their flow, going the Kendrick Lamar kind of screamish/broken voice rap. I didn't even recognize Snoop at first on One Shot One Kill. For me, it will probably take a while to appreciate it because I used to listen to the more laid-back Dr Dre sound, and this is going in a very different direction.
There's multiple layers of sounds and voice effects. Multiple beat transitions, hooks and filters. It's very jazzy, mixed with an old-school kind of vibe with modern drums.
I like it overall, I feel like I'll need some time to digest eveything and kind of ''wipe'' my brain from the kind of sound I anticipated from a new Dre album, after listening to 2001 probably way too much. That being said, it's so clean and well mixed. The way each song transitions into each other, the sequencing of the album... You can tell from the get go it is a Dre album.
I agree with all of this...
The album is not really 100% my type of thing, but even on the tracks I don't really like there is a ton of stuff going on musically,
so it's an album you can go back to lots of times to pick up all the different parts...
That means it's not as immediately "wow" as stuff like "Still DRE", but it means there is more to discover over time.
I often re-listen to The Chronic and Doggystyle because there's a lot of stuff going on it in each track, but I rarely ever listen to 2001
because the beats on that album are so simple and you can "figure them out" very quickly.
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Last album was 16 years ago and you are expecting the sound to be the same? I remember disliking Still D.R.E when it first came out, now I think its one of the greatest song ever. Give the album some times.
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1 - Great Intro...not like "Documentary" intro..but still good.
2 - I warned y'all about Justus....King Mez is....meh../ the beat fits only in Dre voice / THE BEAT IS A NORMAL DJ DAHI BEAT, NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL /Young Jeezy should be in this instead of Justus and King Mez.
3 - WEST COAST SHIT..Excellent instrumental and hook..Kendrick Lamar verse is nuts..but wait..Kendrick got 2 verses in it??? (Dre rapping like Kendrick ruins the track) - but the song is still enjoyable..
4 - BINK killed again, good track..Dre rapping decent ( no Kendrick imitation )..Justus !??!? Imagine Miguel on the hook...it's would be 1000x better
5 - Instrumental is AVERAGE..nothing much..Anderson Paak represents with good vocals...Dre's second verse is a Kendrick imitation (Again)
6 - the song 4 me begins at Eazy-E vocals...before Eazy it's wack...after is common...this track is forgettable.
7 - Instrumental is classic....dre on Kendrick Lamar mode again... :'( but the song still good!!! cold 187 and X killed
8 - Another great track...Dre rapped like Dre and...ICE CUBE! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Bishop Lamont in this ...... would be perfect.
9 - Ken'DRE'ick again...this track is much crazy....Kendrick cried verse...i hate when he "cries" in the verse..forgettable song
10 - DJ Quik "The Conduct" generic version.............
11 - The Game saves the world.............and people still mad at him! Game is so talented!!
12 - Cool track...beat very common..but Jon Connor and Anderson .Paak, Dre and Jill Scott made a good job, specially at the end!
13 - Radio friendly...cool!!!!
14 - 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Imagine DJ Quik feat in this DJ Premier production. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No DJ Quik but still classic. THIS IS CLASSIC.
15 - crap shit..everything Eminem touch this dayz becomes trash
16 - Another classic Dre track...this is DETOX track.
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS 3 CLASSICS..(ISSUES,ANIMALS AND TALK TO MY DIARY) ..OTHERS GOOD TRACKS..
BUT OVERALL "COMPTON" ISN'T CHANGED THE GAME...IT'S JUST A NORMAL ALBUM LIKE MANY OTHERS
SOME POINT THIS IS THE NEW SOUND VS OLD SOUND.... IT'S LIKE KENDRICK TPAB with a little NWA Sound...
6/10
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To be honest: This Album is a huge disappointment. The only track that stand out is "Animals". Dres sound architecture was good for the westcoast. His creativity in the 90s and 2000s was great. But today he is more an obstacle for the younger generation of west coast talents. The sound of this album is not west coast. It is more mainstream and rnb. Where is the melody and harmony of organic instruments? I think this was the signature of a good dre production and the whole west coast. I dont expect classic g-funk sound. I expect this organic dre sound. I missed it.
These line makes me really angry:
...he also has seemingly little patience for anyone who cites economic deprivation or institutional racism as excuses for not being as successful as him.
"Anybody complaining about their circumstances lost me, homey," he announces on "Darkside/Gone." "We ain't even talking/Fuck that energy, fuck up off me." This may be the one Dr. Dre lyric that Fox News pundits could love.
This guy makes a Soundtrack about Compton and tells his audience some neoliberal shit like this. NWA is a product of social and institutional racism in Compton. ;D ;D
Sorry, it's cool that a lot of cats likes it - no disrespect. But i'm really disappointet about this album and some lines
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1 - Great Intro...not like "Documentary" intro..but still good.
2 - I warned y'all about Justus....King Mez is....meh../ the beat fits only in Dre voice / THE BEAT IS A NORMAL DJ DAHI BEAT, NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL /Young Jeezy should be in this instead of Justus and King Mez.
3 - WEST COAST SHIT..Excellent instrumental and hook..Kendrick Lamar verse is nuts..but wait..Kendrick got 2 verses in it??? (Dre rapping like Kendrick ruins the track) - but the song is still enjoyable..
4 - BINK killed again, good track..Dre rapping decent ( no Kendrick imitation )..Justus !??!? Imagine Miguel on the hook...it's would be 1000x better
5 - Instrumental is AVERAGE..nothing much..Anderson Paak represents with good vocals...Dre's second verse is a Kendrick imitation (Again)
6 - the song 4 me begins at Eazy-E vocals...before Eazy it's wack...after is common...this track is forgettable.
7 - Instrumental is classic....dre on Kendrick Lamar mode again... :'( but the song still good!!! cold 187 and X killed
8 - Another great track...Dre rapped like Dre and...ICE CUBE! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Bishop Lamont in this ...... would be perfect.
9 - Ken'DRE'ick again...this track is much crazy....Kendrick cried verse...i hate when he "cries" in the verse..forgettable song
10 - DJ Quik "The Conduct" generic version.............
11 - The Game saves the world.............and people still mad at him! Game is so talented!!
12 - Cool track...beat very common..but Jon Connor and Anderson .Paak, Dre and Jill Scott made a good job, specially at the end!
13 - Radio friendly...cool!!!!
14 - 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Imagine DJ Quik feat in this DJ Premier production. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No DJ Quik but still classic. THIS IS CLASSIC.
15 - crap shit..everything Eminem touch this dayz becomes trash
16 - Another classic Dre track...this is DETOX track.
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS 3 CLASSICS..(ISSUES,ANIMALS AND TALK TO MY DIARY) ..OTHERS GOOD TRACKS..
BUT OVERALL "COMPTON" ISN'T CHANGED THE GAME...IT'S JUST A NORMAL ALBUM LIKE MANNY OTHERS
SOME POINT THIS IS THE NEW SOUND VS OLD SOUND.... IT'S LIKE KENDRICK TPAB with a little NWA Sound...
6/10
Still better than anything quik put out since rhythm al
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1 - Great Intro...not like "Documentary" intro..but still good.
2 - I warned y'all about Justus....King Mez is....meh../ the beat fits only in Dre voice / THE BEAT IS A NORMAL DJ DAHI BEAT, NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL /Young Jeezy should be in this instead of Justus and King Mez.
3 - WEST COAST SHIT..Excellent instrumental and hook..Kendrick Lamar verse is nuts..but wait..Kendrick got 2 verses in it??? (Dre rapping like Kendrick ruins the track) - but the song is still enjoyable..
4 - BINK killed again, good track..Dre rapping decent ( no Kendrick imitation )..Justus !??!? Imagine Miguel on the hook...it's would be 1000x better
5 - Instrumental is AVERAGE..nothing much..Anderson Paak represents with good vocals...Dre's second verse is a Kendrick imitation (Again)
6 - the song 4 me begins at Eazy-E vocals...before Eazy it's wack...after is common...this track is forgettable.
7 - Instrumental is classic....dre on Kendrick Lamar mode again... :'( but the song still good!!! cold 187 and X killed
8 - Another great track...Dre rapped like Dre and...ICE CUBE! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Bishop Lamont in this ...... would be perfect.
9 - Ken'DRE'ick again...this track is much crazy....Kendrick cried verse...i hate when he "cries" in the verse..forgettable song
10 - DJ Quik "The Conduct" generic version.............
11 - The Game saves the world.............and people still mad at him! Game is so talented!!
12 - Cool track...beat very common..but Jon Connor and Anderson .Paak, Dre and Jill Scott made a good job, specially at the end!
13 - Radio friendly...cool!!!!
14 - 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Imagine DJ Quik feat in this DJ Premier production. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No DJ Quik but still classic. THIS IS CLASSIC.
15 - crap shit..everything Eminem touch this dayz becomes trash
16 - Another classic Dre track...this is DETOX track.
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS 3 CLASSICS..(ISSUES,ANIMALS AND TALK TO MY DIARY) ..OTHERS GOOD TRACKS..
BUT OVERALL "COMPTON" ISN'T CHANGED THE GAME...IT'S JUST A NORMAL ALBUM LIKE MANNY OTHERS
SOME POINT THIS IS THE NEW SOUND VS OLD SOUND.... IT'S LIKE KENDRICK TPAB with a little NWA Sound...
6/10
Still better than anything quik put out since rhythm al
Balance, Under , Trauma and BOD are better than this.
I repeat, this is TPAB on steroids..
but, everyone has their opinion.
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Very average and disappointed. too much R and B and no track that hits you straight away like Still Dre.
Sounds like a Kendrick album. With Kenricks shit being succesful Dre must have thought he has to make shit like that in 2015 to be like.
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work. Also it is a different era different game so after being in the game for more than 25 years, i believe this is a good representation of his whole career, you have some hard gangsta rap, some better sounding trap and some jazz element like The Chronic had.
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digesting the album some more and tbh it's getting more dissapointing. i get what he's trying to do but the direction isn't really my thing, not mellow, funky or musical enough. but as far as doing a 2015 angry, aggressive NWA inspired album, sure, it nails it. plenty of great moments but too many trap beats for my liking. and some of his flows are similar to the more dubious detox leaks. it's 'classic' enough next to a lot of the music coming out nowadays, but that isn't saying much. will get into more detail later.
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This album is geared towards a new generation of fans. One can only hope he opens the vaults. This album was like a posthumorous album that was mixed by someone else and other people's vocals added.
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1 - Great Intro...not like "Documentary" intro..but still good.
2 - I warned y'all about Justus....King Mez is....meh../ the beat fits only in Dre voice / THE BEAT IS A NORMAL DJ DAHI BEAT, NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL /Young Jeezy should be in this instead of Justus and King Mez.
3 - WEST COAST SHIT..Excellent instrumental and hook..Kendrick Lamar verse is nuts..but wait..Kendrick got 2 verses in it??? (Dre rapping like Kendrick ruins the track) - but the song is still enjoyable..
4 - BINK killed again, good track..Dre rapping decent ( no Kendrick imitation )..Justus !??!? Imagine Miguel on the hook...it's would be 1000x better
5 - Instrumental is AVERAGE..nothing much..Anderson Paak represents with good vocals...Dre's second verse is a Kendrick imitation (Again)
6 - the song 4 me begins at Eazy-E vocals...before Eazy it's wack...after is common...this track is forgettable.
7 - Instrumental is classic....dre on Kendrick Lamar mode again... :'( but the song still good!!! cold 187 and X killed
8 - Another great track...Dre rapped like Dre and...ICE CUBE! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Bishop Lamont in this ...... would be perfect.
9 - Ken'DRE'ick again...this track is much crazy....Kendrick cried verse...i hate when he "cries" in the verse..forgettable song
10 - DJ Quik "The Conduct" generic version.............
11 - The Game saves the world.............and people still mad at him! Game is so talented!!
12 - Cool track...beat very common..but Jon Connor and Anderson .Paak, Dre and Jill Scott made a good job, specially at the end!
13 - Radio friendly...cool!!!!
14 - 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Imagine DJ Quik feat in this DJ Premier production. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No DJ Quik but still classic. THIS IS CLASSIC.
15 - crap shit..everything Eminem touch this dayz becomes trash
16 - Another classic Dre track...this is DETOX track.
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS 3 CLASSICS..(ISSUES,ANIMALS AND TALK TO MY DIARY) ..OTHERS GOOD TRACKS..
BUT OVERALL "COMPTON" ISN'T CHANGED THE GAME...IT'S JUST A NORMAL ALBUM LIKE MANNY OTHERS
SOME POINT THIS IS THE NEW SOUND VS OLD SOUND.... IT'S LIKE KENDRICK TPAB with a little NWA Sound...
6/10
Still better than anything quik put out since rhythm al
Balance, Under , Trauma and BOD are better than this.
I repeat, this is TPAB on steroids..
but, everyone has their opinion.
Honestly this album is average to me but dudes would listen to a CD of dres bowel movements and literally be like "nobody drops shit like the doctor man" I'm mad disappointed with the way everyone talked about this album you'd think it would actually be worth the hype...like you said it's TPAB passed thru a dre filter "game changing" would be differing from the game not saying "I can do this too" to a bunch of young fans who are impressionable enough to probably be like "so THIS is where Kendrick got it from" I can't wait until I see the credits and see how much of this wasn't even him haha
And by the way quiks production is way more crisp and light you can see so much more in his instrumentals than with dres....you ever listen to a beat and try to imagine or describe what certain noises are? With quiks you can envision so much on this album it's just boring man all of dres stuff has been...under the influence and BOD were definitely better than this album IMO and so was 75% of midnight life
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funny thing is there are a couple of tracks on the last Quik LP that would be right at home on this - 'Shine' & 'That Getter'. tbh those instrumentals are much better than some of the stuff on here, like 'For The Love of Money'.
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work.
Screw 2001, imo. Are people here old enough to remember when The Chronic came out? It dropped and everybody immediately loved it and still do. It was different from elif4zaggin and had artists that mainstream heads had never heard of before, and none of that mattered. It was hella dope on the first listen and the 100th listen. It didn't need to "sink in." I don't know why people here always circle back to 2001 as if that was Dre's peak unless it's just an age thing.
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it was fun anticipating the album but it's become less fun reading about how people want this or that.
don't tell picasso how to paint is sage advice from dre.
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Aside from the stream has the proper release leaked yet? I want to hear this with some fidelity.
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funny thing is there are a couple of tracks on the last Quik LP that would be right at home on this - 'Shine' & 'That Getter'. tbh those instrumentals are much better than some of the stuff on here, like 'For The Love of Money'.
Being that you have the album as your picture I must say....you're a real one for that...I love that getter I think it's the perfect example of a "trap" beat mixed with actual instrumentation and old school westcoast feel it's the quintessential quik old meets new record...I'm not a big shine fan tho that's the only track I really skip over on the album minus trapped on the track unless I'm in the car cuz then that beat is super dope...I'm not saying the new dre is bad it just wasn't as spectacular as everyone made it out to be when I hear a song like "that niggers crazy" ,"life jacket" ,"fuck all night","the conduct" they sound ahead of its time refreshing and game changing as far as the approach and being something I never heard before...I can't listen to most of the midnight life and say that sounds like "______'s record"
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Dat Eminem verse tho!!! Daaaaaamn. I couldn't sit through the whole album, just skimmed through it, but his verse sounds like it's the best on the album.
Only song I'm really liking is It's All On Me. Good old school style music. The rest of it is new school overproduced bullshit with too much singing. No surprise.
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Very average and disappointed. too much R and B and no track that hits you straight away like Still Dre.
Sounds like a Kendrick album. With Kenricks shit being succesful Dre must have thought he has to make shit like that in 2015 to be like.
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Meeeh... Was expecting something more soulful. Hallf through the album... Too many stuff sounding like the mainstream rap that is floating around. Some songs would be OK on other's people album, but this doesnt feel like a Dre album to me. I was expecting a next-level west coast sounding album. And definitely not a game changer album like some artists have claimed.
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work. Also it is a different era different game so after being in the game for more than 25 years, i believe this is a good representation of his whole career, you have some hard gangsta rap, some better sounding trap and some jazz element like The Chronic had.
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? That's 100% FALSE! No it did not take people time to get on it. That shit was an INSTANT classic, the minute the first single came out. Everybody was on that shit and every single that came out was a classic. He could have had like 10 music videos for that album. You're trippin.
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when you hear the bridge on "talking to my diary" if you don't imagine nate is singin it, get the fuck out of this site.
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work. Also it is a different era different game so after being in the game for more than 25 years, i believe this is a good representation of his whole career, you have some hard gangsta rap, some better sounding trap and some jazz element like The Chronic had.
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? That's 100% FALSE! No it did not take people time to get on it. That shit was an INSTANT classic, the minute the first single came out. Everybody was on that shit and every single that came out was a classic. He could have had like 10 music videos for that album. You're trippin.
Nah, he's right, lots of people who were big fans of The Chronic and Doggystyle were kinda disappointed at first, because the sound of
2001 was so simple and sparse and didn't have the lush percussion and lots of instruments that Dre had before.
"Still DRE" got a lot of criticism for just being 2 piano notes the whole way through, "Next Episode" people complained Snoop sounded tired
and bland by that point, and people said that all the lyrics on the album were really generic gangsta rap.
It's also known for having too many tracks, which meant it had filler like "Let's Get High, "Ackrite," "Bitch Niggaz," etc. and Hittman was seen
to have no charisma and was on too many songs.
2001 was rated 4/5 stars in most outlets - it's considered good, but not fantastic.
People who were teenagers when it came out always like to imagine everyone loved it at the time, but it was seen as as a mild disappointment
that has a handful of classic tracks saving it.
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Mr.theo - i dont agree with your ratings and i really enjoy the album every listen it gets better.
But Game will be killing all other albums this year, his song on here only adds to my theory.
But this is the 2nd 10/10 album this year for me. (Kendrick & dredrick or what u called dre on here)
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Really feeling:
the intro
It's all on me
Just another day (if Game's album is at that level it is going to bang)
Animals
Talking to my diary
The rest is average to me. Too many female vocals on it, some auto-tune wtf. No hooks stuck in my head. Where the west coast crooners at ?
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work. Also it is a different era different game so after being in the game for more than 25 years, i believe this is a good representation of his whole career, you have some hard gangsta rap, some better sounding trap and some jazz element like The Chronic had.
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? That's 100% FALSE! No it did not take people time to get on it. That shit was an INSTANT classic, the minute the first single came out. Everybody was on that shit and every single that came out was a classic. He could have had like 10 music videos for that album. You're trippin.
Nah, he's right, lots of people who were big fans of The Chronic and Doggystyle were kinda disappointed at first, because the sound of
2001 was so simple and sparse and didn't have the lush percussion and lots of instruments that Dre had before.
"Still DRE" got a lot of criticism for just being 2 piano notes the whole way through, "Next Episode" people complained Snoop sounded tired
and bland by that point, and people said that all the lyrics on the album were really generic gangsta rap.
It's also known for having too many tracks, which meant it had filler like "Let's Get High, "Ackrite," "Bitch Niggaz," etc. and Hittman was seen
to have no charisma and was on too many songs.
2001 was rated 4/5 stars in most outlets - it's considered good, but not fantastic.
People who were teenagers when it came out always like to imagine everyone loved it at the time, but it was seen as as a mild disappointment
that has a handful of classic tracks saving it.
No he's not right. That's 100% false. I lived the time. It's FALSE. I was an ADULT not a teen.
There's always going to be guys who aren't going to like something but trying and compare the hype of this album to 2001 is just hilarious. You really think that MOST people were like "hey bro did you like the Still D.R.E. track? ...Nah bro It was too simple with only 2 piano notes" LOL!! That's comical ha. As if everyone in the streets is an expert producer or musical engineer ha. That shit was aninstant hit, except for a few haters and fake ass musical experts.
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6 tracks in, so far Its All On Me and All In A Days Work stand out, Darkside/Gone improves after the beat flips, but im still waiting to be blown away overall
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Are some of you old enough to remember when 2001 came out? It took some times for people to get on it because it wzs different from the previous work. Also it is a different era different game so after being in the game for more than 25 years, i believe this is a good representation of his whole career, you have some hard gangsta rap, some better sounding trap and some jazz element like The Chronic had.
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? That's 100% FALSE! No it did not take people time to get on it. That shit was an INSTANT classic, the minute the first single came out. Everybody was on that shit and every single that came out was a classic. He could have had like 10 music videos for that album. You're trippin.
Nah, he's right, lots of people who were big fans of The Chronic and Doggystyle were kinda disappointed at first, because the sound of
2001 was so simple and sparse and didn't have the lush percussion and lots of instruments that Dre had before.
"Still DRE" got a lot of criticism for just being 2 piano notes the whole way through, "Next Episode" people complained Snoop sounded tired
and bland by that point, and people said that all the lyrics on the album were really generic gangsta rap.
It's also known for having too many tracks, which meant it had filler like "Let's Get High, "Ackrite," "Bitch Niggaz," etc. and Hittman was seen
to have no charisma and was on too many songs.
2001 was rated 4/5 stars in most outlets - it's considered good, but not fantastic.
People who were teenagers when it came out always like to imagine everyone loved it at the time, but it was seen as as a mild disappointment
that has a handful of classic tracks saving it.
nah he is not right! you neihter.
still dre is one of the best song in hip-hop history.
hittman did a great job on xxplosive and big egos tracks.
don't try to sell this crap that people reacted negative when they heard 2001 first time.
name me a song on compton soundtrack that people will remember 5 years, sorry, 2 years later?
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bumped it once. Sounds like a kendrick album and I find his new rap style to be annoying (Kendricks). too bad he's on this. Definitely a more fast tempo aggressive feel to the album rather than some catchy smooth stuff with hardly any melodies that make you bop your head. Good for the peeps who dig Kendrick lamar. I understand why Dre did it like this, it is 2015 but damn a few catchy bangers would have been nice.
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Fire
4/5
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You really think that MOST people were like "hey bro did you like the Still D.R.E. track? ...Nah bro It was too simple with only 2 piano notes" LOL!! That's comical ha. As if everyone in the streets is an expert producer or musical engineer ha.
You don't need to be an expert producer to know that the track mainly goes "ching ching ching ching ching ching ching ching" throughout the
entire track, anyone who had functioning ears at the time could hear it, it's the loudest part of the track.
After all the dope melodies that were on The Chronic and Doggystyle, it seemed like a big step back for fans of Dre's earlier work.
After waiting 7 years from the Chronic to 2001, the first thing fans heard was this "ching ching ching ching" track.
I can tell you for a fact that loads of hip-hop heads were disappointed.
It did well with casual music fans on the radio, but then so did "I Need A Doctor"...
Don't get me wrong, it is a dope track and one of the few really good tracks on the album, but you can't pretend that it was what
people were anticipating at the time, it was a big WTF for a lot of people.
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You really think that MOST people were like "hey bro did you like the Still D.R.E. track? ...Nah bro It was too simple with only 2 piano notes" LOL!! That's comical ha. As if everyone in the streets is an expert producer or musical engineer ha.
You don't need to be an expert producer to know that the track mainly goes "ching ching ching ching ching ching ching ching" throughout the
entire track, anyone who had functioning ears at the time could hear it, it's the loudest part of the track.
After all the dope melodies that were on The Chronic and Doggystyle, it seemed like a big step back for fans of Dre's earlier work.
After waiting 7 years from the Chronic to 2001, the first thing fans heard was this "ching ching ching ching" track.
I can tell you for a fact that loads of hip-hop heads were disappointed.
It did well with casual music fans on the radio, but then so did "I Need A Doctor"...
Don't get me wrong, it is a dope track and one of the few really good tracks on the album, but you can't pretend that it was what
people were anticipating at the time, it was a big WTF for a lot of people.
just a question; how old are you man? I was 19 when that dropped. Like many I was doubting Dre, but when I first heard Still Dre, I knew he was back. Yes, 2001 has some filler and disappointed some, but it's impact was immense and changed the game. Almost everyone LOVED Still Dre and the other hits (and I agree that a Snoop didn't sound good on this album, especially Next Epiwode)
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Yes, 2001 has some filler and disappointed some, but it's impact was immense and changed the game.
That's all I'm saying - I'm not saying it came out and people thought it was totally wack or anything, it was just kinda disappointing...
People were expecting a 5/5 album and many thought it was 4/5... that's not bad, it's just a bit disappointing when expectations were high.
It changed the game, but that was mainly because at the time hip-hop was all about Master P and Puffy and everyone was like, phewf, now Dre is back.
Not because it was Dre's best work, but because it was way, way doper than the other popular stuff at the time.
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Are there any non-iTunes streams available somewhere? My friend is looking for one.
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Gave it a quick listen.
Liking It's All On Me for it' west coast classic sound and Animals for its east coast classic sound. Maybe a dumb question but have Dre and Primo collabed before?
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digesting the album some more and tbh it's getting more dissapointing. i get what he's trying to do but the direction isn't really my thing, not mellow, funky or musical enough. but as far as doing a 2015 angry, aggressive NWA inspired album, sure, it nails it. plenty of great moments but too many trap beats for my liking. and some of his flows are similar to the more dubious detox leaks. it's 'classic' enough next to a lot of the music coming out nowadays, but that isn't saying much. will get into more detail later.
Matty, you said all!!!
bumped it once. Sounds like a kendrick album and I find his new rap style to be annoying (Kendricks). too bad he's on this. Definitely a more fast tempo aggressive feel to the album rather than some catchy smooth stuff with hardly any melodies that make you bop your head. Good for the peeps who dig Kendrick lamar. I understand why Dre did it like this, it is 2015 but damn a few catchy bangers would have been nice.
Dre jumped in the bandwagon...
But OK, he got some classics in this Compton thing
At least he left 50 cent out.. thanks Dre!!!
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Boring. Gonna spend the evening listening to Safe & Sound.
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Gave it a quick listen.
Liking It's All On Me for it' west coast classic sound and Animals for its east coast classic sound. Maybe a dumb question but have Dre and Primo collabed before?
No
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Aside from the actual music, what does everyone think about the mixing of it?
I can't tell if I like the way it's mixed -- it's very, very detailed and clear, and you can hear all the parts in each track
and it does bump, but I do miss the big hard hitting snares of his previous work and how he used to mix piano chords so they
sounded huge, etc...
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Boring. Gonna spend the evening listening to Safe & Sound.
hahahhahaha Safe+Sound is too classic to compare.
Don't go too far
Book of David beats this new Dre..
even with Gift Reynolds on it.
Issues,Animalz,Diary,Loose Cannons....I should Dre have stayed on that lane
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Boring. Gonna spend the evening listening to Safe & Sound.
hahahhahaha Safe+Sound is too classic to compare.
Don't go too far
Book of David beats this new Dre..
even with Gift Reynolds on it.
Issues,Animalz,Diary,Loose Cannons....I should Dre have stayed on that lane
Go forget the midnight life theo...it's too soon to compare to his old albums but I listened to Compton then threw on some headphones and played TML in its entirety...for some reason the progression of the sounds in "back that shit up" really was hitting hard
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I am 38 years old and excited for hip hop for the first time in many years. The new album comibines the past, present and future all bundled into a cohesive project. A year from now this will be hailed as ahead of its time and Dre will be once again your favorite producers favorite producer. What surprised me was the lyricism and its more grown up vibe- almost a political statement album instead of the bitches, hoes, and weed mantra from the past. The complexity of many of the songs structures are very unorthodox but work well. Every listen yields new sounds that evolve throughout each track if you don't let the bass drown it out. There is something for everybody on this album which was clever of Dre for his final masterpiece. If you were expecting 2001 Part 2 I can see how maybe only 1 or 2 tracks stick out- The 2001 sound was dope but there is only so many original melodic loops you can make using 2-3 keys and 2-3 guitar chords and same Dre drums that he has used up until the last 4 years. He broadened his musical influences and instrumentation.
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I'm all for artists doing something new, but I don't see much "past" in this, it's too far into the present to me. I would like more of a balance. Old school artists don't need to sound current and it sounds stupid when they do. LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
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.I'm back after a quick power nap. I heard it from top to bottom. This record is not his best. Let's keep it 100. It's very trap influenced. Mr. Theo and I was right. Gone is a tight track tho.I'm gonna call it like I hear it...Quik Midnight Life is a better record. Someone mentioned Getter earlier, Getter is the shit. Pet Smetar alone shit's on every track on Compton. The Book of David is a harder record than this shit. Dre, is dead as a wrong for this release.Alot of the traks were Coproduced tho. Sounds like Dre is a big fan of Zaytoven and the whole trap sound. I fucks wit trap music. He might as well had Mike will produce the whole record. Also, Relapse imo is Dre's grand finale. Or it could be a fluke and he could release Detox still next Friday wit the movie release...Busta Big Bang..Relapse..and both Kendrick records shit on this sountrack. This is a review from someone who knows Dre's music. He might a done something he thought was good for the yungins..but he compromised his sound..quik don't have to do that...a migos record has more bangers...smh...I'm pissed...the beats on Kingdom Come by Jay-Z were harder...the vibe he had on Imagine wit snoop was a great approach. Also....my favorite recent Dre track is 2nite wit Jeremih...Dre fucks wit the Chi...nothing but talent back home. On another note out of all the leaks over the recent years...who's your daddy reference by bishop was that shit..epic as beat wit the live drums Dre spoke about in 08..09..I'm ghost.good effort for the trap fans
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You really think that MOST people were like "hey bro did you like the Still D.R.E. track? ...Nah bro It was too simple with only 2 piano notes" LOL!! That's comical ha. As if everyone in the streets is an expert producer or musical engineer ha.
You don't need to be an expert producer to know that the track mainly goes "ching ching ching ching ching ching ching ching" throughout the
entire track, anyone who had functioning ears at the time could hear it, it's the loudest part of the track.
After all the dope melodies that were on The Chronic and Doggystyle, it seemed like a big step back for fans of Dre's earlier work.
After waiting 7 years from the Chronic to 2001, the first thing fans heard was this "ching ching ching ching" track.
I can tell you for a fact that loads of hip-hop heads were disappointed.
It did well with casual music fans on the radio, but then so did "I Need A Doctor"...
Don't get me wrong, it is a dope track and one of the few really good tracks on the album, but you can't pretend that it was what
people were anticipating at the time, it was a big WTF for a lot of people.
You aso don't need the beat to be "complex" for it to be tight. Most people just go based on what they hear and whether they think it's dope or not. They aren't breaking down the fucking the beat to the T. I can understand how some might not have liked it but to say that MOST were thinking like you is FALSE. Unless you have a nation wide poll or proof in any form, there is no way anyone will believe that. Especially considering the amount of hits on the radio, sales and chart numbers. Not to mention that fact that I lived the time and saw the impact first hand. UNless you were living under a rock or another part of the country, it makes no sense based on what I mentioned.
It's also fucking STRANGE that you're using the "ching,ching.ching" example as if people were hating on that lol. That's what MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS DOPE. That's what was catchy about the track. You weren't able to hear the beats behind that? That wasn't the only part of the song. If anything, that "ching" beat is what makes it recognizable to everyone who considers it a classic.
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It's a good album but I agree with those that are a disappointed. Compton isn't classic, it isn't game changing or "Next Level" like some are throwing around, it's good but Dre could have released a good album each year ever since he announced Detox, it needed to be better than good.
I honestly believe that if Straight Outta Compton wasn't coming out Dre's album wouldn't have came out either. The way I feel about it isn't that much different from the way I was feeling about his Detox leaks from before, cool, some better than others but not that instant classic, game changing shit that you'd expect from Dre, especially with the huge hype surrounding it. What they did was smart as fuck though, they marketed the shit out of it, like no other! From Dre saying that everything he was working on before was not good enough and now he's motivated, re-energized and confidant, blah, blah, blah... all that is just game and building up hype and a smart move. Do you really believe that in the last decade Dre never had 15 dope tracks to put out a proper album with??? Get the fuck outta here with that noise. What was missing was hype, buzz, a big machine driving the album to the status that a Dre album is expected to have, that's what Dre didn't have these past shitload of years when he was trying to put out an album. Finally working on something that he was feeling and that he believed was good enough, nah hell no, don't believe that shit for a minute, finally a perfect moment to release an album and make the most money out of it ABSOLUTELY! that was the motivation, finally a timely album to release.
The album may not have been the best decision musically, that's obvious from the mixed reviews and obvious let down from what the hype was leading us to believe, BUT IT WAS THE BEST FINANCIAL DECISION. No matter what type of music Dre put out and no matter if it would have been released 10 years ago, 5 years ago or if it would have been released next year, it wouldn't have mattered, there was no more perfect of a moment to release the album then right now in conjunction with the movie. You got the director, actors, featuring artist, Dre, Apple/i-Tunes, etc. all pushing the fuck outta the album, when else would this have happened? They kept it under wraps so there wouldn't be any mixed reviews before it actually dropped, they got the who's who of assholes talking about, "game over", "about to press the reset button on all the bullshit that you thought was dope", I know I aint quoting it right but you know what I'm sayin, all that hype everyone was throwing around. Most people believed that shit though, there's people all over this board talking about, "but he's finally motivated", "he wasn't feeling none of the music he had done before", "the movie inspired him", "the music is on another level", that's what the fuck they told you and wanted you to believe.
That's why i think the music isn't up to where it should be, if it wasn't for this perfect moment, Compton wouldn't have came out either. It is what it is and it aint what it aint. Brilliant marketing on their part, the best I've seen for any album and the music is good but not what it coulda/shoulda been.
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Do I dare say a Rick Ross album is better? I'm hoping maybe Detox will eventually drop in the near future cuz Dre can't go out in this fashion. I've heard mixtapes that were better. If this was a rush job I can see, but, dam this ain't a good look. One word..Relapse pidd
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Well after listening sober ;D all day in car, home theatre (w/ sub), headphones this shit knocks. Haven't heard the sub work that hard in awhile, fucking bangs.
This album is on a cinematic level - like IMAX. I love how tempo and instrumentals change throughout many of the songs .. refreshing to hear.
I was expecting a deeply personal and introspective album and was not disappointed. This is what grown up rap sounds like. DRE is way past gang banging shit on The Chronic so why do some of yall expcect that?
Dre used his power to make some interesting social commentary and speak on some shit. Like someone else said... the word "classic" has to come with time... but I think everyone gonna jump on the bandwagon a year from now when your favourite producer and rapper say this is was one of their favourite albums.
Also don't forget... top rap magazines like THE SOURCE released an apology a few years later and changed their 4/star review to 5 (2001 review). So did Hiphopsite.com and I believe there were more. Most great art never gets fully realized until much later in time...
5/stars for me 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) I can actually listen to EVERY song on the album and enjoy it. Extremely rare. We will see if classic status comes with time and legend.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/compton/dr-dre
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Well after listening sober ;D all day in car, home theatre (w/ sub), headphones this shit knocks. Haven't heard the sub work that hard in awhile, fucking bangs.
This album is on a cinematic level - like IMAX. I love how tempo and instrumentals change throughout many of the songs .. refreshing to hear.
I was expecting a deeply personal and introspective album and was not disappointed. This is what grown up rap sounds like. DRE is way past gang banging shit on The Chronic so why do some of yall expcect that?
Dre used his power to make some interesting social commentary and speak on some shit. Like someone else said... the word "classic" has to come with time... but I think everyone gonna jump on the bandwagon a year from now when your favourite producer and rapper say this is was one of their favourite albums.
Also don't forget... top rap magazines like THE SOURCE released an apology a few years later and changed their 4/star review to 5 (2001 review). So did Hiphopsite.com and I believe there were more. Most great art never gets fully realized until much later in time...
5/stars for me 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) I can actually listen to EVERY song on the album and enjoy it. Extremely rare. Classic status will come with time and legend.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/compton/dr-dre
I respect your opinion...shit is knocking something serious..but how is it we knew BOD by Quik was a classic from the jump? When I heard Chronic 2001 the first time...I was smoking a blunt and from the moment that loud as intro came on I knew it was a classic...this record is missing some skits too...gotta have skits on a Dre joint..it will have to grow on people..the mix is tight..that's to be expected!!!!!!
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We've been hearing the last 16 years, Dre was doing some new techniques on his new shit...Don't get carried away is a perfect example. That beat switched up on Nas verse wit added instrumentation. That Obie trice beat wit the Congos was epic too, the one wit Nate Dogg. I produce music..so I'm listening from that angle...it's nothing game changing like the tracks I just mentioned. When I first heard Ghetto Life I knew that was classic...shit was tough. Relapse was a whole nother level. Still that mix holds weight all these years later
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I respect your opinion...shit is knocking something serious..but how is it we knew BOD by Quik was a classic from the jump? When I heard Chronic 2001 the first time...I was smoking a blunt and from the moment that loud as intro came on I knew it was a classic...this record is missing some skits too...gotta have skits on a Dre joint..it will have to grow on people..the mix is tight..that's to be expected!!!!!!
Sorry I meant to say we will see if it gets "classic status" with time... that label comes on down the road. I think "classic" is an overall consensus from the public.
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A year from now this will be hailed as ahead of its time
But only a year ahead?
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I respect your opinion...shit is knocking something serious..but how is it we knew BOD by Quik was a classic from the jump? When I heard Chronic 2001 the first time...I was smoking a blunt and from the moment that loud as intro came on I knew it was a classic...this record is missing some skits too...gotta have skits on a Dre joint..it will have to grow on people..the mix is tight..that's to be expected!!!!!!
Sorry I meant to say we will see if it gets "classic status" with time... that label comes on down the road. I think "classic" is an overall consensus from the public.
We just expected some game changer..like I stated before 2nite is my favorite leak this year..Dre came wit it on that joint..my lady likes that song too
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If I can make it through the album I'll drop some track scores
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If I can make it through the album I'll drop some track scores
Please do
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wow i guess the 1 minded retards are now giving their opinions on this album :D
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We just expected some game changer..like I stated before 2nite is my favorite leak this year..Dre came wit it on that joint..my lady likes that song too
Game changer comes with time. You can't just label or not label an album that 1 day after its release. I remember listening to 2001 like many others and thinking WTF is this shit? Lots of people felt that way when it first dropped.
Then some time later.. perception changed. Producer after producer was copying the new "DRE" sound.
We will see.
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great soundtrack, thought itll be similar to Pimp Butterfly and its completely different but shit is still fire, funny thing i didnt recognized Snoops at first on that One Shot track. Dre sounds turned up by the movie, cool to see him really feelin and enjoyin what hes doin right now
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I just got in off the 3rd shift. Will give my full opinion after I take a power nap. This has been 16 years in the making. From what I've heard so far..this is one of them joints that will have to grow on the masses. He should still drop Detox though imo
not really 16years in the making...
after Detox was scrapped(2012-2013)
this album was produced in 2013-2015.
Only "old" songs are "Loose Cannons" "Talk to My Diary"
my album review in a few minutes...
Actually they've recorded Loose Cannons few weeks back.
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Those who don't like this album should go listen to Public Enemy's new album. You'll feel better. It goes hard.
I'm the last one who wants to hear about bitches & hoes & guns again, and I'm glad Dre's bein real with his lyrics. I just don't like the beats and guests and all that singing. But looking back, he's had a good amount of guests on all his albums, so that's nothing new.
Also, as soon as I hear that Southern style slow shit, I skip it. And this album has a few of those. No west coast artists should be doin that, especially now. Hate it.
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I want to hear the instrumental version of this album. 50 will create some good tracks over these beats, thats for sure.
Also pretty much all of the vocal performances from the people on the tracks are "different" shall we say and sometimes get in the way of the instrumentation. I thought I'd been given a fake rip when the 2nd track kicked in as it sounded like a standard modern generic wack rap track and nowhere near Dres level. Album picks up in the middle a bit I was expecting lush cinematic vibes.
As I said before this is going to go Aftermath Presents... status and Dre will poke fun at it in his next album where he'll be a 60 year old dude talking about weed. Why can't these rappers get it into their heads to be more multidimensional and rhyme about other things instead of the usual guns, bitches, repping the set, weed, money, haters and fame? It's like that flash cartoon of Dre in the spelling bee ages ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYw6M_-POc
He should have followed up with The Great Chronic and You A Chronic Motherfucker Doctor Drizzay like originally planned...
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My expectations were really low for this. After hearing recent stuff Dre put out like the song from Marsha Ambrosis album with the Jeru the Damaja beat, that song "3 Kings" with Rick Ross & Jay-Z, that song with Jeramiah and Kendrick, the "Compton" song from Kendricks "Good Kid, Maad City" album ect... I kinda knew this album wasn't gonna be some west coast gangsta shit or the kinda stuff old school fans like me would wish for (I did like the track from Xzibits "Napalm" album that Dre produced though, also "The Recipe" and "Smoke" from 50's album btw). And even before all this, I thought the soundtrack Dre would be involved with the NWA movie would have old school NWA hits plus maybe a couple new songs. I mean I already resigned to the fact that "Relapse", as some others have said, is kinda like the last great Dre production (I love the beats on that album). So my expectations aren't like a lot of people who think its gonna be as west coast as someone like DJ Quik, or like it's gonna be a new "Chronic", "2001", "Doggystyle" ect... I mean Dre is like 50 years old, a billionaire, famous, he hasn't regularly hung out in the hood for decades. He hasn't really made the kind of West Coast gangsta beats y'all really want for years man. So how y'all expect he'll magically do it now. I mean, the songs mentioned at top and "I Need A Doctor" ect. come on.
Then the tracklist is revealed, 3 tracks were with this teenager from Texas, so I checked out his stuff on youtube with an open mind and thought the stuff I saw on there was wack as fuck!!!!! 4 Marsha Ambrosis features. Heard some of the other features are R&B, oh no. No MC Ren, thumbs down. I'm thinking, this gonna be some of that commercial, mainstream style, kinda like bullshit that's popular right now. Not having very high expectations for this. But its Dr. Dre, and a lot of his wack shit is more interesting than anything popular out nowadays, plus he's part of that big commercial machine, where he won't go against the bullshit that's popular nowadays that sells. So that's my mindset coming into this.
First off excited that the whole album is all new music! Fuck Yeah!! At least Dr. Dre is releasing a new album, shit I don't care what it is, at least its out! Then I'm listening to this, thinking I'm gonna hear "I Need A Doctor" type songs, and from the expectations I described above to what is "Compton" album, I was surprised it wasn't that wack. Compared to my expectations this album is fucking sick. Compared to commercial music nowadays, this album is awesome. Much more than I expected. I wasn't expecting this to change rap music, or bring a new gangsta west coast sound. I was grateful that Ice Cube, Cold 187, Xzibit, Snoop Dogg, The Game, Eminem were featured and that Dre collaborated with Primo! The new rappers didn't come off as wack as I thought. So looking through the eyes of nowadays, I gotta say this album is great!! Now for the complaints, I don't really like R&B, so I don't like all the singing throughout the album. Only singing I can stand is Kokane, Butch Cassidy, Latoiya Williams, Nancy Fletcher. I don't like the beats on "Talk About It' and "Deep Water", it sounds like that wack Trap beats that my teenage neighbors listen to, with the bass too heavy.
This album is excellent for what Dre is nowadays. Its not just unique to him, in rock if the remaining Led Zeppelin got back together they couldn't make as good of music as their heyday. Black Sabbath released an album with Ozzy after like 35 years and it can't match the classic stuff. No artist that's been around as long as Dre can put out stuff that will be as impactful as their heyday. If someone has a "change the game/bring the west back" album, it has to be someone new in the future, not a 50 year old artist.
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I want to hear the instrumental version of this album. 50 will create some good tracks over these beats, thats for sure.
Also pretty much all of the vocal performances from the people on the tracks are "different" shall we say and sometimes get in the way of the instrumentation. I thought I'd been given a fake rip when the 2nd track kicked in as it sounded like a standard modern generic wack rap track and nowhere near Dres level. Album picks up in the middle a bit I was expecting lush cinematic vibes.
As I said before this is going to go Aftermath Presents... status and Dre will poke fun at it in his next album where he'll be a 60 year old dude talking about weed. Why can't these rappers get it into their heads to be more multidimensional and rhyme about other things instead of the usual guns, bitches, repping the set, weed, money, haters and fame? It's like that flash cartoon of Dre in the spelling bee ages ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYw6M_-POc
He should have followed up with The Great Chronic and You A Chronic Motherfucker Doctor Drizzay like originally planned...
any word on the new X album? really interested to hear what else him and the Doc came up with throughout all those sessions.
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Snoop Doggs flow on ''One Shot One Kill''
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Snoop Doggs flow on ''One Shot One Kill''
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That trumpet outro on ''talking to my diary'' is amazing.
It had me like....................
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What an ending of a great album.
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And about the slow south sound it actually comes from a producer from the West
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I dont want to bad mouth the album as ive only given it one listen...first thoughts are that it is far from a classic.
I like a handful of the tracks but i skipped quite a few.
I think this album may be a grower so maybe it is better to give an opinion after a week of listening to it.
I am not blown away by it so far though
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Although I frequent another forum ( Boxden ) , I value west coast opinions the most here since it is the die hard focus here. The album was okay..Too much going on...a few nice thumpers I guess for the fans of how it once was , but it is clearly aimed at new school fans . No laid verses from Dre , just Kendrick-type fast paced flows for the most part...Happy I somewhat since we have another release , but have also come to realize we will never get that classic sound back.
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Although I frequent another forum ( Boxden ) , I value west coast opinions the most here since it is the die hard focus here. The album was okay..Too much going on...a few nice thumpers I guess for the fans of how it once was , but it is clearly aimed at new school fans . No laid verses from Dre , just Kendrick-type fast paced flows for the most part...Happy I somewhat since we have another release , but have also come to realize we will never get that classic sound back.
You were never gonna get that classic sound. Dre has changed his sound every few years starting all the way back from World Class Wrecking Crew. This is 16 years after his last album.
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Is there a download link for this which someone could PM me please? Thanks in advance.
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Is there a download link for this which someone could PM me please? Thanks in advance.
If Dre isn't worth your 14 bucks what is
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Is there a download link for this which someone could PM me please? Thanks in advance.
If Dre isn't worth your 14 bucks what is
I'm definitely going to buy this... I just wanna bang it tonight 'till I fall asleep.
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Snoop Doggs flow on ''One Shot One Kill''
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I was just happy to see Dre project out.
Gave it a spin and it's not bad but it sure is not a classic.
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we dropped an update earlier and had to give YOU guys the shine!
http://www.dubcnn.com/2015/08/07/dr-dres-compton-out-now-stream-buy-see-initial-fan-comments/
SHARE THE PAGE!!!
Nice to see my post on there but I made little to no sense! ;D
Guess I was way to excited after the first spin of the album.
I have modified my comment, would be nice if you can help do the same on the page, So I won't seem like a retard
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Also the link is probably about the City of Compton, wich is more than lolos, weed khakis n chucks... i lije the seriousness of some of the songs on there
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Gave the album a spin today while I drove around and it reminds me of listening to 2001. You have your songs you love off the bat but there is too much going on to get it all in one sitting. That Dre/Premier collabo is bonkers though. And that little instrumentation that kicks in behind the "Murder" chorus on "Genocide" is one of those sick production details that it took me a few listens to pick up on but it's very dope.
Is it a classic? Hard to call. Time creates classics but right now, I am really feeling the album. We can all nitpick it to death but it shits over a lot of those Detox leaks that we were all so critical of.
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
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Had a hard time listening the album top to bottom several times ... It annoys me pretty quickly ... It may be a good album in 2015 but I never lowered my standards regardless of the era ...
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Its GAME TIME! - that songs get better and better.
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Music is for growns. Couple more spins. Def. Grower.
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It's a good album but I agree with those that are a disappointed. Compton isn't classic, it isn't game changing or "Next Level" like some are throwing around, it's good but Dre could have released a good album each year ever since he announced Detox, it needed to be better than good.
I honestly believe that if Straight Outta Compton wasn't coming out Dre's album wouldn't have came out either. The way I feel about it isn't that much different from the way I was feeling about his Detox leaks from before, cool, some better than others but not that instant classic, game changing shit that you'd expect from Dre, especially with the huge hype surrounding it. What they did was smart as fuck though, they marketed the shit out of it, like no other! From Dre saying that everything he was working on before was not good enough and now he's motivated, re-energized and confidant, blah, blah, blah... all that is just game and building up hype and a smart move. Do you really believe that in the last decade Dre never had 15 dope tracks to put out a proper album with??? Get the fuck outta here with that noise. What was missing was hype, buzz, a big machine driving the album to the status that a Dre album is expected to have, that's what Dre didn't have these past shitload of years when he was trying to put out an album. Finally working on something that he was feeling and that he believed was good enough, nah hell no, don't believe that shit for a minute, finally a perfect moment to release an album and make the most money out of it ABSOLUTELY! that was the motivation, finally a timely album to release.
The album may not have been the best decision musically, that's obvious from the mixed reviews and obvious let down from what the hype was leading us to believe, BUT IT WAS THE BEST FINANCIAL DECISION. No matter what type of music Dre put out and no matter if it would have been released 10 years ago, 5 years ago or if it would have been released next year, it wouldn't have mattered, there was no more perfect of a moment to release the album then right now in conjunction with the movie. You got the director, actors, featuring artist, Dre, Apple/i-Tunes, etc. all pushing the fuck outta the album, when else would this have happened? They kept it under wraps so there wouldn't be any mixed reviews before it actually dropped, they got the who's who of assholes talking about, "game over", "about to press the reset button on all the bullshit that you thought was dope", I know I aint quoting it right but you know what I'm sayin, all that hype everyone was throwing around. Most people believed that shit though, there's people all over this board talking about, "but he's finally motivated", "he wasn't feeling none of the music he had done before", "the movie inspired him", "the music is on another level", that's what the fuck they told you and wanted you to believe.
That's why i think the music isn't up to where it should be, if it wasn't for this perfect moment, Compton wouldn't have came out either. It is what it is and it aint what it aint. Brilliant marketing on their part, the best I've seen for any album and the music is good but not what it coulda/shoulda been.
what ur sayin is bs.....if dre didn't scrap detox because he wasn't feelin it, then why not just select 15 tracks he made over the last 15 years and put that out as an album with the "straight outa compton" release? clearly, all the stuff released was made within the past year, so yea, he did find a renewed energy and built offa that, which is why he felt comfortable puttin it out.
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I guess most people who are hating on the album are the ones who expected another west coast gangsta rap anthems and had great expectations for the album (not a bad thing of course).
Me, I wasn't expecting that much as i wasn't feeling Dre lately... Kush, I Need A Doctor, all the Detox leaks... my ears were bleeding everytime i heard these songs.
What is more i thought Dre will gonna come up with something different this time. Remember all these interviews where he was saying about his mysterious projects - plantes, soundtracks etc. It was obvious he want to to make something more complex, some kind of rap musical or however you wanna call it.
So again.. i wasn't expecting Chronic 2015 and maybe that's why i liked the album since the begining. With some exceptions most of the songs made great impact on me musically. Stand out tracks to me are:
Darkside/Gone
Loose Cannons
Deep Water
One Shot One Kill
For the Love of Money
Animals
Talking To My Diary
Is it a classic? Who can say that right now? We'll see.
By the way... is it only me who thinks that some of you cats are misunderstanding the concept of the album? Just because it says "soundtrack" it doesn't mean Dre made his soundtrack to the movie. I find it more like a soundtrack to Dre's career. An album that summarizes his whole career. And i think he had the right to make it sound the way he wanted. I might be wrong of course.
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I guess most people who are hating on the album are the ones who expected another west coast gangsta rap anthems and had great expectations for the album (not a bad thing of course).
Me, I wasn't expecting that much as i wasn't feeling Dre lately... Kush, I Need A Doctor, all the Detox leaks... my ears were bleeding everytime i heard these songs.
What is more i thought Dre will gonna come up with something different this time. Remember all these interviews where he was saying about his mysterious projects - plantes, soundtracks etc. It was obvious he want to to make something more complex, some kind of rap musical or however you wanna call it.
So again.. i wasn't expecting Chronic 2015 and maybe that's why i liked the album since the begining. With some exceptions most of the songs made great impact on me musically. Stand out tracks to me are:
Darkside/Gone
Loose Cannons
Deep Water
One Shot One Kill
For the Love of Money
Animals
Talking To My Diary
Is it a classic? Who can say that right now? We'll see.
By the way... is it only me who thinks that some of you cats are misunderstanding the concept of the album? Just because it says "soundtrack" it doesn't mean Dre made his soundtrack to the movie. I find it more like a soundtrack to Dre's career. An album that summarizes his whole career. And i think he had the right to make it sound the way he wanted. I might be wrong of course.
I didn't expect this ... I was expecting an "opera hip hop" type of sound , some epic music ... take the rap music to a next level and change the game for a third time .
Compton is different but different doesn't equal quality ...
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It's a good album but I agree with those that are a disappointed. Compton isn't classic, it isn't game changing or "Next Level" like some are throwing around, it's good but Dre could have released a good album each year ever since he announced Detox, it needed to be better than good.
I honestly believe that if Straight Outta Compton wasn't coming out Dre's album wouldn't have came out either. The way I feel about it isn't that much different from the way I was feeling about his Detox leaks from before, cool, some better than others but not that instant classic, game changing shit that you'd expect from Dre, especially with the huge hype surrounding it. What they did was smart as fuck though, they marketed the shit out of it, like no other! From Dre saying that everything he was working on before was not good enough and now he's motivated, re-energized and confidant, blah, blah, blah... all that is just game and building up hype and a smart move. Do you really believe that in the last decade Dre never had 15 dope tracks to put out a proper album with??? Get the fuck outta here with that noise. What was missing was hype, buzz, a big machine driving the album to the status that a Dre album is expected to have, that's what Dre didn't have these past shitload of years when he was trying to put out an album. Finally working on something that he was feeling and that he believed was good enough, nah hell no, don't believe that shit for a minute, finally a perfect moment to release an album and make the most money out of it ABSOLUTELY! that was the motivation, finally a timely album to release.
The album may not have been the best decision musically, that's obvious from the mixed reviews and obvious let down from what the hype was leading us to believe, BUT IT WAS THE BEST FINANCIAL DECISION. No matter what type of music Dre put out and no matter if it would have been released 10 years ago, 5 years ago or if it would have been released next year, it wouldn't have mattered, there was no more perfect of a moment to release the album then right now in conjunction with the movie. You got the director, actors, featuring artist, Dre, Apple/i-Tunes, etc. all pushing the fuck outta the album, when else would this have happened? They kept it under wraps so there wouldn't be any mixed reviews before it actually dropped, they got the who's who of assholes talking about, "game over", "about to press the reset button on all the bullshit that you thought was dope", I know I aint quoting it right but you know what I'm sayin, all that hype everyone was throwing around. Most people believed that shit though, there's people all over this board talking about, "but he's finally motivated", "he wasn't feeling none of the music he had done before", "the movie inspired him", "the music is on another level", that's what the fuck they told you and wanted you to believe.
That's why i think the music isn't up to where it should be, if it wasn't for this perfect moment, Compton wouldn't have came out either. It is what it is and it aint what it aint. Brilliant marketing on their part, the best I've seen for any album and the music is good but not what it coulda/shoulda been.
I call bull on this one. This is exactly the opposite of a business move. Infact, the proceeds from this album are going to some Compton development project. Dre couldn't care less about the chump change he would make from album sales these days.
Infact, on this album Dre has dropped any illusions of making a commercial hit record. Perhaps he realized that singles like "I Need A Doctor" reeked of desperation from a legend that had lost his confidence. On "Compton" Dre has not attempted to produce even a single pop record. I honestly believe that he has done what he artistically wanted on this album.
Now that is not saying that it is necessarily what I personally wanted. I'm 40 years old - I was 17 when The Chronic dropped and opened my eyes to west coast gangsta rap - and yes I would have loved an album in the style of 2001 or The Chronic - or even an album like Game's west coast classic "The Doctors Advocate" (which really sounded like a Dr.Dre album right down to Game rapping like Dre throughout the record). But I can recognize quality when I hear it and this is definitely quality. Like others have pointed out this is more like To Pimp A Butterfly part II than it is The Chronic part II or 2001 part II. I will need to listen to this album some more to really get into it, but after 5 listens it still gets better every time. Album is sounding immaculate. The mixing is flawless as expected with Dre. There's hardly a duff track on it. Really, the ONLY thing that annoys me is Dre trying to rap like Kendrick - it is just not his style.
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some people in here remind me of crackheads, when they hit it the first time (the chronic or 2001 for some) it was tha bomb (classic). and wit every next release (next hit of crack) they try to catch that feelin they had at first but of course theyll never accomplish that. they will get high but nothin can fuck with the first hit of rock. Its not Dr.Dre-''The Chronic 2015'' its Soundtrack to the Movie... so dont try too hard just enjoy the music people
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some people in here remind me of crackheads, when they hit it the first time (the chronic or 2001 for some) it was tha bomb (classic). and wit every next release (next hit of crack) they try to catch that feelin they had at first but of course theyll never accomplish that. they will get high but nothin can fuck with the first hit of rock. Its not Dr.Dre-''The Chronic 2015'' its Soundtrack to the Movie... so dont try too hard just enjoy the music people
it is NOT the ost for the movie. ;)
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how come? "Compton - A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" maybe you mean its more like Soundtrack to The City of Compton and it should be titled Straight Outta Compton Soundtrack? Either way its inspired by and connected to the movie
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I don't think the album is getting the love it deserves here on DubCC. Too many people were expecting their "own" version of a Dr. Dre album rather than keeping an open mind.
Metacritic got it at 85 score with critical reviews, at 9.7 on a USER rating. This is definitely grown up rap & DRE.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/compton/dr-dre
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how come? "Compton - A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" maybe you mean its more like Soundtrack to The City of Compton and it should be titled Straight Outta Compton Soundtrack? Either way its inspired by and connected to the movie
Thats ok, but still aint the ost for the film.
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gonna wait for the dust to settle before i start dissecting this thing, but i feel myself disliking it more with each play. a few tracks are straight skippers, really missing the soul influence in favour of these loud, dark, aggressive soundscapes. it's just not a sound i can take enjoyement listening to. to give you an idea, best tracks would include 'It's All On Me', 'Animals' and absolute worst would be 'For The Love of Money' - can't believe a beat like that ended up on a Dre album, however good the rapping and mixing is.
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This album is a grower, the content is good, its adressing current issues in our society (police brutallity, #blacklivesmatter) I believe that if you cannot relate to some of the subject it may.be a problem to feel the album as a whole
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any word on the new X album? really interested to hear what else him and the Doc came up with throughout all those sessions.
X is normally quite astute with things like this that raise his profile and he sounded invigorated on the album, probably one of the best verses and one of the few that I immediately recognized the artist for who he was. Dre has also been generous with his beats for X before so I think that he'll probably be a large factor in X dropping the album that (most of us) expected this to be.
I think this album is going to take a few more spins for me to get used to it but there are some really interesting elements in some of the production that deserve an instrumental to truly appreciate but Dres new style is just ehh.
Bonus X verse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A
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Also if you listen to Loose Cannons and dont see the Jazz elements you guys dont know shit about music
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This album is a grower, the content is good, its adressing current issues in our society (police brutallity, #blacklivesmatter) I believe that if you cannot relate to some of the subject it may.be a problem to feel the album as a whole
Definitely a grower- with each spin a keep hearing something new come out in the mix. Crazy stuff. Love all the horns.
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the album contains 5-6 very good tracks.
well mixed and mastered.
but, isn't a classic and not changed the game
it's simple.
move to the next one: dc2
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This album is a grower, the content is good, its adressing current issues in our society (police brutallity, #blacklivesmatter) I believe that if you cannot relate to some of the subject it may.be a problem to feel the album as a whole
fair comment, the angry tone is definitely a reflection of this stuff. at the same time, Dre says on a personal level he can't stand people who use their circumstance as an excuse. i think there's a fine line between being authentic about this stuff and people who use social issues (mainly self-righteous white people) as a projection for their own failures. personal responsibility is underated in liberal culture.
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Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
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I think the album works best when you treat it all as one really long piece of music, rather than a collection of individual songs...
It moves through different moods and it's like a suite of musical movements, where no particular one is meant to be the
"hit single" with the big chorus, etc.
I don't love any particular track that much, but when listened to as a whole there is something really interesting and intriguing about it
and there is a lot of detail to keep coming back to and discovering with each listen...
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Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
Will there be hard copys?
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Bout to voice my opinion on the album:
First of all, this is definetely NOT a classic album and not on par with chronic & 2001. With these albums dre influenced the whole hip hop scene two times and popularized a new sound & style everybody was trying to copy. This time he let himself be influenced by the current soundscapes & trends a bit too much. There are certainly good and very good songs on here, but theres also too much on here that sounds to modern & influenced by currently popular styles & sounds. The worst thing for me is kendrick lamars influence all over the record. I'll just be honest & say I don't fuck with kendricks style, I know many people love it and call him hip hops next big thing, the new king of the west and more but his style is absolutely not my cup of tea. And theres too much of his influence all over the album, especially dres verses & rapping style is clearly kendricks which I dislike. Also its suspicious for me how so many people celebrate snoops verse on "One Shot One Kill", thats not snoop thats kendrick spittin there, he obviously wrote snoops verse and snoop himself flows and uses his voice just like kendrick. Come on, then you could have just placed kendrick there instead of snoop. Snoop got one of the most unique voices and one of the greatest flows in the game and that is sacrificed here to do a kendrick impression smh....
Another thing that annoys me is the fuckin mess thats going on in some tracks, sometimes I just want some old school 16 bars verse, hook, 16 bars verse, hook style song, and not these thousands of voice & flow changes within one part + some spoken inserts in the middle of it. Thats also one of the things thats clearly influenced by kendrick and its all over the album (hope y'all understand whats my point here). Its completely ok if this happens during the songs with kendrick but it seems like dre let his protege influence this album too much, I always liked how on chronic & 2001 all the guests brought their own styles & strenghts in and everything came together for a great listening experience.. Another aspect bout the album, are the influences from current trap styles and shit like this which also have no bussiness beeing on a dre album, thats not the game changing sound that dre always brought with his projects. He always set trends instead of following them...
Thats not to say that there aren't good songs on here, tracks like its all on me or talking to my diary are great but theres just not enough real "Dre sound" on this for me....
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3 good tracks..fuhq this album. Way too much yelling going on..keep it simple. ..this is jus Dre's effort at new school stuff...just rap Dre !!! Waay too many heads on this album.
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I took a couple days to let the album sink in some more so as to come to terms with what my issues are with this album. First, I think the best stuff is in the second half of the album. I agree with the New York Times review regarding Deep Water. Animals is a nice change of pace, and it's cool to hear the two greatest producers in hip hop history collaborating. I like Talkin to My Diary because it's Dre using his normal voice without the gimmicks he uses elsewhere to sound contemporary.
Having said that, though, all in all, Compton sounds like a Kendrick Lamar album with the fast, aggressive flows, beat changes, modern instrumentation, political subject matter, etc.
It's a real shame that The D.O.C. didn't write Dre's lyrics as on previous albums, because I think Dre sounds so natural and awesome when DOC is writing for him. Here, Dre sounds interchangeable. He sounds like he could be any rapper. There's no individuality to his presence here, and the burden is placed completely on the listener to be familiar with Dre's past accomplishments to understand who he is as an individual. As it is, on the album Dre is pretty anonymous and doesn't stand out from his guest artists. He doesn't teach us anything new here about who he is.
Musically, there's very little funk groove to enjoy, which is what Dre has always been at his best creating, plus he doesn't let many of the tracks breathe. It's so stuffed with a constant bombardment of things going on that it takes away from me being able to lavish in the musicality that would otherwise be on display. Don't get me wrong -- elif4zaggin was equally stuffed with musical bombardment thanks to the "wall of sound" approach Dre adopted from the Bomb Squad, but back in those days the music was rooted in funk grooves and melody. I just miss Dre doing what he does best, which he eschews here in favor of trying to sound contemporary, which I guess was inevitable.
I also think the album is sooo self-serious that it comes off as overwrought. Dre used to always fill his projects with comedy (e.g. Deeez Nuts, Automobile on elif4zaggin, etc.). The comic relief is needed to provide some relief from the sociopolitical seriousness. Instead, Dre comes across as seriously harried and put-upon with expectations. Lighten up dude; you're a billionaire. It's just music, which YOU used to say to your critics. (Again, this seems to be Kendrick's influence at work).
Finally, the multi-generational guests don't seem to organically fit together like puzzle pieces. He goes from Ice Cube to Snoop to Eminem to Game, and I don't think he incorporates them all smoothly. It's jarring. He gets them all to use the aggressive flow, but, again, that's not what they're all best at (especially Snoop).
I just feel this is like trying to put a square peg into a round hole...or it could be that this just isn't my style of album. We need the funk, gotta have that funk.
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Bout to voice my opinion on the album:
First of all, this is definetely NOT a classic album and not on par with chronic & 2001. With these albums dre influenced the whole hip hop scene two times and popularized a new sound & style everybody was trying to copy. This time he let himself be influenced by the current soundscapes & trends a bit too much. There are certainly good and very good songs on here, but theres also too much on here that sounds to modern & influenced by currently popular styles & sounds. The worst thing for me is kendrick lamars influence all over the record. I'll just be honest & say I don't fuck with kendricks style, I know many people love it and call him hip hops next big thing, the new king of the west and more but his style is absolutely not my cup of tea. And theres too much of his influence all over the album, especially dres verses & rapping style is clearly kendricks which I dislike. Also its suspicious for me how so many people celebrate snoops verse on "One Shot One Kill", thats not snoop thats kendrick spittin there, he obviously wrote snoops verse and snoop himself flows and uses his voice just like kendrick. Come on, then you could have just placed kendrick there instead of snoop. Snoop got one of the most unique voices and one of the greatest flows in the game and that is sacrificed here to do a kendrick impression smh....
Another thing that annoys me is the fuckin mess thats going on in some tracks, sometimes I just want some old school 16 bars verse, hook, 16 bars verse, hook style song, and not these thousands of voice & flow changes within one part + some spoken inserts in the middle of it. Thats also one of the things thats clearly influenced by kendrick and its all over the album (hope y'all understand whats my point here). Its completely ok if this happens during the songs with kendrick but it seems like dre let his protege influence this album too much, I always liked how on chronic & 2001 all the guests brought their own styles & strenghts in and everything came together for a great listening experience.. Another aspect bout the album, are the influences from current trap styles and shit like this which also have no bussiness beeing on a dre album, thats not the game changing sound that dre always brought with his projects. He always set trends instead of following them...
Thats not to say that there aren't good songs on here, tracks like its all on me or talking to my diary are great but theres just not enough real "Dre sound" on this for me....
Completely agree. I basically just wrote the same thing trying to make some of the same points. +1
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the album contains 5-6 very good tracks.
well mixed and mastered.
but, isn't a classic and not changed the game
it's simple.
move to the next one: dc2
When's the last time quik moved the game? Quik is the name 1991. after ain't moved shit.
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It's a good album but I agree with those that are a disappointed. Compton isn't classic, it isn't game changing or "Next Level" like some are throwing around, it's good but Dre could have released a good album each year ever since he announced Detox, it needed to be better than good.
I honestly believe that if Straight Outta Compton wasn't coming out Dre's album wouldn't have came out either. The way I feel about it isn't that much different from the way I was feeling about his Detox leaks from before, cool, some better than others but not that instant classic, game changing shit that you'd expect from Dre, especially with the huge hype surrounding it. What they did was smart as fuck though, they marketed the shit out of it, like no other! GetFrom Dre saying that everything he was working on before was not good enough and now he's motivated, re-energized and confidant, blah, blah, blah... all that is just game and building up hype and a smart move. Do you really believe that in the last decade Dre never had 15 dope tracks to put out a proper album with??? the fuck outta here with that noise. What was missing was hype, buzz, a big machine driving the album to the status that a Dre album is expected to have, that's what Dre didn't have these past shitload of years when he was trying to put out an album. Finally working on something that he was feeling and that he believed was good enough, nah hell no, don't believe that shit for a minute, finally a perfect moment to release an album and make the most money out of it ABSOLUTELY! that was the motivation, finally a timely album to release.
The album may not have been the best decision musically, that's obvious from the mixed reviews and obvious let down from what the hype was leading us to believe, BUT IT WAS THE BEST FINANCIAL DECISION. No matter what type of music Dre put out and no matter if it would have been released 10 years ago, 5 years ago or if it would have been released next year, it wouldn't have mattered, there was no more perfect of a moment to release the album then right now in conjunction with the movie. You got the director, actors, featuring artist, Dre, Apple/i-Tunes, etc. all pushing the fuck outta the album, when else would this have happened? They kept it under wraps so there wouldn't be any mixed reviews before it actually dropped, they got the who's who of assholes talking about, "game over", "about to press the reset button on all the bullshit that you thought was dope", I know I aint quoting it right but you know what I'm sayin, all that hype everyone was throwing around. Most people believed that shit though, there's people all over this board talking about, "but he's finally motivated", "he wasn't feeling none of the music he had done before", "the movie inspired him", "the music is on another level", that's what the fuck they told you and wanted you to believe.
That's why i think the music isn't up to where it should be, if it wasn't for this perfect moment, Compton wouldn't have came out either. It is what it is and it aint what it aint. Brilliant marketing on their part, the best I've seen for any album and the music is good but not what it coulda/shoulda been.
I agree with all that 100%. Only a blind fool can't see this. I mentioned this before the album came out actually. It was common sense to me and obvious that Dre pushed this project because of the movie. This was not intended to be "detox" type album.
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Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
Will there be hard copys?
august 21st and you can pre-order it now.
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gonna wait for the dust to settle before i start dissecting this thing, but i feel myself disliking it more with each play. a few tracks are straight skippers, really missing the soul influence in favour of these loud, dark, aggressive soundscapes. it's just not a sound i can take enjoyement listening to. to give you an idea, best tracks would include 'It's All On Me', 'Animals' and absolute worst would be 'For The Love of Money' - can't believe a beat like that ended up on a Dre album, however good the rapping and mixing is.
You're dead on. People here are over hyping it. Like I stated earlier "It's a GOOD album with a bunch of GOOD tracks that's probably better than 90% of what's out? But don't try and convince yourself that this is a classic. It's not man. Anybody that knows and follows Dre can tell that this shit was not to his standards. Even the beats weren't up to par. This doesn't mean that we're hating on it or anything like that. It's just obvious.
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Bout to voice my opinion on the album:
First of all, this is definetely NOT a classic album and not on par with chronic & 2001. With these albums dre influenced the whole hip hop scene two times and popularized a new sound & style everybody was trying to copy. This time he let himself be influenced by the current soundscapes & trends a bit too much. There are certainly good and very good songs on here, but theres also too much on here that sounds to modern & influenced by currently popular styles & sounds. The worst thing for me is kendrick lamars influence all over the record. I'll just be honest & say I don't fuck with kendricks style, I know many people love it and call him hip hops next big thing, the new king of the west and more but his style is absolutely not my cup of tea. And theres too much of his influence all over the album, especially dres verses & rapping style is clearly kendricks which I dislike. Also its suspicious for me how so many people celebrate snoops verse on "One Shot One Kill", thats not snoop thats kendrick spittin there, he obviously wrote snoops verse and snoop himself flows and uses his voice just like kendrick. Come on, then you could have just placed kendrick there instead of snoop. Snoop got one of the most unique voices and one of the greatest flows in the game and that is sacrificed here to do a kendrick impression smh....
Another thing that annoys me is the fuckin mess thats going on in some tracks, sometimes I just want some old school 16 bars verse, hook, 16 bars verse, hook style song, and not these thousands of voice & flow changes within one part + some spoken inserts in the middle of it. Thats also one of the things thats clearly influenced by kendrick and its all over the album (hope y'all understand whats my point here). Its completely ok if this happens during the songs with kendrick but it seems like dre let his protege influence this album too much, I always liked how on chronic & 2001 all the guests brought their own styles & strenghts in and everything came together for a great listening experience.. Another aspect bout the album, are the influences from current trap styles and shit like this which also have no bussiness beeing on a dre album, thats not the game changing sound that dre always brought with his projects. He always set trends instead of following them...
Thats not to say that there aren't good songs on here, tracks like its all on me or talking to my diary are great but theres just not enough real "Dre sound" on this for me....
Great post ... I thought I was the only one who was very annoyed by the " messy verses" on this album ... way too many pauses , half singing , changes of voices ... a perfect example is Xzibit one ... dude has one of the dopest voices in the game but didn't rap in a normal way ...
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i try and try but i can't feel the album. some nice songs but nothing groundbreaking, this will be forgotten in 3 weeks. if this is really Dre's last solo album ever, he's going out with an average one and his weakest effort. This feel rushed and not on pair with Dre's standard of perfection.
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how come? "Compton - A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" maybe you mean its more like Soundtrack to The City of Compton and it should be titled Straight Outta Compton Soundtrack? Either way its inspired by and connected to the movie
This is Dre attempting to confuse fans and capitalize off the movie. Much like Jay-Z with American Gangster.
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Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
Will there be hard copys?
august 21st and you can pre-order it now.
good news!
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At first listen I was disappointed, but I feel that many felt that way and skimmed over some very important parts of the album. Once I truly sat down and played it several times in its entirety there was some awesome things I missed, there are some sounds that only Dre can put together that I'm hearing in these songs that I didn't hear it it's first couple of spins. Overall I'm enjoying this album and will be buying a hard copy for sure. I still can't even give a true honest full opinion of the album because it's still growing on me, I think everyone should wait on giving their opinion, be patient, give it some more spins, the art is there, the craft is there, He's painted a picture that not everyone can see, and I'm hearing something new each spin. I have no reason to complain, Thank you Dr.Dre!!!!
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And about the slow south sound it actually comes from a producer from the West
That makes it worse.
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
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LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
I don't know really know what you're driving at it with "abandoning his past". Dre's album is named after the city he grew up in and influenced by the first group he blew up with. He's got several artists on it that he's been working with for over 20+ years, dating as far back as his Ruthless days. His flow might be a little different and his sounds are a little more modern but he's a producer. Music evolves and people try new things. I'm not bringing the same energy to things I did twenty years ago. I might still fuck with some of the same people, visit some of the same places, and have some of the same hobbies but I'm approaching it from an older perspective. I don't think he's any more far removed from his past than any of these other artists that have been on since the 80's and 90's.
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
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Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
Will there be hard copys?
august 21st and you can pre-order it now.
Thanks! Where can I stream the full version then? I cant wait hat long!
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where are the production credits again?
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I just can't understand this Theo guy. What's your problem? That Dre's dropping an album after 16 years and giving it Comtpon name? Because DJ Quik didn't done that before him? He had his chance? Let's be honest, Quik can't top Dre or anyone can't top Dre with music. You can tell whatever you want but Dre is Hip-Hop. Dre is responsible for Pac, Snoop, Game, 50, X, Eminem... What else do you want? You're hating that album just because Quik isn't involved, if Quik had place on it you would kill us to death saying how good album is. Except Los Angeles area, Cali area nobody is interessted in Quik and you do know that. His time is almost over, ask youngsters about him, nobody would say a fucking word except "Who tf is that?". Dre is Dre. Even tho this album doesn't change the game like you've said, it changes everything. Only having Dre album after this long is changing the game. Everybody is talking about it, everybody is loving it. It ain't 2001-2-3 anymore, it's time for the sound he delivers with Compton. Youngsters don't want G-Funk. They want this sound so deal with it.
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I just can't understand this Theo guy. What's your problem? That Dre's dropping an album after 16 years and giving it Comtpon name? Because DJ Quik didn't done that before him? He had his chance? Let's be honest, Quik can't top Dre or anyone can't top Dre with music. You can tell whatever you want but Dre is Hip-Hop. Dre is responsible for Pac, Snoop, Game, 50, X, Eminem... What else do you want? You're hating that album just because Quik isn't involved, if Quik had place on it you would kill us to death saying how good album is. Except Los Angeles area, Cali area nobody is interessted in Quik and you do know that. His time is almost over, ask youngsters about him, nobody would say a fucking word except "Who tf is that?". Dre is Dre. Even tho this album doesn't change the game like you've said, it changes everything. Only having Dre album after this long is changing the game. Everybody is talking about it, everybody is loving it. It ain't 2001-2-3 anymore, it's time for the sound he delivers with Compton. Youngsters don't want G-Funk. They want this sound so deal with it.
X TO THE MUTHA FUCKIN ZEEE KAM MR CRIMINAL - WEST LOVE
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/mSHSGUXD/file.html
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This album is basically Dre trying to go be new school. 'Diary is dope as fuck , but damn , too much yelling and too many bloated tracks.
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Me still celebratin this gift from the good doc.
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This shit is fresh.
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I just can't understand this Theo guy. What's your problem? That Dre's dropping an album after 16 years and giving it Comtpon name? Because DJ Quik didn't done that before him? He had his chance? Let's be honest, Quik can't top Dre or anyone can't top Dre with music. You can tell whatever you want but Dre is Hip-Hop. Dre is responsible for Pac, Snoop, Game, 50, X, Eminem... What else do you want? You're hating that album just because Quik isn't involved, if Quik had place on it you would kill us to death saying how good album is. Except Los Angeles area, Cali area nobody is interessted in Quik and you do know that. His time is almost over, ask youngsters about him, nobody would say a fucking word except "Who tf is that?". Dre is Dre. Even tho this album doesn't change the game like you've said, it changes everything. Only having Dre album after this long is changing the game. Everybody is talking about it, everybody is loving it. It ain't 2001-2-3 anymore, it's time for the sound he delivers with Compton. Youngsters don't want G-Funk. They want this sound so deal with it.
First of all you can say he's responsible for whoever you want but don't sit here and say he's responsible for pac,pac had a career before him and only came in contact with him thru suge and pac didn't even like dre when he died and some time before it...and to be fair he was responsible for Em who was responsible for 50 who was responsible for game...quik might not be as big as dre but he has worked with and influenced plenty of new school artists from Dom Kennedy,YG,Kendrick Lamar,iamsu,teeflii,tay f 3rd,Ty dolla sign,game....like come off it dude I swear you guys just use popularity as the only indication of quality...theo has been referred to as a "quik Stan" but look at the facts dre stans are just larger in number don't think because riding his tip is the norm that it's not the same thing the dude doesn't even write or produce his own music...like I said before the only reason DRE is relevant is because he has whoever is at the moment ghost write or produce for him...really tho that's like saying Picassos pieces were painted by someone else but with his paint brush so he gets credit...
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
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10 years from now yall will be begging for the next "Compton" type album to come out.
Stack this album up against any modern classic and what do you think then?
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
Basically
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
there was peeps givin it props on here too tho....i'd say it's about split 50/50, but it's not surprising that people expecting another "2001" on this site. it'll grow on most of 'em eventually.
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
not true, check the comments out on Premo's FB page for example. lots of people aren't feeling the album, not just some of the users here.
https://www.facebook.com/DJPremierOfficial/photos/a.257393767715068.58368.168149273306185/790368691084237/?type=1&theater
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
not true, check the comments out on Premo's FB page for example. lots of people aren't feeling the album, not just some of the users here.
https://www.facebook.com/DJPremierOfficial/photos/a.257393767715068.58368.168149273306185/790368691084237/?type=1&theater
Not sure how anyone could "not be feeling this album".... If you don't like this album, then I'd like to hear some of the shit people are listening to and feeling.
Kendrick has 2 of the best rap albums in the last few years and I think I would put this right up there, maybe even better. And Damani "thoughtful King" was one of the better albums to drop as well.
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I'm gonna say that this album is sick. People need to give it's originality more credit. Zero club bangers on the album - all listening music. The beats are aggressive but still musical, and still have some swing to them... the flows are really experimental and unique but still hard hitting and crisp. as an aggressive, 2015 NWA-esque rap album it hits it out of the park.
It also reminds me of Relapse in how the beats are rich and detailed. Lot of unique drum rhythms. I had a feeling that Relapse was a peak into what Dre's next solo album would be...
"Talk about it" is an absolute kick to the face. Satisfaction and Animals are more insightful than what I expected from Dre.
Anderson .Paak has a unique yet dopeeee style. I can see why Dre loves him, he sounds Bilal. Great texture to his voice.
This shit is 9/10.
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Its All On Me one of my favourite DRE tracks ever. Have to check this BJ the Chicago Kid.
I think thats one of the things people overlook on his albums till much later.. how DRE magnifies new talent like some pro fucking scout.
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
not true, check the comments out on Premo's FB page for example. lots of people aren't feeling the album, not just some of the users here.
https://www.facebook.com/DJPremierOfficial/photos/a.257393767715068.58368.168149273306185/790368691084237/?type=1&theater
Not sure how anyone could "not be feeling this album".... If you don't like this album, then I'd like to hear some of the shit people are listening to and feeling.
Kendrick has 2 of the best rap albums in the last few years and I think I would put this right up there, maybe even better. And Damani "thoughtful King" was one of the better albums to drop as well.
Preach!
Taste in *Music* is always subjective. It's your own personal opinion. You can't realistically compare this album against other nostalgia Dre albums. It's fucking 2015.
Everybody enjoys music in a different way. Music recognises no concept of right or wrong.
I do not understand all the hate against this album.
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"Talk about it" is one of my favorite too! It is energetic. Pow Pow.
I love it when the beat slowly kicks in at the ending of the intro. Well orchestrated!
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I just can't understand this Theo guy. What's your problem? That Dre's dropping an album after 16 years and giving it Comtpon name? Because DJ Quik didn't done that before him? He had his chance? Let's be honest, Quik can't top Dre or anyone can't top Dre with music. You can tell whatever you want but Dre is Hip-Hop. Dre is responsible for Pac, Snoop, Game, 50, X, Eminem... What else do you want? You're hating that album just because Quik isn't involved, if Quik had place on it you would kill us to death saying how good album is. Except Los Angeles area, Cali area nobody is interessted in Quik and you do know that. His time is almost over, ask youngsters about him, nobody would say a fucking word except "Who tf is that?". Dre is Dre. Even tho this album doesn't change the game like you've said, it changes everything. Only having Dre album after this long is changing the game. Everybody is talking about it, everybody is loving it. It ain't 2001-2-3 anymore, it's time for the sound he delivers with Compton. Youngsters don't want G-Funk. They want this sound so deal with it.
First of all you can say he's responsible for whoever you want but don't sit here and say he's responsible for pac,pac had a career before him and only came in contact with him thru suge and pac didn't even like dre when he died and some time before it...and to be fair he was responsible for Em who was responsible for 50 who was responsible for game...quik might not be as big as dre but he has worked with and influenced plenty of new school artists from Dom Kennedy,YG,Kendrick Lamar,iamsu,teeflii,tay f 3rd,Ty dolla sign,game....like come off it dude I swear you guys just use popularity as the only indication of quality...theo has been referred to as a "quik Stan" but look at the facts dre stans are just larger in number don't think because riding his tip is the norm that it's not the same thing the dude doesn't even write or produce his own music...like I said before the only reason DRE is relevant is because he has whoever is at the moment ghost write or produce for him...really tho that's like saying Picassos pieces were painted by someone else but with his paint brush so he gets credit...
All this talk of Dr. Dre is using ghost producers is just old rehashed groupie stories and unless you were in the studio with Dre you sound like a groupie yourself. Dre sometimes uses co-producers sometimes produces on his own just like your hero Dj Quik (Way 2 Fonky was basically a Rob Bacon production with help from Quik, all the bangers on Rhythm-a-lism was thanks to G-1). It's called collaborations, not ghost productions or stolen beats. Most producers that came from sampling background graduate to using collaborators (just like Quik). Anyone with half a ear and brain can tell that whoever Dre used as co-producer over thee years (from with he started with DJ Yella to whoever he uses now) the beats are still no doubt Dr. Dre beats and all have that sound so what kind of dumb fuck would accuse him of stealing other people's work?
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Any production credits?
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Any production credits?
They've been stolen... no one can find them
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Some are saying that Dr.Dre needs to go back to his own flow.. but he's been using others flow his whole career for example when I listen Still DRE i can hear Jay Z all over it
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Any production credits?
check the vault brodie
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I just can't understand this Theo guy. What's your problem? That Dre's dropping an album after 16 years and giving it Comtpon name? Because DJ Quik didn't done that before him? He had his chance? Let's be honest, Quik can't top Dre or anyone can't top Dre with music. You can tell whatever you want but Dre is Hip-Hop. Dre is responsible for Pac, Snoop, Game, 50, X, Eminem... What else do you want? You're hating that album just because Quik isn't involved, if Quik had place on it you would kill us to death saying how good album is. Except Los Angeles area, Cali area nobody is interessted in Quik and you do know that. His time is almost over, ask youngsters about him, nobody would say a fucking word except "Who tf is that?". Dre is Dre. Even tho this album doesn't change the game like you've said, it changes everything. Only having Dre album after this long is changing the game. Everybody is talking about it, everybody is loving it. It ain't 2001-2-3 anymore, it's time for the sound he delivers with Compton. Youngsters don't want G-Funk. They want this sound so deal with it.
First of all you can say he's responsible for whoever you want but don't sit here and say he's responsible for pac,pac had a career before him and only came in contact with him thru suge and pac didn't even like dre when he died and some time before it...and to be fair he was responsible for Em who was responsible for 50 who was responsible for game...quik might not be as big as dre but he has worked with and influenced plenty of new school artists from Dom Kennedy,YG,Kendrick Lamar,iamsu,teeflii,tay f 3rd,Ty dolla sign,game....like come off it dude I swear you guys just use popularity as the only indication of quality...theo has been referred to as a "quik Stan" but look at the facts dre stans are just larger in number don't think because riding his tip is the norm that it's not the same thing the dude doesn't even write or produce his own music...like I said before the only reason DRE is relevant is because he has whoever is at the moment ghost write or produce for him...really tho that's like saying Picassos pieces were painted by someone else but with his paint brush so he gets credit...
All this talk of Dr. Dre is using ghost producers is just old rehashed groupie stories and unless you were in the studio with Dre you sound like a groupie yourself. Dre sometimes uses co-producers sometimes produces on his own just like your hero Dj Quik (Way 2 Fonky was basically a Rob Bacon production with help from Quik, all the bangers on Rhythm-a-lism was thanks to G-1). It's called collaborations, not ghost productions or stolen beats. Most producers that came from sampling background graduate to using collaborators (just like Quik). Anyone with half a ear and brain can tell that whoever Dre used as co-producer over thee years (from with he started with DJ Yella to whoever he uses now) the beats are still no doubt Dr. Dre beats and all have that sound so what kind of dumb fuck would accuse him of stealing other people's work?
the ghost producer argument is flat out retarded.....if u cant tell a dre production based on listening, you simply need your ears checked.
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The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Would like to see the evidence to support this claim.
I haven't really checked the hip hop review sites, but New York Times gave it a very mixed review. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/arts/music/review-dr-dre-compton.html?_r=0
And for non-Americans, the NYTimes is the biggest newspaper in the United States. It's not a rinky-dink gossip paper.
I think a lot of this comes down to a generational divide. "Compton" is basically Dr. Dre making a Kendrick Lamar album. Like, if anyone wanted to know what a Dr. Dre-produced K. Dot album would be like, well, now you have it.
And the old school heads like me (I'm 33 years old) who were raised on funk in hip hop, especially in Dr. Dre's hip hop, are lukewarm at best with our reaction to this album; while the younger fans who love the Kendrick sound are naturally loving the continuation of that sound on "Compton" as interpreted/enhanced by Dr. Dre.
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The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Would like to see the evidence to support this claim.
I haven't really checked the hip hop review sites, but New York Times gave it a very mixed review. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/arts/music/review-dr-dre-compton.html?_r=0
And for non-Americans, the NYTimes is the biggest newspaper in the United States. It's not a rinky-dink gossip paper.
I think a lot of this comes down to a generational divide. "Compton" is basically Dr. Dre making a Kendrick Lamar album. Like, if anyone wanted to know what a Dr. Dre-produced K. Dot album would be like, well, now you have it.
And the old school heads like me (I'm 33 years old) who were raised on funk in hip hop, especially in Dr. Dre's hip hop, are lukewarm at best with our reaction to this album; while the younger fans who love the Kendrick sound are naturally loving the continuation of that sound on "Compton" as interpreted/enhanced by Dr. Dre.
not true... i always questioned kendrick as an a-level talent (though he's grown on me since), was raised on that 90s shit, and i feel this album STILL. the production is top-notch, and thats pretty much all u can expect from a dre album. it's been a long time since we've heard production this great in hip-hop. i think it'll grow on u.
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DRE magnifies new talent like some pro fucking scout.
None of the new artists stands out to me on Compton. Can you even point out a stand out moment on Compton by King Mez, Justus, et al.? Hell, nobody's even talking about them in this thread. They are not the subject of conversation. When The Chronic dropped, best believe Snoop was a major point of focus in what people noticed. Same even with Hittman on 2001.
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10 years from now yall will be begging for the next "Compton" type album to come out.
Stack this album up against any modern classic and what do you think then?
+1.
A few of my own personal observations. Quick thoughts...
- I've bumped this on great headphones after drinking about 15 drinks the night it came out, low volume driving around my kids on Friday, and then again today using shitty earbuds, good headphones, in the car, and again in the house on a good system. Between each listen I find myself thinking about a new song. That tells me a lot about what I will think of this album one week from now, one year from now, one decade from now.
- Shit is vintage Dre all day and night. If people were expecting a Chronic sound, or a 2001 sound, he gave you a combo of both on the last track. That beat is at least 5 years old, by the way. Dre can make that beat in his sleep.
- The comparisons to Kendrick's album confuse me. I feel a lot more energy in Compton than in that album. For me, Compton has far more replay value, and is a more cohesive, flowing body of work. IMO, of course.
- I don't hear any trap on this album.
- DJ Quik's music has been a great blessing to many, me included. Legit. Love his work. But he himself said respect the god, more or less. Called this "the future of music." So his fans that really ride for him need to chill on the comparisons to Quik's past work, his skill set as an engineer, etc. Using the Dre album to enlighten Quik non-believers isn't the way to go about making those people fans of Quik. It's totally ineffective. Especially when Quik himself sees himself as a Dre understudy, for lack of a better word.
- The features and collaborations feel far less forced to me than all the Detox leaks, needless to say. There is genuine chemistry on all these tracks. Organic chemistry. Something all the Detox stuff was lacking. And something that 2001 was lacking from front to back, IMO. Chronic, of course, was as cohesive as anything can be.
- The features ALL. KILL IT. Every single one. And not in a drum solo type way. In a way that is a completely organic piece of that song's puzzle. I personally like that I don't know who is doing what on some of these joints. It makes the song the star. And each song ties to the one before and after it in a way classic albums tend to do. As varied as the production is on here, it all feels like one body of work. That's Dr. Dre. He's never been able to do that to this degree, in my opinion (tie varied production styles together over the course of an album). That's the true value of his engineering and production excellence.
- Every person you hear talk about this album seems to gravitate to a unique song. For example, Whoo Kid played Satisfiction today. The Em joint. Premier loves It's All On Me, All In A Day's Work. Etc. When you consider what mere mortals like me, my buddy, whoever think about this, each seems to be gravitating to a new song with every listen. That is the mark of great art, imo.
- A great friend of mine said Dre may not be so much a genius as an incredibly hard worker (contrary to many opinions in this neck of the woods). He tirelessly looks to achieve magical chemistry in the studio. He may have not found it for a long time with respect to his solo work (hence, Detox never dropping). But when he says the work started flowing and magic began pouring out the speakers over the course of the movie's filming, I believe it. This album is proof. It's the product of organic chemistry and it's roots and ambitions are as pure as any in music. Dre is a fucking billionaire. Further, he had nothing to prove. He only stood to lose by releasing any body of work. The fact that he put in that work for so long to cement his legacy and give his fans new product is a beautiful thing. That's sadly lost on a lot of people. People bitching that there isn't a joint with MC Ren and King T rapping about their glaucoma is fucking ridiculous to me.
- The content shits all over his past work, and will impact the longevity of this album very favorably. It's no longer fictional. "YEEEAH JUST TOOK SOME ECSTASY." Uh, no you didn't, Dre. You're not cheating on Nicole. Dre found out how to talk about important grown up content in a fresh way. That may have been his biggest obstacle over the years in crafting a 2001 follow up. He succeeded with Compton. You could see him trying to go down this route with Bishop (no gimmicks, like Obie). Maybe the best example of what might have been from that era was Grown Up. But he still fell into the trap of making bullshit like Drug Test with the usual suspects. The new dudes (Justus, Paak, etc) made this work in a way the old dudes like Kurupt couldn't have. Same for the god D.O.C. He made a grown folks album. Abandoned all the old gangster shit, threw in some political content, gave the album an inspirational vibe, and wrapped it all up with incredibly tight and clean production that we are only now beginning to fully appreciate.
- I'm happy as fuck with this album and I'm happy it's getting some serious props out there. A couple of very loud voices in these forums won't be much of a roadblock to the momentum this work will carry forward.
- The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2. Something to keep in mind. Dre always says his best work is ahead of him. Positivity is a good thing, but maybe in this instance it's misplaced or delusional of Dre to think that way? Regardless, if he felt like this is worth putting out there, a listener is doing themselves a disservice by passing negative judgement on this album too soon. (For those few contrarians that think this album isn't excellent)
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Some are saying that Dr.Dre needs to go back to his own flow.. but he's been using others flow his whole career for example when I listen Still DRE i can hear Jay Z all over it
Yep...
Dre sounds pretty normal on "All On Me"' , "Animals", and " Talking to my Diary". His lyrics and flow don't sound forced at all on those songs, which are 3 of the best records on Compton.
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What's wrong with consumers/listeners of this current generation? All they do is compare apples to oranges and if the orange doesn't taste like the apple, then they blame the fruit and not themselves! No one here is a producer or who has knowledge of the entire process, but can sit and write an encyclopedia on why this individual did this, why he didn't do that, this album is better/worse than someone else......give it a fuckin' break! If you like it, because it's music that moves you and you feel good after listening to it fine, if it has no redeeming value to you, that's cool! Nobody was in the studio during the making of this album, no one here is proficient in music theory, but all these know-it-alls act as if they know how to construct or guide someone to make a hit album.......perhaps when someone has a track record like Dre, then their asinine opinion/ASSumption might mean something! It's only music and no one wasn't making a big deal when Mike Jax made Thriller which was different from Off The Wall (even though virtually the same producer(s) and musicians were on both records)! All the consumer cared was that it moved them and they were able to dance and/or nod their head, ain't no one was comparing Michael's lyrics and all the other shit that is already 10 pages in length..........smh!
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10 years from now yall will be begging for the next "Compton" type album to come out.
Stack this album up against any modern classic and what do you think then?
+1.
A few of my own personal observations. Quick thoughts...
- I've bumped this on great headphones after drinking about 15 drinks the night it came out, low volume driving around my kids on Friday, and then again today using shitty earbuds, good headphones, in the car, and again in the house on a good system. Between each listen I find myself thinking about a new song. That tells me a lot about what I will think of this album one week from now, one year from now, one decade from now.
- Shit is vintage Dre all day and night. If people were expecting a Chronic sound, or a 2001 sound, he gave you a combo of both on the last track. That beat is at least 5 years old, by the way. Dre can make that beat in his sleep.
- The comparisons to Kendrick's album confuse me. I feel a lot more energy in Compton than in that album. For me, Compton has far more replay value, and is a more cohesive, flowing body of work. IMO, of course.
- I don't hear any trap on this album.
- DJ Quik's music has been a great blessing to many, me included. Legit. Love his work. But he himself said respect the god, more or less. Called this "the future of music." So his fans that really ride for him need to chill on the comparisons to Quik's past work, his skill set as an engineer, etc. Using the Dre album to enlighten Quik non-believers isn't the way to go about making those people fans of Quik. It's totally ineffective. Especially when Quik himself sees himself as a Dre understudy, for lack of a better word.
- The features and collaborations feel far less forced to me than all the Detox leaks, needless to say. There is genuine chemistry on all these tracks. Organic chemistry. Something all the Detox stuff was lacking. And something that 2001 was lacking from front to back, IMO. Chronic, of course, was as cohesive as anything can be.
- The features ALL. KILL IT. Every single one. And not in a drum solo type way. In a way that is a completely organic piece of that song's puzzle. I personally like that I don't know who is doing what on some of these joints. It makes the song the star. And each song ties to the one before and after it in a way classic albums tend to do. As varied as the production is on here, it all feels like one body of work. That's Dr. Dre. He's never been able to do that to this degree, in my opinion (tie varied production styles together over the course of an album). That's the true value of his engineering and production excellence.
- Every person you hear talk about this album seems to gravitate to a unique song. For example, Whoo Kid played Satisfiction today. The Em joint. Premier loves It's All On Me, All In A Day's Work. Etc. When you consider what mere mortals like me, my buddy, whoever think about this, each seems to be gravitating to a new song with every listen. That is the mark of great art, imo.
- A great friend of mine said Dre may not be so much a genius as an incredibly hard worker (contrary to many opinions in this neck of the woods). He tirelessly looks to achieve magical chemistry in the studio. He may have not found it for a long time with respect to his solo work (hence, Detox never dropping). But when he says the work started flowing and magic began pouring out the speakers over the course of the movie's filming, I believe it. This album is proof. It's the product of organic chemistry and it's roots and ambitions are as pure as any in music. Dre is a fucking billionaire. Further, he had nothing to prove. He only stood to lose by releasing any body of work. The fact that he put in that work for so long to cement his legacy and give his fans new product is a beautiful thing. That's sadly lost on a lot of people. People bitching that there isn't a joint with MC Ren and King T rapping about their glaucoma is fucking ridiculous to me.
- The content shits all over his past work, and will impact the longevity of this album very favorably. It's no longer fictional. "YEEEAH JUST TOOK SOME ECSTASY." Uh, no you didn't, Dre. You're not cheating on Nicole. Dre found out how to talk about important grown up content in a fresh way. That may have been his biggest obstacle over the years in crafting a 2001 follow up. He succeeded with Compton. You could see him trying to go down this route with Bishop (no name, no gimmicks, like Obie). Maybe the best example of what might have been from that era was Grown Up. But he still fell into the trap of making bullshit like Drug Test with the usual suspects. The new dudes (Justus, Paak, etc) made this work in a way the old dudes like Kurupt couldn't have. Same for the god D.O.C. He made a grown folks album. Abandoned all the old gangster shit, threw in some political content, gave the album an inspirational vibe, and wrapped it all up with incredibly tight and clean production that we are only now beginning to fully appreciate.
- I'm happy as fuck with this album and I'm happy it's getting some serious props out there. A couple of very loud voices in these forums won't be much of a roadblock to the momentum this work will carry forward.
- The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2. Something to keep in mind. Dre always says his best work is ahead of him. Positivity is a good thing, but maybe in this instance it's misplaced or delusional of Dre to think that way? Regardless, if he felt like this is worth putting out there, a listener is doing themselves a disservice by passing negative judgement on this album too soon. (For those few contrarians that think this album isn't excellent)
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Nailed it. Great post
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Medicine Man 10/10
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The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2.
Paul's Boutique is a great comparison... most fans of the Beastie Boys didn't really like it at first because there was no obvious big hit singles,
it sounded totally different to their debut, and it was very dense and layered and it took a while to "figure out" what was going on in the music...
it also had lots of different sections and songs that changed beat lots of times and that put people off...
And now it's considered their masterpiece and one of the best hip-hop albums ever made.
Not saying that the same will happen with Compton, but all the elements are there...
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Does anyone else think FredWreck may have been involved on Satisfiction? That bouncy sound throughout the song sounds very similar to "Crazy" from Blue Carpet Treatment.
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I would like to hear an in depth interview on the production process. Was this tracked to tape, etc.
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After a few listens, I can honestly and objectively say that this album is great, and definitely a satisfying end to Dre's epic career as an artist. The album is perfectly produced and sequenced. I'm sure it'll take many fans some time to get used to Dre's new sound; but even if some don't see how this can be revolutionary, peeps have become SO critical (if you took individual song from both Chronics today, they'd be like "that song was aiight..not Dre's best...etc. coz seldom do young fans today consider sequencing and LPs as a whole), but, most will respect the creativity.... especially coming from a 50 year old billionaire legend who's given us sooo much that he didn't need to release a new record. The expectations for everything Dre does is unreasonably heavy (especially after "2001")- practically impossible to please everyone, especially after so many years anticipating his third and final lp. But I can easily see this being labeled as a masterpiece ultimately...and eventually...a classic. Plus we finally got a joint Dre/Primo beat! :laugh:
If I were to be nit-picky, I guess I'd like to have more songs, mainly from artists he's worked with throughout his career like The D.O.C., NWA, DPG, Rage, Mary J., Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Bishop Lamont, Knoc Turnal, an unreleased Nate Dogg verse, 50 Cent, Stat Quo, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Truth Hurts, King T, Last Emperor, KRS...etc. As a fan of Aftermath and their musical partnership- I could've used one more epic collab with Slim Shady (like on the level of "What's The Difference") as well as Snoop that has a nostalgic feel- much as how "The Wash" payed homage to "G-Thang" like "The Last Episode" type track. It also would've been cool if he got his 3 main proteges on a single (Snoop, Eminem, Bishop/now K. Dot)- basically the Robin's to his Batman from all 3 eras (Chronic-2001-Compton). However, I'm happy he put all those newcomers in the spotlight (respect).
It would've also been nice if he released this as a double album with his best DETOX materiel...or at least a bonus EP/mix-tape. A DVD would be a nice companion to this record, too (featuring a documentary with interviews from people all over the music world, legendary Hip Hop producers like Primo, RZA, Quick...etc., and rappers he's worked with...etc.).
Overall? I love this album 8)
Thanks Andre
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The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Would like to see the evidence to support this claim.
I haven't really checked the hip hop review sites, but New York Times gave it a very mixed review. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/arts/music/review-dr-dre-compton.html?_r=0
And for non-Americans, the NYTimes is the biggest newspaper in the United States. It's not a rinky-dink gossip paper.
I think a lot of this comes down to a generational divide. "Compton" is basically Dr. Dre making a Kendrick Lamar album. Like, if anyone wanted to know what a Dr. Dre-produced K. Dot album would be like, well, now you have it.
And the old school heads like me (I'm 33 years old) who were raised on funk in hip hop, especially in Dr. Dre's hip hop, are lukewarm at best with our reaction to this album; while the younger fans who love the Kendrick sound are naturally loving the continuation of that sound on "Compton" as interpreted/enhanced by Dr. Dre.
Did you even read that review you linked? They praise Kendrick and his chemistry with Dre on the album. They also praised the production and the only negative comments they had to make were on the lyrics. And fyi:
Rolling Stones - 4/5
Complex - 4/5
Allmusic - 4/5
The Guardian - loved the album
USA Today - loved the album
Yahoo - loved the album
NPR - loved the album
All you had to do was use google to confirm this. And pretty sure all these journalists are "old school heads" like you. If by "old school head" you mean white guy, over 30 and a passionate fan of hip hop. Though personally I wouldn't label anyone born after 1980 old school anything, since you aren't old enough to have been listening to old school hip hop. You were still crapping your pants when N.W.A came out, let alone all the music that came before them.
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
The same general public and industry who think Drake and Young Thug are the shit ...
Most of the listeners are just adapting their standards to the current state of hip hop ...
I couldn't care less that Compton is a great album when you compare to the usual garbage which comes out in 2015 ...
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10 years from now yall will be begging for the next "Compton" type album to come out.
Stack this album up against any modern classic and what do you think then?
+1.
A few of my own personal observations. Quick thoughts...
- I've bumped this on great headphones after drinking about 15 drinks the night it came out, low volume driving around my kids on Friday, and then again today using shitty earbuds, good headphones, in the car, and again in the house on a good system. Between each listen I find myself thinking about a new song. That tells me a lot about what I will think of this album one week from now, one year from now, one decade from now.
- Shit is vintage Dre all day and night. If people were expecting a Chronic sound, or a 2001 sound, he gave you a combo of both on the last track. That beat is at least 5 years old, by the way. Dre can make that beat in his sleep.
- The comparisons to Kendrick's album confuse me. I feel a lot more energy in Compton than in that album. For me, Compton has far more replay value, and is a more cohesive, flowing body of work. IMO, of course.
- I don't hear any trap on this album.
- DJ Quik's music has been a great blessing to many, me included. Legit. Love his work. But he himself said respect the god, more or less. Called this "the future of music." So his fans that really ride for him need to chill on the comparisons to Quik's past work, his skill set as an engineer, etc. Using the Dre album to enlighten Quik non-believers isn't the way to go about making those people fans of Quik. It's totally ineffective. Especially when Quik himself sees himself as a Dre understudy, for lack of a better word.
- The features and collaborations feel far less forced to me than all the Detox leaks, needless to say. There is genuine chemistry on all these tracks. Organic chemistry. Something all the Detox stuff was lacking. And something that 2001 was lacking from front to back, IMO. Chronic, of course, was as cohesive as anything can be.
- The features ALL. KILL IT. Every single one. And not in a drum solo type way. In a way that is a completely organic piece of that song's puzzle. I personally like that I don't know who is doing what on some of these joints. It makes the song the star. And each song ties to the one before and after it in a way classic albums tend to do. As varied as the production is on here, it all feels like one body of work. That's Dr. Dre. He's never been able to do that to this degree, in my opinion (tie varied production styles together over the course of an album). That's the true value of his engineering and production excellence.
- Every person you hear talk about this album seems to gravitate to a unique song. For example, Whoo Kid played Satisfiction today. The Em joint. Premier loves It's All On Me, All In A Day's Work. Etc. When you consider what mere mortals like me, my buddy, whoever think about this, each seems to be gravitating to a new song with every listen. That is the mark of great art, imo.
- A great friend of mine said Dre may not be so much a genius as an incredibly hard worker (contrary to many opinions in this neck of the woods). He tirelessly looks to achieve magical chemistry in the studio. He may have not found it for a long time with respect to his solo work (hence, Detox never dropping). But when he says the work started flowing and magic began pouring out the speakers over the course of the movie's filming, I believe it. This album is proof. It's the product of organic chemistry and it's roots and ambitions are as pure as any in music. Dre is a fucking billionaire. Further, he had nothing to prove. He only stood to lose by releasing any body of work. The fact that he put in that work for so long to cement his legacy and give his fans new product is a beautiful thing. That's sadly lost on a lot of people. People bitching that there isn't a joint with MC Ren and King T rapping about their glaucoma is fucking ridiculous to me.
- The content shits all over his past work, and will impact the longevity of this album very favorably. It's no longer fictional. "YEEEAH JUST TOOK SOME ECSTASY." Uh, no you didn't, Dre. You're not cheating on Nicole. Dre found out how to talk about important grown up content in a fresh way. That may have been his biggest obstacle over the years in crafting a 2001 follow up. He succeeded with Compton. You could see him trying to go down this route with Bishop (no name, no gimmicks, like Obie). Maybe the best example of what might have been from that era was Grown Up. But he still fell into the trap of making bullshit like Drug Test with the usual suspects. The new dudes (Justus, Paak, etc) made this work in a way the old dudes like Kurupt couldn't have. Same for the god D.O.C. He made a grown folks album. Abandoned all the old gangster shit, threw in some political content, gave the album an inspirational vibe, and wrapped it all up with incredibly tight and clean production that we are only now beginning to fully appreciate.
- I'm happy as fuck with this album and I'm happy it's getting some serious props out there. A couple of very loud voices in these forums won't be much of a roadblock to the momentum this work will carry forward.
- The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2. Something to keep in mind. Dre always says his best work is ahead of him. Positivity is a good thing, but maybe in this instance it's misplaced or delusional of Dre to think that way? Regardless, if he felt like this is worth putting out there, a listener is doing themselves a disservice by passing negative judgement on this album too soon. (For those few contrarians that think this album isn't excellent)
Great post. Agree with pretty much everything.
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Damn 'It's All On Me' is epic.. Dope album, i luv it
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Bout to voice my opinion on the album:
First of all, this is definetely NOT a classic album and not on par with chronic & 2001. With these albums dre influenced the whole hip hop scene two times and popularized a new sound & style everybody was trying to copy. This time he let himself be influenced by the current soundscapes & trends a bit too much. There are certainly good and very good songs on here, but theres also too much on here that sounds to modern & influenced by currently popular styles & sounds. The worst thing for me is kendrick lamars influence all over the record. I'll just be honest & say I don't fuck with kendricks style, I know many people love it and call him hip hops next big thing, the new king of the west and more but his style is absolutely not my cup of tea. And theres too much of his influence all over the album, especially dres verses & rapping style is clearly kendricks which I dislike. Also its suspicious for me how so many people celebrate snoops verse on "One Shot One Kill", thats not snoop thats kendrick spittin there, he obviously wrote snoops verse and snoop himself flows and uses his voice just like kendrick. Come on, then you could have just placed kendrick there instead of snoop. Snoop got one of the most unique voices and one of the greatest flows in the game and that is sacrificed here to do a kendrick impression smh....
Another thing that annoys me is the fuckin mess thats going on in some tracks, sometimes I just want some old school 16 bars verse, hook, 16 bars verse, hook style song, and not these thousands of voice & flow changes within one part + some spoken inserts in the middle of it. Thats also one of the things thats clearly influenced by kendrick and its all over the album (hope y'all understand whats my point here). Its completely ok if this happens during the songs with kendrick but it seems like dre let his protege influence this album too much, I always liked how on chronic & 2001 all the guests brought their own styles & strenghts in and everything came together for a great listening experience.. Another aspect bout the album, are the influences from current trap styles and shit like this which also have no bussiness beeing on a dre album, thats not the game changing sound that dre always brought with his projects. He always set trends instead of following them...
Thats not to say that there aren't good songs on here, tracks like its all on me or talking to my diary are great but theres just not enough real "Dre sound" on this for me....
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
Not sure how anyone could "not be feeling this album".... If you don't like this album, then I'd like to hear some of the shit people are listening to and feeling.
Kendrick has 2 of the best rap albums in the last few years and I think I would put this right up there, maybe even better. And Damani "thoughtful King" was one of the better albums to drop as well.
normally, it just pretty standard sounding album with those types of beats being done for few years now and like someone said if this was someone less known most of the people will be shitting on it or just ignore it
New Kendricks album sounds like a rip-off from Damani's last and it is pretty boring and that dude PAAk is fuckin wack as hell
i will give it one more spin and if i dont hear anytning ecxiting it will go the same way as last Kedricks effort - trash bin
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The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2.
Paul's Boutique is a great comparison... most fans of the Beastie Boys didn't really like it at first because there was no obvious big hit singles,
it sounded totally different to their debut, and it was very dense and layered and it took a while to "figure out" what was going on in the music...
it also had lots of different sections and songs that changed beat lots of times and that put people off...
And now it's considered their masterpiece and one of the best hip-hop albums ever made.
Not saying that the same will happen with Compton, but all the elements are there...
I was into Beasties back then, and while the music changed, it still had elements of the first album to me and I liked most of it. I wasn't as put off by it as the pop fans.
A lot of you are saying this sounds like a Kendrick album. That speaks volumes right there as this is a DR. DRE album!!! He shouldn't be sounding like Kendrick, he should make beats and vocals that sound like HIM!
After Kush and I Need A Doc, it's no surprise to me that the album sounds like this. Dre knows what audience he's going for.
And he gets Cube, Snoop and X back on to rap over these beats?? Might as well gotten Drake to rap over this shit.
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album sounds nothing like Kush and I Need A Doctor
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The best art isn't appreciated fully out of the gate. Paul's Boutique was met with some critical praise but fans wanted Licensed to Ill Part 2.
Paul's Boutique is a great comparison... most fans of the Beastie Boys didn't really like it at first because there was no obvious big hit singles,
it sounded totally different to their debut, and it was very dense and layered and it took a while to "figure out" what was going on in the music...
it also had lots of different sections and songs that changed beat lots of times and that put people off...
And now it's considered their masterpiece and one of the best hip-hop albums ever made.
Not saying that the same will happen with Compton, but all the elements are there...
I was into Beasties back then, and while the music changed, it still had elements of the first album to me and I liked most of it. I wasn't as put off by it as the pop fans.
A lot of you are saying this sounds like a Kendrick album. That speaks volumes right there as this is a DR. DRE album!!! He shouldn't be sounding like Kendrick, he should make beats and vocals that sound like HIM!
After Kush and I Need A Doc, it's no surprise to me that the album sounds like this. Dre knows what audience he's going for.
And he gets Cube, Snoop and X back on to rap over these beats?? Might as well gotten Drake to rap over this shit.
Are you implying this album sounds like INAD and Kush?!
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Some are saying that Dr.Dre needs to go back to his own flow.. but he's been using others flow his whole career for example when I listen Still DRE i can hear Jay Z all over it
money
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
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DubCC - "Dre is not rapping like he used to 20 years ago..." "This album doesn't sound like The Chronic or 2001..." " DJ Quik is better, makes better albums..."
The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Basically.
The same general public and industry who think Drake and Young Thug are the shit ...
Most of the listeners are just adapting their standards to the current state of hip hop ...
I couldn't care less that Compton is a great album when you compare to the usual garbage which comes out in 2015 ...
so u really cant appreciate the production on this?
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
im sayin, dre is a producer, so his albums have always been about production first and foremost....if ur goin into a dre record focusing on the content, then u lost already. and either way, the content is still dope. it's simply more mature than his previous work, which is what you'd expect from a 50 year old artist. it's like, when you go into a michael bay film, you're not going for the dialogue. you wanna see amazing car chases, explosions, muthafuckaz jumpin off buildings n shit...production value, period. if you want great dialogue, go watch a kevin smith film. it's the same story wit music.....dre is the GOAT producer in hip-hop, and sonically, this is incredible...next level shit. people who heard this in the beats headphones say that dre truly unlocked the potential of them muthafuckaz......at the end of the day, the album is great. people who are hating simply havent let it sink in yet, bottom line.
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only issue is why we gota wait so long for hard copies? i dont fux wit digital, so i gota wait 2 weeks now to cop....shits fucked.
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only issue is why we gota wait so long for hard copies? i dont fux wit digital, so i gota wait 2 weeks now to cop....shits fucked.
I Agree
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only issue is why we gota wait so long for hard copies? i dont fux wit digital, so i gota wait 2 weeks now to cop....shits fucked.
I Agree
hopefully they come wit like a bonus disc of unreleased detox material or some extra shit for cats who waited
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Didn't chronic and 2001 mostly sound different at the time? This sounds very similar to what is out there today. I didn't expect him to try to blend in.
Hip hop back in the day was about the vibe of the song. Now it's all about studio tricks.
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reading thru the thread and god damn thanks god i dont have anything to complain about this project and can just enjoy the great music 8)
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where are the production credits again?
Any production credits?
Bro you got 4416 posts and still haven't found the Vault?
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Didn't chronic and 2001 mostly sound different at the time? This sounds very similar to what is out there today. I didn't expect him to try to blend in.
Hip hop back in the day was about the vibe of the song. Now it's all about studio tricks.
I see the modern vibe of hiphop as very disposable with trends coming, saturating and going leaving very little in the form of classics/timeless tracks in the stash that people will spin fondly in 20 years time as folks now are all about quick capitalization and hot singles.
Kudos to Dre in creating a cohesive product, I can't deny that there is a flow to the album but it doesn't have that gamechanger vibe that his previous efforts did and its more of the play it safe/ride with whats hot now route. To be honest I was expecting lush cinematic sounds with full orchestras over Dres knocking drums as the evolution of the sparse piano beats and whilst there are some decent tracks on here I can't vibe with the rapping style at all.
Didn't even recognize most of the people on there on the third listen around but I am keen to hear the instrumental album as there are are so many elements in the beats and as I said before, 50 will create some dope freestyles/alternate songs over these tracks.
Overall this is between the Aftermath Presents... compilation and the other Dre releases in terms of quality/re-playability.
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Didn't chronic and 2001 mostly sound different at the time? This sounds very similar to what is out there today. I didn't expect him to try to blend in.
Hip hop back in the day was about the vibe of the song. Now it's all about studio tricks.
it sounds different to me and much more layered than most stuff comin out
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only issue is why we gota wait so long for hard copies? i dont fux wit digital, so i gota wait 2 weeks now to cop....shits fucked.
I hear you, my G
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The problem we have is that Dre could fart into a microphone for 16 tracks and most people will say its a classic.
"Compton" is not a bad album...but it is not Dre standard
I am not hating on it though...its cool to have some new Dre tracks out
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It's been really interesting reading people's thoughts on the album - seems like a fairly even split between people who are really feeling it and those who are a bit disappointed with the way it's turned out, which was to be expected. I suppose this being a Dr. Dre album, it is a landmark release not just in rap but music in general, and everyone had their own idea of how it should have sounded and wanted it to sound their own particular way.
Me personally, I haven't even heard a single second of it yet (not even a snippet of a track!) because I'm holding out on getting the CD when it drops, throwing it in my sytem and vibing out to it. And that to me is the best and only way of enjoying such a significant release. It just needs to hurry the fuck up and come out.
Let's also hope that over time we get to hear some extra tracks that didn't make the cut as well as all the tracks submitted by producers and MCs for the project, because best believe there are some out there.
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Amazing album - i cant listen to nothin else lately, everything else sounds poor
Sonically this is a masterpiece, very energetic album, a lot more complex than what Dre usually did. I was very excited when i heard about it dropping, first impression was that it's too much 'south' sounding, too much kendrick style, but it doesnt come in the way now - i love it! Every next spin makes me like it even more. And this is definietly not what i expected, altho it has everything i would like on it to be. Dre has done it again.
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To be honest: This Album is a huge disappointment. The only track that stand out is "Animals". Dres sound architecture was good for the westcoast. His creativity in the 90s and 2000s was great. But today he is more an obstacle for the younger generation of west coast talents. The sound of this album is not west coast. It is more mainstream and rnb. Where is the melody and harmony of organic instruments? I think this was the signature of a good dre production and the whole west coast. I dont expect classic g-funk sound. I expect this organic dre sound. I missed it.
These line makes me really angry:
...he also has seemingly little patience for anyone who cites economic deprivation or institutional racism as excuses for not being as successful as him.
"Anybody complaining about their circumstances lost me, homey," he announces on "Darkside/Gone." "We ain't even talking/Fuck that energy, fuck up off me." This may be the one Dr. Dre lyric that Fox News pundits could love.
This guy makes a Soundtrack about Compton and tells his audience some neoliberal shit like this. NWA is a product of social and institutional racism in Compton. ;D ;D
Sorry, it's cool that a lot of cats likes it - no disrespect. But i'm really disappointet about this album and some lines
if that line would be on some neoliberal shit that would be fucked up tho. but i doubt that he meant it that way...i think he meant, that people from the hood shouldn't act like he would be coming from a silverspoon-background and hate on him because of his success - and not some social darwinism...that would also fit in the context of the other lyrics imo
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somebody above mentioned that this album don't have a chronic-snoop oder 2001-hitman on it...i got to say that this anderson.paak guy grows on me! at first i didn't liked his style, thought he would be just another wayne-youngthug-type-copycat. but after every spin i like him more, defintetly got his own style. let's see what he'll come up with in the future.
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I love this album. Just going to keep it that simple.
I think my favorite part right now is that the guy drowning comes back up on the next song, taking huge, gulping breaths as the guitars hit. With everything going on, somehow I missed that on the first few listens.
I thought Snoop killed it. Snoop has one of the greatest flows of all time and any time he brings that, it's a good day. "One Shot One Kill" is my favorite right now. Loved hearing DJ Premier on an Dre album, both on the production end and even with some vocals.
The Eazy sample about halfway through, perfect.
I liked Cube and Xzibit's parts but seems like some don't.
Weird to hear Dre kind of quasi-remaking a Bone song (not really a remake of course, but definitely hear some similar guitar licks and so forth in the outro to the song and of course he sampled the chorus). It's a shame that Bone gets so little appreciation in the mainstream. Are they even mentioned in the NWA film? Yella produced the original so kind of a backwards way to get a little Yella influence on the album, too.
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somebody above mentioned that this album don't have a chronic-snoop oder 2001-hitman on it...i got to say that this anderson.paak guy grows on me! at first i didn't liked his style, thought he would be just another wayne-youngthug-type-copycat. but after every spin i like him more, defintetly got his own style. let's see what he'll come up with in the future.
he's definitely no young thug
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somebody above mentioned that this album don't have a chronic-snoop oder 2001-hitman on it...i got to say that this anderson.paak guy grows on me! at first i didn't liked his style, thought he would be just another wayne-youngthug-type-copycat. but after every spin i like him more, defintetly got his own style. let's see what he'll come up with in the future.
he's definitely no young thug
no definetly not
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You know, there were a couple songs where I thought Nate Dogg would've been perfect for the parts.
Sucks.
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So what's the deal, you guys think FredWreck has some co production on "Satisfiction"
That bouncing sound, sounds similar to the beat on Snoops "Crazy"
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
im sayin, dre is a producer, so his albums have always been about production first and foremost....if ur goin into a dre record focusing on the content, then u lost already. and either way, the content is still dope. it's simply more mature than his previous work, which is what you'd expect from a 50 year old artist. it's like, when you go into a michael bay film, you're not going for the dialogue. you wanna see amazing car chases, explosions, muthafuckaz jumpin off buildings n shit...production value, period. if you want great dialogue, go watch a kevin smith film. it's the same story wit music.....dre is the GOAT producer in hip-hop, and sonically, this is incredible...next level shit. people who heard this in the beats headphones say that dre truly unlocked the potential of them muthafuckaz......at the end of the day, the album is great. people who are hating simply havent let it sink in yet, bottom line.
Did you just equate Dre with Michael Bay AND call Dre the GOAT in the same paragraph?
I like what I'm hearing from the new Dre album but I don't hear the NEW sound if you will. Chronic was the begining of a new sound in Hip Hop. To a lesser extent so was 2001. Now you heard inklings of those same sounds on previous Dre projects like Niggaz4Life and Slim Shady LP/Topp Dogg but Dre's albums were what really set off the new sounds and caused a lot of the rest of the industry to mimic those sounds.
I don't hear that here. The production is different than earlier Dre stuff but it doesn't sound new to Hip Hop. In fact, quite the opposite, it sounds a lot like the beats hip hop has been accustomed to hearing from most major artists.
I do like the way he's rapping on here more than ever.
My only qualm with the album is the main featured artist. Chronic had Snoop all over it and rightfully so. 2001 had Eminem, and should have had more Eminem instead of Hitman. This one should have been more Kendrick in a dominant role. It would have made the album better and would have been great legacy wise for Dre. He would have busted Snoop into the main stream with G Thang, helped soldify Eminem as a serious rapper with Forgot About Dre, and the right Duet with Kendrick as a hit single could have been great. I'll be shocked if Anderson Paak ends up any bigger than Hittman did.
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
im sayin, dre is a producer, so his albums have always been about production first and foremost....if ur goin into a dre record focusing on the content, then u lost already. and either way, the content is still dope. it's simply more mature than his previous work, which is what you'd expect from a 50 year old artist. it's like, when you go into a michael bay film, you're not going for the dialogue. you wanna see amazing car chases, explosions, muthafuckaz jumpin off buildings n shit...production value, period. if you want great dialogue, go watch a kevin smith film. it's the same story wit music.....dre is the GOAT producer in hip-hop, and sonically, this is incredible...next level shit. people who heard this in the beats headphones say that dre truly unlocked the potential of them muthafuckaz......at the end of the day, the album is great. people who are hating simply havent let it sink in yet, bottom line.
Did you just equate Dre with Michael Bay AND call Dre the GOAT in the same paragraph?
I like what I'm hearing from the new Dre album but I don't hear the NEW sound if you will. Chronic was the begining of a new sound in Hip Hop. To a lesser extent so was 2001. Now you heard inklings of those same sounds on previous Dre projects like Niggaz4Life and Slim Shady LP/Topp Dogg but Dre's albums were what really set off the new sounds and caused a lot of the rest of the industry to mimic those sounds.
I don't hear that here. The production is different than earlier Dre stuff but it doesn't sound new to Hip Hop. In fact, quite the opposite, it sounds a lot like the beats hip hop has been accustomed to hearing from most major artists.
I do like the way he's rapping on here more than ever.
My only qualm with the album is the main featured artist. Chronic had Snoop all over it and rightfully so. 2001 had Eminem, and should have had more Eminem instead of Hitman. This one should have been more Kendrick in a dominant role. It would have made the album better and would have been great legacy wise for Dre. He would have busted Snoop into the main stream with G Thang, helped soldify Eminem as a serious rapper with Forgot About Dre, and the right Duet with Kendrick as a hit single could have been great. I'll be shocked if Anderson Paak ends up any bigger than Hittman did.
no i never compared dre with michael bay...u need to pay closer attention. i said u dont go into michael bay films expecting great dialogue, u expect to see some high budget action. music is a lot more about production than movies are.....dre's production is top-of-the-line. dont get any more simple than that.
i do think it sounds different as well...a lot of people are callin these beats trap beats, when theyre really not that. theyre more cinematic with a futuristic fusion. somethin different, for sure.
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How Dre Anointed Anderson .Paak
Dre hasn’t just declared ‘Its All On Me’ on his new album Compton but he’s also done what he does best – introduce the world to future legends in the making.
Fellow Cali native Anderson .Paak has laced a number of tracks with his raspy R&B vocals on ‘Compton’ and Dre clearly knew what he was doing when he added this gritty vocalist on 4 tracks, “All In A Day’s Work,” “Issues,” “Medicine Man” and “Animals”. There’s no doubt it’s definitely perked curiosity around .Paak.
Anderson .Paak’s road to glory couldn’t have come from a better co-sign then two of the most legendary producers in Hip-Hop from the East and West Coast – DJ Premier and Dr Dre – when their roads collided. When .Paak wrote the fiery ‘Animals’ in support of the Baltimore uprising, Dre knew the powerful and deep spirit of the track was essential to the soundtrack to the movie ‘Straight Outta Compton’.
Still indie although for how much longer who knows – Anderson .Paak, has been honing his craft as a singer/songwriter, rapper and drummer and released his debut album ‘Venice’ last year. Setting his tone with an experimental ’70s soul and funk beat loaded R&B sound, he’s pushing the cart to create a new genre in music.
Previously known as Breezy Lovejoy .Paak ooze’s a confidence when he sings ‘smooth as a motherfucker, suede (https://soundcloud.com/stonesthrow/nxworries-anderson-paak-knxwledge-suede) on the inside’.
Mazza Raja, A Nation of Billions (http://nationofbillions.com/how-dre-anointed-anderson-paak)
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
im sayin, dre is a producer, so his albums have always been about production first and foremost....if ur goin into a dre record focusing on the content, then u lost already. and either way, the content is still dope. it's simply more mature than his previous work, which is what you'd expect from a 50 year old artist. it's like, when you go into a michael bay film, you're not going for the dialogue. you wanna see amazing car chases, explosions, muthafuckaz jumpin off buildings n shit...production value, period. if you want great dialogue, go watch a kevin smith film. it's the same story wit music.....dre is the GOAT producer in hip-hop, and sonically, this is incredible...next level shit. people who heard this in the beats headphones say that dre truly unlocked the potential of them muthafuckaz......at the end of the day, the album is great. people who are hating simply havent let it sink in yet, bottom line.
Did you just equate Dre with Michael Bay AND call Dre the GOAT in the same paragraph?
I like what I'm hearing from the new Dre album but I don't hear the NEW sound if you will. Chronic was the begining of a new sound in Hip Hop. To a lesser extent so was 2001. Now you heard inklings of those same sounds on previous Dre projects like Niggaz4Life and Slim Shady LP/Topp Dogg but Dre's albums were what really set off the new sounds and caused a lot of the rest of the industry to mimic those sounds.
I don't hear that here. The production is different than earlier Dre stuff but it doesn't sound new to Hip Hop. In fact, quite the opposite, it sounds a lot like the beats hip hop has been accustomed to hearing from most major artists.
I do like the way he's rapping on here more than ever.
My only qualm with the album is the main featured artist. Chronic had Snoop all over it and rightfully so. 2001 had Eminem, and should have had more Eminem instead of Hitman. This one should have been more Kendrick in a dominant role. It would have made the album better and would have been great legacy wise for Dre. He would have busted Snoop into the main stream with G Thang, helped soldify Eminem as a serious rapper with Forgot About Dre, and the right Duet with Kendrick as a hit single could have been great. I'll be shocked if Anderson Paak ends up any bigger than Hittman did.
no i never compared bay with michael bay...u need to pay closer attention. i said u dont go into michael bay films expecting great dialogue, u expect to see some high budget actions. music is a lot more about production than movies are.....dre's production is top-of-the-line. dont get any more simple than that.
i do think it sounds different as well...a lot of people are callin these beats trap beats, when theyre really not that. theyre more cinematic with a futuristic fusion. somethin different, for sure.
You could have said James Cameron. Just saying. Maybe Bay was a Freudian slip.
And I'm not saying the beats are bad. I just don't hear anything vastly different than 2000s hip hop. I like It's All on Me, but it could have easily been a beat on Jay's Blueprint. Some other songs sound like different aspects of sounds from different hip hop. Talk About sounds like that techno style south hip hop. It sounds like he worked with different guys let them develop the sounds on the tracks they were on ad then he fine tuned it. Which is great. But it doesn't sound like a unified sound or like anything that's going to redirect the sound of hip hop.
He should have just taken the sound from Wesley's Theory; that more mature sounding G Funk and worked with that to create a more mature album that speaks about the times we're in. Mix in a little The Day The Niggaz Took Over vibe. This could have been album that really said something, especially with Kendrick in the lead. And given that its connected with the NWA film.
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LL Cool J has been doing a great job of balancing the old and the new lately.
lol u cant be serious......this is lightyears ahead of anything LL has done lately.
Maybe in the trap music world. LL's still making real hip hop and hasn't abandoned his past. Neither has Public Enemy.
forget the content, the production value is nowhere close to the same.
See, that's the problem with hip hop today. It's all about production, it doesn't matter what the vocals sound like. The most classic hip hop records in history have a beat loop and very little production. Hip hop is so overcomplicated now, but it's been infected with technology to the point where it's expected.
The Compton album has autotune and singing all through it, so yea it doesn't sound much different than his recent singles to me. As soon as I hear autotune I skip the track.
im sayin, dre is a producer, so his albums have always been about production first and foremost....if ur goin into a dre record focusing on the content, then u lost already. and either way, the content is still dope. it's simply more mature than his previous work, which is what you'd expect from a 50 year old artist. it's like, when you go into a michael bay film, you're not going for the dialogue. you wanna see amazing car chases, explosions, muthafuckaz jumpin off buildings n shit...production value, period. if you want great dialogue, go watch a kevin smith film. it's the same story wit music.....dre is the GOAT producer in hip-hop, and sonically, this is incredible...next level shit. people who heard this in the beats headphones say that dre truly unlocked the potential of them muthafuckaz......at the end of the day, the album is great. people who are hating simply havent let it sink in yet, bottom line.
Did you just equate Dre with Michael Bay AND call Dre the GOAT in the same paragraph?
I like what I'm hearing from the new Dre album but I don't hear the NEW sound if you will. Chronic was the begining of a new sound in Hip Hop. To a lesser extent so was 2001. Now you heard inklings of those same sounds on previous Dre projects like Niggaz4Life and Slim Shady LP/Topp Dogg but Dre's albums were what really set off the new sounds and caused a lot of the rest of the industry to mimic those sounds.
I don't hear that here. The production is different than earlier Dre stuff but it doesn't sound new to Hip Hop. In fact, quite the opposite, it sounds a lot like the beats hip hop has been accustomed to hearing from most major artists.
I do like the way he's rapping on here more than ever.
My only qualm with the album is the main featured artist. Chronic had Snoop all over it and rightfully so. 2001 had Eminem, and should have had more Eminem instead of Hitman. This one should have been more Kendrick in a dominant role. It would have made the album better and would have been great legacy wise for Dre. He would have busted Snoop into the main stream with G Thang, helped soldify Eminem as a serious rapper with Forgot About Dre, and the right Duet with Kendrick as a hit single could have been great. I'll be shocked if Anderson Paak ends up any bigger than Hittman did.
no i never compared bay with michael bay...u need to pay closer attention. i said u dont go into michael bay films expecting great dialogue, u expect to see some high budget actions. music is a lot more about production than movies are.....dre's production is top-of-the-line. dont get any more simple than that.
i do think it sounds different as well...a lot of people are callin these beats trap beats, when theyre really not that. theyre more cinematic with a futuristic fusion. somethin different, for sure.
You could have said James Cameron. Just saying. Maybe Bay was a Freudian slip.
And I'm not saying the beats are bad. I just don't hear anything vastly different than 2000s hip hop. I like It's All on Me, but it could have easily been a beat on Jay's Blueprint. Some other songs sound like different aspects of sounds from different hip hop. Talk About sounds like that techno style south hip hop. It sounds like he worked with different guys let them develop the sounds on the tracks they were on ad then he fine tuned it. Which is great. But it doesn't sound like a unified sound or like anything that's going to redirect the sound of hip hop.
He should have just taken the sound from Wesley's Theory; that more mature sounding G Funk and worked with that to create a more mature album that speaks about the times we're in. Mix in a little The Day The Niggaz Took Over vibe. This could have been album that really said something, especially with Kendrick in the lead. And given that its connected with the NWA film.
Duno, bay has been involved in some great high budget action movies .. James Cameron movies are usually pretty focused on the dialogue, so it woulda defeated my point.
It sounds different to me, I dunno .. Outside of the first track, which was prolly the worst, a lot of the production sounds a lot deeper than anything you currently hear in hip-hop.. Like, it's sonically on another level than The Chronic or 2001.. I dunno, beats sound so empty in rap music today. Everything is the same old skeleton sounding generic bs.. I think the way this can change the game (as dre's done in the past) is by getting everyone else to step their game up sonically and add more structure to their beats. It's kinda what raps been missing.
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Ehh....people are being way to harsh on this album while being way too kind on Dre's first two solo albums.
I'm 40 years old. While I confess to not being a die hard hip-hop fan - infact my main musical love is electronic music - I've been around for a long ass time. I was 13 when Straight Outta Compton came out, 17 when The Chronic dropped, 24 when 2001 came out.
People are acting like The Chronic just came out of the blue and changed everything up. It did to a certain extent, but it really wasn't a totally new sound. It was more of an evolvement of the Efil4zaggin sound. Tracks like The Day The Niggaz Took Over, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, A Nigga With A Gun, etc could just as easily have been on Evil4zaggin. And have people forgot about "Always Into Something" from Efil4zaggin?? That is the Chronic sound right there!
People are acting like everybody loved Still D.R.E. and 2001 as soon as they hit. They didn't. Infact, lots of people were very disappointed in Still D.R.E. Remember that this was the hugely anticipated comeback of the biggest producer in rap and Still D.R.E. initially did almost nothing. Just compare the mainstream chart positions:
Billboard Hot 100:
Nuthin' But A G Thang: #2
Dre Day: #8
Let Me Ride: #34
Keep Their Heads Ringin: #10
Still D.R.E.: #93
#93??? The BIG Dr.Dre comeback single barely scratched the billboard top 100. I couldn't believe it myself at the time, since I loved the track. But what about the album? The most anticipated album in hip-hop, the follow-up to the legendary The Chronic? It didn't make #1, but stalled at #2.
Now time changed all of that. "Forgot About Dre" and "The Next Episode" were hits and "Still D.R.E." was a slow-burner that evolved into a classic. "2001" hung around the charts forever and ended up selling 7˝ million copies in the US alone.
Also, while 2001 made Dr.Dre hot again, the sound itself was an evolvement of the mid-nineties Dre sound that was found on tracks like California Love (piano-led beat), Keep Their Heads Ringin, Been There Done That, etc. Yes, it was even more sparse, but don't act like 2001 was a totally new sound, because it wasn't.
The Chronic and 2001 have stood the test of time and are universally regarded as classics, whether the same will be said about "Compton" in 10 years time is anybodys guess, but it is a very capable effort.
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Couple day on rotation. Shit is next level. production is crazy as fuck.
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2015 is west coasts year.
kendrick, vince staples and now dre.
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The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Would like to see the evidence to support this claim.
I haven't really checked the hip hop review sites, but New York Times gave it a very mixed review. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/arts/music/review-dr-dre-compton.html?_r=0
And for non-Americans, the NYTimes is the biggest newspaper in the United States. It's not a rinky-dink gossip paper.
I think a lot of this comes down to a generational divide. "Compton" is basically Dr. Dre making a Kendrick Lamar album. Like, if anyone wanted to know what a Dr. Dre-produced K. Dot album would be like, well, now you have it.
And the old school heads like me (I'm 33 years old) who were raised on funk in hip hop, especially in Dr. Dre's hip hop, are lukewarm at best with our reaction to this album; while the younger fans who love the Kendrick sound are naturally loving the continuation of that sound on "Compton" as interpreted/enhanced by Dr. Dre.
I agree; a lot of the writing/delivery sounds 'modern' to me. Some beats Im definitely not feeling such as "talk about it", but also some interesting styles on there.
Reminds of of Quik's Midnight Life which had crappy tracks such as "on the tracks".
Well, based on my first listen of Compton there are a few tracks on there I would like to listen to again. Nothing 'classic' about it though.
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The rest of the general public and industry - "Compton is incredible, probably going to be a classic"
Would like to see the evidence to support this claim.
I haven't really checked the hip hop review sites, but New York Times gave it a very mixed review. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/arts/music/review-dr-dre-compton.html?_r=0
And for non-Americans, the NYTimes is the biggest newspaper in the United States. It's not a rinky-dink gossip paper.
I think a lot of this comes down to a generational divide. "Compton" is basically Dr. Dre making a Kendrick Lamar album. Like, if anyone wanted to know what a Dr. Dre-produced K. Dot album would be like, well, now you have it.
And the old school heads like me (I'm 33 years old) who were raised on funk in hip hop, especially in Dr. Dre's hip hop, are lukewarm at best with our reaction to this album; while the younger fans who love the Kendrick sound are naturally loving the continuation of that sound on "Compton" as interpreted/enhanced by Dr. Dre.
I agree; a lot of the writing/delivery sounds 'modern' to me. Some beats Im definitely not feeling such as "talk about it", but also some interesting styles on there.
Reminds of of Quik's Midnight Life which had crappy tracks such as "on the tracks".
Well, based on my first listen of Compton there are a few tracks on there I would like to listen to again. Nothing 'classic' about it though.
i'm 32, but i like these modern raps too.
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I haven't been on this forums for 6 or 7 years but I had to drop in to have my day on Compton
And I think this is on top then 100 piles of shit then everything else out today.
In time this will be looked at as a classic. To me it already is. To me dark side gone, loose cannons, animals, talking to my diary are classics dark side/gone is on repeat. Love the changes in beats during tracks. There's nothing like this out today. Thanks Dre
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Dre just came here again to show everybody how to do it. You'll see - hip-hop will have to step its game up.
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People are acting like everybody loved Still D.R.E. and 2001 as soon as they hit. They didn't. Infact, lots of people were very disappointed in Still D.R.E. Remember that this was the hugely anticipated comeback of the biggest producer in rap and Still D.R.E. initially did almost nothing. Just compare the mainstream chart positions:
Billboard Hot 100:
Nuthin' But A G Thang: #2
Dre Day: #8
Let Me Ride: #34
Keep Their Heads Ringin: #10
Still D.R.E.: #93
agreed! people forget..when Still Dre dropped a lot of people were like WTF. Jay Z-penned, different production style..Dre's still talking about lo los? etc.
the moral of the story is if you are a fan of a great artist..a man or group that has put out great music before, hasn't everyone learned their lesson by now not to judge that work too early? give the work some time to marinate in your lives, see what you think of it then.
it's an honest mistake. even record execs do it time and again. the so called "smart money." how many record companies passed on The Chronic before it was said and done? an unfathomable number, is the answer.
i'm not sure where this album will end up for me. but i know i'm feeling almost of all of it something serious right now.
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no one hardly talking about genocide? that record is bananas!! the hollow xylophone sounds during "murder... murder" tho
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I haven't been on this forums for 6 or 7 years but I had to drop in to have my day on Compton
And I think this is on top then 100 piles of shit then everything else out today.
In time this will be looked at as a classic. To me it already is. To me dark side gone, loose cannons, animals, talking to my diary are classics dark side/gone is on repeat. Love the changes in beats during tracks. There's nothing like this out today. Thanks Dre
good first post
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Duno, bay has been involved in some great high budget action movies .. James Cameron movies are usually pretty focused on the dialogue, so it woulda defeated my point.
It sounds different to me, I dunno .. Outside of the first track, which was prolly the worst, a lot of the production sounds a lot deeper than anything you currently hear in hip-hop.. Like, it's sonically on another level than The Chronic or 2001.. I dunno, beats sound so empty in rap music today. Everything is the same old skeleton sounding generic bs.. I think the way this can change the game (as dre's done in the past) is by getting everyone else to step their game up sonically and add more structure to their beats. It's kinda what raps been missing.
Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
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just was thinking about when Still DRE came out and I remember the DRE2001 board and it was mostly postitive feedback
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but the terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
no doubt, t2 might be the GOAT action flick
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INTERESTING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNulMGlLTKo
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INTERESTING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNulMGlLTKo
damn they squashed that link quick
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but the terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
The Cameron films are so ridiculously better produced than Bay's films. It's like comparing Dre's productions to Puff Daddy's.
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INTERESTING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNulMGlLTKo
Whaaat.. need more info on this, even a Google search comes up empty.. snippet? Full song? Dope?
Dre/Lamar already made a track called COMPTON though, featuring Sly..
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but the terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
The Cameron films are so ridiculously better produced than Bay's films. It's like comparing Dre's productions to Puff Daddy's.
I'M NOT A FILM EXPERT, BUT BAY IS CONSIDERED A GENIUS AS FAR AS HIGH BUDGET ACTION FILMS GO
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Album is like a movie. This is masterpice.
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but the terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
The Cameron films are so ridiculously better produced than Bay's films. It's like comparing Dre's productions to Puff Daddy's.
I'M NOT A FILM EXPERT, BUT BAY IS CONSIDERED A GENIUS AS FAR AS HIGH BUDGET ACTION FILMS GO
I'm a film guy. Bay is no genius. In fact he's usually dreaded in film circles when he gets attached to a project. The Puff Daddy analogy is about right. It's not a Kanye thing where there's a split by fans on whether he sucks or is a genius. It's a puffy thing.
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I'm a film guy. Bay is no genius. In fact he's usually dreaded in film circles when he gets attached to a project.
This
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Overall I like this album. It has that signature Dre flow and transition from track to track, and is best listened to start to finish.
Very creative, very musical, well mixed and mastered of course...
Seems very much like TPAB, which isn't a bad thing.
What's missing though are those CLASSIC DRE ANTHEMS.
The Chronic, 2001 and The Wash all had dre beats that were BANGERS. Not every track, but there were those tracks that everybody raps word for word decades later.
Compton doesn't have that. To me it suffers the same problem as The Aftermath. It's great experimental music that is an engaging listening experience all together, but I don't think there's a lot of easily accessible bangers that stand by themselves.
I still like this album just as I like The Aftermath, but it's anticlimactic and somewhat disappointing if this is Dre's last effort.
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Nothing on here sounds as deep as Wesley Theory. But even if it did that's not the point. Whatever may be missing in hop hop mainstream now doesn't mean it wasn't there before and Dre isn't a) doing anything new or b) going to cause a shift in the sound of the genre.
And what dialogue is Cameron known for? I'll be back? Cameron is a larger than life director who only releases films when he feels like it and always makes them super grande productions. Nothing Bay has ever done comes close to the production of T2 Titanic or Avatar.
I disagree..theres more than enough deep productions on this album.
Michael Bay beats James Cameron in explosions and car chases. the rock, bad boys, armageddon, bad boys 2.....all great action flicks with top-of-the-line production. but thats a whole nother topic.
exactly. but but the terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and true lies are better movies ;D
The Cameron films are so ridiculously better produced than Bay's films. It's like comparing Dre's productions to Puff Daddy's.
I'M NOT A FILM EXPERT, BUT BAY IS CONSIDERED A GENIUS AS FAR AS HIGH BUDGET ACTION FILMS GO
I'm a film guy. Bay is no genius. In fact he's usually dreaded in film circles when he gets attached to a project. The Puff Daddy analogy is about right. It's not a Kanye thing where there's a split by fans on whether he sucks or is a genius. It's a puffy thing.
From a special effects and pure action movie standpoint, the man is talented in making stuff look very easy. His problems are in dialogue and character and sometimes basic story, but purely based on spectacle, dude knows what he's doing and does it better than most. I'm not a film expert, but I am a film guy, so don't get it twisted in that regard. I know all about Bay's bad rap, the South Park episodes, and alla that..but the guy is a genius, and Puff Daddy is too. You don't get to the top by bein dumb, believe that.
watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/v/HCmXRtaoSzU
but this is completely sidetracking from my main point lolsmh
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As long as you agree him and Puff are the same we're good. If you want to lump Dre in there too. I'm good with that too.
But James Cameron is on another level.
Since you're a basketball guy I'll use a reference you can get. Cameron is like Kobe. Bay is like Big Shot Bob. Talented yes. A lot of rings yes. Buy don't try and build a great team around him.
I'll never say Bay is terrible ot shouldn't make films but to use the word genius for him is taking too much liberty with that word.
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As long as you agree him and Puff are the same we're good. If you want to lump Dre in there too. I'm good with that too.
But James Cameron is on another level.
Since you're a basketball guy I'll use a reference you can get. Cameron is like Kobe. Bay is like Big Shot Bob. Talented yes. A lot of rings yes. Buy don't try and build a great team around him.
I'll never say Bay is terrible ot shouldn't make films but to use the word genius for him is taking too much liberty with that word.
look, u either love arguing or u just missed what i was gettin at wit my initial point....IF Michael Bay was considered the best in high-budget production value (and i understand that by your estimation, he's not, so lets get past that), then u dont get mad because the dialogue is not up-to-par in one of his films. Why? because u know what he specializes in goin in, and thats awesome explosions made to look as aesthetically pleasing as possible....same goes for dre with music. The main focus is the production value, and sonically, this album blows anything that came out in recent memory out the water.
btw, if anything, Bay isn't Robert Horry...Horry is a supporting player. Bay is the main guy...he might be like LeBron compared to Kobe, but he's still considered the best guy for the high budget shit nowadays. Does he make mindless movies? yes...but u'd be lying if u said the production of his ACTIONS SCENES is not some of the best.
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As long as you agree him and Puff are the same we're good. If you want to lump Dre in there too. I'm good with that too.
But James Cameron is on another level.
Since you're a basketball guy I'll use a reference you can get. Cameron is like Kobe. Bay is like Big Shot Bob. Talented yes. A lot of rings yes. Buy don't try and build a great team around him.
I'll never say Bay is terrible ot shouldn't make films but to use the word genius for him is taking too much liberty with that word.
look, u either love arguing or u just missed what i was gettin at wit my initial point....IF Michael Bay was considered the best in high-budget production value (and i understand that by your estimation, he's not, so lets get past that), then u dont get mad because the dialogue is not up-to-par in one of his films. Why? because u know what he specializes in goin in, and thats awesome explosions made to look as aesthetically pleasing as possible....same goes for dre with music. The main focus is the production value, and sonically, this album blows anything that came out in recent memory out the water.
btw, if anything, Bay isn't Robert Horry...Horry is a supporting player. Bay is the main guy...he might be like LeBron compared to Kobe, but he's still considered the best guy for the high budget shit nowadays. Does he make mindless movies? yes...but u'd be lying if u said the production of his ACTIONS SCENES is not some of the best.
You're right. Horry was a bad comparison, but so is LeBron. Bay would be more like Vince Carter. A talented guy with a lot of wow factor but not enough talent to get you to the finals. Bay's action scenes are like Vince's dunks. They look nice the first time you see them but the more you see them the more boring they get and you leave realizing they were never enough to win you the game.
And I got your initial point and I agree but it doesn't apply to Dre. Dre is known for a certain kind of lyrical content yes but the rapping on his albums is usually top notch once you accept the content is only going to be about what Dre wants. That's like a director getting the most out of his actors as well as creating incredible visuals and that's why I brought in Cameron and dismissed Bay.
Cameron creates a universe, makes sure the roles are played perfectly given the genre, and puts out some the best produced larger than life scenes you can think of, but Cameron is not the director that masterfully speaks to the soul of the viewer and thus isn't often in Oscar contention, nor are his actors. This also applies to Dre's first two albums. The beats were great, but the rapping on them was fire. However none of the music or lyrics spoke to the souls of man kind. Dre can't touch Miles davis or Jimi Hendrix sonically just like Cameron can't touch Kubrick or Scorsese visually.
Getting a lot of money to make something sound or look mesmerizing is not the epitome of art; making you feel deep and intense emotions by hearing or seeing something is. As cool as Avatar looked with all its dazzle it pales next to the final scene of Taxi Driver.
Anyway, back to what Dre and Cameron do best is that they both make a secondary piece of art come as close to a primary piece of art as possible. Cameron can make you consider crying for the death of a Robot. Dre can't quite do that but he's better than Bay.
Bay mere gets to spend a lot of mone to make things look dazzling. Throw Bay into the 60s and he wouldn't have a job, where as Kubrick could still make magic happen, and T1 despite its lack of production budget still had some fantastic visuals for the time. And once Bay gets his money its just overblown dunk after overblown dunk. To the point where its 360 windmill dunks from half court that don't even come near the net. They look great but the ball isn't in the net. Dre has more sophistication than that. He makes sure you rap a certain way on his album or you don't get on it. Bay could give a shit about the acting or visually storytelling.
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As long as you agree him and Puff are the same we're good. If you want to lump Dre in there too. I'm good with that too.
But James Cameron is on another level.
Since you're a basketball guy I'll use a reference you can get. Cameron is like Kobe. Bay is like Big Shot Bob. Talented yes. A lot of rings yes. Buy don't try and build a great team around him.
I'll never say Bay is terrible ot shouldn't make films but to use the word genius for him is taking too much liberty with that word.
look, u either love arguing or u just missed what i was gettin at wit my initial point....IF Michael Bay was considered the best in high-budget production value (and i understand that by your estimation, he's not, so lets get past that), then u dont get mad because the dialogue is not up-to-par in one of his films. Why? because u know what he specializes in goin in, and thats awesome explosions made to look as aesthetically pleasing as possible....same goes for dre with music. The main focus is the production value, and sonically, this album blows anything that came out in recent memory out the water.
btw, if anything, Bay isn't Robert Horry...Horry is a supporting player. Bay is the main guy...he might be like LeBron compared to Kobe, but he's still considered the best guy for the high budget shit nowadays. Does he make mindless movies? yes...but u'd be lying if u said the production of his ACTIONS SCENES is not some of the best.
You're right. Horry was a bad comparison, but so is LeBron. Bay would be more like Vince Carter. A talented guy with a lot of wow factor but not enough talent to get you to the finals. Bay's action scenes are like Vince's dunks. They look nice the first time you see them but the more you see them the more boring they get and you leave realizing they were never enough to win you the game.
And I got your initial point and I agree but it doesn't apply to Dre. Dre is known for a certain kind of lyrical content yes but the rapping on his albums is usually top notch once you accept the content is only going to be about what Dre wants. That's like a director getting the most out of his actors as well as creating incredible visuals and that's why I brought in Cameron and dismissed Bay.
Cameron creates a universe, makes sure the roles are played perfectly given the genre, and puts out some the best produced larger than life scenes you can think of, but Cameron is not the director that masterfully speaks to the soul of the viewer and thus isn't often in Oscar contention, nor are his actors. This also applies to Dre's first two albums. The beats were great, but the rapping on them was fire. However none of the music or lyrics spoke to the souls of man kind. Dre can't touch Miles davis or Jimi Hendrix sonically just like Cameron can't touch Kubrick or Scorsese visually.
Getting a lot of money to make something sound or look mesmerizing is not the epitome of art; making you feel deep and intense emotions by hearing or seeing something is. As cool as Avatar looked with all its dazzle it pales next to the final scene of Taxi Driver.
Anyway, back to what Dre and Cameron do best is that they both make a secondary piece of art come as close to a primary piece of art as possible. Cameron can make you consider crying for the death of a Robot. Dre can't quite do that but he's better than Bay.
Bay mere gets to spend a lot of mone to make things look dazzling. Throw Bay into the 60s and he wouldn't have a job, where as Kubrick could still make magic happen, and T1 despite its lack of production budget still had some fantastic visuals for the time. And once Bay gets his money its just overblown dunk after overblown dunk. To the point where its 360 windmill dunks from half court that don't even come near the net. They look great but the ball isn't in the net. Dre has more sophistication than that. He makes sure you rap a certain way on his album or you don't get on it. Bay could give a shit about the acting or visually storytelling.
there u go...u hit the nail on the head with the vince carter comparison. michael bay is vince...vince is regarded as the best dunker of all time. so if u go on youtube to look up vince carter, it would be to see great dunks, bottom line. when u get a dre album, it's to hear great production.
dre's rapping is not top notch lol....the production of his raps are great, the delivery of his rhymes are always on point, theyre executed to perfection. meaning theyre engineered sonically to sound as crisp as possible. but as far as talent, who are u kidding? dre has some of the most simple rap schemes and rhym structures of all time. the rapping is not great, the production of the rapping is tho. thats why i say engineering and mastering is just as important as the actual rapping, if not more....me being involved in music making, i can tell u first hand that if dre was producing my music, it would all be classic off top, guaranteed. the sound and execution makes all the difference, and thats what dre gives u....top-of-the-line sound and execution
i also do think dre is up there with hendrix and miles davis as far as producing music goes....in fact, with the access to modern production equipment, dre is probably even on another level sonically than anyone from back n those days.
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Not Dre's rap. The rapping on Dre's albums. Snoop, Kurupt, Eminem. He makes those guys come at their best.
If Dre is as good sonically as Davis then Vince is as good a basket ball player as Kobe. You don't even listen to Davis or Jimi. Don't speak on things like that. Miles could bring grown men to tears with a note. It's a joke to compare the two. The difference in power is night and day. Miles didn't need technology, just one instrument and people's ears to hear it.
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And fuck rhyme schemes. Package had some of the simplest rhyme patterns and lyrics ever but at his best he spoke to the listener's soul. Dear Mama annihilates Rap God as a piece of art.
The difference with Pac's rapping and Dre's isn't rhyme complexity it's content. Pac was reality. Dre was fantasy.
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Agree, It's going to be interesting to see how this album is ranked/viewed 5-10 years from now. The album is growing on me with more and more spins... The production was pretty good, sonically advanced, different from typical Dre Production we are use to hearing. Wonder how Dre's beats will sound on the Documentary 2
Ehh....people are being way to harsh on this album while being way too kind on Dre's first two solo albums.
I'm 40 years old. While I confess to not being a die hard hip-hop fan - infact my main musical love is electronic music - I've been around for a long ass time. I was 13 when Straight Outta Compton came out, 17 when The Chronic dropped, 24 when 2001 came out.
People are acting like The Chronic just came out of the blue and changed everything up. It did to a certain extent, but it really wasn't a totally new sound. It was more of an evolvement of the Efil4zaggin sound. Tracks like The Day The Niggaz Took Over, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, A Nigga With A Gun, etc could just as easily have been on Evil4zaggin. And have people forgot about "Always Into Something" from Efil4zaggin?? That is the Chronic sound right there!
People are acting like everybody loved Still D.R.E. and 2001 as soon as they hit. They didn't. Infact, lots of people were very disappointed in Still D.R.E. Remember that this was the hugely anticipated comeback of the biggest producer in rap and Still D.R.E. initially did almost nothing. Just compare the mainstream chart positions:
Billboard Hot 100:
Nuthin' But A G Thang: #2
Dre Day: #8
Let Me Ride: #34
Keep Their Heads Ringin: #10
Still D.R.E.: #93
#93??? The BIG Dr.Dre comeback single barely scratched the billboard top 100. I couldn't believe it myself at the time, since I loved the track. But what about the album? The most anticipated album in hip-hop, the follow-up to the legendary The Chronic? It didn't make #1, but stalled at #2.
Now time changed all of that. "Forgot About Dre" and "The Next Episode" were hits and "Still D.R.E." was a slow-burner that evolved into a classic. "2001" hung around the charts forever and ended up selling 7˝ million copies in the US alone.
Also, while 2001 made Dr.Dre hot again, the sound itself was an evolvement of the mid-nineties Dre sound that was found on tracks like California Love (piano-led beat), Keep Their Heads Ringin, Been There Done That, etc. Yes, it was even more sparse, but don't act like 2001 was a totally new sound, because it wasn't.
The Chronic and 2001 have stood the test of time and are universally regarded as classics, whether the same will be said about "Compton" in 10 years time is anybodys guess, but it is a very capable effort.
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I'm huge into film and Michael Bay is generally regarded as a joke. He's successful on a mainstream level but he's not Cameron or Steven Spielberg. I've kind of softened on Cameron over the last 20 years but while he might be a limited storyteller, he's at the very least highly regarded for his elaborate production innovations. Bay is just a blockbuster guy. He's nowhere near a master action filmmaker. He is of the Roland Emmerich breed. He's not John Woo, Luc Besson, John McTiernan, Walter Hill, Sam Peckinpah, or even Tony Scott. When it comes to directors who came from glossy music video backgrounds, he's the king of making release dates in time to make Burger King happy but he's not David Fincher.
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Not Dre's rap. The rapping on Dre's albums. Snoop, Kurupt, Eminem. He makes those guys come at their best.
If Dre is as good sonically as Davis then Vince is as good a basket ball player as Kobe. You don't even listen to Davis or Jimi. Don't speak on things like that. Miles could bring grown men to tears with a note. It's a joke to compare the two. The difference in power is night and day. Miles didn't need technology, just one instrument and people's ears to hear it.
yes i do...before u tell me what to speak on, u should be sure u aint just makin false assumptions and basin your misdirection on that......and the notes have nothing to do sonically speaking, so u missin the whole point again. you need technology to fine-tune things sonically. thats my point. miles may be a better musician, but dre is a better PRODUCER.
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And fuck rhyme schemes. Package had some of the simplest rhyme patterns and lyrics ever but at his best he spoke to the listener's soul. Dear Mama annihilates Rap God as a piece of art.
The difference with Pac's rapping and Dre's isn't rhyme complexity it's content. Pac was reality. Dre was fantasy.
Naah, the difference was soul and passion. pac came from the heart, while dre is all about being sonically fine-tuned.
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I'm huge into film and Michael Bay is generally regarded as a joke. He's successful on a mainstream level but he's not Cameron or Steven Spielberg.
not james cameron and not even close to speilberg
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THIS ALBUM IS BETTER THAN THE CHRONIC AND 2001 . I Heard the snippets and it sounds dope as fuck . 8) 8)
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... BETTER THAN THE CHRONIC ...
Definitely... #irony #quoteoftheday
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Promo stuff in LA!
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Not Dre's rap. The rapping on Dre's albums. Snoop, Kurupt, Eminem. He makes those guys come at their best.
If Dre is as good sonically as Davis then Vince is as good a basket ball player as Kobe. You don't even listen to Davis or Jimi. Don't speak on things like that. Miles could bring grown men to tears with a note. It's a joke to compare the two. The difference in power is night and day. Miles didn't need technology, just one instrument and people's ears to hear it.
yes i do...before u tell me what to speak on, u should be sure u aint just makin false assumptions and basin your misdirection on that......and the notes have nothing to do sonically speaking, so u missin the whole point again. you need technology to fine-tune things sonically. thats my point. miles may be a better musician, but dre is a better PRODUCER.
I find it hard to believe you really listen David if you have opinions like this. You don't need technology for shit unless that technology is a trumpet. I'm not talking s written note on a page. I'm taking hitting a note sonically produced from a trumpet.
Producing music is more than knowing how to use a soundboard. And it's as much about what not to add as it is what to add. Dre wouldn't know what to do with a Miles Davis recording session.
But I'm willing to be shown I'm wrong. Name me your 5 favourite non hip hop producers and why you like them. If 5 is too much then 3. I think you're palette is limited and bigoted. But I'll gladly concede if you prove me wrong.
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. Where is the melody and harmony of organic instruments? I missed dre sound
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You can have the best produced song in the world ever...but that still doesnt mean its a good song
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I love songs:
Talking to my diary ( Classic dre sound)
Issues
It's all on me
Loose cannons
Animals
Just another day
One shot one kill
All in a day's work
Others r bad
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You can have the best produced song in the world ever...but that still doesnt mean its a good song
YES my point exactly.
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Dear Mama annihilates Rap God as a piece of art.
I'll take 6 minutes of vocal gymnastics over a slow soul jam any day. Personal preference.
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I love songs:
Talking to my diary ( Classic dre sound)
Issues
It's all on me
Loose cannons
Animals
Just another day
One shot one kill
All in a day's work
This
Others r bad
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i think its funny when people call 2001 classic or masterpiece ... chronic and NWA albums were classics not 2001
2001 was mainstream for the white teens ( no disrespect for the white teens ;D ) eminem type fans in the world
i remember when 2001 was released , the real dre fan, 'the niggaz in the park' didnt like it that much ..
fav songs ; deep waters, just another day and talking to my diary .. good and fresh album !
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I played this on my computer and thought it was terrible. I mp3'd it up in the car and it is pure greatness.
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I'm still blown away by how good this is. Not one filler. Every beat is incredible. Dre couldn't have given us a better product.
Only thing that is kind of sad & the verse was solid but it's crazy the worst part (something has to rank as "the worst") of the album was Eminem's verse. This was like Dre's farewell in terms of putting together an album, he should of came stronger.
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I'm still blown away by how good this is. Not one filler. Every beat is incredible. Dre couldn't have given us a better product.
Only thing that is kind of sad & the verse was solid but it's crazy the worst part (something has to rank as "the worst") of the album was Eminem's verse. This was like Dre's farewell in terms of putting together an album, he should of came stronger.
Eminem hasn't come strong since Run Rabbit but I wouldn't go so far as saying it's the worst rap on the album. People just expect more from Em because he's eminem.
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I'm still blown away by how good this is. Not one filler. Every beat is incredible. Dre couldn't have given us a better product.
Only thing that is kind of sad & the verse was solid but it's crazy the worst part (something has to rank as "the worst") of the album was Eminem's verse. This was like Dre's farewell in terms of putting together an album, he should of came stronger.
Eminem hasn't come strong since Run Rabbit but I wouldn't go so far as saying it's the worst rap on the album. People just expect more from Em because he's eminem.
Exactly, the standard rises. Especially for Dr. Dre's last album. Just came up short for me.
Again, it was good, I was happy with the song. Calling something "the worst" has such a negative connotation; but I don't mean it in a condescending way.
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I don't understand why people are hating on 'talk about it'. It's one of the best records on the album. This album is not about creating gfunk. Not even chronic 2001 was gfunk. It's totally ok for west coast music to evolve, just like other areas of hip hop evolves as well.
Listen again to talk about it, but without prejudice. It's a trap beat on steroids, with dre totally controlling the chorus.
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Talk About It is incredible lol.
One of my favorite beats off the album.
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The credits circulating are not 100% correct so I wanted to post the ones.
amazing work by Focus...
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I've not been keeping up with what's been going on with Dre/Detox for years now so it may be that my expectations were muted but I think this is a really good record. Scrapping Detox was probably the smartest thing Dre could do because that record was never living up to the high expectations people had for it, even if it was just scrapped nominally it must have felt like a burden had been lifted. When I heard the news about this new album I thought to myself that I would be pleasantly surprised if it was even halfway decent and I think it certainly exceeds that. I honestly don't think Dre could have put out a record much better, after about 30 years making music this album is no mean feat.
It may not be an all time great but it is at its least good and getting better with each subsequent listen.
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5 different producers for 'Deep Water'? 'Medicine Man' is one of the worst tracks for me, just a wall of noise.
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Focus has been murdering the game for years now.
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Just bought the album on ITunes today (because I got love for Dre and show real support rather than most of ya'll who steal from Dre and then claim to be fans of his work, but I digress)....
...Anyway, so just getting into it for the first time there are some new sounds on this album, and I'm just trying to distinguish which artists and producers are the ones putting in work on these tracks. So a few early questions—sorry if it has been mentioned already but this thread is so damn long I can't read through 9 pages..
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Not Dre's rap. The rapping on Dre's albums. Snoop, Kurupt, Eminem. He makes those guys come at their best.
If Dre is as good sonically as Davis then Vince is as good a basket ball player as Kobe. You don't even listen to Davis or Jimi. Don't speak on things like that. Miles could bring grown men to tears with a note. It's a joke to compare the two. The difference in power is night and day. Miles didn't need technology, just one instrument and people's ears to hear it.
yes i do...before u tell me what to speak on, u should be sure u aint just makin false assumptions and basin your misdirection on that......and the notes have nothing to do sonically speaking, so u missin the whole point again. you need technology to fine-tune things sonically. thats my point. miles may be a better musician, but dre is a better PRODUCER.
I find it hard to believe you really listen David if you have opinions like this. You don't need technology for shit unless that technology is a trumpet. I'm not talking s written note on a page. I'm taking hitting a note sonically produced from a trumpet.
Producing music is more than knowing how to use a soundboard. And it's as much about what not to add as it is what to add. Dre wouldn't know what to do with a Miles Davis recording session.
But I'm willing to be shown I'm wrong. Name me your 5 favourite non hip hop producers and why you like them. If 5 is too much then 3. I think you're palette is limited and bigoted. But I'll gladly concede if you prove me wrong.
you obviously have a lower respect for rap as an artform in comparison to other genres...i know ur type fam. not even tryna go there with u. lemme just say i disagree, but can respect your wrong opinion.
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I'm still blown away by how good this is. Not one filler. Every beat is incredible. Dre couldn't have given us a better product.
Only thing that is kind of sad & the verse was solid but it's crazy the worst part (something has to rank as "the worst") of the album was Eminem's verse. This was like Dre's farewell in terms of putting together an album, he should of came stronger.
Eminem hasn't come strong since Run Rabbit
cmon now shal
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(http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/742887323.jpg)
The credits circulating are not 100% correct so I wanted to post the ones.
amazing work by Focus...
who put this together? looks like bullshit. if dre is producing, his name always comes up first.
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The credits circulating are not 100% correct so I wanted to post the ones.
amazing work by Focus...
who put this together? looks like bullshit. if dre is producing, his name always comes up first.
https://instagram.com/p/6QFUwXN1wQ/?taken-by=focus3dotz
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Not Dre's rap. The rapping on Dre's albums. Snoop, Kurupt, Eminem. He makes those guys come at their best.
If Dre is as good sonically as Davis then Vince is as good a basket ball player as Kobe. You don't even listen to Davis or Jimi. Don't speak on things like that. Miles could bring grown men to tears with a note. It's a joke to compare the two. The difference in power is night and day. Miles didn't need technology, just one instrument and people's ears to hear it.
yes i do...before u tell me what to speak on, u should be sure u aint just makin false assumptions and basin your misdirection on that......and the notes have nothing to do sonically speaking, so u missin the whole point again. you need technology to fine-tune things sonically. thats my point. miles may be a better musician, but dre is a better PRODUCER.
I find it hard to believe you really listen David if you have opinions like this. You don't need technology for shit unless that technology is a trumpet. I'm not talking s written note on a page. I'm taking hitting a note sonically produced from a trumpet.
Producing music is more than knowing how to use a soundboard. And it's as much about what not to add as it is what to add. Dre wouldn't know what to do with a Miles Davis recording session.
But I'm willing to be shown I'm wrong. Name me your 5 favourite non hip hop producers and why you like them. If 5 is too much then 3. I think you're palette is limited and bigoted. But I'll gladly concede if you prove me wrong.
you obviously have a lower respect for rap as an artform in comparison to other genres...i know ur type fam. not even tryna go there with u. lemme just say i disagree, but can respect your wrong opinion.
A few years ago you could have said that and I would have agreed, but not so much any more. I feel that rap and rap producers can be every bit as artistic as any other genre of music. Just spent the day listening to J Dilla's Donuts. Fantastic art.
Why I asked you to name 5 producers outside is rap is to see if you listen to any other genres seriously enough to even have favourite producers from those genres. Yeah I'm going on the assumption that you don't, but I'll gladly admit my assumption is wrong, if it is wrong.
Never any disrespect meant. That's the truth.
You should see how much I defend rap on the Springsteen forums. Whether they know it or not that crowd would adore a Dre produced Springsteeen record. Me, not so much. I like a dirtier sound, I don't want the sonic clarity. What I love about the old Spector productions is how things melt together. It's why I love Havoc's productions on the Infamous album.
Thats just the style I like.
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Just bought the album on ITunes today (because I got love for Dre and show real support rather than most of ya'll who steal from Dre and then claim to be fans of his work, but I digress)....
...Anyway, so just getting into it for the first time there are some new sounds on this album, and I'm just trying to distinguish which artists and producers are the ones putting in work on these tracks. So a few early questions—sorry if it has been mentioned already but this thread is so damn long I can't read through 9 pages..
-Are there physical copies of this album being sold? I didn't see any at the stores—and considering Apple bought out Beats I was wondering if Dre had some exclusive deal with ITunes?
-Wasn't that 6'2" on one of the tracks? It sure as hell sounded like him and he said something about Texas?
-Doesn't the intro and some of the other tracks sound a little like Young Thug and some of them Young Money cats? I don't really know their names but I recognized a sound a little bit where they sing, but fast, and then use some sort of autotune or something. Of course Dre ups the stakes on anything he does, so whatever Dre was doin worked, so I'm not dissin... but isn't that kind of borrowing from the new sound today on that intro and some of the early tracks? Do any of those cats have writing credits on it or something?
-Sounded like Cold187um was on one of the tracks and also KMG? What is the story behind that?
I reported your other post where you requested a free copy because your internet was too slow for Itunes.
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Dr Dre - "Talking To My Diary" > https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/ (https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/)
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any news on the Instrumental Album?
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
shit! cube 's rhyme is not written by him? snoop's two raps are not written by himself? that's weak!
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Yeah looks like King Mez wrote virtually the whole album
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No Tracy Lynn Curry?
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
shit! cube 's rhyme is not written by him? snoop's two raps are not written by himself? that's weak!
This has been discussed/analyzed here for some days now: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
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Any idea if the hardcopy has anything different than the Itunes release?
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
shit! cube 's rhyme is not written by him? snoop's two raps are not written by himself? that's weak!
Ice Cube: ‘I Respect Rappers More When They Write Their Own Lyrics’
Ice Cube explains why he's not a fan of ghostwriting in hip-hop.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2231002/ice-cube-ghostwriter-rap-beef-straight-outta-compton/
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do you guys know what is the sample playing low in "all in a days work" beat? you can hear it clearly at the end of song.
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https://www.youtube.com/v/q1pW7srcNrM
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
too much ghostwriting...
Andre Young in all tracks?
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
shit! cube 's rhyme is not written by him? snoop's two raps are not written by himself? that's weak!
Ice Cube: ‘I Respect Rappers More When They Write Their Own Lyrics’
Ice Cube explains why he's not a fan of ghostwriting in hip-hop.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2231002/ice-cube-ghostwriter-rap-beef-straight-outta-compton/
he also said in another interview that all he cares about is the finished product. but he said you are an MC and representing yourself as such (Nas, Eminem, whoever) then you writing your own shit comes with the territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDV7KBNbrhA
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I'm really surprised by the opinion of guys specifically on this site. I listened to this song, knowing what Dr Dre's previous albums sounded like, knowing it was accompanying the NWA film and knowing it was named Compton. Everything about that had me excited to see a westcoast classic. Sure, the westcoast has Kendrick Lamar and whoever else but they aren't producing the music that I'm into. My geeky example; I never once listened to Radio Los Santos in GTA 5, only Westcoast Classics. Every now and again a few solid songs pop up like Hussle In The House - Nipsie, Cali Life - Mac Lucci etc. but it's too rare that we get a proper westcoast classic coming out these days. When I heard about this album, I expected a resurgence. I was heavily disappointed.
Besides things like Snoop rapping aggressive for some reason, the over production (each song is made up of like 3 beats) and everything else, the beats were just nothing like a westcoast classic should be, and the rappers really to me sound like they could easily be signed to Young Money. Everything had a "dirty south" feel to it, and being a westcoast rap fan, I couldn't hate that any more.
"For The Love of Money", after about 40 seconds I literally paused the song so I could go and listen to Bone Thugs actually do the sample some justice. Dre used the guitar so much on this album but wasn't interested in doing what made him who he is. Is there a single beat on this entire album that utilizes guitar work with that same westcoast feel as Beautiful but Deadly (DOC) does?
I get it. Dre's not trying to produce an old school sounding westcoast album. He's trying to "stay relevant". But for me, I was a fan of him when he was relevant. As a fan, I don't like when someone changes their music or art to satisfy the current trends. I loved College Dropout by Kanye. You couldn't pay me to listen to Watch The Throne. I feel like Dre turned his back on the westcoast rap fans who still play 2001 and Chronic, along with all the NWA hits on a daily basis. That's why I'm surprised you guys loved it so much. I'm just a dude from Glasgow who didn't grow up listening to westcoast rap music, but you guys have nostalgic ties and everything to Comptons Most Wanted, Above The Law, Westside Connection, NWA, 213, Dogg Pound and everything else. I'm surprised you guys didn't expect to hear something more along the lines of westcoast music and are happy with this 2015 technological sounding album. Defo a disappointment for me anyways.
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It's a good album but it's too strained for my taste. It's definitely Dre's "heaviest" solo album. I prefer lithe, carefree music that you can just grove too, which of course was one of the beauties of G-Funk. You can tell that Kendrick Lamar's approach to album-construction has deeply influenced and shaped Dre in this era. This is by turns the most intellectual Dre album, so if that's your cup of tea, you'll happily drink this up.
Production-wise, of course the studio-craft sonically on display here is impecable, which is to be expected, but Dre hasn't been in his prime for decades now (imo it was early to mid 90s). Then again, I wasn't hoping for anything more than "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" level of quality from the GOAT producer. Still, this isn't a game-changer like Dre's best work.
All in all, it's a good album, certainly not a typical dated sounding album by an old, washed up rapper. In fact, this is very modern, if not an attempt to push modernism forward a bit. But two things: 1) again, the tone and tempos are not really my steez and I agree there's not much music built around core melodies on this album and 2) this sounds like the kind of album Dre could put out every couple years if he were hungry enough to actually consistently make music.
But it doesn't matter; Dre's legacy has been cemented for a long time, and this won't alter it in any either direction, better or worse.
Solid review. It's too early to tell if this is a "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" type of album but you might be on point. Still, I think all things considered, with Dre's age, digital media, the state of the rap game and so on... this was a hell of a heroic effort from Dre
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Was that 6'2" on the track, saying something about Texas?
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do you guys know what is the sample playing low in "all in a days work" beat? you can hear it clearly at the end of song.
this beat samples "Dream On" by Aerosmith
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do you guys know what is the sample playing low in "all in a days work" beat? you can hear it clearly at the end of song.
this beat samples "Dream On" by Aerosmith
surprised more heads didn't catch that lol that version sounded even better than Em's "Sing For The Moment"
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
too much ghostwriting...
Andre Young in all tracks?
.................. :-[ :nawty:
writing credit goes to producers as well
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Was that 6'2" on the track, saying something about Texas?
no
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It's a good album but it's too strained for my taste. It's definitely Dre's "heaviest" solo album. I prefer lithe, carefree music that you can just grove too, which of course was one of the beauties of G-Funk. You can tell that Kendrick Lamar's approach to album-construction has deeply influenced and shaped Dre in this era. This is by turns the most intellectual Dre album, so if that's your cup of tea, you'll happily drink this up.
Production-wise, of course the studio-craft sonically on display here is impecable, which is to be expected, but Dre hasn't been in his prime for decades now (imo it was early to mid 90s). Then again, I wasn't hoping for anything more than "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" level of quality from the GOAT producer. Still, this isn't a game-changer like Dre's best work.
All in all, it's a good album, certainly not a typical dated sounding album by an old, washed up rapper. In fact, this is very modern, if not an attempt to push modernism forward a bit. But two things: 1) again, the tone and tempos are not really my steez and I agree there's not much music built around core melodies on this album and 2) this sounds like the kind of album Dre could put out every couple years if he were hungry enough to actually consistently make music.
But it doesn't matter; Dre's legacy has been cemented for a long time, and this won't alter it in any either direction, better or worse.
Solid review. It's too early to tell if this is a "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" type of album but you might be on point. Still, I think all things considered, with Dre's age, digital media, the state of the rap game and so on... this was a hell of a heroic effort from Dre
it's not jordan on the wizards, it's shaq on the heat.......not at his best, but still championship material.
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too early to tell if this is a "Michael Jordan on the Wizards" type of album
Wha the fucc did Wig-Gar say?
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
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Dr Dre - "Talking To My Diary" > https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/ (https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/)
slim the mobster wrote this song and does the hook! 8)
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
ABSOLUTELY the Kendrick sounding tracks. The only song which is chilled that you can ride to, or at least the only song you'd expect from old school Dr Dre, is It's All on Me. That's a really good song, but everything else has that "aggressive rapping" on "digital" beats.
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
ABSOLUTELY the Kendrick sounding tracks. The only song which is chilled that you can ride to, or at least the only song you'd expect from old school Dr Dre, is It's All on Me. That's a really good song, but everything else has that "aggressive rapping" on "digital" beats.
u dont like it then ride around to some old ass dre shit so people can laugh at your irrelevant ass :D
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No Tracy Lynn Curry?
Dr Dre - "Talking To My Diary" > https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/ (https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/)
slim the mobster wrote this song and does the hook! 8)
Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
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Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
Wikipedia says Russell Brown aka this guy : https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195 (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195)
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Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
Wikipedia says Russell Brown aka this guy : https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195 (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195)
Oh, that's DJ Silk who co-produce this song, OK. Thanxx ;)
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Yup, that´s the guy. 8)
At first this album sounded all over the place.
after listening to it a few times i gotta say it´s nothing like i expected but i´m not disappointed. at all.
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http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/08/dr-dre-compton-soundtrack-collaborators/
Dr. Dre’s Collaborators on the Making of ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’
Aug 12th, '15 by XXL Staff
For more than a decade, Dr. Dre's third album was a myth, a mirage, hip-hop's longest-running joke. Every few months, another rapper or producer would talk about working on Dr. Dre's Detox, about writing in the studio and being inspired by Dre's enthusiasm, work ethic and unparalleled ability to turn a creative spark into the type of magic rarely seen in music these days. And still the wait would continue, with one year blending into the next until the idea of Detox faded away into the history books. It had looked like Dr. Dre's solo career would stop at two albums, The Chronic and 2001, both certified classics and both with an influence so heavy that it seemed like Dre would suffocate under the weight of the pressure.
But all that changed this month when Dr. Dre announced on his Beats 1 program The Pharmacy that Detox was scrapped, but that his third solo album was finally on the way. A week later, Compton: A Soundtrack arrived before anyone was fully ready, with 16 tracks of ferocious bars and top-shelf production. Inspired by his work on the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, Dre had finally dusted off the cobwebs and felt confident and excited enough to unleash his first solo album in 16 years. After more than a decade of playing a waiting game, Dre was finally back in the saddle.
But all those rumors of people working on Detox weren't unfounded; Dre's creative process in crafting Compton came from a collaborative place, with his team of producers, engineers, MCs and singers all chipping in with ideas, beats and verses. Longtime Aftermath producer Focus... helped helm six cuts; North Carolina rapper King Mez was featured on three but wrote on 12; up-and-coming artists Candice Pillay (two songs), Asia Bryant (one song) and Anderson .Paak (six songs) were brought in to provide their spark; Dallas MC Justus alternated singing hooks and penning verses on three cuts; BJ The Chicago Kid crooned his way to one feature; and Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Jon Connor, Cold 187um, The Game and Snoop Dogg all chipped in with verses of their own. As much as Compton is the brain child of Dr. Dre, it's also a collective achievement for a group of artists that were able to see and execute Dre's vision.
As Compton keeps blowing up our speakers, XXL spoke with eight of Dr. Dre's collaborators on the album to get a feel for how Compton truly came together behind the scenes, track by track. Twenty-three years after The Chronic hit the streets, it's still Dre Day. —Interviews by Emmanuel C.M., Miranda J., Roger Krastz, Sidney Madden and Dan Rys
"Intro"
Focus...: Everything in the intro wasn't just produced by me and Dre; Dante Winslow did the very top of the album, which sounds like a movie opening, and that was Dr. Dre's vision and Dante killed that. And then right when the commentary comes in and the music kicks in under that, that was me and Dre. That was, honestly, Dre's whole vision: he wanted it to be very strategic and very direct. He wanted this all to be very dedicated to Compton past, present and future.
"Talk About It" featuring King Mez and Justus
King Mez: Kendrick was amazing, I remember when he first heard my verse on “Talk About It,” he turned around and smiled at me and gave me the pound. That’s tight, man, that’s an honor to me. I met Kendrick a few times, but the time where I met him for real I was with Dre at this Game concert maybe about six months ago. Kendrick walked up to Dre and dapped him. I stepped back out the way because I know they have a real good relationship [and] I didn’t want to be in the way while they were talking and stuff. He turned around and dapped me and said, "I really like your video," and he started describing to me my video. I was like, "Damn, I didn’t even think he knew who I was and yet he’s describing to me my video." He’s a real humble, down to earth dude, ear to the street and always paying attention. Real humble people; everybody Dre keeps around him are super good people.
We’ve been working on this for about 11 months. There’s been a bunch of records before we got there. Justus and I came on the same time, and when we came Dre scrapped the album. He scrapped every idea before us, and we re-created everything. It’s literally like in a vault somewhere and I don’t know if it will ever see the light of day. But there are definitely songs we made that I really liked and Dre really liked that will probably end up on my upcoming project.
Candice Pillay (Getty Images)
"Genocide" featuring Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosious and Candice Pillay
Candice Pillay: "Genocide" came about from an idea that Marsha [Ambrosious] had. I was working on this other stuff at the time with Dre and then Dre came up with the "Genocide" beat and he had been writing with Marsha for a while, so Marsha wrote the hook on "Genocide" and then there was this little part on it that was the rap/singing part. And they were looking for someone to do it, and Dre knew me more for my alternative ambiance vocals, but he didn't have any idea that I can do that. Because if you listen to The Mood Kill, it's exactly a mix between "Genocide" and "Medicine Man." So Dre didn't know I could do that and I approached him and told him, "Let me have that record and get this done."
And we tried, and because I mostly do pop writing or have been doing a lot of pop writing, I am very big on clean vocals and very on top of delivery, and it wasn't working for the record. Dre thought that it was too pop-ish and he kept telling me, "You have to sound like you been through the war." And I remember I got sick and caught a cold and my voice was very raspy, so at that point I was hardly able to get my vocals out. And he had an idea to try it again and rap it completely off the beat. I did that and we looked at each other and said, "That sounds dope!" I got to put my own flavor to it. Changed up a couple of words and made it mine and Dre loved it and then he added his verse and he decided he wanted to get Kendrick on it and he killed it.
BJ The Chicago Kid (Getty Images)
"It's All On Me" featuring Justus and BJ The Chicago Kid
BJ The Chicago Kid: As far as the creativity of the song, I don’t even know who produced the record. I just go in and I work. When you work with people like [Dre], you don’t ask 50 million questions about that, you ask 50 million questions about how to stay alive in the industry. You ask advice. You don’t ask the wrong questions, you have to know your place. It’s not like that’s demanded, it’s just everybody in there respects the game to a certain degree to the point where, if a person asks, you’re going to ask something that can further your career. There’s so many producers and writers and everything that goes on there that he’s a beast at what he does. As far as creating a vibe, Doc knows what he’s doing. He’s still Dr. Dre. People say he’s back, but he never left, man. He never went no where.
What’s crazy is before me and Doc worked on the Compton album, we spoke for months on the phone, just trying to catch up, but I didn’t know what we [now] know about his business. I was just trying to catch up with him to find the perfect time that he was stationary for at least a day or two, but then he would have to leave and I would have to leave. We could never match up the time. So when we did, it was history.
When you go in the studio, you just work. You don’t think about what you’re working on; that can hinder the creative process. If you think too much, it fucks everything up. Just do what you do naturally, just do it. Music stems off emotion and I feel like if you think too much, you can rain on the parade.
Anderson .Paak: The first song I heard was "All In A Day's Work" with [Marsha Ambrosious]. And Dre was telling me the vibe they were going for on it and I was like, "Let me hop on the mic." So I hopped on the mic, wasn't really thinking, just freestyling and "all in a day's work" was one of the phrases [that came out]. And Dre was like, that's cold. After that I was there almost every day and we developed a great relationship. And I mean, his reputation goes without saying, obviously, but I have the most respect for him and our work relationship reflects that.
"Darkside/Gone" featuring King Mez, Marsha Ambrosious and Kendrick Lamar
King Mez: There were a couple of times, like the “Darkside/Gone” record, I was in my car and [producer] Best Kept Secret sent the beat in a while ago. I was just in my car enjoying it, riding around and thinking about the hook for me to use it for myself, because I didn’t even know if Dre was going to write it. But I just brought it to the studio and was recording it for my next project and De heard it and really liked it. So I said, we'll just put this on Compton if you really like it. So that’s where that intro hook came from on “Darkside/Gone” with me Marsha [Ambrosia] and Kendrick Lamar. [The creation process] just depends; it came about a bunch of different ways.
Honestly man, [Dre] is like Phil Jackson. That’s what I tell him all the time. He’s an amazing coach and an amazing player as well. He’s a talented guy; you don’t see that a lot. He’s just coached me into exploring different levels of my voice and talent and a bunch of different things. It was an honor working for him. There was a lot of times he trusted my opinion for a lot of records where I picked the beat or the “Darkside/Gone” record where brought that song in. Or if he’s recording, he’ll look at me and say, "What do you think? You think I should try that out?" I’m honored that he trusts my opinion for a lot of things. It’s been a blessing.
"Loose Cannons" featuring Xzibit, Cold 187um and Sly Pyper
Cold 187um: Dr. Dre called me in to just check out the album on some solo tunes that he was working on and he played a bunch of songs and he had a few ideas that he wanted to get some features on. And maybe after three days of just sitting there and vibing with him, he asked if I wanted to get on it. The producers came in and were working on the track "Loose Cannons," so we went in maybe around 8 o'clock that night and didn't get out 'til maybe 7 o'clock the next morning. We had the track and the idea the first day, and the second day we started to put the vocals down and everything. Originally we didn't have a third person on it and we didn't know who was going to be on it because he had a list of cats who wanted to get on the record. But Xzibit heard me and Dre after we put our vocals [down] and he wanted to get on it, and that's how it came about.
Focus...: It's funny because sometimes I'll just play samples. Dre heard me toying around with it and he loved the intro, so we pieced that together. And I was playing different sections of the sample, just playing on the keyboard and treating them or whatever, and he was like, "Put that down." So all of this was orchestrated by him, but there were different parts that we just wanted to be different with, you know what I'm saying? And each one of the pieces, you can hear it, you get a more aggressive MC each time. So it really was one of those songs that Dre put together. At the end it's very dramatic; he wants the entire album to feel like a movie, so that's why everything is so detailed. Dre really pays attention to detail.
Cold 187um: The cool thing about "Loose Cannons" was that I was involved with the record from when they first started making the beat to the skit at the very end, so it was like back in the days. We were actually in the studio vibing to the moment.
"Issues" featuring Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak and Dem Jointz
Focus...: Based on that [Turkish singer] Selda sample ["Ince Ince"], we were just having fun with that. And when Anderson put his part down, we were trying to figure out where we were gonna go, and Trevor Lawrence Jr. started playing this drum loop that was crazy that he created and Theron [Feemster] played over that and it just started building from there, [guitarist] Curt [Chambers] played and we really just started formulating what the record was about to be. That record was really fun to watch come together because it came together really fast.
Anderson .Paak: That was recorded the first time I had ever been to Dre's house. That day he invited us over, we broke bread, he let us see a little bit of the movie. He ordered Greek food, so there was this big spread and I pigged out. [Laughs] And after that we went to the studio and I heard it. I heard that guitar riff and I was like, "It's lit, this is crazy, this is the kind of shit I want to make." And we just started writing together. We had been listening to The Doors and all these different rock bands and we kinda just went in and started building lyrics off it and it was a wrap. And it definitely went through phases, and Cube got on it last minute.
Focus...: [Dem Jointz is] an amazing person, period, but he just has a really creative way of approaching things. Even on "Issues," Dre was saying we need a hook and over the original beat that was under the verse he wrote the hook. So I just changed the music to fit his hook, but his hook was so perfect for that song because it gave it a dynamic so that we could get aggressive on each verse. He's very artistic and very creative and he doesn't look at music as making beats, he looks at music as making compositions. So he definitely brought his own flavor to the project.
"Deep Water" featuring Kendrick Lamar, Justus and Anderson .Paak
Focus...: I actually started the music on that record. It was something that Dre wanted to get done—it was one of the last records we put together—and I started the music and my bro Ty Cannon, he's the A&R for the label, he was like, "Yo, you need to get Cardiak in there." So we started making this beat. So once we got the whole foundation put together, Dem Jointz and [DJ] Dahi came in and they started giving us pieces. It just all started rolling after that. So once we played it for Dre, Dre was like, "Put this piece there..." The whole thing was amazing. There was no egos, no problems, everybody just put their pieces in.
Anderson .Paak: "Deep Water," we did that at Dre's house as well. I felt like we did that shit the same day at we did "Issues." Dre goes, “I want a verse between me and Kendrick’s,” and I was like, “Damn, this shit sounds done to me already.” But he was very concentrated and he lives by the beach and he broke down the concept to me and he was like, “Every wave that crashes I feel is like an orgasm. And you get all kinds of different ones; short ones, long ones.” And he really wanted to get the concept about deep water and feeling like you’re drowning. So I think he sees a lot of psychedelic funk with it, and I feel like he had a great time bringing that out and playing with different effects. I like my voice with the psychedelic soul aspect, like, “Feel like ya drownin', don't cha?” And I watched them strip away a lot of different things and then add the effects. And when they mastered it, it was like, “Okay, I’m staying on this one too. Dope!”
Focus...: I saw Kendrick writing his verse and getting his stuff together and I definitely saw Cube on the mic, but yeah. It's amazing, man... I'm sorry, I'm still kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing, but it really was amazing seeing the whole thing come together like that.
"One Shot One Kill" featuring Jon Connor and Snoop Dogg
Jon Connor: Man, we was in Hawaii, and it was already crazy. First of all, I'm from Flint, Michigan, man, I'm from a little bitty city, so a lot of this stuff was just so new to me and I appreciate everything that's happened to me on this journey, so I'm in Hawaii for the first time and I'm dealing with purple and peach skies and I'm dealing with beautiful women and all that. So at first I was just stuck in that vibe and just enjoying being in Hawaii, you know? But the way it came together was so cool, 'cause it had been a long day in the studio and it was like 3 or 4 in the morning, everybody was getting ready to go home. And I believe Focus... had pulled the skeleton of what was going to become "One Shot One Kill"—the drums and the sample—and it was like everybody got re-energized, you know? Everybody was like, "Hold up, we ain't going home yet, we ain't going back to the hotel yet, we have to work on this." And it was like, Dre looked at me and was like, "Aight, do you, do what you gon' do." So what you hear on that record is legit, 4 o'clock in the morning, everybody re-energized and it was that feeling that I think people are hearing and responding to. Think about that: a studio full of people that were sleepy and ready to call it a night, and when we heard it it was just like, "Nah, we got to finish this." So it was just a beautiful thing and I'll just remember the energy and the feeling everybody got when that sample was played.
Focus...: I think that a lot of the stuff that we did in Hawaii was amazing. It was the first time I had been out to Hawaii with the camp. It's weird how different places bring different vibes and different music and that was one of the last beats we did that day. It was crazy. It was literally just a beat and a little guitar loop, we had a bass line in there, so a lot of the stuff that we added to that song we did back here in California. But out there it was really just a raw, rugged hip-hop feel. While we were out in Hawaii we were doing R&B, we were just making music. It was nothing like, "Yo, we have to do this," it was more like, "What do y'all feel?"
Jon Connor: [Being on the record with Snoop is] super crazy. I was telling my sister the other day, when Doggystyle came around I would write down the lyrics to Snoop's "What's My Name" so that when my sister came around I would rap it and she would think I was a cool little brother. And now years later I'm on a record with Snoop. It's crazy; it's like the Twilight Zone, man. I'm just humbled and appreciative, man.
"Just Another Day" featuring The Game and Asia Bryant
Asia Bryant: To be honest, it was kinda surreal. Like, it’s Dr. Dre, but he’s super humble. It’s not like he talks to you like he’s above you. You may meet some artist or producers who kind of have this stuck up attitude. He’s nothing like that. He’s completely humble and talks upon first meeting him and working with him. The very first day we actually did “Just Another Day” with Game. But we sat down, we watched him explain the Straight Outta Compton movie. He talked to us about the scenes and how they happened in real life and then [would] show us the scene. This would be the normal thing when we came to the studio... “Just Another Day” is actually in the movie. Just because I knew what he was feeling, the hook just came. Game did his verse on the side; I didn’t know what The Game was saying, he didn’t know what I was saying. But it matched. It was just crazy.
“Just Another Day” is really about... Like, I’m from the hood, I know a lot of people from the hood. There are things that happened in the hood on a day-to-day basis and it’s just like another regular day. Its something that we go through every day, it's not something that everybody gets a chance to hear or completely see about the real things that happen in Compton or in the hood unless they live there. A lot of people, it's going to touch close to home, because it's going to be something that you felt before. For other people it’s going to be an eye-opening. It’s in the movie and it's going to tie it all together when you see it.
"For The Love Of Money" featuring Jill Scott, Jon Connor and Anderson .Paak
Jon Connor: We was in the studio, me and Cardiak, and we was just going through records—Cardiak, that's my dog by the way, that's my dude—and we was just vibin' out in the studio. And that line, "Say what's up to the broke nigga at the rich party," that line was in my head for a month. I'm like, "Man, I wanna say that, that would be some hard shit to say." And I said it to that record and added my "Whoo" or whatever after it and Dre walked by the studio and was like, "Hey, what's that?" I was like, "This is just something I'm messing around with." [Laughs] He caught me. He sat with the record for like a day, called me up and was like, "Hey man, we might need to finish that." And so we went in and we finished it.
The cool thing about that was that when we were listening to it in the studio, Dre looked at me and was like, "Yo, this is like one of Eazy's last joints." You know what I'm sayin'? Sometimes we look at Dre, Eazy and all of them and look at them as these folk heroes and mythical characters, but at the end of the day Dre and Eazy were best friends. So for me, for Dre to feel like what I was bringing to that record—knowing how he feels about Eazy and how he feels about that song—for him to say, "Yo, let's do this," that meant the world to me. And that joint will always be special for me just because I know about the relationship between Dre and Eazy and how Dre felt about me hopping on that joint.
"Satisfaction" featuring Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosious and King Mez
King Mez: It’s never the fact that I didn’t know that I could [write for Dr. Dre], I just wasn’t adamant about writing for anybody else. Of course there were naysayers and doubters, people like, “Oh man, you’re going to write for Dre, why are you writing for an album that's never going to come out?” I had a bunch of people say that. But come to find out Dre telling me that I inspired him to be in the studio, with my talent and the way that I am. Man... Everything is an honor, man.
"Animals" featuring Anderson .Paak
Anderson .Paak: "Animals" was actually a song I brought to Dre. I had that song written and done. I premiered it in a show and it was during the time when all this stuff was going on with Michael Brown, the riots, and I went in and wrote. I felt like I should do my part to make the soundtrack for the people. And I'm not the most... You know... But I can't help but be affected by what's going on and share my perspective. I'm a musician and I was just sick of it, you know? So I wanted to make something out of it. I wanted to make something true to hip-hop but soulful as fuck. And I'm so proud of that one.
"Medicine Man" featuring Eminem, Candice Pillay and Anderson .Paak
Focus...: That's from the mind of Dem Jointz. He's a beast, and when we put the last part on it... 'Cause Dre was like, "Let's orchestrate it for Em, let's do something different, let's orchestrate it for him." So I just went in with Dem Jointz and just started doing some stuff that's real recognizable for Em. Instead of just keeping it a regular beat, we orchestrated it. Dem Jointz really gave me carte blanche, he was just like, "Go do what you gotta do." He sat there with me and we pieced it all together. We had Curt come in, we had Candice [Pillay] come in to sing some opera parts, so it was really really dope how it organically came together, and how it almost seemed seamless, like we did it on purpose.
Anderson .Paak: "Medicine Man" is a crazy story. That was one... There are always those records that are in danger of not making it and then they end up being one of the best joints on the album. That right there was running the risk of not making the album all the way up until the last day. There was some communication issues with the second verse and Em wasn't sure. Like, they thought he heard the new version but he didn't, and I believe at one point Em wasn't going to be on the record at all. But then he took it upon himself to really go in on that track. And at first, he had inserted an old verse from previous recordings—'cause there's like a vault of recordings—he put in an older version and Dre left it, but there was a bridge they didn't like. So I wrote my little part and I wasn't even sure what they were going to think. That was a process. And when Em finally heard it he was like, "Woah." He loved everything about it. So he wrote that crazy verse.
Candice Pillay: That's my baby right there. I just wanted something that showcased what I want to sound like myself as an artist and what that is is really different to the sound that you hear on the Compton album. The "Medicine Man" record is a far reach from the other songs; it's a little bit more alternative and it's hard sometimes to sell that when everything they're getting is more soulful, so I had to find a way to be on that record. Me and Dre had the idea to sing my vocals with a very sample-sounding hook on his beat and I was really writing about how I felt about the industry and music, life in general and how I was feeling invincible at the time. I was really speaking from the heart on that hook and I went in with a sweet voice, but I had to add some attitude to the record, so Dre loved it.
For the bridge we brought in Anderson .Paak, and he's an amazing vocalist. He got on the beginning of the track and killed it. And then the only person at the time that we thought we [could] put on the record was Marshall, because it sounded like an Eminem record. We didn't have Em in mind when we first made the record, we were just making a record. We knew Eminem was busy working on other stuff, but Dre sent it to him and he loved it and Eminem was the last part of the record.
On The Compton Studio Sessions
BJ The Chicago Kid: Dr. Dre works day in and day out. I work day in and day out on my album and that at the same time, so who knows how many songs were created. When you go, you just go and create. I went every day for a mass amount of time. The vibe was addictive, the rush was addictive and creating with [Dr. Dre] is addictive.
Jon Connor: [There was] a lot of fun energy. When I think about the creative process of this album I just think about having a good time and everybody having a good time and everybody wanting to do their best for Dre. Everybody that worked on the record has so much respect for Dre; the respect is through the roof. So we just wanted to show up, to make sure that we brought all the creative ideas to the table that we might have so that we could make the best possible project on our end, and then for Dre to take everything that we contributed and take it to that next level, it was just like, the energy in the studio was always crazy, always laughs, always fun. And that's how Dre works, man. He wants to feed off energy. It's all about energy, the energy from the people will translate into the music, so if we was gonna have a good time making it, then that mean the people that listen to it are gonna have a good time and enjoy it 'cause we enjoyed it.
Focus...: They were just really creative, man. It's never tedious when you get to do more than just make a beat, you know, we started implementing a lot of live instrumentation, a lot of transitional work. So it was really fun, it was no-holds-barred, we just really went for it. It was really fun, really amazing.
I think a lot of the stuff that's on the album was done in California, but we did save a lot of the beats that we did out in Hawaii and just re-look at them; that's how "One Shot One Kill" made it. It wasn't half and half, it was less than that. California, we really got active when we got back out here.
Cold 187um: It's crazy, because back in the days we had the same vibe and we always had a real passion for detail. And it's funny coming back to the studio with him 20-plus years later and we still had the same vibe. It was heavy. Coming back in the studio with him, it didn't feel like we missed a beat. I think for me it's different than a lot of people. I started in the game with him, so I look at it a lot different. For some people, it may be overwhelming to work with Dre, but for me, it's right where we left off.
Candice Pillay: I actually worked really heavily with Dre for about three to four months. I came in at a time which was great, because Dre was trying to put this together and we kind of moved the process along, I feel like. You know, when you have chemistry with someone in the studio, it's just amazing. We were coming up with great records and concepts and when I first worked with Dre I was working on a completely different song. And the first record that we actually got on the project was "Genocide," which I worked on with Marsha, Kendrick and Dre. The way Dr. Dre works is that he's very instrumental in every part of the recording process. He's a part of the writing, he's a part of the vocal production, the actual production, so we went back and forth every day and every night and it was awesome to take it all in.
Anderson .Paak: What Dre did was let me go off and then go back like, "Yes, no, this is going to work." And when I would do my vocal performance, that's when I got to see why Dre is who he is, because he got such a great vocal performance out of me and he really pushed me. And he really got the dynamics of the soul and the pain of the record. The fire.
Asia Bryant: You get to learn a lot from a legend and someone who’s done a lot in this music industry. Working with him has been amazing. It was scary, especially since you record in the room with him. It’s not like you go in the booth and you hide behind autotune. No, you have to be able to hold your own, you sing. A half-baked artist can’t get in the room and do anything; you have to know what you’re doing. I appreciate that aspect of it, because I’m like sitting in from of him and I’m recording right in the next room. It’s very humbling to have someone of that stature really believe in what you do as an artist. It’s also an all hands on deck thing, everybody in the building or in the entire studio. Everybody is completely capable of doing hits a day. You’re around great company.
King Mez: Man, the creation process was interesting. Honestly, first it was me and Justus and we worked in the studio with Dre most of the time going back and forth. Justus sung on a lot of the hooks. Justus wrote on like, I think, seven to eight songs and I wrote on about 12. So behind Dre I’m like the highest-credited writer on there. We be in the studio and just throwing out ideas.
Cold 187um: It was more like the old days, because Dre, to me, is very strong when it comes to creating, but he does value people with the same type of creative integrity, so that was really cool for me. We want people to understand us down to the intricate details, so we are always very careful because we want the same for each other. I think that's the best part of it, because I grew up being a musician so I understand being open to ideas and receiving constructive criticism and trying new things. And that's really what me and Dre do when we're in the studio: we stay open with each other.
On Being Part of the Compton Album
Candice Pillay: Oh my God. It's something that I didn't really think about 'til very recently, because I just kept on working and working and doing what I have to do to solidify everything. But when I finally realized what was happening... Actually yesterday we went to the Straight Outta Compton premiere and they were playing "Medicine Man" when we walked into the after party, and the DJ was scratching the record. And at that moment I couldn't believe that this was actually happening. It didn't even strike me when I was reading the tracklist or when we were mastering with Dre or even when I heard it on the radio. It's real surreal for me, but it's finally here and I'm super excited.
BJ The Chicago Kid: I just felt like it was another brick to my wall of people understanding what I do. This isn’t the first incredible thing that God has blessed me with to show me that I’m doing the right thing. I’ve done Coachella with Dre, I performed at The Grammys with Usher and James Brown. I’ve done so many crazy things that when things are not crazy, that’s when I’m worried.
Jon Connor: Oh man, just to know that now I'm forever cemented in hip-hop history. Me being a fan of hip-hop first; I never get caught up in the artist thing or anything like that, I just look at it like I started out like everybody else, as a fan of hip-hop, as a fan of Snoop and Dre and Eminem and all of them and the legacy of Dre. So I look at it from two perspectives; I look at it like, as an artist, it's a crazy accomplishment, and as a kid from Flint, Michigan who grew up listening to and trying to imitate Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to now being on Dr. Dre's third and final album, man, there's no feeling that can truly describe it. It's an overwhelming feeling, man.
Focus...: I'm gonna be honest with you: the album coming out is my proudest moment. I think a lot of people try to discount Dre because he's a perfectionist, and as a perfectionist he's not gonna just put out music for the sake of putting out music. So when he made the announcement about Detox and made the announcement about Compton on The Pharmacy, no one could negate the fact that he didn't put it out because he didn't like it. You can't negate that fact. He put out Compton because he loved it. And he felt it. And he would tell us, "I got that feeling, I got that feeling." So for him to put out Compton, that's my proudest moment. For him to put out this whole album is the proudest moment for all of us.
Anderson .Paak: It all just came together. People hearing and seeing that it was really going to happen, people wanted to be a part of the moment.
King Mez: It was an honor to be a part of it and so heavily invested. A lot of people don’t know I wrote 12 of the 15 songs, not including the intro. It’s an honor, man. He works more than anyone in hip-hop music and works harder than anybody in hip-hop music. It's weird to know people who don’t work as hard as him, but he’s way further beyond the average artist. Like, he can chill, he didn’t have to do this album, so that the fact that he’s working harder than everyone is interesting.
Asia Bryant: [Dre is] an extreme perfectionist. One of the things I learned is to just keep going back and making sure you’re completely 100 percent satisfied with your project and you’re completely satisfied with what you’re putting out, because that’s your identity. You’re giving the world a piece of you when you put a project out. So you have to be patient and keep moving forward and keep being positive. It was crazy, because when I did that song, my father got murdered in October. So for a second I was just out of the loop, I didn’t know what was going on. But it takes things like this that bring you back to the light. It makes you feel like, Okay, things I do aren’t in vain. Bad shit happens every day, but so do great things. If you stay positive, believe in God, believe in your craft, you study your craft, do everything you can to go for your dreams—that’s what Dre instilled in a lot of us.
Focus...: Number one, this is the biggest project I've ever been involved in in my whole career. So that being said, it's pretty much overwhelming for each and every one of us that had anything to do with this project because of the magnitude of the project, you know what I'm saying? So right now we're all just kinda tryna figure it out. [Laughs] I don't even know what to say; we're just soaking it in day by day. I'm just really happy that it came together. We have a lot of really great artists—Jon Connor, Mez, Justus, Candice, Marsha—there's so many great people on the album. I'm just really excited that it's out there and that people understand that we've been working and that we haven't just been turning a deaf ear to the people wanting the music.
Cold 187um: It's incredible. One thing I say is that it's important for us to show some kind of unity in hip-hop, especially cats that came up together. And I think that's the most important thing. Dre brought me in to be a part of supposedly his last album, and that's definitely a monumental thing for me, because I started in the game with him. And to be a part of the finale part of his career was just an honor.
Jon Connor: The thing is, everybody that's on this album—me, Candice, Mez, Justus, everybody whose names you see in the credits—it's like all of our baby. We lived with this record. We ate, slept and breathed this record every day when we woke up 'til there was days and nights we were there until the sun came up. I was hearing the record since the day it was conceived, you know? So now that it's out in the world I'm proud of what all of us did as a team, I'm proud of the whole crew. But what it was like every day listening to it in the studio, it was amazing. I feel just like y'all feel when you heard it and I still get the same feeling to this day when I listen to every song. And I'm just proud of everybody and what we all brought to the table.
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Another for you
http://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/9703-the-compton-sessions-how-dr-dre-created-his-comeback/
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Had to login for DRE, DOPE ASS ALBUM “ˇNo manches!”
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good to see that kurupt was actually involved. he wrote talking to my diary 8)
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good to see that kurupt was actually involved. he wrote talking to my diary 8)
Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
Wikipedia says Russell Brown aka this guy : https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195 (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/russell-brown-dj-silk/5a/b9b/195)
Oh, that's DJ Silk who co-produce this song, OK. Thanxx ;)
Actually, it's DJ Silk who co-produce the song with Chocolate.
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No Tracy Lynn Curry?
Dr Dre - "Talking To My Diary" > https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/ (https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/)
slim the mobster wrote this song and does the hook! 8)
Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
song is :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil:
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good to see that kurupt was actually involved. he wrote talking to my diary 8)
And it's good to see Kurupt write some hot music. He's been very hit or miss lately.
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1 Intro
n/a
2 Talk About It
6.5/10 - decent pop cut. Not Dre sound and nothing new. Nicely mixed
3 Genocide
7/10 - the sound transition is crazy from one track to the next. Like the drums. Head nodder. Vocals are all over the place. Kill the grove. Hard to actually get into as a song. Wow. But Dre’s verse is CRAZY. How he even spit like that? Halfway through this becomes really cool.
4 It’s All On Me
7.5/10 - Something soulful now. Sounds very Kendrick influenced. Dre shines again. Fuck. Hittin rewind on this one…Dre actually sounding great. Fuck wasn’t expecting to like this as much.
5 All In A Days Work
6/10 - Nice track transition again. Talky bit is is bull tho. 60’s influence on this one with a neo soul twist. It’s good but over produced. Not really feeling this musically. Not something I’d ever bump.
6 Darkside/Gone
6/10 - Starting to drag as an album. Very over produced. Not very melodic or lyrical. Silly accents on this. Nice to hear Eazy doe. This is one of those ‘throw multiple styles on one cut and see what happens’ tracks. More 60’s sounds. A bit of the old Eminem bass and haunting piano (which I like) but don’t dig the self indulgent feel of the production.
7 Loose Cannons
6.5/10 - Sounds like soundtrack music, Isaac Hayes and prog rock. Shame the vocal effects and off tempo shit ruin any decent flows here. Too much going on. Sounds like something K.Dot would do, but a decent attempt at something different from Dre.
8 Issues
6.5/10 - After the intro beats pretty generic. Cubes pretty nice here. Dre’s ok til the accents come out. Outros nice. Dre puts a lot of touches on the intro and outro then the meat of the track seems less important IMO. Definitely a production led album
9 Deep Water
7/10 - Now this is dope. The sound is pretty fucking awesome. Something thats a coherent song and not just a wall of sound. Could and should be a single. It’s the most ‘next’ sounding track so far.
10 One Shot Kill
7/10 - SNOOOOP!! He sounds awesome except the Kendrick influence on his voice. Beat instruments sound like GKMC era. Still the best Snoop sounded since Kush lol.
11 Just Another Day
5.5/10 - Boring lifeless repetitive beat and song. Generic vocal on the outro.
12 For The Love of Money
6.5/10 - Another GKMC sounding beat. Sounds like the keys from Swimming Pools. Seems everyone is using Kendricks flows these days. Like the background vocals. I like this one. Dre sounds cool here. Definitely like he’s got some life left as a rapper. Generic Top Dawg sounding outré. Shame its nice and melodic but a bit played out now.
13 Satisfiction
5/10 - Terrible tuneless beat. Horrible vocal. Dre rappin like he’s a freshman lol. King Mez is meh. Stick to ghostwriting. Snoops verse sounds cut and pasted from an older track. Fuck this is so off beat lol. Mess of a track. A new musical low for the album. Couldn’t wait for the last bit to end.
14 Animals
5.5/10 - Woa this guy thinks he’s Curtis Mayfield. WOW. Fuck this guy. Garbage. Thank god Dre’s back. Getting better but marginally. Feels like the albums run out of steam. Obviously only yes men round Dre still. WOW I HATE THIS ANDERSON GUY. Just horrible. WTF had no idea it was a Premo beat til the end which never ever happens. Poor effort guys.
15 Medicine Man
7/10 - This is just dope. Really what I wanted to hear. Eminem goes in!! But stays coherent.
16 Talking To My Diary
7.5/10 - Great track. High spot to end the album. And more what I wished the quality of the whole thing had been.
Verdict. This would’ve been incredible as an EP if it was 5 or 6 tracks. It’s a decent effort but comparable to the Aftermath compilation in quality rather than a Dre album. Surprisingly although Genocide wasn’t my favourite track that beat haunted me for a couple days. Let’s get an instro please Dre.
Someone needs to interview Kurupt about 'Talking To My Diary'. Could've been penned years ago. Funny tho, Eminem seems to write his best stuff when he's 'talking' to Dre. Kurupt ghostwrote that track to perfection, and Snoop still sounds the best ever on Dre's stuff. What does that tell you Dre? Get busy with a real solo, coz you've proven you'd still got it on the mic. Dre sounds his best in years now.
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Another for you
http://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/9703-the-compton-sessions-how-dr-dre-created-his-comeback/
Props!
The Compton Sessions: How Dr. Dre Created His Comeback
Last week, we learned that Dr. Dre's Detox, the most labored and rumor-dogged album in commercial rap history, had been given a mercy killing. “I didn’t like it,” Dre declared. “The record, it just wasn’t good.” It was a bracing death for material that had been accumulating in secret for over a decade, but Dre delivered the news calmly, while in the same breath confirming far more surprising information: He had managed to record a new album of original material, and it was called Compton. Not only was Compton not Detox, it was in many ways unlike anything Dre had released in his career: ragged at the edges, steely, and grim.
Talking to the inner circle of musicians who worked most closely with Dre during the heady months in which Compton was made, a common thread emerges: This is definitely not the album Dre had been promising to deliver to the industry for the last 16 years. Instead, it is the late dawning of an idea that seemed to draw direction from everything the leaked Detox tracks were not: It is not relaxed, not clean, not safe. It came together in a blur. Dre’s signature crisp funk is gone, and there is nothing on the album that aims to complement a weed high. Instead, Compton is hulking, sinewy, and defiantly odd. It’s the result of various collaborators—old and young, legendary and unknown—pitching in their talents, all guided by a singular force.
Raleigh rapper King Mez has the most writing credits on Compton besides Dre. He also served as the reference voice for every Dre verse on the album and recorded backing vocals on every track save for one. Mez has as much to do with the industrial-grey tone of Compton anyone (at one point, our interview is interrupted when he gets an impromptu call from Dre himself).
To hear Mez tell it, he was brought in late last year, between the death of Detox and Dre’s decision to press on with his new project. "When I got the opportunity to write for Dre I knew it was a dream come true, but a lot of people were worried for me,” he laughs. “Like, ‘Oh man, you’re going over there to write for that album? So many people have tried and have been unsuccessful.’ But I wasn’t around for the times that he’s been uninspired or whatever—the second I met him, we had chemistry. I knew the album was gonna come out.
“We originally built on older music he had, stuff that sounded like an updated 2001,” Mez adds, referencing Dre’s slick 1999 opus. He’s diplomatic, but there is a distinctive lack of enthusiasm in his voice describing those early tracks, all of which quickly fell by the wayside once Dre enlisted a fresh batch of younger MCs and producers. "The people that came in really changed the sound of the album,” Mez says.
According to the rapper, the turning point came when DJ Dahi, the Inglewood producer responsible for Drake’s “Worst Behavior” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Money Trees”, submitted the clattering beat for what would become the album’s fanfare, “Talk About It”. “That’s one of the more right now-sounding records on the album,” Mez observes. "I think it really changed Dre’s perspective. Before that, we had a different intro that was really big, and it sounded good, but we all decided it wasn’t right for the album."
When DJ Dahi first sent over the beat that became “Talk About It”, it was without much hope: Dre’s camp had been collecting music for years, all of it eventually dying on the broken-dreams heap of Detox. “I didn’t think anything of it,” says Dahi. “He hadn’t done anything in 16 years, and a lot of people had been working with him, so I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t meet Dre until much later, and then I asked him what the project was, and he just said, ‘It’s not The Chronic and it’s not 2001.’”
The final version of “Talk About It” begins with Mez bleating “I don’t give one fuck” in a strangled voice that sets the record’s hectic pace. Mez co-wrote most of Dre’s verses with the producer’s 25-year-old protégé Justus, including Dre’s own “Talk About It” salvo. “Justus was like, 'Man, we gotta come in and say something outrageous. It’s gotta be like buying the state of California or something,'” Mez remembers. “He was joking, but I was like, 'That actually should be it.’ So I went in, rapped the cadence, and we came up with the next eight to 10 bars before we presented it to Dre. It ended up being the first verse he rapped on a solo record since 2001."
Dahi says that watching Dre was an education in surgical adjustments. “When I think about Dre’s music, I think of these really vivid colors—his tracks always feel like a movie, you know?” he says. "I feel like so much of his music happens in mixing. It’s almost not fair. He has his own way of tweaking a beat. You give him anything, and he finds a way to make it hit differently, and you say, ‘Oh, that’s some dope shit.' It’s his ear."
For “Talk About It”, Dahi paid close attention to those tweaks and says the changes were subtle but profound: “The kick and snare were so much further up than I would have put them; the snare and kick are the motor of hip-hop records, and Dre’s really good at finding that motor so that everything else falls into place behind it."
Another new recruit who became integral to the album was producer Dem Jointz; though he has worked with R&B acts like Boyz II Men and longtime Dre collaborator Marsha Ambrosius, in hip-hop, he is an unknown quantity. He ended up producing “Genocide” and “Medicine Man”, co-producing “Deep Water" and “Satisfaction”, and contributing additional background vocals to seven other tracks.
Jointz says Dre never offered an overarching perspective for the album. “It’s crazy how it all comes together like he’s telling a specific story, but it wasn’t like it was planned,” he says. “He didn’t get into detail as to what kind of record he was looking for.” Dem was in the studio for the bulk of the album’s creation, and he has his own impressions of the project: “We’ve heard Dre go outside of the box before Compton, but it was usually only for a song or two. What I like about this album is that he stepped all the way outside of the box. And he stayed out."
Jointz brought the basic track for “Genocide", and Dre suggested adding a sample of the deep synth that opens the Gap Band’s “Burn Rubber on Me”—but not that song’s actual groove. The off-kilter addition galvanizes the beat, turning all of its clanking parts into one loud, fearsome roar. And then there is the song’s disorienting scat breakdown, which Jointz says was all Dre.
"We were trying to figure out a point where ‘Genocide’ was switching off into some other shit—and this was even before Kendrick got on the album—but [Dre] wanted to go into some jazzy, a capella shit,” Jointz remembers. “He had me go in and do a little beat-box swing and then arranged all the voices and told everyone what to do. After we were finished, no one could make that shit fit with the song. But he kept at it, because he saw it. It’s the moment where that song becomes a movie.”
It’s this approach—gather together an exploding roomful of talent, coax them into performing to your exacting standards, and then corral them into a neat frame with your name on top—that has become the working method of choice for anyone hoping to claim Dre’s spot. The rap-album-as-talent-showcase is Dre’s model, and on Compton, he demonstrates that he still has the ability to hear unheard brilliance in the work of others.
“What Phil Jackson is to basketball, that’s what he is to talent and music,” says Mez. “The way he utilized us, it almost felt like, ‘Oh, so this guy can do this.’ It made me change my perspective on what I can create.” Talking about recording reference tracks for Dre to rap over, Mez marvels, “He coached my voice into sounding like what he wanted his voice to sound like on every song. It was like method acting, in a way: You put yourself in the perspective of someone else for an elongated period of time. So much so that when it was time to start working on my own music again, it was weird for a little while. I had to get out of that mindset.”
The complicated symbiotic relationship between Mez’s words and Dre’s words—and how those words sound on record—illuminates what a fascinating, non-binary dance so-called ghostwriting can be. In most accounts of Dre’s history as a rapper, he is a vehicle, willingly steered by others. But Mez says they were both driving forces pursuing some larger idea or concept. “Every time I’d record, he’d say, ‘Say it more like this,’ or ‘Say it more like that,’” he remembers. “In his mind, he’s imagining what he’s going to sound like, but he’s getting me to do it first. I’m telling you, I did thousands of takes for that record. We went over nearly every word. The line on 'Deep Water' that goes 'These niggas won’t let up until they all wet up' is like a just-offbeat, stutter-type rap. We must have went over that 100 times at his beach house.”
“I watched him work the boards old-school style,” says New York hip-hop vet DJ Premier, who collaborated with Dre on the pained “Animals”. “He’s got ProTools hooked up, but he’s still on the Control 24 board, turning the knobs, working each fader by hand. A lot of kids now don’t do that; everything is just a mouse and a computer screen. I’m like, ‘You still plugged into that? I haven’t used this since ‘98!’”
Earlier this year, Premier flew out to L.A. to work with Christina Aguilera and stopped by Dre’s studio, bringing with him a sample of a record he’d found on a recent crate-digging trip to Moscow: “He heard it and was like, 'Yo, I need that.'” Premier and Dre were acquaintances, but they hadn’t spoken in over a decade and had never worked together. The track Premier brought had originally been recorded for a different project, and had his crisp, minimalist signature, which Dre began to populate with details.
“He added some singers in the background and brought in his man Bluetooth, who’s a piano player, bass player, singer, drummer, all kinds of shit,” says Premier. “There were certain chords I didn’t want, and Dre was cool with it if I said, ‘Hey, that’s a little too much on that part.’ He respects honesty. I like that it wasn’t overdone. He didn’t smother it.
“Dre recently asked me about the difference between a producer and a beat maker,” Premier adds. “For me, it’s like film: You can shoot all the footage you want, but it’s all about the edit, the final outcome, when the world gets it. That’s what makes you a producer. That’s what Dre does."
Jayson Greene, Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/9703-the-compton-sessions-how-dr-dre-created-his-comeback/)
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Now that I've listened to this for quite some time, here's what I would "fix" to improve the album:
1. I think the album could be vastly improved by replacing all the choruses
Some of them are so forgettable that I don't even realize a chorus has started, and others are just kinda annoying/generic/radio pop/EDM/R&B.
2. Have less singers and more rappers
Eg. "Animals" is cool, but it would have been great to hear people like Lady of Rage and Royce go in and kill that beat instead of turning a Primo banger into an R&B song.
3. More variety of rap voices/styles
It seems everyone rapping is putting on the same voice and the same style and it's not a particular interesting style - it's like, "angry frenetic rapper" style/voice.
What was so great on Dre's previous stuff was how many different voices and rapping styles he got on it for variety.
4. Either have complex raps on simpler beats ...OR... simpler raps on complex beats
There are lots of frenetic raps on frenetic beats at the moment - sometimes it sounds like a big jumble and makes it hard to concentrate on the rapping.
Could either simplify some of the beats or simplify some of the raps.
5. Some of the best beats are really short - make them into full tracks to replace weaker beats
Eg. the middle part of "Loose Cannons" could be its own song and "Just Another Day" should be a full track with other rappers included on it, a better chorus, etc.
Then remove tracks like "For The Love of Money", "Satisfaction", etc.
I think once you've fixed all the choruses (is there even one really good chorus on the whole album?) and parts of the rapping, then some of the tracks that weren't so good could be really good. Some of the beats should be removed entirely, but there are at least 6-7 very good beats here.
Eg. "Talk About It" could actually be a very dope track with a better chorus and rapping, the beat itself is reasonably dope (maybe remove the trap hi-hats though)
Imagine if RBX was doing the chorus and Dre and Cube were doing back-and-forth lines on it...
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No Tracy Lynn Curry?
Dr Dre - "Talking To My Diary" > https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/ (https://instagram.com/p/6F6C5HH7h2/)
slim the mobster wrote this song and does the hook! 8)
Fav track off Compton...and I also see that Mario "Chocolate" Johnson is there and Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown seems to be also credited.
song is :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil: :firedevil:
Talking To My Diary perhaps, one of my favorite Dr Dre songs, really. What a song for closing to a career... "Damn, I miss that... Shit, a nigga having flashbacks"
Actually, that's the song, the sound I was waitin for since 2001. It's not a bad album, yeah Compton rather sounds "polished" as a Dr Dre album and there's some interesting things but this song is fire. Damn, this is a Dr Dre solo song. And I'm glad he didn't release his Detox project.
Oh and yes, this Dre/Primo Animals is dope, really. And when i hear Anderson .Paak here, he sounds great, without any fuckin modern vocals effect, one of the reasons I didn't listen to "rap" anymore now.
I have to admit Compton sounds good, not the best West Coast album of all the time but Dr Dre & Co. did good job and it seems that the doctor was "inspired" by his film, perhpas, but also by (his/make) music. But, there's tons of things which are just kinda annoying but it's like modern Rap/RnB ish we can (or kids want to) hear now, but it's not Dre's. Honorable mention for One Shot One Kill and this brand new version of For The Love Of Money (how many times I could listen to the Yomo/Maulkie/Jewell one ? ahah).
(http://www.greenroom.fr/wp-content/uploads/cache/2015/08/dreeee/3004880784.png)
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After a few listens, I can honestly and objectively say that this album is great, and definitely a satisfying end to Dre's epic career as an artist. The album is perfectly produced and sequenced. I'm sure it'll take many fans some time to get used to Dre's new sound; but even if some don't see how this can be revolutionary, peeps have become SO critical (if you took individual song from both Chronics today, they'd be like "that song was aiight..not Dre's best...etc. coz seldom do young fans today consider sequencing and LPs as a whole), but, most will respect the creativity.... especially coming from a 50 year old billionaire legend who's given us sooo much that he didn't need to release a new record. The expectations for everything Dre does is unreasonably heavy (especially after "2001")- practically impossible to please everyone, especially after so many years anticipating his third and final lp. But I can easily see this being labeled as a masterpiece ultimately...and eventually...a classic. Plus we finally got a joint Dre/Primo beat! :laugh:
If I were to be nit-picky, I guess I'd like to have more songs, mainly from artists he's worked with throughout his career like The D.O.C., NWA, DPG, Rage, Mary J., Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Bishop Lamont, Knoc Turnal, an unreleased Nate Dogg verse, 50 Cent, Stat Quo, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Truth Hurts, King T, Last Emperor, KRS...etc. As a fan of Aftermath and their musical partnership- I could've used one more epic collab with Slim Shady (like on the level of "What's The Difference") as well as Snoop that has a nostalgic feel- much as how "The Wash" payed homage to "G-Thang" like "The Last Episode" type track. It also would've been cool if he got his 3 main proteges on a single (Snoop, Eminem, Bishop/now K. Dot)- basically the Robin's to his Batman from all 3 eras (Chronic-2001-Compton). However, I'm happy he put all those newcomers in the spotlight (respect).
It would've also been nice if he released this as a double album with his best DETOX materiel...or at least a bonus EP/mix-tape. A DVD would be a nice companion to this record, too (featuring a documentary with interviews from people all over the music world, legendary Hip Hop producers like Primo, RZA, Quick...etc., and rappers he's worked with...etc.).
Overall? I love this album 8)
Thanks Andre
I suppose now is an ok time to finally reveal this:
When Dre was still working on DETOX (when KUSH was released, and Bishop was still signed to Aftermath and planned to be Dre's next big/main protoge), Dre had planned to release a DVD with the album that contained a mini-movie...the theme or story involved Dre in a rehab facility working on the 12-step program...Snoop, Eminem, and Bishop would play main supporting roles, and many other artists would have cameo roles). I was told the film/story would be a little comical, but epic in a way.
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After a few listens, I can honestly and objectively say that this album is great, and definitely a satisfying end to Dre's epic career as an artist. The album is perfectly produced and sequenced. I'm sure it'll take many fans some time to get used to Dre's new sound; but even if some don't see how this can be revolutionary, peeps have become SO critical (if you took individual song from both Chronics today, they'd be like "that song was aiight..not Dre's best...etc. coz seldom do young fans today consider sequencing and LPs as a whole), but, most will respect the creativity.... especially coming from a 50 year old billionaire legend who's given us sooo much that he didn't need to release a new record. The expectations for everything Dre does is unreasonably heavy (especially after "2001")- practically impossible to please everyone, especially after so many years anticipating his third and final lp. But I can easily see this being labeled as a masterpiece ultimately...and eventually...a classic. Plus we finally got a joint Dre/Primo beat! :laugh:
If I were to be nit-picky, I guess I'd like to have more songs, mainly from artists he's worked with throughout his career like The D.O.C., NWA, DPG, Rage, Mary J., Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Bishop Lamont, Knoc Turnal, an unreleased Nate Dogg verse, 50 Cent, Stat Quo, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Truth Hurts, King T, Last Emperor, KRS...etc. As a fan of Aftermath and their musical partnership- I could've used one more epic collab with Slim Shady (like on the level of "What's The Difference") as well as Snoop that has a nostalgic feel- much as how "The Wash" payed homage to "G-Thang" like "The Last Episode" type track. It also would've been cool if he got his 3 main proteges on a single (Snoop, Eminem, Bishop/now K. Dot)- basically the Robin's to his Batman from all 3 eras (Chronic-2001-Compton). However, I'm happy he put all those newcomers in the spotlight (respect).
It would've also been nice if he released this as a double album with his best DETOX materiel...or at least a bonus EP/mix-tape. A DVD would be a nice companion to this record, too (featuring a documentary with interviews from people all over the music world, legendary Hip Hop producers like Primo, RZA, Quick...etc., and rappers he's worked with...etc.).
Overall? I love this album 8)
Thanks Andre
I suppose now is an ok time to finally reveal this:
When Dre was still working on DETOX (when KUSH was released, and Bishop was still signed to Aftermath and planned to be Dre's next big/main protoge), Dre had planned to release a DVD with the album that contained a mini-movie...the theme or story involved Dre in a rehab facility working on the 12-step program...Snoop, Eminem, and Bishop would play main supporting roles, and many other artists would have cameo roles). I was told the film/story would be a little comical, but epic in a way.
WHERED U GET THIS FROM?
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After a few listens, I can honestly and objectively say that this album is great, and definitely a satisfying end to Dre's epic career as an artist. The album is perfectly produced and sequenced. I'm sure it'll take many fans some time to get used to Dre's new sound; but even if some don't see how this can be revolutionary, peeps have become SO critical (if you took individual song from both Chronics today, they'd be like "that song was aiight..not Dre's best...etc. coz seldom do young fans today consider sequencing and LPs as a whole), but, most will respect the creativity.... especially coming from a 50 year old billionaire legend who's given us sooo much that he didn't need to release a new record. The expectations for everything Dre does is unreasonably heavy (especially after "2001")- practically impossible to please everyone, especially after so many years anticipating his third and final lp. But I can easily see this being labeled as a masterpiece ultimately...and eventually...a classic. Plus we finally got a joint Dre/Primo beat! :laugh:
If I were to be nit-picky, I guess I'd like to have more songs, mainly from artists he's worked with throughout his career like The D.O.C., NWA, DPG, Rage, Mary J., Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Bishop Lamont, Knoc Turnal, an unreleased Nate Dogg verse, 50 Cent, Stat Quo, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Truth Hurts, King T, Last Emperor, KRS...etc. As a fan of Aftermath and their musical partnership- I could've used one more epic collab with Slim Shady (like on the level of "What's The Difference") as well as Snoop that has a nostalgic feel- much as how "The Wash" payed homage to "G-Thang" like "The Last Episode" type track. It also would've been cool if he got his 3 main proteges on a single (Snoop, Eminem, Bishop/now K. Dot)- basically the Robin's to his Batman from all 3 eras (Chronic-2001-Compton). However, I'm happy he put all those newcomers in the spotlight (respect).
It would've also been nice if he released this as a double album with his best DETOX materiel...or at least a bonus EP/mix-tape. A DVD would be a nice companion to this record, too (featuring a documentary with interviews from people all over the music world, legendary Hip Hop producers like Primo, RZA, Quick...etc., and rappers he's worked with...etc.).
Overall? I love this album 8)
Thanks Andre
I suppose now is an ok time to finally reveal this:
When Dre was still working on DETOX (when KUSH was released, and Bishop was still signed to Aftermath and planned to be Dre's next big/main protoge), Dre had planned to release a DVD with the album that contained a mini-movie...the theme or story involved Dre in a rehab facility working on the 12-step program...Snoop, Eminem, and Bishop would play main supporting roles, and many other artists would have cameo roles). I was told the film/story would be a little comical, but epic in a way.
WHERED U GET THIS FROM?
I have connects with Aftermath/Interscope and Bishop...
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It's not Ricardo Brown (Kurupt) who co-wrote "Talking To My Diary", but Russell Brown.
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album is dope, i like it a lot
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a 24-bit FLAC copy direct from the label is out there...if peeps wanna get their high resolution listen on 8)
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After a few listens, I can honestly and objectively say that this album is great, and definitely a satisfying end to Dre's epic career as an artist. The album is perfectly produced and sequenced. I'm sure it'll take many fans some time to get used to Dre's new sound; but even if some don't see how this can be revolutionary, peeps have become SO critical (if you took individual song from both Chronics today, they'd be like "that song was aiight..not Dre's best...etc. coz seldom do young fans today consider sequencing and LPs as a whole), but, most will respect the creativity.... especially coming from a 50 year old billionaire legend who's given us sooo much that he didn't need to release a new record. The expectations for everything Dre does is unreasonably heavy (especially after "2001")- practically impossible to please everyone, especially after so many years anticipating his third and final lp. But I can easily see this being labeled as a masterpiece ultimately...and eventually...a classic. Plus we finally got a joint Dre/Primo beat! :laugh:
If I were to be nit-picky, I guess I'd like to have more songs, mainly from artists he's worked with throughout his career like The D.O.C., NWA, DPG, Rage, Mary J., Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Bishop Lamont, Knoc Turnal, an unreleased Nate Dogg verse, 50 Cent, Stat Quo, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Truth Hurts, King T, Last Emperor, KRS...etc. As a fan of Aftermath and their musical partnership- I could've used one more epic collab with Slim Shady (like on the level of "What's The Difference") as well as Snoop that has a nostalgic feel- much as how "The Wash" payed homage to "G-Thang" like "The Last Episode" type track. It also would've been cool if he got his 3 main proteges on a single (Snoop, Eminem, Bishop/now K. Dot)- basically the Robin's to his Batman from all 3 eras (Chronic-2001-Compton). However, I'm happy he put all those newcomers in the spotlight (respect).
It would've also been nice if he released this as a double album with his best DETOX materiel...or at least a bonus EP/mix-tape. A DVD would be a nice companion to this record, too (featuring a documentary with interviews from people all over the music world, legendary Hip Hop producers like Primo, RZA, Quick...etc., and rappers he's worked with...etc.).
Overall? I love this album 8)
Thanks Andre
I suppose now is an ok time to finally reveal this:
When Dre was still working on DETOX (when KUSH was released, and Bishop was still signed to Aftermath and planned to be Dre's next big/main protoge), Dre had planned to release a DVD with the album that contained a mini-movie...the theme or story involved Dre in a rehab facility working on the 12-step program...Snoop, Eminem, and Bishop would play main supporting roles, and many other artists would have cameo roles). I was told the film/story would be a little comical, but epic in a way.
WHERED U GET THIS FROM?
I have connects with Aftermath/Interscope and Bishop...
Wasn't Denzell Washington supposed to be the main character on the skits?
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Wasn't Denzell Washington supposed to be the main character on the skits?
One of the original plans for Detox was for him to narrate.
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too much ghostwritin?
ni99a please. we talkin but a dre album. there can NOT be enough ghostwritin.
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
ABSOLUTELY the Kendrick sounding tracks. The only song which is chilled that you can ride to, or at least the only song you'd expect from old school Dr Dre, is It's All on Me. That's a really good song, but everything else has that "aggressive rapping" on "digital" beats.
u dont like it then ride around to some old ass dre shit so people can laugh at your irrelevant ass :D
I find it absolutely bizarre that we are on a westcoast rap forum and you'd suggest that someone should be laughed at for listening to some old Dr Dre tracks.
There's probably more Drake fans than DJ Quik fans on this site. A shame.
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oops my bad on the R Brown thing. thought it was kurupt. wishful thinking 8)
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
ABSOLUTELY the Kendrick sounding tracks. The only song which is chilled that you can ride to, or at least the only song you'd expect from old school Dr Dre, is It's All on Me. That's a really good song, but everything else has that "aggressive rapping" on "digital" beats.
u dont like it then ride around to some old ass dre shit so people can laugh at your irrelevant ass :D
I find it absolutely bizarre that we are on a westcoast rap forum and you'd suggest that someone should be laughed at for listening to some old Dr Dre tracks.
There's probably more Drake fans than DJ Quik fans on this site. A shame.
Real talk.
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The thing I don't like about Kendrick is he either sounds like an alien or an angry dweeb yapping over the track. I am seeing a lot of t of posts aibout aggressive flows etc. am I going to hear a bunch of Kendrick sounding tracks or something you can chill and ride to? Ps I haven't listened to anything yet, waiting for Friday.
ABSOLUTELY the Kendrick sounding tracks. The only song which is chilled that you can ride to, or at least the only song you'd expect from old school Dr Dre, is It's All on Me. That's a really good song, but everything else has that "aggressive rapping" on "digital" beats.
u dont like it then ride around to some old ass dre shit so people can laugh at your irrelevant ass :D
I find it absolutely bizarre that we are on a westcoast rap forum and you'd suggest that someone should be laughed at for listening to some old Dr Dre tracks.
There's probably more Drake fans than DJ Quik fans on this site. A shame.
Props!
A 50 year-old man trying to sound like a 25 year old man( Kendrick )
Bizarre
And people like it, and defending it.
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This album is a bloated mess...Waaay too much yelling , R and B , and stop and go beats...keep.it simple...FUHQ this album
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
MFs just posting anything and not even close to being correct...smh!
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Rap is the only genre' where non-musicians attempt to break down an album made by actual musicians! GTFOH!!
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This album is a major dissapointment...all those hot tracks in the vault and he releases this shit smh.
Always knew dre had to be around the right people to make hot tracks.
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After a couple listens..fuck this album!
1. I can hardly tell who the fuck is who. Dre sounds NOTHING like his usual self. Dude has a sick voice but this album he decided to use all kinds of nasty flows and weird yelling and shit.
2. May Anderson .Paak, King Mez, and Justus all burn in hell together. I wasn't a fan of Bishop or Slim AT ALL but those two make these new guys look like fuckin Rakim and Krs. Terrible writers for Dre.
3. Waaay too much singing and extended hooks.
4. We get 2 Snoop collabos (or as I call them - safety nets cuz those two are Batman & Robin) - 1 Snoop completely rips it and Dre's not even on the fuckin song. And the other is instantly one of the worst songs in Dre's catalogue. Wtf? These guys just made Kush a few years ago, how'd things get this bad so fast?
5. The Hutch/Xzibit track...why is this like 4 fuckin snippets being sold as 1 song? The beat X rapped over was insane - stick to that one!
6. We FINALLY get a Dre/Cube collabo and it sounds like background music for Monster Truck Madness 97
7. Sorry if I sound stuck in the past but...where are the usual suspects?! There had to have been Nate Dogg material leftover that he could've used. No Kurupt? No DOC? A Dr. Dre album is NOT a Dr. Dre album without those 4 (including Snoop). Plus is this muthafucka ever going to record a song with Warren G like his fans have been begging for for decades? Plus how do you do an album called Compton with no Quik?
3-4 songs worth talking about. Fuck this album. This nigga owes us a Detox more than ever now.
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Some are grateful, some are complaining, some are making comparisons of this album compared to Dre's older work. If you don't like it just move on, no one's opinion will magically change this album, i for one enjoy this album and not because I'm a Dre fan, I'm a fan of real music, this album is better than 90% of the crap that's out but yet people complain. Even if this album is or isnt a masterpiece someone will find a reason to complain about something. Some complain about a 50 year old shouldn't be rapping like he's 25 but want the Dre from the Deathrow or chronic 2001 days SMH, does that make any sense? You want the the old sound from an older man but don't want the older man to sound young Lol, I want to see one of u guys come out with an album at 50 and see what the world has to say about it, but since the world doesn't know who u are there would be nothing to talk about
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Just heard the track "All In a Day’s Work". I was like WTF, is this Dre rapping?!?!? Hate it when he does a different voice or flow. Old voice and flow from the 90's was so much nicer. And the track was nice but didn't make me go :o
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how do you do an album called Compton with no Quik?
You don't see me moaning about mc eiht and so many other compton artists, but anyway Who cares man just move on.
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Limited edition?
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I like this cover.
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Limited edition?
don't know, it's cool though, could be fan made, found it online
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Yeah, surely fan made. Good cover.
(https://holidayhd.link/pics/hollywood-hills/full-at-night-6593de02e6979db9ca7c1aa0d52d50e0-small-21095.jpg)
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Ok, so I was expecting to buy this cd this weekend, however am a bit confused. How the fuck do I get a copy of this lp?
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Its a good album & there are a few standout tracks but they're not classic material. To tell the truth I really don't expect anything classic from Dre anymore so maybe thats why I like the album for what it is. But it is unfortunate that Dre changed his voice & style of rapping. It's like he wanted to spit like Kendrick. Actually all of the guest features sound like Kendrick :-\
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Its a good album & there are a few standout tracks but they're not classic material. To tell the truth I really don't expect anything classic from Dre anymore so maybe thats why I like the album for what it is. But it is unfortunate that Dre changed his voice & style of rapping. It's like he wanted to spit like Kendrick. Actually all of the guest features sound like Kendrick :-\
Yeah thats one of the main problems, I already can't get into kendrick himself and his rapping stlyle but almost everyone here doing a cheap imitation of him is just too much
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After a week of listening to this album back to back, the more I listen the better it is for me.
The tracks I like from first Listen, just gets better.
Still don't like the second track, that's it.
It's all on me
All in a day's work
Darkside/gone (I want an extended version of Darkside 🔥)
Deep waters
One shot one kill
For the love of money
Animal
Medicine man
Talking to my diary
I just can't get enough of these tracks.
Finally an album I can listen to, top to bottom without getting bored of it.
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i see a lot people dont like how dre rappin on this, to me its dope that at his age he still experimentin and tryin different things, music is still fun to him
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Ok, so I was expecting to buy this cd this weekend, however am a bit confused. How the fuck do I get a copy of this lp?
Comes out 21st
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Full credits now up!!!!
https://www.drdre.com/music
Click on the tracks
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after at least 20 times listening from beginning to end. i have something to say about it.
1. “intro” .......................4/5
cool intro
2. “talk about it” (feat. king mez & justus)..........................3/5
ordinary song.
3. “genocide” (feat. kendrick lamar, marsha ambrosius & candice pillay)........................2/5
weakest link of album.
4. “ıt’s all on me” (feat. justus & bj the chicago kid)..........................4.5/5
finally a good song. especially piano and strings on 2nd verse makes it sounds like a dr. dre song. very good chorus
5. “all ın a day’s work” (feat. anderson paak & marsha ambrosius)..........................5/5
honestly i love this song, definately my favorite on album. but verse bridge chorus, they are all so mixed and confusing. if they could mix it and sing it like a usual song (intro-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus-outro) and add some other instruments, it would bang. musically, it sounds perfect but so simple. we really want something to bang and drives us crazy right? this should be the first single of the album and could be succesful as much as still d.r.e. something is missing, can't describe, anyway, i love this song. anderson .paak did a great job.
6. “darkside/gone” (feat. king mez, marsha ambrosius & kendrick lamar)...........................5/5(darkside) - 4.5/5(gone)
"darkside" part>>> holly shit. darkside starts very impressive, dr. dre start to rap and bring the level higher, i was so excited to hear snares on it and chorus begin and felt like it will be the hit of album, then suddenly it ends and "gone" part begins. they wasted a good song. i don't know why. they wasted such a good beat.
"gone" part>>> that shit sounds like aftermath. very usual dr. dre beat. piano, strings, drums, bass. we miss it but its not a classic. very good song. one of the best song on the album.
7. “loose cannons” (feat. xzibit & cold 187um)..........................3.5/5
another stupid way of mixing. 3 different beats in one song without chorus. they really wasted it. especially xzibit part rocks!
8. “issues” (feat. ıce cube & anderson paak)..........................2/5
very surprised to hear turkish sample in the beginning. but beat is so wack. very simple leads, bad drums, bad rap. one of the other weakest link of the album.
9. “deep water” (feat. kendrick lamar & justus)...........................4/5
normally i'm not a fan of this kinda mainstream hip-hop songs. it sounds like it belongs to a kendrick album. but it makes u listen it when you begin to listen. there is smth catchy. trumpets on outro is very nice also.
10. “one shot one kill” – jon connor (feat. snoop dogg)..........................5/5
one of my favorites on the album. snoop reminds us who is the king of the west coast one more time. he really killed this shit on this song. very catchy giutar loop. i can say this shit is a banger. at least one of xzibit, dr. dre or eminem could rap on it and that would be a hip-hop classic.
11. “just another day” – the game (feat. asia bryant).........................3.5/5
game raps like he is a west coast legend on it. i really loved the way he raps on this beat. but sadly i have to say its very simple beat. however no chorus, another stupid mix again. we cant even call it a song. why the fuck they dont mix a song like a song should be. unnecessary song and wasted space for album.
12. “for the love of money” (feat. jill scott & jon connor)..........................3.5/5
i'm not a fan of bone thugs' music. but outro is very nice.
13. “satisfiction” (feat. snoop dogg, marsha ambrosius & king mez)
i'm expectig a video for this song. that doesn't sound like dre. to me very simple song, dre could do better, but with a good marketing, this song can take a high place in lists.
14. “animals” (feat. anderson paak).........................5/5
my second favorite on the album after "all in a day's work". this shit is really banging. you can guess its a primo beat when you hear it first, dre added impressive strings and leads on it, mixed it perfectly and anderson .paak did his job very good again. it will be a classic for real hip-hop fans. no doubt.
15. “medicine man” (feat. eminem, candice pillay & anderson paak)..........................4.5/5
i hateded this song when i listened to it first. because i was expecting something great from doc and em. this is unfortunately another mainstream experiment by dr. dre. im not a fan of it. i prefer to hear finished version of "die hard" song. after a few listenings i started to like it anyway. very catchy chorus. eminem raise the level like he did on forget about dre and doctor help him to raise it with orchestrating the beat.
16. “talking to my diary”..............................5/5
i'm surprised nobody mentioned that it's the one and only dr. dre solo song in his career :) nobody is featuring, its unbelievable :) anyway, this shit is what we expected from dr. dre. everybody loved this song on the album and everybody said that it sounds like detox. maybe these comments will change doctor's mind about releasing detox or not. what a nice outro and ending for album.
i'm afraid to say it's overall 3,5/5 for me. because dre just did this album for marketing of straight outta compton movie. it's something huge for industry that doctor releases and album after 16 years. and it's name is compton a soundtrack to let everybody know straight outta compton movie will be in theaters soon. go watch it people.
dr. dre didn't do this album for his career. he was doing detox for his music career and he didn't find it good enough. but this album is enough to let everybody know doc is back and he is making a movie about his nwa legacy. thats all. he says its his grand finale. i wish he will concentrate to make an hip-hop classic again. not for the money, not for the movie, not for the earphones. i still got too much love for him. whatever, he is back with an album, it's good to hear him. peace!
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Full credits now updated on The Vault:
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
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Full credits now up!!!!
https://www.drdre.com/music
Click on the tracks
dre keepin it bashful
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Full credits now up!!!!
https://www.drdre.com/music
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fredwreck played keys on loose cannons and medicine man. good info.
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slim back on aftermath, xzibit too wish dre had the ability to write his own rhymes at least for compton. Depressin havin ghotwriters writing about eazy for him!!
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
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Full credits now up!!!!
https://www.drdre.com/music
Click on the tracks
Major props bro
This is something digital music never gets in detail. I think normally people don't care who makes the music!
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
That's what I'm sayin
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how do you do an album called Compton with no Quik?
You don't see me moaning about mc eiht and so many other compton artists, but anyway Who cares man just move on.
Well we're on a music message board to discuss music so...
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i like the game track. he's rappin' a little bit like in his jt the bigga figga days, don't you think?
not so sure about the chorus. the chick sounds a little too much like rihanna to me
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
In my opinion a true producer makes the beat and mixes the records.. just mixing the record..? That can be done by DJs as well.
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
In my opinion a true producer makes the beat and mixes the records.. just mixing the record..? That can be done by DJs as well.
The thing is, "mixing" to Dr Dre doesn't seem to be mixing in the normal sense, where they hand the beat to a mixing engineer to fix EQ, compression, etc.
Dr Dre will have the bass line replayed, drum sounds changed, samples replayed, adding new melody lines, etc. etc. and then EQ it in a way that is totally unique to Dr Dre... and then will just call that "mixing"...
It's like in the Dubcnn interview with Snoop where he says even though on the Dogg Food album Dre is listed as just "mixing" tracks, Dre actually came in and added loads of stuff...
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
In my opinion a true producer makes the beat and mixes the records.. just mixing the record..? That can be done by DJs as well.
Just because you can do a beat, doesnt mean u can produce a song. Producing is not only the beat making
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Damn, so that means since 1999 we've had two Dre produced albums: 2001 and Relapse.
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Peoducer and beatmaker are two diferent worlds. Im suprised you dont know that.
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
In my opinion a true producer makes the beat and mixes the records.. just mixing the record..? That can be done by DJs as well.
No, the beat is the easy part.. The producer arranges the entire track, from the vocals to the beat layering and everything in between. Dre is a true produced in every sense of the word. Only in hip hop is a producer known as solely a beat maker. Beats like Kush sounded completely different when they were first submitted to Dre, and Khalil himself said that. Dre should get 95% of the credit on anything he touches.
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Damn, so that means since 1999 we've had two Dre produced albums: 2001 and Relapse.
No that's the thing .. Dre produced this album just as much as he did them two, he's simply bein generous wit the credits thru all the complaints over the years
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You guys act as if making the beat and also producing the song would be unheard of or something.
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You guys act as if making the beat and also producing the song would be unheard of or something.
It's not unheard of, but it's two different things. Dre makes beats as well, but refomulating someone else's beat and getting the absolute best out of it is also classed as producing.
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Not sure if this has been posted as I haven't read all 18 pages on this thread, but check this out: Ice Cube has more tracks with Dre
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/14/ice-cube-dr-dre-unreleased-music
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Not sure if this has been posted as I haven't read all 18 pages on this thread, but check this out: Ice Cube has more tracks with Dre
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/14/ice-cube-dr-dre-unreleased-music
👍🏽 Nice One
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Ice Cube: He has a lot of musicians and MCs and people floating around. But when it’s time to work, he just clears out the studio. It’s just me, him, and the engineer. It’s all about making sure your voice can do everything he wants it to do. Because the way you hear a rhyme, he might hear it a different way. You really want to be produced by him so you want to give it to him his way.
Probably nobody is surprised to hear he’s a perfectionist.
If you give it to him his way, he makes the magic from there. If you give it to him your way—I’m not saying he won’t make magic with it—but it’ll always have those flaws that hinder him from maybe even using the record.
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PRODUCER
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Kind of sucks to find out that he did not produce much on the album. All though he was involved with a good amount of tracks it was probably just DRE putting some final touches/sound to the beats.
The album is awesome but I am just wondering if we will ever really see Dr.Dre Produced Tracks moving forward where he is the head producer and someone else is co producing alongdise him (IE- Storch, Elizondo, Parker & Etc) but I guess hes got so much money/other things going that he really doesn't have to....
I agree with the comment prior on the thread the real Dre Produced albums look to be 2001 & Relapse... Even through Dre mixed this album and touched up a few tracks not the same as the other albums.
All good though- Album still bangs and has been on Repeat!
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Kind of sucks to find out that he did not produce much on the album. All though he was involved with a good amount of tracks it was probably just DRE putting some final touches/sound to the beats.
The album is awesome but I am just wondering if we will ever really see Dr.Dre Produced Tracks moving forward where he is the head producer and someone else is co producing alongdise him (IE- Storch, Elizondo, Parker & Etc) but I guess hes got so much money/other things going that he really doesn't have to....
I agree with the comment prior on the thread the real Dre Produced albums look to be 2001 & Relapse... Even through Dre mixed this album and touched up a few tracks not the same as the other albums.
All good though- Album still bangs and has been on Repeat!
it's more than "putting final touches/sounds"....dre literally sits in the studio with the artists and beatmakers guiding them through every step of the way. he did just as much on this album as any other album he ever put out. credits are just given out differently nowadays, but go watch the NWA movie to see wha Dre does in the studio, and understand how that's the actual definition of a producer.
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^Co-sign.
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I'm really liking the album even more after each listen and like others said discovering a new track that I'm loving. At the moment it's "Deep Water" (Kendrick kills each song he's on)
The only complaints I have is that there is no Dre & Snoop song going back and forth same with Dre & Em. I'd also would of liked more verses and less long singing hooks.
King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001. I would of rather heard Kurupt replace him on a few tracks if Dre could of got the best out of him (judging by the other guests I'm sure he could of)
Justus is pointless, is that him singing on the hooks?
I was disappointed that there was no digital booklet after I bought this from iTunes. Excellent album though that gets better after every listen 8)
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^ LOL I was thinking the same thing, JUSTUS name all over it but I cant pick out 1 part that I care about. Is he not the whiteboy rapper? what happened to that guy?
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King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001.
Really? I think he's well on his way to becoming the next Hittman.
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
I see Dre listed as a producer on over half of the album. But what do I know, I just read the credits. Not a math major, but producing on 9 songs might equal to a little bit more than "didn't produce 1 beat on it"
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King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001.
Really? I think he's well on his way to becoming the next Hittman.
haha, that's funny to me
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dr dre's final album and he didn't produce 1 beat on it
what a joke
He actually did "produce" the records. The reason he has been listing the stuff as other's stuff, is because he got tired of people saying he didn't produce it when in all truthfulness, most people just brought the beat and are egotistical bastards. But people really think all these other cats produced the record for Dre, when really all they did was bring a beat, Dre touched it up like a true producer, hence the mixing credits.
In my opinion a true producer makes the beat and mixes the records.. just mixing the record..? That can be done by DJs as well.
Welp, I guess Quincy Jones, arguably one of the greatest producers of all time, didn't produce one of the greatest/best selling albums ever with Thriller which he didn't play a single note on but is listed as the producer. By your definition he didn't produce shit but those who know music and know the real definition of a producer, know he produced the shit outta that record & worked damn hard. Same applies to Dr. Dre
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Saw the movie, agree.. Not saying he is not involved with the production but it's just not like it was back in the day.. in all reality, he does not need to be as involved as he once was.. The album is heat regardless
Kind of sucks to find out that he did not produce much on the album. All though he was involved with a good amount of tracks it was probably just DRE putting some final touches/sound to the beats.
The album is awesome but I am just wondering if we will ever really see Dr.Dre Produced Tracks moving forward where he is the head producer and someone else is co producing alongdise him (IE- Storch, Elizondo, Parker & Etc) but I guess hes got so much money/other things going that he really doesn't have to....
I agree with the comment prior on the thread the real Dre Produced albums look to be 2001 & Relapse... Even through Dre mixed this album and touched up a few tracks not the same as the other albums.
All good though- Album still bangs and has been on Repeat!
it's more than "putting final touches/sounds"....dre literally sits in the studio with the artists and beatmakers guiding them through every step of the way. he did just as much on this album as any other album he ever put out. credits are just given out differently nowadays, but go watch the NWA movie to see wha Dre does in the studio, and understand how that's the actual definition of a producer.
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Saw the movie, agree.. Not saying he is not involved with the production but it's just not like it was back in the day.. in all reality, he does not need to be as involved as he once was.. The album is heat regardlessKind of sucks to find out that he did not produce much on the album. All though he was involved with a good amount of tracks it was probably just DRE putting some final touches/sound to the beats.
The album is awesome but I am just wondering if we will ever really see Dr.Dre Produced Tracks moving forward where he is the head producer and someone else is co producing alongdise him (IE- Storch, Elizondo, Parker & Etc) but I guess hes got so much money/other things going that he really doesn't have to....
I agree with the comment prior on the thread the real Dre Produced albums look to be 2001 & Relapse... Even through Dre mixed this album and touched up a few tracks not the same as the other albums.
All good though- Album still bangs and has been on Repeat!
it's more than "putting final touches/sounds"....dre literally sits in the studio with the artists and beatmakers guiding them through every step of the way. he did just as much on this album as any other album he ever put out. credits are just given out differently nowadays, but go watch the NWA movie to see wha Dre does in the studio, and understand how that's the actual definition of a producer.
I think at this stage of his career, Dre is more of a teacher and he's working with young producers on what to hear. Like when listening to Premo, they both seem to agree on what a producer is. In the old Death Row days, Daz made it sound like him and Warren G did the whole thing when they simply brought the samples and Dre mixed it. Cutting up samples is not the producers job, but Warren and Daz learnt something doing that, but Daz made it sound like he's the producer. What Dre does is put it all together and he "Produces" a song. He takes a bunch of parts that his crew works on, and he produces a song out of it. He is the one cat who makes it all fit. In hip-hop, Kanye, Timbo and Premo are the other cats I'd say are truly producers. I know that there is a lot of production teams, Trackmasters, N.E.R.D., Beats by the Pound in the old days, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz. And these groups produce songs as a collective, and that's great. But Dre, Kanye, Timbo and Premo just have that ear that no one else can replicate, and they are that final say in what goes on a track. They are masters of their craft and it's why they are celebrated.
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Saw the movie, agree.. Not saying he is not involved with the production but it's just not like it was back in the day.. in all reality, he does not need to be as involved as he once was.. The album is heat regardlessKind of sucks to find out that he did not produce much on the album. All though he was involved with a good amount of tracks it was probably just DRE putting some final touches/sound to the beats.
The album is awesome but I am just wondering if we will ever really see Dr.Dre Produced Tracks moving forward where he is the head producer and someone else is co producing alongdise him (IE- Storch, Elizondo, Parker & Etc) but I guess hes got so much money/other things going that he really doesn't have to....
I agree with the comment prior on the thread the real Dre Produced albums look to be 2001 & Relapse... Even through Dre mixed this album and touched up a few tracks not the same as the other albums.
All good though- Album still bangs and has been on Repeat!
it's more than "putting final touches/sounds"....dre literally sits in the studio with the artists and beatmakers guiding them through every step of the way. he did just as much on this album as any other album he ever put out. credits are just given out differently nowadays, but go watch the NWA movie to see wha Dre does in the studio, and understand how that's the actual definition of a producer.
But he is
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Just remember what DJ Khalil said about KUSH.
Dre produced them pretty much...
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it's not jordan on the wizards, it's shaq on the heat.......not at his best, but still championship material.
At this point I would have to agree with you. I mean the album is pretty spectacular. Definitely classic, championship material. It's just too early for me to tell though if it is as great as The Chronic or even as great as 2001. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't... but most definitely a classic.. this shit is fuckin bangin.
And it is probably Dre's best performance ever behind the mic. I mean... Eminem used to write and record reference vocals in tired, tired, O.G. verses, but these young ficcaz that Dre is fuccin wit now got him spittin in a style I would've never expected Dre to do, like emotional, and singing and all the speed changes. I never liked that style till I heard Dre do it... now I'm interested in hearing more from these young cats like King Mez, Justus, Kendrick and the other dudes that updated Dre's style.
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King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001.
Really? I think he's well on his way to becoming the next Hittman.
haha, that's funny to me
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it's not jordan on the wizards, it's shaq on the heat.......not at his best, but still championship material.
At this point I would have to agree with you. I mean the album is pretty spectacular. Definitely classic, championship material. It's just too early for me to tell though if it is as great as The Chronic or even as great as 2001. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't... but most definitely a classic.. this shit is fuckin bangin.
And it is probably Dre's best performance ever behind the mic. I mean... Eminem used to write and record reference vocals in tired, tired, O.G. verses, but these young ficcaz that Dre is fuccin wit now got him spittin in a style I would've never expected Dre to do, like emotional, and singing and all the speed changes. I never liked that style till I heard Dre do it... now I'm interested in hearing more from these young cats like King Mez, Justus, Kendrick and the other dudes that updated Dre's style.
yea, and all these cats who are choppin and doin the fast-paced switch-up raps are influenced by tech n9ne.....it all comes full circle
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we cakin off this one!!!!
whoa the .flac edition on a solid sound system sounds incredible...much richer sound then the initial copy i downloaded.
first time ive ever noticed a huge difference. theres some magic in the mixing for real.
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have the scans or a type up of the rolling stone article been posted here?
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on talking to my diary, Dr Dre raps exatly like Slim the Mobster . Slim on the chorus. I think it was originally written by Slim . favorite track with deep waters !
8/10 good album . 3 or 4 dope songs . i like it better than 2001 :o
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Full Credits for Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Are Available
1. Intro [Andre Young, B. Edwards Jr & D. Winslow]
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, D. Natche, Michael McHenry, A.J. Baptiste-Caselle, R. Buendia & K. EDWARDS]
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, Candice Pillay, M. Ambrosius, S. Jordan & D. Abernathy Jr.]
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) [Andre Young, J. Mohrle, M. Ricks II & R. Harrell III]
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle, K. Abdul Rahman, D. Natche & D. Tannenbaum]
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, T. Cannon, C. Balmoris, J. Nixon, K. Duckworth, M. Ambrosius, J. Mohrle & D. Norman]
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) [Andre Young, A. Joiner, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr. & A. Brissett]
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson Paak & Dem Jointz) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, T. Lawrence Jr., C. Chambers & T. Feemster]
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak & Justus) [Andre Young, K. Duckworth, M. Ricks II, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, B. Edwards Jr, C. McCormick, D. Natche & D. Abernathy Jr.]
10. Jon Connor – One Shot One Kill (feat. Snoop Dogg) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., Candice Pillay, B. Edwards Jr & T. Lawrence Jr.]
11. The Game – Just Another Day (feat. Asia Bryant) [Asia Bryant, Andre Young, J. Taylor, S. Benton, T. Lawrence Jr. & T. Feemster]
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Anderson Paak & Jon Connor) [Andre Young, J. Freeman Jr., M. Ricks II, B. Anderson, J. Mohrle & C. McCormick]
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) [Andre Young, M. Ricks II, M. Ambrosius & D. Abernathy Jr.]
14. Animals (feat. Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, S. Jordan, C. Martin & D. Semenov]
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak) [Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Candice Pillay, J. Mohrle, B. Anderson, M. Ricks II, D. Abernathy Jr., B. Edwards Jr & C. Chambers]
16. Talking To My Diary [Andre Young, A. Johnson, M. Johnson & R. Brown]
shit! cube 's rhyme is not written by him? snoop's two raps are not written by himself? that's weak!
This has been discussed/analyzed here for some days now: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
where?!
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https://www.drdre.com/store/compton-vinyl only 40$ :)
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40$???
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40$???
sounds about right for vinyl
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A very solid album comin from nowhere.
all in a day's works is dope !!
One shot one kill is amazing
Deep Water IS ON ANOTHA LEVEL !
I m just waitin' for a Kendrick Lamar album with that type of production.
Well done Doc
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:laugh: the myth.
it sure is different from dre's past work, it was expected that Dre would switch up his sound eventually, but this needs some time for me to make up my mind.
silly to copy the south on the first song.
anyway, i think Dre's vocals sound weird at times. this happened before when Kendrick wrote for him.
too bad Bishop Lamont is not featured on this, although this was expected after he left the label.
i noticed Mark Batson & Dawaun Parker are missing, they had a nice sound with Dre
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Agree, It's going to be interesting to see how this album is ranked/viewed 5-10 years from now. The album is growing on me with more and more spins... The production was pretty good, sonically advanced, different from typical Dre Production we are use to hearing. Wonder how Dre's beats will sound on the Documentary 2Ehh....people are being way to harsh on this album while being way too kind on Dre's first two solo albums.
I'm 40 years old. While I confess to not being a die hard hip-hop fan - infact my main musical love is electronic music - I've been around for a long ass time. I was 13 when Straight Outta Compton came out, 17 when The Chronic dropped, 24 when 2001 came out.
People are acting like The Chronic just came out of the blue and changed everything up. It did to a certain extent, but it really wasn't a totally new sound. It was more of an evolvement of the Efil4zaggin sound. Tracks like The Day The Niggaz Took Over, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, A Nigga With A Gun, etc could just as easily have been on Evil4zaggin. And have people forgot about "Always Into Something" from Efil4zaggin?? That is the Chronic sound right there!
People are acting like everybody loved Still D.R.E. and 2001 as soon as they hit. They didn't. Infact, lots of people were very disappointed in Still D.R.E. Remember that this was the hugely anticipated comeback of the biggest producer in rap and Still D.R.E. initially did almost nothing. Just compare the mainstream chart positions:
Billboard Hot 100:
Nuthin' But A G Thang: #2
Dre Day: #8
Let Me Ride: #34
Keep Their Heads Ringin: #10
Still D.R.E.: #93
#93??? The BIG Dr.Dre comeback single barely scratched the billboard top 100. I couldn't believe it myself at the time, since I loved the track. But what about the album? The most anticipated album in hip-hop, the follow-up to the legendary The Chronic? It didn't make #1, but stalled at #2.
Now time changed all of that. "Forgot About Dre" and "The Next Episode" were hits and "Still D.R.E." was a slow-burner that evolved into a classic. "2001" hung around the charts forever and ended up selling 7˝ million copies in the US alone.
Also, while 2001 made Dr.Dre hot again, the sound itself was an evolvement of the mid-nineties Dre sound that was found on tracks like California Love (piano-led beat), Keep Their Heads Ringin, Been There Done That, etc. Yes, it was even more sparse, but don't act like 2001 was a totally new sound, because it wasn't.
The Chronic and 2001 have stood the test of time and are universally regarded as classics, whether the same will be said about "Compton" in 10 years time is anybodys guess, but it is a very capable effort.
yall should have read murder dogs review from 2001 release. they talked about that album like it was the biggest waste of an album ever made. said it was all eastcoast.
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After spending the last week listening to nothing but this album ... Deep Water is my favourite track. Just insane - so much going on there not even gonna bother. At first the "surface level" favourites were Its All On Me and Talking to My Diary. Still.. my top 3.
Incredible album.
Edit - the horns on this album are nuts. Horns on Deep Water remind of some guy blowing a trumpet from The Good The Bad and The Ugly. That's the old west style maybe Dre got yall fools for saying its not west coast ;)
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listen to it in cd quality on a 5.1 surround and hear it all over again for the first time.
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I personally will bump this to eternity. Really looking forward to getting my hands on a good FLAC copy.
My minor gripe is the fact that it may not have a Dre signature sound throughout in the way other albums of his have. Particularly, the ones he's 100% produced (From Relapse all the way back to NWA And The Posse.) Dre's signature all over this particular record is how clean and how well it all flows. How well mixed it is. But not necessarily the beat selection and his having defined a new sound, or style.
I'm very appreciative he put this out, though, is the bottom line. Love it
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
someone sounds out of touch
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
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yea, and all these cats who are choppin and doin the fast-paced switch-up raps are influenced by tech n9ne.....it all comes full circle
Maybe Tech was doing a similar style but I think you could just as easily say that Bone was doing it before Tech was doing it. Still... I wasn't thinking Tech at all when I first played this new Dre album. I was actually thinking of a lot of Cash Money type dudes I don't like—ficcaz like Rae Shermond or Young Thug. I thought it borrowed from them... the reason I say that is Tech 9 never mumbles or talks ignorant and shit in his raps, and neither do Bone... but listen to the way rhymes are mumbled on Dre's Compton album, like there is a line....
"I'm the black Eminem
I'm the humbler 50..."
Listen to the way those lines are spit they are like mumbled almost, and under normal circumstances it would come off ignorant to me. But these aren't normal circumstances because this is a Dre album, so he blended and updated all those styles, flows, and lyrics into some classic shit. When I get around to it I will check out more King Mez and Justus and Paak and cats like that to figure out exactly where the influence is from.
silly to copy the south on the first song.
That bugged me the fuck out on first listen when that song came in.... The way Dre comes in on that shit, and your like in disbelief that it is actually Dre... that was some crazy shock value that Dre loves to achieve when he can on an album... it reminded me of the shock value when I first heard Eminem yelling on a track like "The Way I Am" when it first leaked...
When that opening joint drops the line.... "I JUST BOUGHT CALIFORNIA!!!" That shit hits hard as fuck!!!
...I think it will grow on you dawg
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
if you cant adapt dont talk shit bout the album when clearly ur the problem :D
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King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001.
Really? I think he's well on his way to becoming the next Hittman.
haha, that's funny to me
If King Mez keeps believing in himself and stays on his grind he may just one day also never release an album and fade into obscurity, only if he stays focused though ;)
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King Mez doesn't do much for me and falls short of replacing the role Hittman had on 2001.
Really? I think he's well on his way to becoming the next Hittman.
haha, that's funny to me
If King Mez keeps believing in himself and stays on his grind he may just one day also never release an album and fade into obscurity, only if he stays focused though ;)
LOL
For me, Compton has some of the problems 2001 had, as far as the rapping goes...
At the time just before the release of 2001, Dre had just been pushing anti-violence stuff like "Been There, Done That" and the Aftermath tagline was
"we don't set trip, we set trends" and so a lot of people were waiting on 2001 to come with some new fresh content...
But when it came out, a lot of the rapping felt like a tired rehash of gangsta cliches (though I know for younger fans at the time all that stuff probably seemed
new and fresh and cool if you hadn't heard it before), and so it was like super-dope beats but with generic rapping.
Seems the same with Compton - some of these beats would come across a lot better with some really interesting voices and rapping on them, some of the vocals
seem to just be whoever happened to be in the studio at the time.
Like if you read the interviews that came out recently, it's like, "then Anderson .Paak was working with Premier and he happened to be in the studio and so he
recorded vocals for like 5 tracks on Compton".
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discussed the album with about 5 of my best friends, all are feeling it and all are feeling different tracks. Genocide seems to be getting mad love. My personal fav! futuristic funk! Interestingly, a couple comments on the skits being out of place and unneccesary.
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https://www.youtube.com/v/arw-LSW8EGw
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Watching that now. I am not surprised Myke C-Town was hating it... LOL
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
I'm not adapting to this trash. Beats are great. Rapping sucks bad. Yea I'm 30 and grew up listening to it. All you little boys don't know real rap music. If you did, you would know this album sucks bad. Not just sucks bad, sucks so bad it's in the trash with my 5 other buddies copies. I'm not the only one. Read ITunes. It's was 2.5 stars and dropping. I'm just real and ain't nut riding weed head that can't add 1+1. I understand the hard work put into the beats but the rapping is horrible. Period. My opinion and I've listened to more west coast shit then a lot of cats. We had tape decks and shit when you weren't even a sperm cell. Then your dad forgot to pull out and created you. Sad.
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Ehh..I'm 40 and I love this album. Easily album of the year for me so far.
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I just can't take Dre serious when he raps in another flow or voice. Sounds so unnatural, weird, forced and awkward. I said it bout 8 years ago. He should only try to be original and creative with the music, not with his rapping.
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I'm 30 also and this shit bangs!!! I dont even listen to songs at a time...its been start to finish each time lol
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What's age got to do with this?
I'm over 30 and love the album.
Well put together, there's nothing to hate about it.
If you don't like it, fair enough, what's the point of trying convince people.
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What's age got to do with this?
I'm over 30 and love the album.
Well put together, there's nothing to hate about it.
If you don't like it, fair enough, what's the point of trying convince people.
to me, point of trying convince people is we shouldnt reduce our expectations.
if we can honestly say compton album is not good enoguh, dr. dre or any other rappers and producers will try for better, try for a classic. not an ordinary album like compton.
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
I'm not adapting to this trash. Beats are great. Rapping sucks bad. Yea I'm 30 and grew up listening to it. All you little boys don't know real rap music. If you did, you would know this album sucks bad. Not just sucks bad, sucks so bad it's in the trash with my 5 other buddies copies. I'm not the only one. Read ITunes. It's was 2.5 stars and dropping. I'm just real and ain't nut riding weed head that can't add 1+1. I understand the hard work put into the beats but the rapping is horrible. Period. My opinion and I've listened to more west coast shit then a lot of cats. We had tape decks and shit when you weren't even a sperm cell. Then your dad forgot to pull out and created you. Sad.
who cares :D
just move on keep listing to your old shit then gets boring quick doesn't it
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i respect doublee313, he was one of the first cats to fux wit lamb when we started out. but this album is based around production, and the production is impeccable.
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Not for me this album
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The real test for how classic this album is to see if in 23 years a character from the album is a write in candidate for President in the state of North Carolina
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/19/presidential-candidate-deez-nuts-does-not-exist.html
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The more I listen to this the more it grows up on me. I didn't hated it at it very start, what I expected I got eventually. You can't expect Dre to have same flow as he had 15 years ago. Time changes so did he and I'm glad he did. Nobody wants that G-Funk era album now in 2015 you need to underestand that. It's another crowd another time and I don't know why did everybody here expected it to be like it was 2001. Dre gave us something we waited for so long and now we need to hate it because it doesn't have every Compton artist or any rapper who said Compton in it's song. Yeah Quik did hell a lot for Compton, but Dre had another vision and I can't say I'm glad, but I'm happy with final product. I hope we'll hear that "Hey Young World" song in future or that song with Eminem and Xzibit.
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The real test for how classic this album is to see if in 23 years a character from the album is a write in candidate for President in the state of North Carolina
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/19/presidential-candidate-deez-nuts-does-not-exist.html
Best troll ever
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The more I listen to this the more it grows up on me. I didn't hated it at it very start, what I expected I got eventually. You can't expect Dre to have same flow as he had 15 years ago. Time changes so did he and I'm glad he did. Nobody wants that G-Funk era album now in 2015 you need to underestand that. It's another crowd another time and I don't know why did everybody here expected it to be like it was 2001. Dre gave us something we waited for so long and now we need to hate it because it doesn't have every Compton artist or any rapper who said Compton in it's song. Yeah Quik did hell a lot for Compton, but Dre had another vision and I can't say I'm glad, but I'm happy with final product. I hope we'll hear that "Hey Young World" song in future or that song with Eminem and Xzibit.
and if u want the g-funk era album in 2015, go cop that warren g....shits dope too
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I'm not adapting to this trash. Beats are great. Rapping sucks bad. Yea I'm 30 and grew up listening to it. All you little boys don't know real rap music. If you did, you would know this album sucks bad. Not just sucks bad, sucks so bad it's in the trash with my 5 other buddies copies. I'm not the only one. Read ITunes. It's was 2.5 stars and dropping. I'm just real and ain't nut riding weed head that can't add 1+1. I understand the hard work put into the beats but the rapping is horrible. Period. My opinion and I've listened to more west coast shit then a lot of cats. We had tape decks and shit when you weren't even a sperm cell. Then your dad forgot to pull out and created you. Sad.
4/5 on iTunes. You ain't gotta lie to kick it.
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Anyone have the 24bit flac label source version?
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Digital Booklet :
https://www.drdre.com/system/files/DR%20DRE_COMPTON%20DIGITAL%20BOOK-EDITED.pdf (https://www.drdre.com/system/files/DR%20DRE_COMPTON%20DIGITAL%20BOOK-EDITED.pdf)
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album of the summer most definitely
and possibly of the year but we'll have to wait and see if Scarface takes that title on September 4th 8)
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
I'm not adapting to this trash. Beats are great. Rapping sucks bad. Yea I'm 30 and grew up listening to it. All you little boys don't know real rap music. If you did, you would know this album sucks bad. Not just sucks bad, sucks so bad it's in the trash with my 5 other buddies copies. I'm not the only one. Read ITunes. It's was 2.5 stars and dropping. I'm just real and ain't nut riding weed head that can't add 1+1. I understand the hard work put into the beats but the rapping is horrible. Period. My opinion and I've listened to more west coast shit then a lot of cats. We had tape decks and shit when you weren't even a sperm cell. Then your dad forgot to pull out and created you. Sad.
you are an ignorant slut.
the reason the ratings were low is because 15 yr old kids dont understand the hype around this flick and soundtrack and your 30 something ass needs to understand this also, this movie and album is creating a new hip hop template for legends to get back in the game and eat you should be more appreciative. (read: over 30 rappers and groups) there may be an NWA tour and you know your bitch ass would go. ingrate peasant.
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streams are up...here we go
(http://i.imgur.com/z2EA2Gm.jpg)
Production/writer credits in here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
1. Intro
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper)
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz)
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak)
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens)
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak)
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak)
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak)
16. Talking To My Diary
I listened to it and threw in into my recycle bin. Pure trash. Dre raps horrible and he wasn't good to begin with. I'll get the instrumental album if it's released. If you enjoy it great, but from a guy that grew up listing to NWA when it was released in highschool, this is his WORST work. The DOC said earlier that Dre was messing up when he first left him. I see what he was saying. I guess this is the new generations Westcoast flow.
That's the truth from me and 5 friends. Sad. Album is getting bad reviews on ITunes. I bought it from Amazon and dumped it 3 days after trying hard to listen.
Before all you dudes start bitching about this post, just remember it's my opinion. Better then The Chronic and 2001? Some of you guys are smoking to much. EPIC? Serious? Smoke more.
i was about to say calm this groupie ass nigga down...
you might as well have typed this : "look guys im 30 something and i cant adapt to new music im going to go listen to doggystyle and remember the best days of my life..."
you came out defensive like a motherfucker in your post so dont get mad im playing offensively. you asked for this kind of reply basically.
I'm not adapting to this trash. Beats are great. Rapping sucks bad. Yea I'm 30 and grew up listening to it. All you little boys don't know real rap music. If you did, you would know this album sucks bad. Not just sucks bad, sucks so bad it's in the trash with my 5 other buddies copies. I'm not the only one. Read ITunes. It's was 2.5 stars and dropping. I'm just real and ain't nut riding weed head that can't add 1+1. I understand the hard work put into the beats but the rapping is horrible. Period. My opinion and I've listened to more west coast shit then a lot of cats. We had tape decks and shit when you weren't even a sperm cell. Then your dad forgot to pull out and created you. Sad.
you are an ignorant slut.
the reason the ratings were low is because 15 yr old kids dont understand the hype around this flick and soundtrack and your 30 something ass needs to understand this also, this movie and album is creating a new hip hop template for legends to get back in the game and eat you should be more appreciative. (read: over 30 rappers and groups) there may be an NWA tour and you know your bitch ass would go. ingrate peasant.
ur an ignorant euro who doesn't know when its over the album is not intended for washed up rappers to come back lol thanks for the laugh tho
nobody wants to buy no washed up shit its highlighting current rappers and singers and of course dres production
nwa tour what a joke and u know dre wants no part of that :D so whats left cube and the rest lol
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Digital Booklet :
https://www.drdre.com/system/files/DR%20DRE_COMPTON%20DIGITAL%20BOOK-EDITED.pdf (https://www.drdre.com/system/files/DR%20DRE_COMPTON%20DIGITAL%20BOOK-EDITED.pdf)
Props my N
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So its comin out on cd too.
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I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
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I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
For me it's not his vocal sound, it's the drop off of quality
Like if Kedrick ghost wrote GKMC for Dre and he rapped on it and called it his album, that would be something of comparable quality to Chronic/2001 and still be contemporary. This just ain't close to as good an album.
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I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
For me it's not his vocal sound, it's the drop off of quality
Like if Kedrick ghost wrote GKMC for Dre and he rapped on it and called it his album, that would be something of comparable quality to Chronic/2001 and still be contemporary. This just ain't close to as good an album.
Okay, so when Dre dropped Straight Outta Compton, it was a new sound. The Chronic was a new sound. 2000 was a new sound. Compton is not quite the game changing sound. It's new for Dr. Dre, but it's a sound that's been out. I'm not saying that's a bad thing mind you, it's just a new sound.
The album with a game changing sound this year was actually To Pimp a Butterfly, but after reading so many people's take on it now, it wasn't exactly many people on this board's cup of tea. I think they prefer that gangsta shit. So really, I don't see how Dr. Dre could change the game again with this new album. I think instead of trying to change the game, which is why Detox failed, he simply went with what he was feeling at the time musically. He worked with writers and producers he wanted to work with and just put out music he was feeling instead of putting pressure on himself to change the game yet again.
In all honestly, he's 50 years old. He's at the stage of his career he doesn't need to change the game yet again. It's up to these young kids to change the game. The only game changing producer we've had in the last 15 years since 2001 is Kanye West, and he's done it twice. But it's not up to Dre, it's up to these young cats. So with that in mind, it's not important if he changed the game or what he did. As long as it's good music.
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I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
For me it's not his vocal sound, it's the drop off of quality
Like if Kedrick ghost wrote GKMC for Dre and he rapped on it and called it his album, that would be something of comparable quality to Chronic/2001 and still be contemporary. This just ain't close to as good an album.
this is better than gkmc
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I dont understand people here. Acting like they aint folow dre's carriere. When he drop cronic that shit sound completley different than any work with nwa, than 2001 sound completley different than cronic. Every Dre album has a new sound. cronic stuck up west coast sound for years, same with 2001 and compton will do the same thing.
For me it's not his vocal sound, it's the drop off of quality
Like if Kedrick ghost wrote GKMC for Dre and he rapped on it and called it his album, that would be something of comparable quality to Chronic/2001 and still be contemporary. This just ain't close to as good an album.
this is better than gkmc
I kind of argue music wise. GKMC was great because of Kendrick's bars, but musically it didn't really make sense. It was sort of all over the place. Compton musically was way better than GKMC.
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
To me that doesn't matter. Dre is a producer. And people forget what a producer is. Since hip-hop comes from sampling and one man studios in garages, we think of that one man listening to music all day, sampling what he heard and making tracks with a rapper. The reality is that since the 90's, producers really work in a team of people. Dr. Dre had a whole team of musicians playing instruments for 2001, Kanye has tons of people scrambling around grabbing samples. It doesn't take away from what they do because now the music sounds so much better. You can tell the quality has increased from the Chronic to now. And as long as the quality is up, then all these people working on an album now is great for music.
I actually LOVE reading the credits and seeing who does what. I really like to see that, because reading the credits is how I usually know who might be next to do something. Like in the early 2000's, Kanye West always seemed to appear on my favorite songs credits. In 2004, when people heard Kanye I told him, that's the next to blow up, and he did. Death Row, reading the credits you knew who was next. Many musicians from 2001 went on to have somewhat successful careers. But all these people working on an album take nothing away from Dr. Dre.
Dr. Dre is a producer in the purest sense of the word. He has people scrambling around, gathering samples, playing instruments, and just gathering sounds for him to use. Dre then grabs all of this and mixes it into a sound. He has an idea of what direction he wants the song to go. Many "producers" now are just beat makers who work all day making beats and they just let a rapper spit over it and there is no type of direction. A true producer gives the artist direction. They see the song. Dre is that. Everyone around him gathers everything, they play music, they write lyrics, and at the end of the day Dr. Dre puts it all together in his vision. He "produces" a song.
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Looks like the CD dropped today in the UK
http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/compton?_ga=1.8025204.711516639.1440193136
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
it only tarnishes his legacy to retards....thats the stuff greatness is made of. teamwork. dre is like phil jackson.
people who try to do it all on their own dont get these kinda results
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i respect doublee313, he was one of the first cats to fux wit lamb when we started out. but this album is based around production, and the production is impeccable.
Thanks. Like I said I like the production, but I just can't adapt to the change in his rapping. I still have the LAMB album in my ride. I was honest with you on my opinion and you replied with a respectful answer on your stuff. Your album grew on me, now if you go and change your rapping I might not like it. I honestly didn't know it was Dre rapping at first.. Like I said he wasn't the best rapper on his last 2 solo albums, but this is just wacky rapping TO ME. I still bump both his previous solos and would buy the Instrumental of Compton.
I'm not trying to argue or debate. Just an honest opinion. I'm not the only one on here that didn't like it. If you like it great. I'm not butt hurt if you do.
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Okay, so when Dre dropped Straight Outta Compton, it was a new sound. The Chronic was a new sound. 2000 was a new sound. Compton is not quite the game changing sound. It's new for Dr. Dre, but it's a sound that's been out. I'm not saying that's a bad thing mind you, it's just a new sound.
Come on MDogg... I mean, does Dre have to do a whole nother genre for you to consider it a new sound? I mean how drastic does the shift in sound need to be? Sure Dre borrowed a bit from the styles that are out there today, but the same could be said for any of the other albums. Like 2001 borrowed from the shit that Eminem had been doing, and the Chronic borrowed from the shit that Above The Law or George Clinton had been doing, and I was too young when NWA came out but I'm sure some of those sounds and styles were around.
It would be impossible (or anything on this earth) to be totally new. The proverb says "nothing new under the sun". But.... for all intensive purposes COMPTON is a new, fresh, updated, and trendsetting sound that has never been around before. And anyone who wants to deny that is being overly critical.
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
Just shut up wigger. You gotta be a bad ass and know music because you lived in Chicago and detroit? I was born in Detroit but ain't gotta drop that shit to prove I'm a bad ass. It's wiggers like you that I used to step on cuz you talk shit but I see right thru your ass. Your a joke man. Be yourself you goofy looking bastard. Lol. This is a Westcoast album you dumb ass.
Somehow I knew Petey would come out with a ridiculous take like this one on the new Dre album. And this is your dude of the last few years, right Sccit? Think about that one for a minute cuzz...
...And the ultimate counter argument has always been, that if Dre isn't the real genius behind all this, then how come nobody is ever as great after Dre leaves the building? Ask producers Yella, Daz, and Mel-Man what they been doing since Dre left the building? Even the new rappers like Paak, Justus, Mez, Kendrick, they sound their best on COMPTON. And whatever producers Dre fucked with on this, I ain't ever heard their shit bang like it does on COMPTON. Dre is the conductor wit da midas touch, and many have tried but have never been able to fade Dre cause Dre is a nicca dat can't be faded!!!
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Looks like the CD dropped today in the UK
http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/compton?_ga=1.8025204.711516639.1440193136
Yep, I bought it yesterday after avoiding it at every cost for the past 2 weeks and listened to it for the first time in one sitting.
A few observations at the moment:
- This doesn't sound like a Dr. Dre album, let alone a west-coast album. Now that can be interpreted as both good and bad. Good in the sense that it's a modern and new sound for Dre, showing that he's setting a trend yet again for the overall production and direction of albums, but bad in a sense that, going on my first couple of listens, it's almost as if this could be anyone's album due to the sheer number of guests all over the album, popping up every 30 seconds or so which can sound a bit overwhelming at times;
- Why has Dr. Dre changed his rapping voice and flow so drastically? Why?! He's been rapping for nearly 30 years now, and was always immediately identifiable on a track owing to his strong, commanding voice, but on here he sounds so different to before that it's almost off-putting. That's not to say he's gotten worse, it's just that he (and a couple of other guests on the album) are trying to sound too much like Kendrick Lamar and it sounds a bit unnatural for them to do this;
- There doesn't appear to be any standout tracks on here, in the way that 'G Thang' and 'Still D.R.E' were on the previous efforts. Will listeners be able to recite the lyrics to certain tracks word-for-word in a few years time? Will any of the songs transfer to radio and into popular culture? It feels like there are no quotables on here, no real standout lyrics;
- Anderson .Paak, Justus, King Mez and Jon Connor are interchangeable to me and I can't tell them apart. None of them standout and as a result I have little to no interest in hearing any of their previous or forthcoming work;
- Some of the guest spots are underwhelming - You would never know that was Cold 187um on 'Loose Cannon's' unless he was listed in the credits, and Snoop's appearance on 'One Shot One Kill' doesn't sound right to me, he should have come more funky and melodic on a Dre album. I'm glad he got to feature on another track;
- On a more positive note, I love the different sounds on the album - all the background noises, voice samples, trumpets, weird, distorted voice effects etc. This was to be expected on this album and the production doesn't disappoint. The intro is brilliant too. Also, who would have thought that the two Dre solo cuts on here would be the best two tracks on the album (the particularly strong one being a Detox scrap)?
So overall, a slight disappointment for me, but a good listen nonetheless. Now I know I've been very negative and this is going on only having had the album for one day, but I am confident that the album will grow on me and I'm going to continue to listen to it intensely for the next few weeks to pick out new things that it has to offer.
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I thought Jon Connor killed it on here, makes me wanna check out his next project cuz I never vibed well with his pre-Aftermath joints due to poor production/direction
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bought the cd at Best Buy yesterday for 11.99. Diggin this album even more now with the CD quality in the car on & headphones. Several songs are growing on me after repeated listens.
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It feels like there are no quotables on here
I just. Bought. Cali. Fornia.
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This cd is amazing in the car!
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
it only tarnishes his legacy to retards....thats the stuff greatness is made of. teamwork. dre is like phil jackson.
people who try to do it all on their own dont get these kinda results
im saying as a kid to us we didnt give a fuck who was playing background shit and who brought the sample or who helped with hooks or anything its this new generation and the data age and the dumb ass stories of him stealing beats and rhymes etc....i honestly dont think anyone dres worked with has needed him as bad as they at the time needed him not even eminem or snoop. i mean dre wasnt exactly killing it before slim shady but he woulda found some shit to blow up or reunited with snoop eventually in my opinion.
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I thought Jon Connor killed it on here, makes me wanna check out his next project cuz I never vibed well with his pre-Aftermath joints due to poor production/direction
he murked everything he had his hands on.
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definetly better, but it does take the heart out of a project once they expose all the writers and ghost rappers and niggas that brought dre a sample...honestly i dont think i wanna know all that and dont quite understand the sensationalism right now. if whitney Houston were alive and cut an album shed have a whole team of motherfuckers working that bitch. its obvious when kanye does albums he takes the same approach get a gang of rappers and producers together and brainstorm. i guess the only place that shit was unheard of was hiphop but still knowings all dres shit was made with this think tank approach seems to tarnish his legacy. but most hip hop albums with a grander sound are made just like this. deathrow had all the studio musicians popping that had dre and daz sounding real cute.
also that fuck double d chest did you call me a euro? bitch im from detroit raised in chicago they dont get much more american then me...miss w me with that shit. i know my music.
it only tarnishes his legacy to retards....thats the stuff greatness is made of. teamwork. dre is like phil jackson.
people who try to do it all on their own dont get these kinda results
im saying as a kid to us we didnt give a fuck who was playing background shit and who brought the sample or who helped with hooks or anything its this new generation and the data age and the dumb ass stories of him stealing beats and rhymes etc....i honestly dont think anyone dres worked with has needed him as bad as they at the time needed him not even eminem or snoop. i mean dre wasnt exactly killing it before slim shady but he woulda found some shit to blow up or reunited with snoop eventually in my opinion.
dre is a genius, thats all there is to it.....read that source article i just posted, pretty much everythin he predicted came to fruition. u dont get to where he at bein a slouch. he's by far the greatest producer in hip-hop history and no one even comes close.
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bought the cd at Best Buy yesterday for 11.99. Diggin this album even more now with the CD quality in the car on & headphones. Several songs are growing on me after repeated listens.
Word picked it up last night too. Fuck it, but I still bought it.
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If this goes platinum, you think Dre might regain his confidence to drop Detox?
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If this goes platinum, you think Dre might regain his confidence to drop Detox?
This is detox lol
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If this goes platinum, you think Dre might regain his confidence to drop Detox?
This is detox lol
I'm sure he got tons of bangers with Em, 50 Cent, Kendrick, Bishop, Stat Quo etc.
Die Hard banged hard.
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If this goes platinum, you think Dre might regain his confidence to drop Detox?
This is detox lol
I'm sure he got tons of bangers with Em, 50 Cent, Kendrick, Bishop, Stat Quo etc.
Die Hard banged hard.
Oh no doubt .. He recorded thousand of tracks for detox. These just the ones he picked.
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85% decline in sales.....that says it all..one of the worst drops ever.
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85% decline in sales.....that says it all..one of the worst drops ever.
watch it break the record for highest increase from 2nd to 3rd week now that the hard copy dropped yesterday
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Looks like the CD dropped today in the UK
http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/compton?_ga=1.8025204.711516639.1440193136
Yep, I bought it yesterday after avoiding it at every cost for the past 2 weeks and listened to it for the first time in one sitting.
A few observations at the moment:
- This doesn't sound like a Dr. Dre album, let alone a west-coast album. Now that can be interpreted as both good and bad. Good in the sense that it's a modern and new sound for Dre, showing that he's setting a trend yet again for the overall production and direction of albums, but bad in a sense that, going on my first couple of listens, it's almost as if this could be anyone's album due to the sheer number of guests all over the album, popping up every 30 seconds or so which can sound a bit overwhelming at times;
- Why has Dr. Dre changed his rapping voice and flow so drastically? Why?! He's been rapping for nearly 30 years now, and was always immediately identifiable on a track owing to his strong, commanding voice, but on here he sounds so different to before that it's almost off-putting. That's not to say he's gotten worse, it's just that he (and a couple of other guests on the album) are trying to sound too much like Kendrick Lamar and it sounds a bit unnatural for them to do this;
- There doesn't appear to be any standout tracks on here, in the way that 'G Thang' and 'Still D.R.E' were on the previous efforts. Will listeners be able to recite the lyrics to certain tracks word-for-word in a few years time? Will any of the songs transfer to radio and into popular culture? It feels like there are no quotables on here, no real standout lyrics;
- Anderson .Paak, Justus, King Mez and Jon Connor are interchangeable to me and I can't tell them apart. None of them standout and as a result I have little to no interest in hearing any of their previous or forthcoming work;
- Some of the guest spots are underwhelming - You would never know that was Cold 187um on 'Loose Cannon's' unless he was listed in the credits, and Snoop's appearance on 'One Shot One Kill' doesn't sound right to me, he should have come more funky and melodic on a Dre album. I'm glad he got to feature on another track;
- On a more positive note, I love the different sounds on the album - all the background noises, voice samples, trumpets, weird, distorted voice effects etc. This was to be expected on this album and the production doesn't disappoint. The intro is brilliant too. Also, who would have thought that the two Dre solo cuts on here would be the best two tracks on the album (the particularly strong one being a Detox scrap)?
So overall, a slight disappointment for me, but a good listen nonetheless. Now I know I've been very negative and this is going on only having had the album for one day, but I am confident that the album will grow on me and I'm going to continue to listen to it intensely for the next few weeks to pick out new things that it has to offer.
Great breakdown which echos my thoughts exactly.
I was kinda disappointed when i first heard the album but it has grown on me a lot.
I have to agree about the new breed guest rappers are intertangable and dont bring anything anything extra.
I thought snoop really shined with his appearance with his energy and delivery.
The rapping style made it difficult to get into a grove diffult to understand some of the lyrics.
Regarding dres flow switching up again, well thats always been the case that he sounds like the person who ghostwrites for him.
Deepwater beat and snoop on one shot one kill is crazy
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I thought Jon Connor killed it on here, makes me wanna check out his next project cuz I never vibed well with his pre-Aftermath joints due to poor production/direction
I've been listening to Jon Connor for a few years and I thought his album Unconsious State was good and theres some good stuff on some of his mixtapes like Season 2 and The Peoples Rapper. I hope he actually releases an album on Aftermath though.
I think Compton is a good album but I dont like it as much as The Chronic or 2001, some of the tracks have too much going on, and there are 4 or 5 tracks that I dont like as much. I cant see how it will be considered a classic like his previous albums.
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Just bought Compton, finally. After the first few tracks I took it out and popped in my dk quik summertime mix. More in the mood for some funky feel good music than what I heard so far on Compton. Hope to give it another shot today.
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bought a hard copy today finally... shit sounds insane on CD in the whip
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Looks like the CD dropped today in the UK
http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/compton?_ga=1.8025204.711516639.1440193136
Yep, I bought it yesterday after avoiding it at every cost for the past 2 weeks and listened to it for the first time in one sitting.
A few observations at the moment:
- This doesn't sound like a Dr. Dre album, let alone a west-coast album. Now that can be interpreted as both good and bad. Good in the sense that it's a modern and new sound for Dre, showing that he's setting a trend yet again for the overall production and direction of albums, but bad in a sense that, going on my first couple of listens, it's almost as if this could be anyone's album due to the sheer number of guests all over the album, popping up every 30 seconds or so which can sound a bit overwhelming at times;
- Why has Dr. Dre changed his rapping voice and flow so drastically? Why?! He's been rapping for nearly 30 years now, and was always immediately identifiable on a track owing to his strong, commanding voice, but on here he sounds so different to before that it's almost off-putting. That's not to say he's gotten worse, it's just that he (and a couple of other guests on the album) are trying to sound too much like Kendrick Lamar and it sounds a bit unnatural for them to do this;
- There doesn't appear to be any standout tracks on here, in the way that 'G Thang' and 'Still D.R.E' were on the previous efforts. Will listeners be able to recite the lyrics to certain tracks word-for-word in a few years time? Will any of the songs transfer to radio and into popular culture? It feels like there are no quotables on here, no real standout lyrics;
- Anderson .Paak, Justus, King Mez and Jon Connor are interchangeable to me and I can't tell them apart. None of them standout and as a result I have little to no interest in hearing any of their previous or forthcoming work;
- Some of the guest spots are underwhelming - You would never know that was Cold 187um on 'Loose Cannon's' unless he was listed in the credits, and Snoop's appearance on 'One Shot One Kill' doesn't sound right to me, he should have come more funky and melodic on a Dre album. I'm glad he got to feature on another track;
- On a more positive note, I love the different sounds on the album - all the background noises, voice samples, trumpets, weird, distorted voice effects etc. This was to be expected on this album and the production doesn't disappoint. The intro is brilliant too. Also, who would have thought that the two Dre solo cuts on here would be the best two tracks on the album (the particularly strong one being a Detox scrap)?
So overall, a slight disappointment for me, but a good listen nonetheless. Now I know I've been very negative and this is going on only having had the album for one day, but I am confident that the album will grow on me and I'm going to continue to listen to it intensely for the next few weeks to pick out new things that it has to offer.
best comment about compton album i ever read.especially the fact about there is no standout track.
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"Gone", "Deep Water", "One Shot Kill", "Just Another Day", "Medicine Man", and "Talking To My Diary" were stand-outs IMO
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Hopefully this is like when Ridley Scott went back to do the Blade Runner final cut, then dropped Prometheus
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A few more thoughts now that I've listened to the album some more and let it sink in:
- I was overly critical of my initial assessments of the new rappers on here. Of course you can tell Anderson .Paak, King Mez and Jon Connor apart after listening some more (though I stand by my original opinion of Justus - I still have no idea where he appears on the album and what he sounds like). I'm still not blown away by any of the new guys though, and not overly keen to listen to their solo stuff, but I'm open to that changing;
- I find Anderson .Paak's voice to be grating on certain joints on here. He's alright and is clearly multi-talented, but at the moment he sounds a bit whiny and I think the beat to 'Animals' is wasted on him. Even a more mellow Snoop would have done that beat more justice;
- At the moment, I tend to enjoy the first half of the album more than the second. The second half contains some songs that I'm not particularly feeling right now and it makes the album lose a bit of steam for me, but again, I hope that changes with more listens;
- I was hoping that The Game's track would be a bit better than it actually is. After reading some of the reviews of the track here I was really hyped to hear it, but the beat is just so pedestrian and quite boring. I can't wait to hear the Documentary 2 though, if Game is as hungry as he sounds on this track;
The track 'For The Love Of Money' sounds very similar to 'Swimming Pools' by Kendrick Lamar and the beat was clearly inspired by it;
Saying all that, the album sounds amazing on surround-sound mode on my system. Certain sections such as the chain-gang sound, parts of 'Deep Water' and the breakdown at the end of 'It's All On Me' just sound so epic that it makes you forget some of the not so enjoyable moments on here.
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"BIG BASS" BRIAN tells about his mastering session with Dr. Dre for his Compton album > http://t.co/FAvAfGYx5y (http://t.co/FAvAfGYx5y)
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"BIG BASS" BRIAN tells about his mastering session with Dr. Dre for his Compton album > http://t.co/FAvAfGYx5y (http://t.co/FAvAfGYx5y)
THATS GOTTA BE TAXIN
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though I stand by my original opinion of Justus - I still have no idea where he appears on the album and what he sounds like
Justus isn't really rapping on the album. He's only doing hooks and ad-libs. Talk About It, It's All On Me and Deep Water.
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though I stand by my original opinion of Justus - I still have no idea where he appears on the album and what he sounds like
Justus isn't really rapping on the album. He's only doing hooks and ad-libs. Talk About It, It's All On Me and Deep Water.
he's actually pretty good on hooks.. dre was smart to not let him rap
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Are they planning on dropping any videos?
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I love:
Animals
Issues
It's all on me
All in a day's work
Loose cannons
Talk about it
Talking to my diary (classic dre)
One shot one kill
Just another day
Others r bad for me
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fux with all of it almost
satisfiction and deep water being the best.
i gotta say its kinda wierd that so many albums and songs use martha ambrosia for so many songs over the years. she was great on here and on kanyes cruel summer or whatever his compilation was called but im bored with this bitch kinda. its cliche to hear her on a hip hop track now.
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fux with all of it almost
satisfiction and deep water being the best.
i gotta say its kinda wierd that so many albums and songs use martha ambrosia for so many songs over the years. she was great on here and on kanyes cruel summer or whatever his compilation was called but im bored with this bitch kinda. its cliche to hear her on a hip hop track now.
she sound good tho, dre brought the best outa her
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fux with all of it almost
satisfiction and deep water being the best.
i gotta say its kinda wierd that so many albums and songs use martha ambrosia for so many songs over the years. she was great on here and on kanyes cruel summer or whatever his compilation was called but im bored with this bitch kinda. its cliche to hear her on a hip hop track now.
she sound good tho, dre brought the best outa her
I'd say she's the best female singer for hip-hop records... Jill Scott was dope on this album too
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It's fucked up that there are no singles out from Compton yet. Both The Chronic and 2001 were slow burners that just kept selling and selling due to the enduring popularity of singles like G Thang, Dre Day, Let Me Ride, Still D.R.E, Forgot About Dre and The Next Episode. Granted, there aren't any monster singles on Compton, but Dre needs to put some singles out to at least signal to radio what they should play. Mainstream radio will rarely play an album track, but they might play a Dr.Dre single.
Personally, I would release either "Talking To My Diary" or "Talk About It" as the first single.
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videos for almost anything off the album would be hard but basically tracks 2-5, "Satisfiction", "Medicine Man" and "Talking To My Diary" could all work at radio being singles
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'Talk About It' is getting a lot of radio play over here. I've heard 'Genocide' a couple of times too.
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Strange that theres no single, a lot of songs on here are single material
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Strange that theres no single, a lot of songs on here are single material
Dre probably don't want to do videos any more.
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Didnt Dre shot a video in paris ?
check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNkXNwAIt4
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Didnt Dre shot a video in paris ?
check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNkXNwAIt4
this is from over a year ago....must be from one of the scrapped detox leaks. still a trip to see, dre lookin forced as fuck right there, surprised that video only has 800 views. i wonder if any1 caught the audio before it was removed.
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the first time i listened to this and "talk about it" started i thought "why the hell they got zed from police academy on this". king mez screaming was a weird start for the album and i still don´t like the first song that much but the album is definitely nice.
it´s funny how some people are like "this is not a classic" . no shit sherlock, it came out a few weeks ago.
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the first time i listened to this and "talk about it" started i thought "why the hell they got zed from police academy on this". king mez screaming was a weird start for the album and i still don´t like the first song that much but the album is definitely nice.
it´s funny how some people are like "this is not a classic" . no shit sherlock, it came out a few weeks ago.
man youre funny as hell
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Didnt Dre shot a video in paris ?
check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNkXNwAIt4
this is from over a year ago....must be from one of the scrapped detox leaks. still a trip to see, dre lookin forced as fuck right there, surprised that video only has 800 views. i wonder if any1 caught the audio before it was removed.
same here homie
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Ice cube should drop new album soon like dre
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
Except what Dre does is designed to make new artist and Dre is in the studio all the time. What Cube does is designed to be the featured artist and be the star, and he's been the star for 30 years. I think if Cube puts out an album he may feature his kids, and what are they going to rap about? Even though Dre has a more difficult job, it makes sense because he's creating young stars.
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
Except what Dre does is designed to make new artist and Dre is in the studio all the time. What Cube does is designed to be the featured artist and be the star, and he's been the star for 30 years. I think if Cube puts out an album he may feature his kids, and what are they going to rap about? Even though Dre has a more difficult job, it makes sense because he's creating young stars.
cube featured his kids on his last album already...cubes been talkin bout an album for years now, even dropped singles (all which pretty much flopped) and claimed dre would produce it......at the end of the day, cube makes albums for him, not to put people on. realistically, he shoulda had one ready to drop wit the release of "straight outta compton".
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
Except what Dre does is designed to make new artist and Dre is in the studio all the time. What Cube does is designed to be the featured artist and be the star, and he's been the star for 30 years. I think if Cube puts out an album he may feature his kids, and what are they going to rap about? Even though Dre has a more difficult job, it makes sense because he's creating young stars.
cube featured his kids on his last album already...cubes been talkin bout an album for years now, even dropped singles (all which pretty much flopped) and claimed dre would produce it......at the end of the day, cube makes albums for him, not to put people on. realistically, he shoulda had one ready to drop wit the release of "straight outta compton".
But that's kind of my point. Cube's role is to be the star. No one wants to hear from a 46 year old rapper. When Dre puts out work, it's a chance for these young cats to shine, and get theirs. Unless Cube gets a whole Dr. Dre produced album, it's going to suck.
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Not a classic and never will be
People need to have the balls to say 'this album isn't great'. Not 'I'm not sure about this album yet, maybe in years to come I will be...if other people say it too'
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Not a classic and never will be
people said the same thing about The Chronic, 2001, and even Doggystyle but look at the status of those albums now
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Not a classic and never will be
people said the same thing about The Chronic, 2001, and even Doggystyle but look at the status of those albums now
fuckin german has no fuckin plan, these albums that you´re talking about are totally westcoast beats and has some great feats. except fuckin eminem whitewhore...
fuckin berlin bitch im gonna sell you´re ass on charloutten str. bitch!!!!
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Not a classic and never will be
people said the same thing about The Chronic, 2001, and even Doggystyle but look at the status of those albums now
Not exactly true. My reaction after first time hearing Dre albums. -The Chronic :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-Doggystyle :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-2001 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-Compton (http://masetv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jayz-gif.gif)
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People need to have the balls to say 'this album isn't great'. Not 'I'm not sure about this album yet, maybe in years to come I will be...if other people say it too'
shut the fuck up
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
Except what Dre does is designed to make new artist and Dre is in the studio all the time. What Cube does is designed to be the featured artist and be the star, and he's been the star for 30 years. I think if Cube puts out an album he may feature his kids, and what are they going to rap about? Even though Dre has a more difficult job, it makes sense because he's creating young stars.
cube featured his kids on his last album already...cubes been talkin bout an album for years now, even dropped singles (all which pretty much flopped) and claimed dre would produce it......at the end of the day, cube makes albums for him, not to put people on. realistically, he shoulda had one ready to drop wit the release of "straight outta compton".
But that's kind of my point. Cube's role is to be the star. No one wants to hear from a 46 year old rapper. When Dre puts out work, it's a chance for these young cats to shine, and get theirs. Unless Cube gets a whole Dr. Dre produced album, it's going to suck.
dre is the star of his new album......no one gives a fuck about king mez and anderson paak. it coulda been anyone there.
ice cube woulda been the star again if he dropped an album around the same time as the movie, because it generated interest in him once again, as u can see by the drastic sale spike in old NWA material.
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People need to have the balls to say 'this album isn't great'. Not 'I'm not sure about this album yet, maybe in years to come I will be...if other people say it too'
shut the fuck up
Lmao
So you're in the 'could one day be classic' camp
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release date for a Instrumental album???
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People need to have the balls to say 'this album isn't great'. Not 'I'm not sure about this album yet, maybe in years to come I will be...if other people say it too'
shut the fuck up
Lmao
So you're in the 'could one day be classic' camp
it's already a modern day classic and will only get better with time..your opinion on rap music has lost its credibility back when u complained about the lyrics on "regulate" bein too simple. everything you say is either a.)pretentiously dumb or b.)trolling..still haven't decided which.
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Didnt Dre shot a video in paris ?
check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNkXNwAIt4
this is from over a year ago....must be from one of the scrapped detox leaks. still a trip to see, dre lookin forced as fuck right there, surprised that video only has 800 views. i wonder if any1 caught the audio before it was removed.
same here homie
he's rapping along to the the kanye/jay-z 'paris' song that's all.
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Not a classic and never will be
people said the same thing about The Chronic, 2001, and even Doggystyle but look at the status of those albums now
Not exactly true. My reaction after first time hearing Dre albums. -The Chronic :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-Doggystyle :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-2001 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
-Compton (http://masetv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jayz-gif.gif)
well you're one person with an opinion that not everybody else initially shared from the jump... ever read The Source's original reviews of each album before they revised them to 5 Mics?
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Some people still disliking the whole Compton album. I don't get it.
Me, i am chillin. I love this album. A nice gift from the good doctor.
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I just bought California
Them other states ain't far behind it either.
I remember selling instrumentals off a beeper.
Millionaire before the headphones or the speakers.
8) 8) 8) 8)
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On heavy rotation back to back. 8)
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I finally gave this a proper spin. Blasted it in my stereo. Great album, I cant deny it. But it will most likely not be in heavy rotation. I liked it, but I played Xzibit 40 dayz & 40 Nightz right after, and remembered how much I love that album.
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This is the original beat that Dre fixed up for "Gone" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDGchRR33o
"Gone" was produced by Dr Dre and D.R.U.G.S. Beats, so it's interesting to hear the original "beatmaker" version that D.R.U.G.S. Beats gave
to Dre and compare it to how much Dre changed it for the finished track...
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This is the original beat that Dre fixed up for "Gone" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDGchRR33o
"Gone" was produced by Dr Dre and D.R.U.G.S. Beats, so it's interesting to hear the original "beatmaker" version that D.R.U.G.S. Beats gave
to Dre and compare it to how much Dre changed it for the finished track...
Good find!
Nice 8)
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This is the original beat that Dre fixed up for "Gone" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDGchRR33o
"Gone" was produced by Dr Dre and D.R.U.G.S. Beats, so it's interesting to hear the original "beatmaker" version that D.R.U.G.S. Beats gave
to Dre and compare it to how much Dre changed it for the finished track...
mrbrasco (http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?action=profile;u=7839) posted a link to this article in the vault.
EXCLUSIVE: How D.R.U.G.S. Beats Got To Work On Dr. Dre's First Album In 16 Years
He's on one of the early favorites from the biggest albums in the world at the moment and he speaks about first hearing his beat on the album with a tonal precision that only a producer could master making however many beats a day for however many summers.
In part one of our talk, we delved into how Dr. Dre got his hands on D.R.U.G.S' beat, but in part two we find out that the story did not stop there and some faulty machinery almost kept D.R.U.G.S from the biggest placement of his relatively young career.
The beat for “Gone” was originally on a House Shoes Presents: The Gift Volume 10 – DRUGS BEATS for free download before Dre showed interest. What did Dre add to the original beat?
Yeah. He added A LOT to it. [Laughs] I mean, the original beat, the mood was the same. The arrangements and everything were the same. First of all, the mix on that shit is crazy. His mix on it was flawless, you have to start with that, because sonically he brought it to life. He played the piano in it, the bass guitar, and a couple of other things. I played the synths, synth bass, of course the drums.
Were you in the studio with Dre when he was adding his spice to the beat?
Not at all. Honestly, I didn’t hear it until it came out. I mean, it’s always been like that. I did the joint for 50 Cent, “I Just Wanna”. The whole KC and the Sunshine flip. I did that. I didn’t hear it until it came out. Even that happened so fast. I went to sleep one day, I woke up and I had 40 missed calls and 100 dudes hit me up social media like ‘congrats. congratulations.’ I ‘m like ‘what the fuck is everybody talking about’? Then somebody posted the video up. So the first time I hear the song is when I see the video for the 50 Cent joint. I had dealt with G-Unit previously, because I had done some work with Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks. I got a joint “No Escape” on Lloyd Banks' V5 mixtape. I’ve been around. I put in a lot of work. But, the Dre situation was definitely the biggest.
When you heard Dre was dropping a new album, did you know he was going to use your song?
I mean, the thing with me was, ‘this is Dr. Dre, obviously.” Dre is a perfectionist, so my first thought was ‘this shit might not even see the light of day.’ But, it happened fast. Somebody was calling me every week, giving me updates on what was going on. One of the biggest dudes that had a lot to do with this was my homie Focus’ brother, Ty [Cannon]. He’s an A&R at Aftermath too and he’s doing his thing. He definitely kept me posted, weekly on what was going on and stuff like that. But, honestly, I didn’t know. We all made jokes like “Dre ain’t going to put that album out, man.” But, when they called about the money, that’s when we were like “oh shit. It’s happening.” Got paid, got all of the spreadsheets, did all of the publishing and got the paperwork worked out."
Let’s get into the art of it and what the hip hop heads really want to know. How did you make this beat? How did you go about it? How long did it take? What did you use?
That’s another funny story in itself. All the beats that are on that original beat tape I was telling you about, my hard drive died. I didn’t have no track outs. i had no tracked out beats or nothing. Only thing I had was two-track .wav. That’s all I had. So when they called me about the beat, I explained them the situation. My hard drive died. They were like, ‘you know what? Can you remake the beat?’ Usually when I remake the beat it don’t sound the same. But, I started remaking the beat and it came out EXACTLY how I made it the first time. This whole situation really kind of sums up as fate, honestly. It just don’t normally happen like THIS.
What equipment did you use?
(https://cdn.slantnews.com/articles/53579dd0-3da4-11e5-908a-0193dca05497/53579dd1-3da4-11e5-908a-0193dca05497/media_b95d3550-3dd5-11e5-9d45-2916713ca3fb.jpg)
"I always use the MPC 2000XL. The Microkorg. I got three XL’s. I got all the software in the world, all that, but, I need my XL. I’m a must on that. So, the Microkorg, MPC 2000XL and my Triton [keyboard]."
You’re not new to the industry but this is your biggest placement. So tell us, who is D.R.U.G.S. Beats? What does your name mean?
Dope. Real. Underground. Sound. I started making beats in 2002. Got serious around 2005, then it was an everyday thing. I didn’t start calling myself D.R.U.G.S. until 2007. That’s when I started beat battling. So I came up in the beat battle circuit. You can YouTube “D.R.U.G.S. beat battle” and watch the shit come up. I came up in the whole beat battling circuit. After I got my first placement for Ludacris on “Muthafucka Can U Buy That”. That’s how that whole thing started. Thats how I really started getting placements, working with Luda and through Def Jam. He had a relationship with 50 Cent which spun off that, started doing beats for 50’s camp
The producer Focus is all over Dre’s “Compton” album and he’s the person who gave Dre your beat for him to hear. How’d you link up with Focus?
There’s a studio in Atlanta. The studio is called Mudnoc Studios. Focus knows my closest friend Jonathan. That’s Mudnoc. Focus saw me from the beat battle circuit, so he caught up with me one time at the studio and we’ve been friends ever since.
What’s your favorite Dr. Dre beat from the album and why? Break it down like a producer.
I’ll say this. I love every beat on the album but I will say this that Intro, one of the best intros I’ve heard in soo long. This is another reason why I’m so happy to be apart of it because sonically…SONICALLY the music is impeccable. It’s so good. The mix they put on that album, I never heard nothing like it. That intro is beautiful. As far as other beats, that’s a hard one.
How about who had the best verse on “Compton”?
Loose Cannon with Xzibit. That’s a mean one to me, lyrically. Talk About It too, Mez is my homie. But, Justus did it JUSTICE! It would have to be Justus. It would be between BJ The Chicago Kid …. nah man, I gotta give it to Justus. I got to. Kendrick [Lamar] did his thing and King Mez did too, but I’m really leaning towards Justus flow right now.
What’s coming up next for you?
The DJ House Shoes Presents: The Gift Volume 10 – DRUGS BEATS is dropping in stores. That’ll be in stores September 10th. It’s a beat tape but it’s on vinyl. We’re dropping it on vinyl and cassette tapes. Doing a bunch of stuff with Fat Killahz. Have you ever heard of Fat Killahz? Marvwov, Fatt Father. We got this joint with Royce Da 5’9, shit is so ridiculous.
Keith Jusaire Nelson Jr., SLANT (https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-08-08-how-drugs-beats-got-to-work-on-dr-dres-first-album-in-16-years)
EXCLUSIVE: Paul McCartney Is Making More Money On "Compton" Track Than Dr. Dre
How much a dollar cost?
According to Dorian Drumming, better known as producer D.R.U.G.S Beats, a dollar is the difference between Soundcloud and being on the biggest Hip Hop album of the year.
The 37-year-old beatmaker supplied Dr. Dre with the beat for his song "Gone" off of his first album in more than 15 years: "Compton."
DRUGS spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Slant News about how Paul McCartney is getting rich off of "Compton", a $1 piece of vinyl changed his life and choosing Dr. Dre over Soundcloud, plus more in the first part of our extensive interview.
How did you end up on Dr. Dre’s album producing “Gone”?
Honestly, the beat came from a beat tape me and DJ House Shoes put out. DJ House Shoes is a legendary DJ out of Detroit, he was J. Dilla’s righthand man. We dropped it on a beat tape and one of my closest friends is Focus. He’s down with Aftermath as well. So the beat tape got into his hands and he gave it to Dre and Dre was like ‘Yo, man, I like that Easy joint.’ He wanted to use it. He was like ‘Yo man, can y’all take it off of y’all shit and we use it?’ Hell yeah
When was this?
This was around March. Yeah, we had dropped the album in January.
So you already dropped it and then you took it off from streaming services?
Yeah. Exactly. The album ("House Shoes Presents: The Gift Volume 10 – DRUGS BEATS") was on Soundcloud for free download and everything. So, honestly, niggas that downloaded it, who had a good month and time to download it, they got the copy with the beat that’s on there.
What’s the story behind the sample on that song?
This is another crazy story. The sample is from Paul McCartney. But luckily the sample didn’t come from Paul McCartney when he was with the Beatles. It came from Paul McCartney when he on a group called Wings. So that saved our ass. Yeah, because with the publishing, I got 30 percent publishing. Dre got 20 percent. But, Paul McCartney got 50 percent.
Damn!
Yeah, man. We definitely put a lot of money in Paul McCartney’s pockets. [Laughs]
What was the Wings sample?
Ummm, “Ancient Egypt”.
https://www.youtube.com/v/qkffuqVg5l0
You just stumbled upon that or you’re a huge Wings fan?
I’m a collector of vinyl. This one day I went to the record store and my homeboy put up a $1 record bin, man. I was like ‘Oh shit, you selling all these dope ass records for $1?’ I got 50 of them and that was one of the joints up in there. I try not to sample no stuff like Paul McCartney or nothing like that but the sample was so ill, I had no choice.
Especially when you’re giving it to Dr. Dre and Interscope and Apple. I’m pretty sure they can clear almost ANY sample.
My thing was, I didn’t really want to tell them where the sample came from.I was like sounding like ‘this shit is impossible.’ You know what I’m saying? This is Paul McCartney and then my friend Ty was like , ‘Yo, man, don’t worry about that at all.’ I AM pretty much under the impression they pretty much can clear damn near anything.
Keith Jusaire Nelson Jr., SLANT (https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-08-07-exclusive-paul-mccartney-makes-more-money-on-compton-track-than-dr-dre)
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^coo interview but lol@justus had the best verse on the album when he dint even rap on there
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Not a classic and never will be
people said the same thing about The Chronic, 2001, and even Doggystyle but look at the status of those albums now
fuckin german has no fuckin plan, these albums that you´re talking about are totally westcoast beats and has some great feats. except fuckin eminem whitewhore...
fuckin berlin bitch im gonna sell you´re ass on charloutten str. bitch!!!!
HAHA man the real street to pimp a hoe in Germany is Bülowstrasse! I was in Berlin earlier this year and saw a gang of hoes on that street.
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Not a classic and never will be
People need to have the balls to say 'this album isn't great'. Not 'I'm not sure about this album yet, maybe in years to come I will be...if other people say it too'
I agree. People who say "I'm not sure whether it's good or not yet" are just finding it difficult to believe that someone with Dre's track record could release such an incredibly shitty album. But that's what happened!
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
lol first off, dre woulda been credited as produce if the game wasn't fucked up nowadays .. Dre is in the studio for every step of the track, guiding the process all the way through. From inception to final mix down. Ice cube just needs to go in a studio, rap a couple verses, and go home. It's a wayyyy easier process, and it's not even close.
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
lol first off, dre woulda been credited as produce if the game wasn't fucked up nowadays .. Dre is in the studio for every step of the track, guiding the process all the way through. From inception to final mix down. Ice cube just needs to go in a studio, rap a couple verses, and go home. It's a wayyyy easier process, and it's not even close.
Are you referring to the rap game or to the rapper?
The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
He mixed this song
Yeah so did Focus. Again, minimal work. For all we know that could've been a song Game and Asia Bryant did on their own and Dre heard it and touched it up and placed it on his album.
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he mixed the whole album. check that all eyez on me unmixed version before quik touched it, big difference. even tho i think dre had a lot more input in recordin process than the credits say
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The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
lol first off, dre woulda been credited as produce if the game wasn't fucked up nowadays .. Dre is in the studio for every step of the track, guiding the process all the way through. From inception to final mix down. Ice cube just needs to go in a studio, rap a couple verses, and go home. It's a wayyyy easier process, and it's not even close.
Are you referring to the rap game or to the rapper?
The hard part about an Ice Cube album is that he's a rapper. Dr. Dre as a producer can have many featured artist and it keeps the sound fresh. Cube would have to rap on every song and he'd be support for his own album.
how is that hard? what dre does is way harder
How so? Dre has the luxury of having songs on his album that don't feature him in any way. Example...
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant)
PRODUCED BY Trevor Lawrence Jr. & Theron Feemster.
Here we have a song by 2 artist (neither is Dre) and produced by 2 producers (and again neither is Dre)
He mixed this song
Yeah so did Focus. Again, minimal work. For all we know that could've been a song Game and Asia Bryant did on their own and Dre heard it and touched it up and placed it on his album.
lol focus doesn't do 10% of what Dre does.... U know damn well Game was rappin like that because Dre spent a whole day in the studio wit him goin over it line for line til he got it jus right. And that's witout even considering all the engineering work to make it sonically hit right after Game goes home. Dude who produced the Gone track said it sounded COMPLETELY diff before Dre got his hands on it. Same like Khalil said about Kush. It's common sense that if this dropped in the early 90s, the back cover woulda said "produced by Dr Dre" and that's it. Now everyone cries over credits when it's a well known fact that the top-notch sound comes from Dre and no one else.
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lol focus doesn't do 10% of what Dre does.... U know damn well Game was rappin like that because Dre spent a whole day in the studio wit him goin over it line for line til he got it jus right. And that's witout even considering all the engineering work to make it sonically hit right after Game goes home. Dude who produced the Gone track said it sounded COMPLETELY diff before Dre got his hands on it. Same like Khalil said about Kush. It's common sense that if this dropped in the early 90s, the back cover woulda said "produced by Dr Dre" and that's it. Now everyone cries over credits when it's a well known fact that the top-notch sound comes from Dre and no one else.
This. People really have no clue what producing is, what mixing is and what mastering is. I'd add to the above, that had this been a rock album or a pop album it indeed WOULD just have said "produced by Dr.Dre" and the other guys would have been credited as writers and musicians.
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ice cube woulda been the star again if he dropped an album around the same time as the movie, because it generated interest in him once again, as u can see by the drastic sale spike in old NWA material.
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Yeah. That's what I'm talking about
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Nah, Cube will never be succesful again on mainstream radio.
It's been 23 years since Today was a good day, and young people like young artists. That's just the way it is.
Still, artistically, it would have been a smart move to release a political/social album around the Straight Outta Compton theater release.
None of his fans want him to keep on releasing stupid singles like Drop Girl, but for a weird reason, he still seems to think it's a smart and fun idea.
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This is the guy who did start with A Bitch iz a Bitch and I Ain't the One. each NWA had one single ready song that was edited to go on the radio. Dre had Express Yourself, Ren had If It Ain't Rough, Eazy had 8-Ball radio version, and Cube had I Ain't the One... LOL. Completely different than all the writing he did with the political social message. For some reason, Cube's always been like that, except when he first went single. That 1990-1994 run was amazing, but before and after that it was all about releasing You Can Do It, Playa'z Club, Pushin' Weight and so on. Don't know why, the hard stuff is what people want. But since he's main run was over and he did movies, he just hasn't been good about giving the fans what they want.
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Nah, Cube will never be succesful again on mainstream radio.
It's been 23 years since Today was a good day, and young people like young artists. That's just the way it is.
Still, artistically, it would have been a smart move to release a political/social album around the Straight Outta Compton theater release.
None of his fans want him to keep on releasing stupid singles like Drop Girl, but for a weird reason, he still seems to think it's a smart and fun idea.
He was actually tryna drop political shit the last couple years, it just went under the radar ... Timing is everything
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
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what is that vocal sample in all in a day's work? i cant understand what does that vocal says. which song is it from?
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lol focus doesn't do 10% of what Dre does.... U know damn well Game was rappin like that because Dre spent a whole day in the studio wit him goin over it line for line til he got it jus right. And that's witout even considering all the engineering work to make it sonically hit right after Game goes home.
Funny, but I've probably listened through the album beginning to end about 30 times now... and I swear I still don't hear Game on the album. Obviously I could go search credits and figure it out, but where is the fun in that...
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lol focus doesn't do 10% of what Dre does.... U know damn well Game was rappin like that because Dre spent a whole day in the studio wit him goin over it line for line til he got it jus right. And that's witout even considering all the engineering work to make it sonically hit right after Game goes home.
Funny, but I've probably listened through the album beginning to end about 30 times now... and I swear I still don't hear Game on the album. Obviously I could go search credits and figure it out, but where is the fun in that...
Just listen for when the lady shouts... "It's Game Time!"
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This is the guy who did start with A Bitch iz a Bitch and I Ain't the One. each NWA had one single ready song that was edited to go on the radio. Dre had Express Yourself, Ren had If It Ain't Rough, Eazy had 8-Ball radio version, and Cube had I Ain't the One... LOL. Completely different than all the writing he did with the political social message. For some reason, Cube's always been like that, except when he first went single. That 1990-1994 run was amazing, but before and after that it was all about releasing You Can Do It, Playa'z Club, Pushin' Weight and so on. Don't know why, the hard stuff is what people want. But since he's main run was over and he did movies, he just hasn't been good about giving the fans what they want.
chtmixeur was right.... Cube is washed up as a rapper. The last time he really made a banger it was still the 90's... I think when he was fuccin with Short Khop and making "Pushin Weight" was pretty much his swan song, once he started doing all those underwhelming movies, and then sequels to those underwhelming movies, and making a gang of money doin it... it was pretty much a wrap for Cube's solo career. Westside Connection did have a banger with Nate Dogg I remember around 2001, but the album wasn't any big deal....
Before the movie career really took off, Cube did know how to turn out those singles. There has never been a Cube album I could listen to beginning to end, but I was always recording his singles off the radio (in the old double tape deck days when you would record over radio or borrow your friends cd or tape and dubb that shit). "You Know How We Do It", "Bop Gun", "Check Yourself", "Bow Down", "Westside Slaughterhouse", "Today Was A Good Day"... all great, classic singles. "Bop Gun" came with a B-side of "Down For Whatever" which was some of Cube's best work as well.
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This is the guy who did start with A Bitch iz a Bitch and I Ain't the One. each NWA had one single ready song that was edited to go on the radio. Dre had Express Yourself, Ren had If It Ain't Rough, Eazy had 8-Ball radio version, and Cube had I Ain't the One... LOL. Completely different than all the writing he did with the political social message. For some reason, Cube's always been like that, except when he first went single. That 1990-1994 run was amazing, but before and after that it was all about releasing You Can Do It, Playa'z Club, Pushin' Weight and so on. Don't know why, the hard stuff is what people want. But since he's main run was over and he did movies, he just hasn't been good about giving the fans what they want.
chtmixeur was right.... Cube is washed up as a rapper. The last time he really made a banger it was still the 90's... I think when he was fuccin with Short Khop and making "Pushin Weight" was pretty much his swan song, once he started doing all those underwhelming movies, and then sequels to those underwhelming movies, and making a gang of money doin it... it was pretty much a wrap for Cube's solo career. Westside Connection did have a banger with Nate Dogg I remember around 2001, but the album wasn't any big deal....
Before the movie career really took off, Cube did know how to turn out those singles. There has never been a Cube album I could listen to beginning to end, but I was always recording his singles off the radio (in the old double tape deck days when you would record over radio or borrow your friends cd or tape and dubb that shit). "You Know How We Do It", "Bop Gun", "Check Yourself", "Bow Down", "Westside Slaughterhouse", "Today Was A Good Day"... all great, classic singles. "Bop Gun" came with a B-side of "Down For Whatever" which was some of Cube's best work as well.
his first 3 albums were classic...he was guna make a comeback, produced by dre for his latest album "everythangs corrupt". was talkin bout keepin it political and the whole 9....it's been 4 years and a slew of singles since he announced it now, in classic "detox" fashion. may never see the light of day.
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Cube and Dre are wealthy celebs playing roles. Neither one want to rock the boat by putting themselves under the spotlight as artists with opinions
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
Good choice underrated song on the album.
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
Good choice underrated song on the album.
I am happy with this choice. Song bangs.
What i really love is the transition from the intro to the second song.
The cinematic dope intro ends with a smooth teaser of the second song.
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I just....Bought CALI........FORNIA
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looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
Interesting news. Will be cool to see what they come up with visually for the song. I think it is a solid choice because it is a song that could also capture the minds of young fans and still please the older headz
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Need video for " animals" Super song
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
what a whack choice, one of the baddest songs (and there are many) on the album. still trying to find the good songs on the album haven't found more than 5 yet. Dre fell off hard with this.
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After watching the movie, the album makes a lot more sense. I would've thought Talkin to My Diary would've been the first single for sure - was played at both the beginning and ending credits of movie.
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
what a whack choice, one of the baddest songs (and there are many) on the album. still trying to find the good songs on the album haven't found more than 5 yet. Dre fell off hard with this.
using the word "baddest" like that crushes credibility
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
what a whack choice, one of the baddest songs (and there are many) on the album. still trying to find the good songs on the album haven't found more than 5 yet. Dre fell off hard with this.
using the word "baddest" like that crushes credibility
Preach Manny1!
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
I could've called that. It's the obvious straight radio cut
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what is that vocal sample in all in a day's work? i cant understand what does that vocal says. which song is it from?
anybody knows it?
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what is that vocal sample in all in a day's work? i cant understand what does that vocal says. which song is it from?
anybody knows it?
Jimmy Iovine talking in the beginning.. full credits here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
ADDITIONAL VOCALS BY King Mez, Sly Jordan, Danny Tannenbaum & Jimmy Iovine.
I recommend checking this site (http://genius.com/Dr-dre-compton-tracklist-and-cover-art-lyrics) as well, while listening..
Lyrics, clarification on who says/sings what, references, annotations, and background stories about tracks and quotes.. 8)
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what is that vocal sample in all in a day's work? i cant understand what does that vocal says. which song is it from?
anybody knows it?
Jimmy Iovine talking in the beginning.. full credits here: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=318919.0
ADDITIONAL VOCALS BY King Mez, Sly Jordan, Danny Tannenbaum & Jimmy Iovine.
but it sounds like a sample dude. am i wrong?
I recommend checking this site (http://genius.com/Dr-dre-compton-tracklist-and-cover-art-lyrics) as well, while listening..
Lyrics, clarification on who says/sings what, references, annotations, and background stories about tracks and quotes.. 8)
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So there wont be any single/video for this album at all?
looks like "Talk About it" will be the first single
http://www.24urban.com/news/dr-dre-picks-first-single-from-compton
what a whack choice, one of the baddest songs (and there are many) on the album. still trying to find the good songs on the album haven't found more than 5 yet. Dre fell off hard with this.
using the word "baddest" like that crushes credibility
Preach Manny1!
does bad still mean good these days?
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
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Dope anything good in the vid, or they're just sucking each others diccs for 2 hours
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I'm about 30 minutes in and so far it's interesting... probably gonna watch it in 2 or 3 parts
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
Very dope clip! Deserves far more than 10k views.
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
Huge props.
2 hours is a long time, but it's worth it imo. It's great for them each to be given an opportunity to share their experiences and give account of their input.
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anybody likes to answer what is the sample playing at the end of "all in a days work" song? dont tell me about the booklet, its not written on it, its a sample from a song and i cant find it yet.
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
Man that's depressing. These half-a-fags get that opportunity. It would've been dope as fuck seeing the cast of 2001 doing an interview like this. Imagine DOC, Snoop, Eminem, Kurupt, Six-Two, Mel-Man, Knoc-turn'al, Hittman, all doing a huge group interview about 2001.
Make that happen Skee!
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anybody likes to answer what is the sample playing at the end of "all in a days work" song? dont tell me about the booklet, its not written on it, its a sample from a song and i cant find it yet.
"Dream On" from Aerosmith? the same sample that Em used on "Sing For The Moment"?
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
Man that's depressing. These half-a-fags get that opportunity. It would've been dope as fuck seeing the cast of 2001 doing an interview like this. Imagine DOC, Snoop, Eminem, Kurupt, Six-Two, Mel-Man, Knoc-turn'al, Hittman, all doing a huge group interview about 2001.
Make that happen Skee!
Word. It would be so much doper to see the 2001 crew together.
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
It's embarrassing to watch all of these socially awkward and faggotish people to come together and say trite shit like "Thank God and Dr. Dre." So many of these people are obviously uncomfortable on stage.
Focus and Cardiak are extremely dope producers. A lot of the other people on this stage suck fat dick, though.
The worst is Justus...what the fuck was Dre thinking working with this dude...A music video with them two together would be pure comedy.
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
It's embarrassing to watch all of these socially awkward and faggotish people to come together and say trite shit like "Thank God and Dr. Dre." So many of these people are obviously uncomfortable on stage.
Focus and Cardiak are extremely dope producers. A lot of the other people on this stage suck fat dick, though.
The worst is Justus...what the fuck was Dre thinking working with this dude...A music video with them two together would be pure comedy.
His hooks were dope tho... Jus glad he wasn't rappin
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I recommend checking this site (http://genius.com/Dr-dre-compton-tracklist-and-cover-art-lyrics) as well, while listening..
Lyrics, clarification on who says/sings what, references, annotations, and background stories about tracks and quotes.. 8)
good find
Dope anything good in the vid, or they're just sucking each others diccs for 2 hours
it's cool that Skee got them all together like that.... but just starting this so far and it does seem like a lot of "ra ra" cheerleading... but it's still worth watching and I think it will get better
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Watching the Skee video and hearing all of these squares talk, I gotta say....
I don't think one bitch got fucked or one blunt got smoked during the making of this album...
Quik was prophesizing this shit when he said the lyric:
"I think Eazy-E is turning over in his grave
To see that some of y'all done made gangsta rap GAY"
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Watching the Skee video and hearing all of these squares talk, I gotta say....
I don't think one bitch got fucked or one blunt got smoked during the making of this album...
Quik was prophesizing this shit when he said the lyric:
"I think Eazy-E is turning over in his grave
To see that some of y'all done made gangsta rap GAY"
Not one bitch got fucked? Not one blunt smoked? Oh man, then it can't be a good album! It's just not possible.
Also funny, you throw around the "faggot" stuff and the stuff about being Dre and company being too "politically correct" or whatever, I think it's hilarious. Perhaps you would prefer to listen to Rush Limbaugh? Or maybe go to a Donald Trump rally? Because you sure as shit sound more like those guys then you do any sane kind of human being.
If you are kidding yourself into think Tubesock Shucker would talking like you are these days (had he not been an idiot in '95 and '96 and gotten killed by being an absolute fool) then you are sadly, sadly mistaken. Grow up little man.
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Watching the Skee video and hearing all of these squares talk, I gotta say....
I don't think one bitch got fucked or one blunt got smoked during the making of this album...
Quik was prophesizing this shit when he said the lyric:
"I think Eazy-E is turning over in his grave
To see that some of y'all done made gangsta rap GAY"
Actually you, and Quik do have a bit of point... that the whole shit did sound kind of technical, and like putting together an orchestra and Dre is the maestro or some shit... but that is kind of what Dre is these days.... It's not like the old Chronic days when they were smoking up pounds and pounds and really chillin and shit...... it is different....
...but there's more than one way to make great music. I mean, orchestra's do produce great music, even though most the players are stiff nerds in suits and ties, I love some classical music like Pachebel's Canon or Found Harmonium, I like some stuff like that...
...so although i think Pac kind of had the right idea about catching the music in the moment, when the emotions are in their rawest form... dre has proved that great hip-hop can also be made through being a perfectionist and technically sound and taking no shorts
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anybody likes to answer what is the sample playing at the end of "all in a days work" song? dont tell me about the booklet, its not written on it, its a sample from a song and i cant find it yet.
"Dream On" from Aerosmith? the same sample that Em used on "Sing For The Moment"?
which part of "dream on"? i can't catch which part, because i cant clearly hear the sample. can u tell?
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Dre's aftermath crew: nerds, losers, fat chicks, weirdos, hipsters, middle-aged family men, one real nigga (Jon Conner), and one sexy bitch (Candace Pillay).
Comparing this crew to the collection of artists employed on Death Row at any moment in its existence....Suge Knight would be rolling in his grave, if he were dead.
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i bet 2pac was turnin in his grave when suge signed real nigga like tha realest ;D
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Anyone else here get the impression that most of these people will never blow up and become real stars on their own? None of them have any real star power.
King Mez is just a hipster wannabe version of Kendrick or Iamsu. No charisma. Tries to seem "laid-back" but is just camera-shy.
Justus...what the fuck.
Anderson.Paak has the most unique voice and appearance of the group, and might develop a following with the teenage crowd. But I doubt that much enduring fame is ahead of him.
Asia Bryant...the most annoying person on the stage. Not very talented either.
Jon Connor is the only one with a realistic and credible personality. Not sure if he has the charisma needed to be a star though.
Candace Pillay could be a star if she shows her tits enough. And she's got a good voice.
Dre thinks he's a great judge of talent, and all of the people on the stage love to praise him for his unique apprehension of their abilities, but let's face it: Dre has allowed his success to delude him. His ability to detect talent has faded.
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i mean, hittman, 6'2", ms roq, and knocturnal never blew up........but it still made for a classic album
outa the bunch, i like jon connor and anderson paak's potential.....and i dont see why a rapper like meek mill can be big an king mez cant. these new cats def fit in with todays rap.
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Anyone else here get the impression that most of these people will never blow up and become real stars on their own? None of them have any real star power.
King Mez is just a hipster wannabe version of Kendrick or Iamsu. No charisma. Tries to seem "laid-back" but is just camera-shy.
Justus...what the fuck.
Anderson.Paak has the most unique voice and appearance of the group, and might develop a following with the teenage crowd. But I doubt that much enduring fame is ahead of him.
Asia Bryant...the most annoying person on the stage. Not very talented either.
Jon Connor is the only one with a realistic and credible personality. Not sure if he has the charisma needed to be a star though.
Candace Pillay could be a star if she shows her tits enough. And she's got a good voice.
Dre thinks he's a great judge of talent, and all of the people on the stage love to praise him for his unique apprehension of their abilities, but let's face it: Dre has allowed his success to delude him. His ability to detect talent has faded.
Good lord, go bbq. Crack a beer. Push pause on your crusade
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Kinda amusing to see that the people who dislike Dre & the album the most, are making the most posts about it.
Also, is it a co-incidence that most of them are hardcore DJ Quik fans? Inferiority complex much? Or some sort of campaign? :D
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anybody likes to answer what is the sample playing at the end of "all in a days work" song? dont tell me about the booklet, its not written on it, its a sample from a song and i cant find it yet.
"Dream On" from Aerosmith? the same sample that Em used on "Sing For The Moment"?
i think you got me wrong. there is a vocal sample playing behind the beat, u can hear it clearly especially at the end of song. i'm asking about it. it's not "dream on"
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Anyone else here get the impression that most of these people will never blow up and become real stars on their own? None of them have any real star power.
King Mez is just a hipster wannabe version of Kendrick or Iamsu. No charisma. Tries to seem "laid-back" but is just camera-shy.
Justus...what the fuck.
Anderson.Paak has the most unique voice and appearance of the group, and might develop a following with the teenage crowd. But I doubt that much enduring fame is ahead of him.
Asia Bryant...the most annoying person on the stage. Not very talented either.
Jon Connor is the only one with a realistic and credible personality. Not sure if he has the charisma needed to be a star though.
Candace Pillay could be a star if she shows her tits enough. And she's got a good voice.
Dre thinks he's a great judge of talent, and all of the people on the stage love to praise him for his unique apprehension of their abilities, but let's face it: Dre has allowed his success to delude him. His ability to detect talent has faded.
i say give em a couple years and see where there are its too early
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Kinda amusing to see that the people who dislike Dre & the album the most, are making the most posts about it.
Also, is it a co-incidence that most of them are hardcore DJ Quik fans? Inferiority complex much? Or some sort of campaign? :D
Very bizarre right? Like one's got to go, or something. Even more strange is the fact that the artists themselves have a profound mutual respect for one another.
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Kinda amusing to see that the people who dislike Dre & the album the most, are making the most posts about it.
Also, is it a co-incidence that most of them are hardcore DJ Quik fans? Inferiority complex much? Or some sort of campaign? :D
Very bizarre right? Like one's got to go, or something. Even more strange is the fact that the artists themselves have a profound mutual respect for one another.
It's like some Prince fans vs Michael Jackson fans. Some people can't give someone credit without putting someone else down in order to do so.
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Why are DJ Quik fans dissing this project? Because DJ Quik fans have a high standard for the music they listen to. And they tend to be real niggaz.
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The Story Behind Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Album (Two-Hour Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Qk14i1Ofw
That was an interesting interview and it's good to put some faces behind the people who were involved in the making of Compton.
It actually makes me appreciate the album even more now after listening to how it was such a team effort with some of the artists grinding for years before they even had a slight chance of making it onto the soundtrack (DJ Silk mentions how he must have done around 500 beats during the sessions for Eminem's 'Relapse' album, none of which to my knowledge have been released on any project).
It's also interesting to hear that 'Medicine Man' was extremely close to not being included on the album. I think Dre should have gone with his instinct and left it off because it is the weakest joint on the entire album to me. It's more of an Eminem song than a Dre one and it doesn't fit right in the flow of the album.
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Why are DJ Quik fans dissing this project? Because DJ Quik fans have a high standard for the music they listen to. And they tend to be real niggaz.
Quik himself praised Dre and this project aswell, guess he aint ''real nigga'' lol
btw. im listenin Compton and Midnight Life in flac on headphones, both are pure fire 8)
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Midnight Life is a good album but sounds like fruity loops compared to this album lol
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Midnight Life is a good album but sounds like fruity loops compared to this album lol
nah men they both have that rich sound, life instruments and shit just compare them to for example vince stamples album - those simply monotonious ass beats sounds more like fruit loops stuff even tho no id made them lol
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula... New school sounds mixed in wit some of the vintage shit. Both albums go, but the production on dre's shit is clearly better.
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula... New school sounds mixed in wit some of the vintage shit. Both albums go, but the production on dre's shit is clearly better.
think they just bitter that dre got bigger exposure than quik that all, to me they both are mad scientists 8)
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Midnight Life is a good album but sounds like fruity loops compared to this album lol
nah men they both have that rich sound, life instruments and shit just compare them to for example vince stamples album - those simply monotonious ass beats sounds more like fruit loops stuff even tho no id made them lol
I'd say the production BUMPS more on Vince's album than Quik's but there's definitely not as many elements present in terms of different instruments, sounds and overall mixing
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Midnight Life is a good album but sounds like fruity loops compared to this album lol
nah men they both have that rich sound, life instruments and shit just compare them to for example vince stamples album - those simply monotonious ass beats sounds more like fruit loops stuff even tho no id made them lol
I'd say the production BUMPS more on Vince's album than Quik's but there's definitely not as many elements present in terms of different instruments, sounds and overall mixing
yeah you right theres a lot bass on that, i only play it in my car
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Why are DJ Quik fans dissing this project? Because DJ Quik fans have a high standard for the music they listen to. And they tend to be real niggaz.
you´ve been exposed as a fake blood many times. just a friendly reminder, stay in the fucking corner.
this fag just wants a soundtrack for posing in front of a mirror with a red rag, twisting fingers. it must be hard trying to imagine you´re a gangsta when there´s all this grown up music playing in the background.
Compton kinda did get old fast but there are still a lot of great songs .
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula
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god I love any of these Quik/Dre comparisons.... you comparing a ukelele to a symphony my ficca
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula
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god I love any of these Quik/Dre comparisons.... you comparing a ukelele to a symphony my ficca
He said they're made with the same formula but that Dre's production is clearly better. What's so egregious about that? I bet you didn't even listen to the Quik album.
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula
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god I love any of these Quik/Dre comparisons.... you comparing a ukelele to a symphony my ficca
He said they're made with the same formula but that Dre's production is clearly better. What's so egregious about that? I bet you didn't even listen to the Quik album.
lol infinite has comprehension issues, his replies are fueled by emotion, not rationality. People who run high on emotion sometimes don't fully soak in what they hear/read before they speak out on it.
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I don't see how people can like Midnite Life and hate on Compton. It's pretty much made wit the same formula
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god I love any of these Quik/Dre comparisons.... you comparing a ukelele to a symphony my ficca
He said they're made with the same formula but that Dre's production is clearly better. What's so egregious about that? I bet you didn't even listen to the Quik album.
fair enough.. and no I didn't listen to the Quik album.
by the way...
Finally getting some time off and I'm revisiting the Compton album regularly for the first time in a month....and holy shit Paak fuccin kills "All In A Day's Work".... that is the perfect beat for his sound and complimenting Dre's verses
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I must honestly admit, that after giving this album plenty of listens, that much of it is ahead of its time, indeed. I was worried that my early listens would be bias- and rightfully so- being a big Dr. Dre fan... I was just enjoying the music and hype, so I couldn't really critique objectively. Now; however, I can definitely see this as one day being revolutionary. Dre changed the game with his previous albums, an.d he'll do it again with this record. Sure, it'll take longer for this record to have an impact like that due to the lack of big stand-alone singles, as well as big featured guests (past and current). I've always believed that Dre/Aftermath/Interscope should have put more promo-marketing and effort behind this release (billboards/dvd/documentary-interviews...etc.), especially after waiting so long for this release- and being Dre's final LP. The hype should have been epic.
The sales are evidence of the lack of effort backing this record. I still can't believe Dre's highly anticipated final record hasn't even gone gold yet! VERY DISSAPOINTING, even with today's leakage and low sales.
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I must honestly admit, that after giving this album plenty of listens, that much of it is ahead of its time, indeed. I was worried that my early listens would be bias- and rightfully so- being a big Dr. Dre fan... I was just enjoying the music and hype, so I couldn't really critique objectively. Now; however, I can definitely see this as one day being revolutionary. Dre changed the game with his previous albums, an.d he'll do it again with this record. Sure, it'll take longer for this record to have an impact like that due to the lack of big stand-alone singles, as well as big featured guests (past and current). I've always believed that Dre/Aftermath/Interscope should have put more promo-marketing and effort behind this release (billboards/dvd/documentary-interviews...etc.), especially after waiting so long for this release- and being Dre's final LP. The hype should have been epic.
The sales are evidence of the lack of effort backing this record. I still can't believe Dre's highly anticipated final record hasn't even gone gold yet! VERY DISSAPOINTING, even with today's leakage and low sales.
Please elaborate what is so revolutionary about this album and how did change the game?
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How much has it sold to date
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How much has it sold to date
last I checked it was somewhere between 400-500K... not bad considering minimal promo outside the net and no radio singles/videos, plus coming out at last minute behind the film
not to mention first week streams were only on Apple and no other service
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I must honestly admit, that after giving this album plenty of listens, that much of it is ahead of its time, indeed. I was worried that my early listens would be bias- and rightfully so- being a big Dr. Dre fan... I was just enjoying the music and hype, so I couldn't really critique objectively. Now; however, I can definitely see this as one day being revolutionary. Dre changed the game with his previous albums, an.d he'll do it again with this record. Sure, it'll take longer for this record to have an impact like that due to the lack of big stand-alone singles, as well as big featured guests (past and current). I've always believed that Dre/Aftermath/Interscope should have put more promo-marketing and effort behind this release (billboards/dvd/documentary-interviews...etc.), especially after waiting so long for this release- and being Dre's final LP. The hype should have been epic.
The sales are evidence of the lack of effort backing this record. I still can't believe Dre's highly anticipated final record hasn't even gone gold yet! VERY DISSAPOINTING, even with today's leakage and low sales.
Nice post...
and it was getting some big attention the first week it dropped but now it's like nothing is being said or written about it... WHAT THE FUCK?!!? I hope I am wrong, because something this spectacular can't just come and go like that. I'm hoping a single or video comes out or something, because this would be a great injustice to hip-hop if it were to just fade away so suddenly.
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well a 27 page thread on the Dub is pretty noteworthy lol
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well a 27 page thread on the Dub is pretty noteworthy lol
may be noteworthy to have—a thread—but it pales in comparison to his last album which basically lead to the foundation of the entire forum. I mean there should be a big renaissance/resurgence now at this forum and that hasn't quite materialized...
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well a 27 page thread on the Dub is pretty noteworthy lol
may be noteworthy to have—a thread—but it pales in comparison to his last album which basically lead to the foundation of the entire forum. I mean there should be a big renaissance/resurgence now at this forum and that hasn't quite materialized...
a few cats popped up who hadn't been seen on here in years which was cool enough but I can agree to that to some extent... 2015, times have changed
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why do you think that is byron? or brian....whatever the fuck your honkey name is.
is there alot of negative energy here at the forum that wont allow for open discourse? or was the album not as good as we hoped for like i stated a few pages back? (for which you got in your feelings toward me lol)
everytime someone has an opinion of this album that isnt favorable you got a few posters whom i dont need to name that will immediately start flame posting and calling people faggots and shit. thats not open conversation and dosnt foster an easily sociable environment.
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why do you think that is byron? or brian....whatever the fuck your honkey name is.
is there alot of negative energy here at the forum that wont allow for open discourse? or was the album not as good as we hoped for like i stated a few pages back? (for which you got in your feelings toward me lol)
everytime someone has an opinion of this album that isnt favorable you got a few posters whom i dont need to name that will immediately start flame posting and calling people faggots and shit. thats not open conversation and dosnt foster an easily sociable environment.
it's because of 4 factors.. all of which escaped you....
#1. Digital media. Without digital media this album would already be platinum. Headz would've recognize the genius of the album first and signaled to the mainstream to check it out. And fake fans like yourself wouldn't of been able to steal it so you wouldn't even be posting in this thread because you wouldn't have even heard the album. I could actually write a whole book on the effects of digital media on this album, but I'll stop there
#2. Hip-Hop is Dead. Nas made it official with the album release bearing the title in late 2006.
#3. Dre doesn't really need anymore money or have anything left to prove. Back in 1999 he was still hungry to make Aftermath a success, but the dude is 50 something now and nearly a billionaire. So he isn't really hungry to promote, film video's, and do a big tour like Up In Smoke. Maybe some of that will come later, and I hope it does, but Dre ain't losing sleep over it...
#4. There is no Eminem or Snoop for this album. I mean I love King Mez and personally I think he is the closest thing to a Snoop or Eminem on this album... but, still... Snoop and Eminem were kind of larger than life and it wouldn't even be fair to put that kind of pressure or expect that from a King Mez or Paak or Conner or any of the newer cats.
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Had time to listen through the album again this week a dozen times or so more... Before the album just sounded like one action filled movie, and I couldn't really separate where one scene ended and the other began... but now I can pick out which tracks I think are really the stand out cuts... so here is my first review of the album track by track...
Tracks judged 1-10 with 1 being the worst song Dre ever did, something like "Got Me Open" off Aftermath presents or "Nas Is Coming" off It Was Written and 10 being the best song Dre ever did—something like "Let Me Ride" or "California Love" or "Keep The Heads Wringing".
"Intro" - 2 - Nothing really wrong with the intro. But nothing great either. The Chronic of course had a great intro but this one was nearly as weak as the Chronic 2001 intro.
"Talk About It" - 10 - This a great, next level, trend-setting track from Dre. This track sets the tone for the whole album and was apparantly the moment when Dre really found himself again and moved forward with updating his sound making what became the Compton album. Best line from this song is when Dre comes in with "I Just Bought CALIFORNIA" and Mez really shines on this with "I'm the black Eminem, I'm the humbler 50"
"Genocide" - 4 - Not a standout cut, but listenable and still dope.
"It's All On Me" - 7 - Really nice track here. Dre is really speaking on some shit on this one, and it is nice to get back in touch with where Dre is in his life at this point—this track also feels very true to Dre's life. It's kind of like how Eminem sounded on "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" or Pac on "Never Call You Bitch Again", it's rappers who sometimes go to extremes settling down and just speaking on regular life.
"All In A Day's Work" - 8.5 - Paak really shines on this track. There are a couple standout moments on this track—when Paak suddenly cuts in with "Hard Times—Front Line" that part really shines... again this is a more low key Dre like on It's All On Me
"Darkside/Gone" - 3 - a little slow moving but still dope
"Loose Cannon" - 3 - good the first few times thru but after the shock value it loses its luster
"Issues" - 4 - dope track for sure but not as much replay value as some of the others
"Deep Water" - 8 - I'm not even a Kendrick fan but Kendrick really shines on this. When he comes in with "Mutherfucka I started from the Bottom" shit is really banging... his verse is flawless and the beat has a lot of imagery like they rappin under water literally
"One Shot One Kill" - 1.5 - This is the only song I think probably could of been left off the album. Interesting to hear Snoop come with a different style, but this track still hasn't hit me yet.
"Just Another Day" - 8 - Not really a fan of Game, personally. So maybe that holds this track back for me a bit. But I think the beat on this one is vintage Dre, with the horns, really puts you in Compton on a sunny day, and the South African girl sounds great on this one.
"For The Love of Money" 9 - This is a fuccin banger! Could be a banger in the clubs. I would love to hear a DJ mix it down with the Bone version. Conner comes incredible on this one and then Dre plays off him with "Say what's up to the nicca wearing all black at the white party!"
"Satisfiction" 7.5 - Snoop sounds much better on this joint.
"Animals" 7.5 - Great to hear Premier and Dre together, I love the end where they scratch it up and speak over it.
"Medicine Man" 4 - Not so much a fan of Em's new style. It's still a good track, but nothing close to a "What's the Difference" or "Forgot About Dre". In fact, I think "I Need A Doctor" is even a bit better than this one.
"Talking to My Diary" - 9 - Great song, and really fits the movie when you think about him touching on subjects from back in the day like N.W.A.—it was really necassary to hear Dre speak on that stuff at some point in the album. The beat is incredible and certainly deserved the long outro at the end. It's a rolling beat that reminds me of the way Em's "Guts Over Fear" sort of rolls, although this one is more emphatic and hits at the end of each bar.
STANDOUT CUTS:
"Talk About It"
"It's All On Me"
"All In A Day's Work"
"Deep Water"
"Just Another Day"
"For The Love Of Money"
"Talking To My Diary"
Final Conclusion: 5 Mic Classic album for sure!
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
(http://i.imgur.com/0J1P6Er.jpg)
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Personally, I'm really loving th album. I think a lot of people are let down because they are comparing it to his last albums (I read a lot of "it's not like this, or its not like that). I just accept it for what it is & not base it on Dre's past work. Fans are supposed to grow up with the artists they listen to & if you looking for a Chronic 2 or Dr. Dre 3001, then you are stuck in the past. It's one of those albums where it's so much going on, your brain won't process it in a few listens. I must've heard it at least 30 times since I bought it the day it came out & I still hear new things going on in there. But to me it's a genius album. Anyone who's actually been to Compton, this album is a perfect audio version of the city. Like the part on Issues towards the end with the pideon coup, the shootout, and the police chase, that's genius shit , that's Compton! It's little shit lik that that will take people awhile to digest. And then you have people talking shit about he didn't produce this or that. Like the homeboy from Lamb said in countless posts (as well as interviews from the actual people on the album) Dre produced that album top to bottom regardless if his name is last or not listed at all as a producer. Look at the writer credits, he's listed as a writer on every song, even the songs like Just Another Day where he's not listed as a producer or even raps on the song. That should let you know he's very much involved in every aspect. Especially producing the vocals (which gets overlooked). Everyone who performed on the album was in rare form, that's Dre! He donated all his portion of the profits of the album so you think he really gives a fuck about production credit at this point? Dre likes to evolve & push his self so you have to look at how he progressed. The Chronic, he's layering samples & having a lot of them replayed, making them his songs. 2001 he's having his vision of original ideas (for the most part) played by musicians until they become his songs with Mel Man pretty much his DJ Yella. So how does he evolve from that? He takes other people's ideas and produces them into his songs like he did on Compton. So for example 'Talk About It' he produced Bink's beat into his own song, no different on how he used the 'I wanna Do Something Freaky To You' sample to produce his own song on G-Thang. It's deep but the more people listen to it, the more they'll catch on.
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He takes other people's ideas and produces them into his songs like he did on Compton. So for example 'Talk About It' he produced Bink's beat into his own song, no different on how he used the 'I wanna Do Something Freaky To You' sample to produce his own song on G-Thang.
perfect way to put it.
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
(http://i.imgur.com/0J1P6Er.jpg)
this....if matty said it then its official like like a referees whistle /
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OUT OF THE 30-40 DETOX LEAKS, U CANT EVEN HAND SELECT THE 16 BEST TRACKS AND MAKE AN ALBUM HALF AS GOOD AS "COMPTON"..........YALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHIN THAT DONT EXIST. ALBUM STILL BANGS.
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He takes other people's ideas and produces them into his songs like he did on Compton. So for example 'Talk About It' he produced Bink's beat into his own song, no different on how he used the 'I wanna Do Something Freaky To You' sample to produce his own song on G-Thang.
perfect way to put it.
true, but it's not a case of whether he produced it, it's more about actually liking the song and the sound he's gone for. now that's subjective but i'm gonna say i don't like it that much and a lot of the tracks he worked with aren't really my cup of tea :coffee:
example 'Medicine Man' is just horrendous, the beat is like a wall of noise, there's no groove or funk to it it's just some weird stuff going on. and it's telling that 'Talking To My Diary' is one of the doper tracks, more familiar sound and a beat that stuck around from the 'Detox' days. a good chunk of the tracks are competent, but i'm not feeling much in the way of classics, 10/10 tracks stuff i wanna have on repeat all the time. 'It's All On Me' is probably the best one i can get into a little more. it feels like a side project and I doubt anyone is gonna be bumping this one like Chronic or 2001 in the future, shit is just too forgettable.
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OUT OF THE 30-40 DETOX LEAKS, U CANT EVEN HAND SELECT THE 16 BEST TRACKS AND MAKE AN ALBUM HALF AS GOOD AS "COMPTON"..........YALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHIN THAT DONT EXIST. ALBUM STILL BANGS.
i'll take the better Detox leaks and snippets over anything that ended up on Compton really. i just think Dre struggled finding a direction and making actual songs over a lot of the music that was kicking about. this was obviously a lot easier, there was a clear direction, but with a very different sound - more aggressive, loud and angry. unmelodic. that's great if you're into that type of album, but i have my thing musically and this doesn't hit the spot.
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OUT OF THE 30-40 DETOX LEAKS, U CANT EVEN HAND SELECT THE 16 BEST TRACKS AND MAKE AN ALBUM HALF AS GOOD AS "COMPTON"..........YALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHIN THAT DONT EXIST. ALBUM STILL BANGS.
100... the only leaks that could even almost hang with this album would be "Kush" and "Back Against The Wall"... maybe "Topless" and "Syllables" if they were ever properly finished, all of the rest of the Detox leaks are boring and mediocre basically (if not flat out trash)
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'It's All On Me' is probably the best one i can get into a little more. it feels like a side project and I doubt anyone is gonna be bumping this one like Chronic or 2001 in the future, shit is just too forgettable.
"It's All On Me" is one of my top 3, but no doubt it is the most dated sounding song on the whole album. It's there for nostalgic reasons and you can hear it. Re: the funk/groove aspect, I think you were/are expecting a Dre sound of the past... This was not an album meant for the clubs with big radio singles.
I would agree with some other posters that this album hasn't had it's full effect yet. I've listened to it a good 40+ times thru and when I change over and listen to something else, the other shit sounds thin and empty. To be honest, 2001 even sounds hollow when compared to Compton on a sonic level. I've never heard an album that mixed and blended sounds this well - the amount of detail involved is insane - this shit is like a movie.
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OUT OF THE 30-40 DETOX LEAKS, U CANT EVEN HAND SELECT THE 16 BEST TRACKS AND MAKE AN ALBUM HALF AS GOOD AS "COMPTON"..........YALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHIN THAT DONT EXIST. ALBUM STILL BANGS.
100... the only leaks that could even almost hang with this album would be "Kush" and "Back Against The Wall"... maybe "Topless" and "Syllables" if they were ever properly finished, all of the rest of the Detox leaks are boring and mediocre basically (if not flat out trash)
+1
I'd add we got this album cause he actually finally got in a groove and organically created a cohesive body of work with one group of artists. The piecemeal approach he'd tried over the last decade didn't bear any fruit. I'm sure that in the vaults there are 100 mix tapes worth of shit we'd like a lot, but my playlist of detox leaks is mad lame in comparison to this. Forced chemistry. No genuine vibing going on with any of the artists featured whatsoever.
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OUT OF THE 30-40 DETOX LEAKS, U CANT EVEN HAND SELECT THE 16 BEST TRACKS AND MAKE AN ALBUM HALF AS GOOD AS "COMPTON"..........YALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHIN THAT DONT EXIST. ALBUM STILL BANGS.
i'll take the better Detox leaks and snippets over anything that ended up on Compton really. i just think Dre struggled finding a direction and making actual songs over a lot of the music that was kicking about. this was obviously a lot easier, there was a clear direction, but with a very different sound - more aggressive, loud and angry. unmelodic. that's great if you're into that type of album, but i have my thing musically and this doesn't hit the spot.
i duno about it bein "unmelodic"...and as far as detox leaks go, topless may be the only leak on the level of this album.
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'It's All On Me' is probably the best one i can get into a little more. it feels like a side project and I doubt anyone is gonna be bumping this one like Chronic or 2001 in the future, shit is just too forgettable.
"It's All On Me" is one of my top 3, but no doubt it is the most dated sounding song on the whole album. It's there for nostalgic reasons and you can hear it. Re: the funk/groove aspect, I think you were/are expecting a Dre sound of the past... This was not an album meant for the clubs with big radio singles.
I would agree with some other posters that this album hasn't had it's full effect yet. I've listened to it a good 40+ times thru and when I change over and listen to something else, the other shit sounds thin and empty. To be honest, 2001 even sounds hollow when compared to Compton on a sonic level. I've never heard an album that mixed and blended sounds this well - the amount of detail involved is insane - this shit is like a movie.
yup.....people who mix/master music will typically understand better than people who dont.
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... But to me it's a genius album. Anyone who's actually been to Compton, this album is a perfect audio version of the city. Like the part on Issues towards the end with the pideon coup, the shootout, and the police chase, that's genius shit , that's Compton! It's little shit lik that that will take people awhile to digest. And then you have people talking shit about he didn't produce this or that. Like the homeboy from Lamb said in countless posts (as well as interviews from the actual people on the album) Dre produced that album top to bottom regardless if his name is last or not listed at all as a producer...
Never been to Compton but I agree there is a level of genius here that will take time to appreciate. To go with your example, at the beginning of "Issues" Cube says something like "I fucks em up like battery acid" then a synth drops in that... if anything ever "sounded" like battery acid, this is it! That's detail and production. Then as mentioned, the pigeon noises and clapping and police chase transition to "Deep Water" with seagulls/pigeons seamlessly. Then of course, somehow only Dre can make a song with an underwater theme sound great.
I think this album should be used as a study guide for any producer/engineer out there. That's where the next level ish is - not sales or radio play, just technicality.
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This album just flows flawlessly, Dr.Dre is a true master of his craft.
The only segueway I object to is the one between Loose Cannons and Issues. After Loose Cannons I would have liked a track in the vein of "Legends Of The Fall Offs" from the Busta Rhymes album on Aftermath. "Issues" doesn't fit the vibe. But aside from that....flawless.
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The only segueway I object to is the one between Loose Cannons and Issues. After Loose Cannons I would have liked a track in the vein of "Legends Of The Fall Offs" from the Busta Rhymes album on Aftermath. "Issues" doesn't fit the vibe. But aside from that....flawless.
could not have said that any better... "Issues" is a dope track and some people try to front on it while co-signing other bullshit music, it just needed better placement maybe after "One Shot Kill" instead
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I will put a review up for what it's worth - not saying it's right or wrong. Would be interesting to hear feedback, I know we all hear things differently:
Intro
I don't think Compton needs much of an introduction, it is one of the most anticipated rap albums of all-time, when considering the momentum Detox had that was shifted over. Although a fresh idea separate from Detox, Compton is still Dre's 3rd studio album that fans have been waiting for since the days of 2001 – released over 15 years ago. I always listen from a beat-first perspective, and like Dj Quik says, “See lyrics ain't nothin if the beat ain't crackin...”
1. Intro – An interesting intro that gives you insight into the album. There is a standard cinematic approach to it with a Walter Cronkite type newscaster which helps create the “ironic” feel. After hearing it once or twice, there is no need to listen again. Intros can have replay value but this one doesn't. 2/5
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) – After the first few listens I didn't like song. But after that the hook really grew on me and I understood the reason it was first. An inspirational and epic song that sets the tone of the album with big drums. 4/5
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) – The beat is a burner with a slow bass drop opposing keys and a metallic sounding drum bopping in the backdrop. Lots going on in this track and Marsha reminds me of a 90s Lady of Rage on this cut. 5/5
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) – An easy favorite and was the song I had on repeat at the beginning. This has a very nostalgic feel to it and the beat is simple but effective, with Dre reminiscing on history. One of my top 5 favorites. 5/5
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) – Was unsure of this song at first but it has really grown on me. If there is a theme to this album – this is it. Hard work pays off, no bullshit. I hear this theme throughout the record and find this track to be really inspirational. I love the bass line, which reminds me of old school Chronic stuff. Also the effects of the guys digging at the end with the horns, classic production. Not to mention the high-hat that drops in at the end which keeps speeding up just kills it. 5/5
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) – Another one that is a slow burner. Wasn't sure about this track at first, but ended up loving it. High hat kicks in from last song, and a nice bass line. This is the first song that has a beat transition halfway through and I like it – Eazy drop is gold. When the piano kicks in, again, it creates a nostalgic feel with Dre dropping some insight on his career. “Don't ever call me fortunate, you don't know what it cost me... “ Kendrick kills it too, and a new bass line. Busy track but done very well. 5/5
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) – Love everything about this track except the murder skit. That part is skippable and could have been separated as a track or left out. Has a few beats, and the first one is my favorite. Bass from first beat reminds me of something from the Chronic. Also a big bass drop for the subs... this is the shit! Not crazy about the Cold 187um part but Xzibit kills it – time to get the guillotine out. 4/5
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz) – At first I didn't know what to think of the guitar loop going on. I got an AC/DC vibe but after a few listens found this to be one of the better tracks. The drums pound and the sub bangs with this track. Love the synth and battery acid matchup and Cube comes in angry as usual. The hook is dope too. This song reminds me of the scene in Straight Outta Compton when Cube comes in to Priority records and smashes it up with his baseball bat. Sound effects at the end I'm sure represent Compton well and transition perfectly to the next track. 5/5
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak) – A classic song that I can see may be overlooked. Listened to this song on good headphones, ear buds, studio monitors, home theater, and car speakers, and must say this is the best mixed and most complex song (sonically) on the album. This song should be a study guide for any engineer or producer out there looking to step their game up. The effects mixed with lyrics, bass drums, flow, is monstrous. Don't sleep on this song. Just as if the song wasn't good enough, there is a horn solo that comes on at the end – classic. 5/5
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens) – My least favorite song on the album, but definitely still listenable. Solid production and Snoop's flow is great, but not sure if I'm sold on Jon Connor and the aggressive flow on this track. 3/5
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant) – Solid boom bap track which sounds quite different from a lot of the songs on this album. Nowhere near as complex as some of the previous ones – your standard hip hop cut with a catchy chorus. 4/5
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak) – At first I really disliked this song because of the numerous Bone Thugs covers already out there. I thought it was lazy and was confused why it was on a Dre album. After listening some more, I have grown to like it. The bass line is sick and pounds on the sub, and I like the Anderson .Paak parts. The guitar at the end caught me off guard (initially) but it fits the part. 3/5
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) – An easygoing smooth song with an old school feel. The chorus reminds me of a 90s R&B song and Dre and Snoop are doing their thang. A nice bass line of course and just a simple track. 4/5
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak) – A serious and political track, great collabo with Dj Premier and good to hear Premier spitting some lyrics at the end of track. Simple but effective beat with Dre complimenting Premo. 4/5
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak) – This one could go either way, and the beat reminded me of something from Relapse. Eminem ranting VS Eminem spitting. Took me a few listens but I went with the latter, and found this was one of Eminem's better verses, and I thought the angry tone was fitting, and content perfect for the end of this album. 4/5
16. Talking To My Diary – Pretty much a perfect track, and amazing way to go out. Loved the anxious strings, bass line, and chorus. This was definitely worthy of a grand finale and the extra vocals on the chorus just add icing to the cake. Of course, the horn getting a verse at the very end just killed it, and again, horns are the instrument(s) of choice on this very diverse and complexly produced album. 5/5
Outro
Overall I would say many of the amazing songs makeup for the good songs on a classic album – which is what usually happens for me. In my books (in rap) I would say I only have a handful that I would give 5/5 too, with this being one of them. There are no monster club bangers on here but the next level ish is the technicality – the production, mixing, and blending of sounds and songs. If you play this and truly LISTEN, then compare to other albums, you will see what I mean. It is not hard for any producer to make a song with 20 layers of sounds/instruments, but it is hard to keep it organized and make one that sounds good - never mind great. I would expect this album to be nominated for many awards come the season.
5 / 5
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I will put a review up for what it's worth - not saying it's right or wrong. Would be interesting to hear feedback, I know we all hear things differently:
Intro
I don't think Compton needs much of an introduction, it is one of the most anticipated rap albums of all-time, when considering the momentum Detox had that was shifted over. Although a fresh idea separate from Detox, Compton is still Dre's 3rd studio album that fans have been waiting for since the days of 2001 – released over 15 years ago. I always listen from a beat-first perspective, and like Dj Quik says, “See lyrics ain't nothin if the beat ain't crackin...”
1. Intro – An interesting intro that gives you insight into the album. There is a standard cinematic approach to it with a Walter Cronkite type newscaster which helps create the “ironic” feel. After hearing it once or twice, there is no need to listen again. Intros can have replay value but this one doesn't. 2/5
2. Talk About It (feat. King Mez & Justus) – After the first few listens I didn't like song. But after that the hook really grew on me and I understood the reason it was first. An inspirational and epic song that sets the tone of the album with big drums. 4/5
3. Genocide (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) – The beat is a burner with a slow bass drop opposing keys and a metallic sounding drum bopping in the backdrop. Lots going on in this track and Marsha reminds me of a 90s Lady of Rage on this cut. 5/5
4. It’s All On Me (feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) – An easy favorite and was the song I had on repeat at the beginning. This has a very nostalgic feel to it and the beat is simple but effective, with Dre reminiscing on history. One of my top 5 favorites. 5/5
5. All In a Day’s Work (feat. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) – Was unsure of this song at first but it has really grown on me. If there is a theme to this album – this is it. Hard work pays off, no bullshit. I hear this theme throughout the record and find this track to be really inspirational. I love the bass line, which reminds me of old school Chronic stuff. Also the effects of the guys digging at the end with the horns, classic production. Not to mention the high-hat that drops in at the end which keeps speeding up just kills it. 5/5
6. Darkside/Gone (feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) – Another one that is a slow burner. Wasn't sure about this track at first, but ended up loving it. High hat kicks in from last song, and a nice bass line. This is the first song that has a beat transition halfway through and I like it – Eazy drop is gold. When the piano kicks in, again, it creates a nostalgic feel with Dre dropping some insight on his career. “Don't ever call me fortunate, you don't know what it cost me... “ Kendrick kills it too, and a new bass line. Busy track but done very well. 5/5
7. Loose Cannons (feat. Xzibit, COLD 187um & Sly Pyper) – Love everything about this track except the murder skit. That part is skippable and could have been separated as a track or left out. Has a few beats, and the first one is my favorite. Bass from first beat reminds me of something from the Chronic. Also a big bass drop for the subs... this is the shit! Not crazy about the Cold 187um part but Xzibit kills it – time to get the guillotine out. 4/5
8. Issues (feat. Ice Cube, Anderson .Paak & Dem Jointz) – At first I didn't know what to think of the guitar loop going on. I got an AC/DC vibe but after a few listens found this to be one of the better tracks. The drums pound and the sub bangs with this track. Love the synth and battery acid matchup and Cube comes in angry as usual. The hook is dope too. This song reminds me of the scene in Straight Outta Compton when Cube comes in to Priority records and smashes it up with his baseball bat. Sound effects at the end I'm sure represent Compton well and transition perfectly to the next track. 5/5
9. Deep Water (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Justus & Anderson .Paak) – A classic song that I can see may be overlooked. Listened to this song on good headphones, ear buds, studio monitors, home theater, and car speakers, and must say this is the best mixed and most complex song (sonically) on the album. This song should be a study guide for any engineer or producer out there looking to step their game up. The effects mixed with lyrics, bass drums, flow, is monstrous. Don't sleep on this song. Just as if the song wasn't good enough, there is a horn solo that comes on at the end – classic. 5/5
10. One Shot One Kill (Jon Connor feat. Snoop Dogg & Craig Owens) – My least favorite song on the album, but definitely still listenable. Solid production and Snoop's flow is great, but not sure if I'm sold on Jon Connor and the aggressive flow on this track. 3/5
11. Just Another Day (The Game feat. Asia Bryant) – Solid boom bap track which sounds quite different from a lot of the songs on this album. Nowhere near as complex as some of the previous ones – your standard hip hop cut with a catchy chorus. 4/5
12. For the Love of Money (feat. Jill Scott, Jon Connor & Anderson .Paak) – At first I really disliked this song because of the numerous Bone Thugs covers already out there. I thought it was lazy and was confused why it was on a Dre album. After listening some more, I have grown to like it. The bass line is sick and pounds on the sub, and I like the Anderson .Paak parts. The guitar at the end caught me off guard (initially) but it fits the part. 3/5
13. Satisfiction (feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez) – An easygoing smooth song with an old school feel. The chorus reminds me of a 90s R&B song and Dre and Snoop are doing their thang. A nice bass line of course and just a simple track. 4/5
14. Animals (feat. Anderson .Paak) – A serious and political track, great collabo with Dj Premier and good to hear Premier spitting some lyrics at the end of track. Simple but effective beat with Dre complimenting Premo. 4/5
15. Medicine Man (feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson .Paak) – This one could go either way, and the beat reminded me of something from Relapse. Eminem ranting VS Eminem spitting. Took me a few listens but I went with the latter, and found this was one of Eminem's better verses, and I thought the angry tone was fitting, and content perfect for the end of this album. 4/5
16. Talking To My Diary – Pretty much a perfect track, and amazing way to go out. Loved the anxious strings, bass line, and chorus. This was definitely worth of a grand finale and the extra vocals on the chorus just add icing to the cake. Of course, the horn getting a verse at the very end just killed it, and again, the horn is instrument of choice on this very diverse and complexly produced album.
Outro
Overall I would say many of the amazing songs makeup for the good songs on a classic album – which is what usually happens for me. In my books (in rap) I would say I only have a handful that I would give 5/5 too, with this being one of them. There are no monster club bangers on here but the next level ish is the technicality – the production, mixing, and blending of sounds and songs. If you play this and truly LISTEN, then compare to other albums, you will see what I mean. It is not hard for any producer to make a song with 20 layers of sounds/instruments, but it is hard to make one that sounds good - never mind great. I would expect this album to be nominated for many awards come the season.
5 / 5
That's a good review, pretty close to how I have it rated.. I'd have animals+for the love of money higher and issues lower, but on point for the most part.
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^ my exact thoughts sccit
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Sounds like Compton might not even go gold. It sank like the Titanic. Should have been himself on the album and would have sold millions.
They movie hyped it up and he sold 200k the first week...word got out the album wasn't true Dre and it's a flop. It's a fact. Sorry fellas. Dre fell off. Outside this forum it's been destroyed.
Hopefully he learns like he did with that Aftermath first album. His wife gave him the best advise then. Be yourself. He did and blew up again. I guess he needs to be reminded.
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The Album Is Certified Gold in Australia and Silver in the UK so it Is not a Flop ! The Album was in over 80 Countries Number 1 , more than Chronic 2001!
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Sounds like Compton might not even go gold. It sank like the Titanic. Should have been himself on the album and would have sold millions.
lol not in 2015
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It's already gold witout any videos or singles
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Sounds like Compton might not even go gold. It sank like the Titanic. Should have been himself on the album and would have sold millions.
lol not in 2015
If Dre had dropped something after Kush and INAD dropped, but that ship sailed my friend
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I don't care what it sold, I spent my $$$ on it & I enjoy it. All that matters to me. In contrast, Drake , Future's mixtape is selling like hotcakes. Does that mean it's a masterpiece or does it just mean they ar popular?
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I don't care what it sold, I spent my $$$ on it & I enjoy it. All that matters to me. In contrast, Drake , Future's mixtape is selling like hotcakes. Does that mean it's a masterpiece or does it just mean they ar popular?
it means a bunch of retards buying something only to fit in
a singing r&b diva meets a singing auto tune retard
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I must honestly admit, that after giving this album plenty of listens, that much of it is ahead of its time, indeed. I was worried that my early listens would be bias- and rightfully so- being a big Dr. Dre fan... I was just enjoying the music and hype, so I couldn't really critique objectively. Now; however, I can definitely see this as one day being revolutionary. Dre changed the game with his previous albums, an.d he'll do it again with this record. Sure, it'll take longer for this record to have an impact like that due to the lack of big stand-alone singles, as well as big featured guests (past and current). I've always believed that Dre/Aftermath/Interscope should have put more promo-marketing and effort behind this release (billboards/dvd/documentary-interviews...etc.), especially after waiting so long for this release- and being Dre's final LP. The hype should have been epic.
The sales are evidence of the lack of effort backing this record. I still can't believe Dre's highly anticipated final record hasn't even gone gold yet! VERY DISSAPOINTING, even with today's leakage and low sales.
Please elaborate what is so revolutionary about this album and how did change the game?
I said I could see how this could be revolutionary in hide site of the future.
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does not really answer my question
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stilll nobody knows whats that sample playing behind the beat at the end of "all in a days work" :(
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
whats "bridges and breakdowns"?
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
ya that's right my mufuccin ficca.......... num sayin................. i'm feeling way depressed right now dat diss album ain't blown, but other rapperz is eatin, like dat fool drake chartin highter than the Dr. dats a tragedy worse den da mufuccin 2000 election ya digg.... cause when billy waz in office shit was movin, ya heard... and then shit stopped movin and da game folded up cause fools turned dey lives into artificial prisons, so much damn security when we shud be opening up and showing love and dats on the realz my ficca....
i mean dre done gone next level with this shit, something ain't nobody ever done before and niccaz is turnin day headz and ain't showing no love... dat would be like Jordan comin back to da Bulls in 96' and nobody showin up to the gamez... that's unheard of...
it really takes a mufucka like Em to remind mufuckaz again dat dey forgot about Dre but that song is already done... So Paaak done put his heart and soul into these records to make this shit pop, and same wit King Mez and all dem niccaz done really put soul into dis one, Justus included, and Dre had the fire back and all that... he was comin from the heart ya dig... on tracks like "All On Me" and "Dayz Work", or "Diary" Dre really speakin da real like never before, it ain't 40z Bluntz and Bitches but some shit dat real dudes like your boy Infinite walkin the block in these jeans and these sneakers num sayin I really feel that shit, ya dig...
But ain't nobody giving a fucc and it's really starting to depress me num sayin, the world need to wake up... and it take a player like Dre from back in the day to remind us of what we once were and what we can be again, and he put that heart and that believe in these kids like Conner, and that South African bitch and all of dem, those kids put their all into this shit cause Dre made them believe in themselves, and he put that same heart that him and Eazy used to put into it, he was rekindling that flame, ya dig...
but.. naw.. niccaz ain't want that... niccaz wanna be buying up this Drake album or whatever the fucc else I saw on the charts ahead of Dre and it ain't even about no mufucckin single and all that ya dig... cause NWA ain't need no single num sayin... mufuckaz got two ears but got no heart... fact of the matter is I was even talkin to some buckweed ass ficca da other day and hes a DJ and saying he a fan of Dre but that he ain't checked out the album yet.. Now what the fucc is that??? How the fucc you ain't on da block da first day to go and cop that shit is beyond me... cause a nicca like Infinite been waiting for 15 years for this shit, please believeit...
I knew Dre was the truth from the moment I saw him put on Snoop, that whoever the dude was behind Snoop that dude was the truth... and to be honest I actually thought they were a rap group when I was a kid... and then everyone wants to forget that it was Dre who really put Pac on big in 96', cause it was Dre who made Suge look like a genius and made Pac believe in Suge and believe in Death Row and "California Love" had the whole world believing... not to take anything away from Pac he's the GOAT rapper but when it comes to producing Dre is the GOAT
But what really drove it home for me was seeing Dre on the cover of the Source in 96', taking that bold and daring move and stepping out on his own, when nobody really saw it coming at that time, unless you were a true insider didn't nobody see that shit coming... and suddenly he's stepping away from the label he created that was on top of the world at the time and leaving with nothing!! I mean that shit was mind blowing, but Dre was talking about how peace of mind was more important than anything else, than any money or anything, just like he said in the movie..
AND YET YOU GOT GOAT MOUTH MUFUCKAZ LIKE THAT BUCKDANCER RADIO PERSONALITY CHARLEMAGNE TALKIN SHIT ABOUT THAT MOVIE ENDING CALLING IT CORNY AND THAT SHIT REALLY GOT ME HEATED THAT JUST SHOWED HE DON"T KNOW WHAT THE FUCC HE TALKING ABOUT SO WHY ARE MUFUCKAZ PUTTIN MICROPHONES IN THAT DUDES FUCKIN FACE THATS WHATS WRONG WIT THE WORLD AND WrONG WIT HIP-HOP WHO THE FUCC IS CHARLEMAGNE TO CALL SOMETHING DRE DID CORNY AND SPEAK ON THE NWA MOVIE LIKE THAT FUCC DAT MUFUCAKAAA
I swear on my life man there are so many bitches today man, it makes a ficca like Infinite just wanna go back to 96' man.. I don't even want this shit.. the only reason I'm still walking these streets is because I am counter-culture like a mufucka and literally live on my own fuccin island away from the rest of the world in my own fuccin world where some dayz it is still 96' (pre-Sept. 13th) and I still got Dre bumpin in my headphones
and this past August and September was one of the most challenging periods of my entire life and Dre got me through I mean his album literally came out right as I was transitioning into something that was totally foriegn to me on so many levels and walking that tightrope where one fuckup and ain't no trampoline underneathe just a ficca like Infinite cold on the pavement or a ficca like Infinite in a st8 jacket... but it was Dre's new album COMPTON that kept my head st8 in those times when I didn't have nothing but my head phones and this nicca Eazy askin for his car back homie!!!
ANd if you can't hear a mutherfuckin EXPLOSION!! when Dre enters the building on "TALK ABOUT IT" an EXPLOSION larger than the bombz of Heroshima and Nagasaki then you can't hear hip-hop music and you can't hear with your heart and your dick size is seriously in question.. and that is on the mutherfuckin realz... only ones gettin passes on that shit is bitches, but if you a MAN and you fuccin with Drake and you ain't heard Dre's album then it's you that killed hip-hop, and I put that on 1996 and that's just keeping it not 100 but keepin it 360 because I done revolved many times... Dre's revolved around now 4 decades of changing the game!! 4 fuckin decades this legend has put the game on his back, from NWA to Death Row to Dre 2001 and now COMPTON and MUTHERFUCKAZ CAN"T SHOW MORE LOVE!!!
On the realz fucc everyone, fucc all ya'll.. you and you and you in the corner to, and if you got something to say make sure there is something you wanna do....CAUSE what is happening now is a crime against the game and crime against humanity the fact this album ain't platinum and these songs are not in heavy rotation on every station is a fuccin travesty on the largest of scales and only Anderson Orlando could be capable of such a thing when he singlehandedly put out 2pac's flame, but this is a crime that is so pervasive that it's taking millions of people turning their backs on Dre and all he's done for hip-hop man I just can't fathom
INFINITE HAS SPOKEN!!
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Sounds like Compton might not even go gold. It sank like the Titanic. Should have been himself on the album and would have sold millions.
They movie hyped it up and he sold 200k the first week...word got out the album wasn't true Dre and it's a flop. It's a fact. Sorry fellas. Dre fell off. Outside this forum it's been destroyed.
Hopefully he learns like he did with that Aftermath first album. His wife gave him the best advise then. Be yourself. He did and blew up again. I guess he needs to be reminded.
It is fact Compton did not sank like the Titanic.. Should have been himself on the album ? How do you know DR dre was not himself on the album . who are you to say . True DRe ? there is not such thing as true dre & how do you know it was not true Dre. every person evolves & grows . who said Dr dre did not evolve & grow . so if Dr dre did evolve & grow then Compton is real Dre album . Compton was dope project . it seems you guys are too stuck in the past & the 90's .
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I still haven't heard the new cd yet
I'll buy it eventually
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
whats "bridges and breakdowns"?
lol did u listen 2 the album?
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if you a MAN and you fuccin with Drake and you ain't heard Dre's album then it's you that killed hip-hop
TELL EM
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
whats "bridges and breakdowns"?
lol did u listen 2 the album?
Yes i really aint up on all that technical stuff in rap
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does not really answer my question
JUST THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM HAS AN INSANE AMOUNT OF BRIDGES AND BREAKDOWNS......THE BRIDGE IS A LOST ARTFORM IN THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP. IF THIS ALBUM WAS MARKETED MORE, HAD SINGLES, VIDEOS, ETC. YOU'D SEE THE COMMERCIAL ARTISTS GRAVITATING TOWARDS THIS FORMULA. IT'S SIMPLY NOT BEIN PUSHED ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL TO.
whats "bridges and breakdowns"?
lol did u listen 2 the album?
Yes i really aint up on all that technical stuff in rap
I FEEL U....WELL, A BRIDGE IS SOMETHIN, USUALLY A MELODY, THAT CONNECTS A VERSE AND A CHORUS. TODAYS RAP TYPICALLY DONT HAVE BRIDGES, BUT THIS ALBUM IS FILLED WIT THEM.
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so for example in Genocide where bridge starts?
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so for example in Genocide where bridge starts?
THIS IS A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF A BRIDGE, BECAUSE THE TRACK ACTUALLY STARTS WIT A BRIDGE AS OPPOSED TO A VERSE, WHICH IS UNTRADITIONAL...THAT PART CANDACE PILLAY SINGS RIGHT AFTER THE INITIAL CHORUS TO SET THE TRACK OFF.
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hmm on which track its easier to catch?
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hmm on which track its easier to catch?
FOR INSTANCE, "ALL IN A DAYS WORK"
"Work, hard
Workin' so hard
24/7, 3-6-5
365, hard work
It's all in a day's work"
^ THAT WOULD BE THE BRIDGE
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ok i got it, props 8)
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hmm on which track its easier to catch?
FOR INSTANCE, "ALL IN A DAYS WORK"
"Work, hard
Workin' so hard
24/7, 3-6-5
365, hard work
It's all in a day's work"
^ THAT WOULD BE THE BRIDGE
I even consider it a bridge when Dre does something like on "Talk About It" where the beat chops up and Mez is like Talk ** chop chop ** Talk About It—Say What—then you got Justus singing which is probably the hook but then you got another "bridge" with.. I WANT IT ALL!!! there's a lot of "bridges" going on all over the place on this album
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does not really answer my question
Well, what is your question? Since your initial question was misquoted, feel me? You asked me something where my comment was quoted incorrectly.
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I have listened to this album at least once a day since it came out. I love it myself. It's got a lot going on, as discussed above. To each their own, everyone that hates it is entitled, but I love it.
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hmm on which track its easier to catch?
FOR INSTANCE, "ALL IN A DAYS WORK"
"Work, hard
Workin' so hard
24/7, 3-6-5
365, hard work
It's all in a day's work"
^ THAT WOULD BE THE BRIDGE
I even consider it a bridge when Dre does something like on "Talk About It" where the beat chops up and Mez is like Talk ** chop chop ** Talk About It—Say What—then you got Justus singing which is probably the hook but then you got another "bridge" with.. I WANT IT ALL!!! there's a lot of "bridges" going on all over the place on this album
Yeah it's some dope bridges all over there (who does that in hip-hop other than the Dr?) but illest bridge to me is the doo wop murder singing on Genocide.
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Niqqas who split infinitives on techniCALIties don't have much feeling for music
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album is already old, no more rotation. never would've thought to forgot about a dre album some weeks after release. this is so weak i won't even add a hardcopy to the collection
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album is already old, no more rotation. never would've thought to forgot about a dre album some weeks after release. this is so weak i won't even add a hardcopy to the collection
Cats str8 forgot about Dre
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Niqqas who split infinitives on techniCALIties don't have much feeling for music
I don't think this faggot could get any more corny .. Son actually capitalized CALI in technicalities smfh .. I never believed u deleted those links until today
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I never believed u deleted those links until today
:banana_trippin:
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
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I seem to be the only one that doesn't hear a single Southern influence on the album and I jam a good amount of South lol
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I seem to be the only one that doesn't hear a single Southern influence on the album and I jam a good amount of South lol
i dont hear it either, save for maybe the drums on talk about it, but even that barely has any south influence. the album has a west coast sound for the most part, it's just not outdated g-funk.
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
HOW DO THE VOCALS SOUND OFF?
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i dont hear it either, save for maybe the drums on talk about it, but even that barely has any south influence. the album has a west coast sound for the most part, it's just not outdated g-funk.
Mez is the South influence, but he's not actually from the South. My first listen I thought there was a lot of South influence because the way he sounds like he is mumbling a bit on "Talk About It". The more I listen to it the less I hear any South influence. Then knowing Mez a bit as an artist and sampling his solo stuff, he is not any follower of the South
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i dont hear it either, save for maybe the drums on talk about it, but even that barely has any south influence. the album has a west coast sound for the most part, it's just not outdated g-funk.
Mez is the South influence, but he's not actually from the South. My first listen I thought there was a lot of South influence because the way he sounds like he is mumbling a bit on "Talk About It". The more I listen to it the less I hear any South influence. Then knowing Mez a bit as an artist and sampling his solo stuff, he is not any follower of the South
mez doesnt sound south to me, he sounds like your modern day rapper, no regional sound whatsoever.
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
this track is a grower. managed to hear the album on a 'proper' sound system recently and that one was bumping. would like to see a proper visual. Justus hook is easily the nicest bit, best parts are the outro and 'fuck you fuck you and you on the corner too'.
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'Deep Water' was another one that came through really well with proper bass, great detail in the mixing. no complaints about the mixing on this album, it's exceptional. that's not really why i can't enjoy it that much.
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
this track is a grower. managed to hear the album on a 'proper' sound system recently and that one was bumping. would like to see a proper visual. Justus hook is easily the nicest bit, best parts are the outro and 'fuck you fuck you and you on the corner too'.
bet u fux wit the whole album if u listen 2 it wit an open mind
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
when i first heard it, i too thought dre sounded different....i actually thought dre was the first rapper on the track and it fucked me up. but after havin the album in proper rotation, dre really doesnt sound that much different...still got the signature voice, jus different writers for an evolution in the flow. but it still sounds like dre.
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
this track is a grower. managed to hear the album on a 'proper' sound system recently and that one was bumping. would like to see a proper visual. Justus hook is easily the nicest bit, best parts are the outro and 'fuck you fuck you and you on the corner too'.
bet u fux wit the whole album if u listen 2 it wit an open mind
Word.. my brother first heard it at work on them small ass Music Angel portable speakers with no bass.. not impressed.
Then I let him hear it in Dr.Dre Beats Studio 2.0 headphones and in the Beemer with Harman Kardon system.. minds were blown. 8)
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I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
now you're reaching lol
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
you're right, i should have added that i'm mainly referring to Talk about it.
I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
fair enough, but vocally he sounds better on crack a bottle than on most of the Compton album
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
now you're reaching lol
Why? On "I Need a Doctor" he sounds like the classic deep voiced Dre. And he's not trying to be creative/different with his rapping.
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
you're right, i should have added that i'm mainly referring to Talk about it.
I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
fair enough, but vocally he sounds better on crack a bottle than on most of the Compton album
no problem, I can definitely see the influence on that one track...I agree about his vocals they sounded better in the past but he is 50 years old so I understand...I dont particularly care for the guests featured, not really impressive when you think about it although Em was very decent on his song
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
now you're reaching lol
Why? On "I Need a Doctor" he sounds like the classic deep voiced Dre. And he's not trying to be creative/different with his rapping.
and he doesn't sound like 'classic deep voiced' Dre on "It's All On Me", "All In A Day's Work", "Gone", "Issues", "For The Love Of Money", and "Talking To My Diary", amongst others?
"I Need A Doctor" is such a shit song that it shouldn't have even been brought up in this thread lol one of those songs you wish you could just erase away from music as a whole
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
now you're reaching lol
Why? On "I Need a Doctor" he sounds like the classic deep voiced Dre. And he's not trying to be creative/different with his rapping.
cause that was years ago retard
all dre is trying do is sound modern and he did a good job different ghost writers different styles
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Dre just released Lyric video for Talk About it featuring King Mez and Justus. http://justwhookid.com/2015/10/05/dr-dre-releases-lyric-video-for-talk-about-it/
Dre soundin like a weirdo. Not a Dre worthy track. :grumpy:
what exactly is Dre supposed to sound like at age 50?
Just his normal voice and flow.
and what exactly is his normal voice and flow? the one that he had in 1999?
Yes, but you don't have to go back that far though. He still sounded more normal on the corny, not Dre worthy track "I Need a Doctor"
now you're reaching lol
Why? On "I Need a Doctor" he sounds like the classic deep voiced Dre. And he's not trying to be creative/different with his rapping.
"I Need A Doctor" is such a shit song that it shouldn't have even been brought up in this thread lol one of those songs you wish you could just erase away from music as a whole
only in the eyes of teenage white girls/boys who don't know hip-hop loved it :D
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
you're right, i should have added that i'm mainly referring to Talk about it.
I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
fair enough, but vocally he sounds better on crack a bottle than on most of the Compton album
no problem, I can definitely see the influence on that one track...I agree about his vocals they sounded better in the past but he is 50 years old so I understand...I dont particularly care for the guests featured, not really impressive when you think about it although Em was very decent on his song
That's why I need a doctor was a struggle track while this album was classic
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no problem, I can definitely see the influence on that one track...I agree about his vocals they sounded better in the past but he is 50 years old so I understand...I dont particularly care for the guests featured, not really impressive when you think about it although Em was very decent on his song
That's why I need a doctor was a struggle track while this album was classic
How could someone not be impressed with the guests on Compton? I'm ol' school, stuck in 96' (pre-Sept. 13th) and it is very hard for me to like any new artist that is younger than me. But I thought Mez, Pak, Justus, Conner really breathed new life into Dre and that they were tremendous on this album.
They even said in an interview that "Talk About It" actually laid the foundation for Dre's sound and new direction on the album. I thought Dre sounded as great as ever behind the mic, and that is saying a lot since he is 50.
Dre is the first rapper to do what he is doing at this age—and he is the hip-hop generations Rolling Stones or U2—I still remember when Too Short retired in 96', people never thought rappers would have this kind of longevity
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
co-produced
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
mine doesn't either lol I was surprised since it's Dre
I actually just caught onto that Xzibit/2001 reference, that's dope and just shows how complex the album really is
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
co-produced
Man the song was produced by Scott Storch. You niggas love making up conspiracy theories to give Dre credit for beats he didn't do. If he did the beat why wouldn't he accept credit for it when it just makes his resume look even more impressive for that 2000-2003 era?
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
co-produced
Man the song was produced by Scott Storch. You niggas love making up conspiracy theories to give Dre credit for beats he didn't do. If he did the beat why wouldn't he accept credit for it when it just makes his resume look even more impressive for that 2000-2003 era?
Credits are not needed to hear who did this song:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_(song)
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
co-produced
Man the song was produced by Scott Storch. You niggas love making up conspiracy theories to give Dre credit for beats he didn't do. If he did the beat why wouldn't he accept credit for it when it just makes his resume look even more impressive for that 2000-2003 era?
What are u talkin about, Dre is credited as a producer/writer on the track
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So Dr. Dre has shouted out WC on both 2001 and Compton: A Soundtrack, and still WC has yet to rap over a Dre beat - a damn shame if you ask me.
Also, anyone notice how on 'Loose Cannons', when Xzibit comes in with the lowrider sounds it almost like a continuation of the intro from 2001 (which featured Xzibit too)?
Is 'Talking To My Diary' mixed a little too loudly on the CD? Sounds extra loud to me compared to the other tracks.
- he's rapped on a dre beat wit "the streets", one of his biggest hits
- yea, that was the point.
- naah, sounds perfectly fine on my cd
one thing i did notice though, the cd doesnt show titles when i pop it in my system....most albums show the track titles as you play em, but this one just says "track 1" "track 2" etc.
"The Streets" is produced by Scott Storch
co-produced
Man the song was produced by Scott Storch. You niggas love making up conspiracy theories to give Dre credit for beats he didn't do. If he did the beat why wouldn't he accept credit for it when it just makes his resume look even more impressive for that 2000-2003 era?
What are u talkin about, Dre is credited as a producer/writer on the track
Where, on wikipedia? What does the booklet from the cd say?
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Prob by Scott Storch for Tuff Jew Productions
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After two months I can honestly say that I'm satisfied with Dr. Dres final album. I think it gets better the more you listen to it. Sonicly it's without a doubt the best produced album since GKMC. I mean this man is responsible for almost every aspect of hip hop related history. He was there from the beginning and still is able to compete with the young world with 50 years of age! Who else was able/will be able to do that?
Only songs that are not at least 4/5 are the ones with Snoop. I think they're not as good as the rest of the album.
Of course it will never top the original Chronic and 2001, but let's be honest, if you thought these two sound eras can be reproduced you're totally naive.
And blame todays "hip hop" fans (listening to crap like Young Thug, Fetty Wap etc) for the lack of respect this album is getting. 10 years ago this shit would have sold 1 million copies the first week.
RIP Detox and thank you Dr. Dre for your music career! Amazing finale along with the movie and everything. What's also a very nice move, is that he'll donate the money made off the album to Compton.
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After two months I can honestly say that I'm satisfied with Dr. Dres final album. I think it gets better the more you listen to it. Sonicly it's without a doubt the best produced album since GKMC. I mean this man is responsible for almost every aspect of hip hop related history. He was there from the beginning and still is able to compete with the young world with 50 years of age! Who else was able/will be able to do that?
Only songs that are not at least 4/5 are the ones with Snoop. I think they're not as good as the rest of the album.
Of course it will never top the original Chronic and 2001, but let's be honest, if you thought these two sound eras can be reproduced you're totally naive.
And blame todays "hip hop" fans (listening to crap like Young Thug, Fetty Wap etc) for the lack of respect this album is getting. 10 years ago this shit would have sold 1 million copies the first week.
RIP Detox and thank you Dr. Dre for your music career! Amazing finale along with the movie and everything. What's also a very nice move, is that he'll donate the money made off the album to Compton.
it's already gold....doesnt have a proper video, proper single, no tracks allowed on youtube. with any sort of promotion, this would easily be 3x platinum by now....it's obvious that dre didn't do this for notoriety.
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it's already gold....doesnt have a proper video, proper single, no tracks allowed on youtube. with any sort of promotion, this would easily be 3x platinum by now....it's obvious that dre didn't do this for notoriety.
In the Dre/Premier Pharmacy episode that I posted in the other thread, Dre alludes on the lack of a proper single on Compton. He said that he used to be concerned with it, but the way that the industry is now changed all of that.
~35 minute mark (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Beats1Shows/~5/3guTUWgvikU/mzaf_6010222465195230622.slw.aac.a.m4a)
He doesn't really care about singles anymore, he just wants to make good music.
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How do you get a stream link like that?
I wanna download the Abstract Radio shows
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it's already gold....doesnt have a proper video, proper single, no tracks allowed on youtube. with any sort of promotion, this would easily be 3x platinum by now....it's obvious that dre didn't do this for notoriety.
In the Dre/Premier Pharmacy episode that I posted in the other thread, Dre alludes on the lack of a proper single on Compton. He said that he used to be concerned with it, but the way that the industry is now changed all of that.
~35 minute mark (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Beats1Shows/~5/3guTUWgvikU/mzaf_6010222465195230622.slw.aac.a.m4a)
He doesn't really care about singles anymore, he just wants to make good music.
I think the Apple only release for the first 2 weeks cut down on sales...by the time the physical CD had come out it was already downloaded by many illegally...only the hardcore Dre fans like us bought the CD
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
you're right, i should have added that i'm mainly referring to Talk about it.
I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
fair enough, but vocally he sounds better on crack a bottle than on most of the Compton album
no problem, I can definitely see the influence on that one track...I agree about his vocals they sounded better in the past but he is 50 years old so I understand...I dont particularly care for the guests featured, not really impressive when you think about it although Em was very decent on his song
i know about the age, but for me it's more the result of Kendrick writing for Dre.
to me the vocals sound better when Eminem writes for Dre for example.
it's already gold....doesnt have a proper video, proper single, no tracks allowed on youtube. with any sort of promotion, this would easily be 3x platinum by now....it's obvious that dre didn't do this for notoriety.
In the Dre/Premier Pharmacy episode that I posted in the other thread, Dre alludes on the lack of a proper single on Compton. He said that he used to be concerned with it, but the way that the industry is now changed all of that.
~35 minute mark (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Beats1Shows/~5/3guTUWgvikU/mzaf_6010222465195230622.slw.aac.a.m4a)
He doesn't really care about singles anymore, he just wants to make good music.
sounds good to me, hopefully he will continue to do that.
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haven't really said much since release, but honestly, this album is a huge letdown. i knew people would be getting upset and catchings feelings on both side for this one. i see dre's got a lot of fans regardless and it isn't bad by current day standards, it's not the shit i can vibe with fully. 2001 is much more enjoyable and while this is meant to be a harder, angsty cityscape, it just hasn't got the kind of groove i associate with dre's sound. his input seems to be more in more in the mixing etc. grand finale my ass. any version of detox woulda been more refreshing than this, i feel. but oh well.
it looks like he's working on some new stuff now, maybe a more west coast (west west) project? i hope he doesn't go out with 'Compton'. if detox could come back it would be great, but don't particularly wanna hear any more of the Compton sound. he should get back with the cats like dawaun parker.
fair enough, the sound didn't fit me the first time i heard the album.
i can enjoy some of the album now, but the vocal production could be much better.
and i don't like the south imitation and the weird voice effects, dre should know better
I agree about the vocals they sound off to me as well...the beats are dope I don't hear much southern influence though
you're right, i should have added that i'm mainly referring to Talk about it.
I still listen to this album almost every day - shit is classic. I don't get all the complaints about it. Before Compton came out, I was listening to Crack a Bottle -
"I'll be damned, just fucked around and crashed my Benz.
Driving around with a smashed front end
Let's cash that one in.
Grab another one from out the stable
The Monte Carlo, El Camino or the El Dorado
The hell if I know.
Do I want leather seats or vinyl?
Decisions, decisions
Garage looks like Precision Collision."
Just glad DRE didn't come out and rap about his low-riders and blunts anymore - he's on some grown man shit. I think people are missing the KUSH tracks but Dre is 50 mayne... doesn't need to rap about that stuff.
fair enough, but vocally he sounds better on crack a bottle than on most of the Compton album
no problem, I can definitely see the influence on that one track...I agree about his vocals they sounded better in the past but he is 50 years old so I understand...I dont particularly care for the guests featured, not really impressive when you think about it although Em was very decent on his song
i know about the age, but for me it's more the result of Kendrick writing for Dre.
to me the vocals sound better when Eminem writes for Dre for example.
interesting...as far as hearing Kendricks influence on Dre's vocals you might be right :-\
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How do you get a stream link like that?
I wanna download the Abstract Radio shows
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Beats1Shows
I only checked a few of the links. Some work and some don't.
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That's amazing homie thank you^^
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9wxBpkfI#t=4m28s
who is this singing on "all in a day's work"?
it starts at 4:28
who is singing and what the fuck is he singing? or is it a sample?
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Dre ruined his legacy. .worst album along his worst sales/downloads...Very much a forgettable effort .
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Dre ruined his legacy. .worst album along his worst sales/downloads...Very much a forgettable effort .
lol not really
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lol any1 mentioning sales is retarded....it went gold without a video or a single. that has to be a first in history. dre clearly isn't goin for sales wit this one, cuz a video to a song like "talk about it" woulda easily tripled the sales.
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lol any1 mentioning sales is retarded....it went gold without a video or a single. that has to be a first in history.
Maybe for a pop album
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lol any1 mentioning sales is retarded....it went gold without a video or a single. that has to be a first in history.
Maybe for a pop album
no, not even in rap. In 1996, UGK's Ridin' Dirty went gold without any promotion, single and videos.
Dre going Gold in this day & age is still an astonishing performance considering how hard it is to go gold and how fast he did it, but him dropping the album around the release of Straight Outta Compton, and the viral campaigns definitely helped him.
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lol any1 mentioning sales is retarded....it went gold without a video or a single. that has to be a first in history.
Maybe for a pop album
no, not even in rap. In 1996, UGK's Ridin' Dirty went gold without any promotion, single and videos.
Dre going Gold in this day & age is still an astonishing performance considering how hard it is to go gold and how fast he did it, but him dropping the album around the release of Straight Outta Compton, and the viral campaigns definitely helped him.
Don't feed the troll
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lol any1 mentioning sales is retarded....it went gold without a video or a single. that has to be a first in history.
Maybe for a pop album
no, not even in rap. In 1996, UGK's Ridin' Dirty went gold without any promotion, single and videos.
Dre going Gold in this day & age is still an astonishing performance considering how hard it is to go gold and how fast he did it, but him dropping the album around the release of Straight Outta Compton, and the viral campaigns definitely helped him.
truth
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9wxBpkfI#t=4m28s
who is this singing on "all in a day's work"?
it starts at 4:28
who is singing and what the fuck is he singing? or is it a sample?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9wxBpkfI#t=4m28s
who is this singing on "all in a day's work"?
it starts at 4:28
who is singing and what the fuck is he singing? or is it a sample?
there aren't any samples listed in the booklet but that could be Sly as he's listed under additional vocals
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9wxBpkfI#t=4m28s
who is this singing on "all in a day's work"?
it starts at 4:28
who is singing and what the fuck is he singing? or is it a sample?
too subtle to tell
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9wxBpkfI#t=4m28s
who is this singing on "all in a day's work"?
it starts at 4:28
who is singing and what the fuck is he singing? or is it a sample?
:( :( :(
too subtle to tell
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Congratulation Dr.Dre's Compton is now 3 X Gold Certificated
Certifications[edit]
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[47] Gold 35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[22] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[48] Gold 500,000^
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Congratulation Dr.Dre's Compton is now 3 X Gold Certificated
Certifications[edit]
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[47] Gold 35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[22] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[48] Gold 500,000^
that's quite an accomplishment with no proper single or video
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Congratulation Dr.Dre's Compton is now 3 X Gold Certificated
Certifications[edit]
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[47] Gold 35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[22] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[48] Gold 500,000^
that's quite an accomplishment with no proper single or video
is this the only album without a single to go gold?
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For the love of money is a single material, shit knocks like 8) 8). Dope ass beat.
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is this the only album without a single to go gold?
you mean in history?
Definitely not.... that would be a strange statistic anyway.
Cause when you think about it they may have filmed videos for those old NWA songs but I never remember seeing them on video or hearing them on the radio. You had a lot of artists with songs that were too explicit to make radio in the gangsta rap era, but they still had albums going gold.
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
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is this the only album without a single to go gold?
you mean in history?
Definitely not.... that would be a strange statistic anyway.
Cause when you think about it they may have filmed videos for those old NWA songs but I never remember seeing them on video or hearing them on the radio. You had a lot of artists with songs that were too explicit to make radio in the gangsta rap era, but they still had albums going gold.
Whether they played on tv or not, they still had videos and singles
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
UGK - Ridin Dirty... UGK was such a grassroots movement they didn't need videos and singles and they were getting fucked by both Jive and their legal representation at the time, but their music was so relevant and dope that just by word of mouth and their rep they went gold in like no time.
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
UGK - Ridin Dirty... UGK was such a grassroots movement they didn't need videos and singles and they were getting fucked by both Jive and their legal representation at the time, but their music was so relevant and dope that just by word of mouth and their rep they went gold in like no time.
THAT ALBUM HAD ZERO VIDEOS?
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no video at all
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Straight Outta Compton is the ''video''
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
UGK - Ridin Dirty... UGK was such a grassroots movement they didn't need videos and singles and they were getting fucked by both Jive and their legal representation at the time, but their music was so relevant and dope that just by word of mouth and their rep they went gold in like no time.
THAT ALBUM HAD ZERO VIDEOS?
UGK's first 2 albums had videos, but not that one... and it's their best album musically and sales-wise
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.1e4037f3-6b7c-11e5-8ad4-909b01444063
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Straight Outta Compton is the ''video''
;D ;D
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
UGK - Ridin Dirty... UGK was such a grassroots movement they didn't need videos and singles and they were getting fucked by both Jive and their legal representation at the time, but their music was so relevant and dope that just by word of mouth and their rep they went gold in like no time.
interesting...did Kanye's last album have any? I cant really remember
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those old NWA albums had no singles released but they did at least have videos...I cant remember the last hip hop album to have neither and go gold
UGK - Ridin Dirty... UGK was such a grassroots movement they didn't need videos and singles and they were getting fucked by both Jive and their legal representation at the time, but their music was so relevant and dope that just by word of mouth and their rep they went gold in like no time.
Damn made me think of ridin dirty the song and want to listen to the whole album. Havent in a minute.
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I read about the album in a weekly newspaper in prison. There was this little article that said "Producer Dr. Dre will be releasing a new album after 16 years". At first i thought it must be April Fools Day or somethin' like that. I had to i call my friend and told him to check out Wikipedia to see if this was true. I guess Infinite was right after all, i remember that he said Dre would come out with new music when the N.W.A. movie drops. I had very high exceptations for this album (Who didn't?) and i have to say that at first i was really disapointed. I just thought Dre would come up with a new sound like he always has done with his albums, but he didn't and his flow is what it is. I kept playin' the album a few times and it grew on me. It's a good album and i like it, but it's nowhere near as good as "The Chronic" or "2001". I wouldn't be suprised if Kendrick came up with the concept for the album. I know King Mez is credited in the booklet for almost every song, but Dre sounds like Kendrick in some songs IMO, so i wouldn't be suprised if he ghostwrote some verses too. There's a lot of things i could complain about, it's such a big thing that Dre finally came out with a new album after all these years, but i enjoy the album for what it is. It's a shame that there's only one song with Dre and Snoop and Kurupt's not on the album at all. It's great to see Ice Cube finally on a Dr. Dre album, "Issues" is dope. I hope Dre is workin' on Cube's new album. I'm happy that Dre and DJ Premier finally did a collabo. I've been waitin' for that for years. "Animals" is one of my favorites on the album. I wish Dre had a second verse on it though. I'm suprised to see Cold187Um on the album. He was beefin' with Dre not too long ago. What happened with that lawsuit? "Deep Water" is great, i loved the song the first time i heard it. Definitely the best song on the album. Snoop's verse on "One Shot One Kill" is crazy. Who wrote that? Snoop isn't credited on the booklet, but for some reason he is credited on the Wikipedia page of "Compton". What's up with that? Did Dre put out any music videos for the album? Is there any leftovers from the album? Did The D.O.C. have anything to do with the album? I don't see his name in the booklet. It's hard to believe Dre would release a new album without his involvement.
Here's a list of the songs i like:
"Talk About It"
"It's All On Me"
"All In A Day's Work"
"Loose Cannons"
"Issues"
"Deep Water"
"One Shot One Kill"
"For The Love Of Money"
"Animals"
"Medicine Man"
"Talking To My Diary"
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I read about the album in a weekly newspaper in prison. There was this little article that said "Producer Dr. Dre will be releasing a new album after 16 years". At first i thought it must be April Fools Day or somethin' like that. I had to i call my friend and told him to check out Wikipedia to see if this was true. I guess Infinite was right after all, i remember that he said Dre would come out with new music when the N.W.A. movie drops. I had very high exceptations for this album (Who didn't?) and i have to say that at first i was really disapointed. I just thought Dre would come up with a new sound like he always has done with his albums, but he didn't and his flow is what it is. I kept playin' the album a few times and it grew on me. It's a good album and i like it, but it's nowhere near as good as "The Chronic" or "2001". I wouldn't be suprised if Kendrick came up with the concept for the album. I know King Mez is credited in the booklet for almost every song, but Dre sounds like Kendrick in some songs IMO, so i wouldn't be suprised if he ghostwrote some verses too. There's a lot of things i could complain about, it's such a big thing that Dre finally came out with a new album after all these years, but i enjoy the album for what it is. It's a shame that there's only one song with Dre and Snoop and Kurupt's not on the album at all. It's great to see Ice Cube finally on a Dr. Dre album, "Issues" is dope. I hope Dre is workin' on Cube's new album. I'm happy that Dre and DJ Premier finally did a collabo. I've been waitin' for that for years. "Animals" is one of my favorites on the album. I wish Dre had a second verse on it though. I'm suprised to see Cold187Um on the album. He was beefin' with Dre not too long ago. What happened with that lawsuit? "Deep Water" is great, i loved the song the first time i heard it. Definitely the best song on the album. Snoop's verse on "One Shot One Kill" is crazy. Who wrote that? Snoop isn't credited on the booklet, but for some reason he is credited on the Wikipedia page of "Compton". What's up with that? Did Dre put out any music videos for the album? Is there any leftovers from the album? Did The D.O.C. have anything to do with the album? I don't see his name in the booklet. It's hard to believe Dre would release a new album without his involvement.
Here's a list of the songs i like:
"Talk About It"
"It's All On Me"
"All In A Day's Work"
"Loose Cannons"
"Issues"
"Deep Water"
"One Shot One Kill"
"For The Love Of Money"
"Animals"
"Medicine Man"
"Talking To My Diary"
dre released it outa nowhere, no singles, no videos, just announced it about a week or so before it came out...shit was wild on this site for a min when it dropped. i duno if u bumped it in a proper system yet, but it's sonically the best rap album to come out maybe ever.....went gold off the strength of dre's name, no promo whatsoever. and yea, there was some leftovers for sure, search the last few pages, dre has a radio show called the pharmacy now, and he played a couple of the leftovers on there.
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Figured i'd put my two cents in regarding this album...
So, I registered on this forum around the beginning of 2002. I had been lurking a lot prior to that, EJ Rizo and myself had a audiogalaxy page set up for westcoast music...particularly Aftermath and Doggystyle related music. Good times then, a time when good music was being put out.
Anyway, fast forward to today. I am 32 now, have a family, good paying job and my tastes in music have changed. I really stopped paying attention to hip hop almost around the time The Big Bang dropped. I have and always will be Dre first when it comes to music. Relapse was one of the best produced albums ever, I dont care if you dont agree with me on that. Some of the hardest beats made were on that album.
However, since then, really nothing from Dre. A few tracks here and there on others albums and a few leaked Detox tracks. Most of those those leaked detox tracks were shit, minus Popped Off, Topless, and a few others i forgot the names of.
Dre then decides to drop this album Compton literally out of nowhere. Many say Kendrick's album is better than this, but i cannot stand how he changed his voice and delivery since Good Kid Maad City. Compton sounds completely fluid from the opening all the way to the closing. Regardless of what the credits say, Dre was the producer and mixer of the whole album and you can hear it. I find it hard to believe he was not a part of the building of each track.
Now, Dre put out a solid album, that being said, he played it safe with this release. I'm sure he has banger's that were made and maybe shittier songs too. He probably attempted to do what Quincy and Michael did with Thriller (or Off the Wall...whichever) and take off the strongest and weakest made tracks to make a solid album. That brings me to the next point, there are tracks that I dont like and there are some that I do. All in all, Dre put out an album with energy, and you can hear it in his voice. He hasn't done that in the past, he's just rapped and thats about it. The beats on this album completely caught me off guard, i was expecting something different. But the more i listened to the album, I understood Dre was making a more mature album than what he had previously done. And me being where I am at in my life, i can fully appreciate what he did for himself and for us as fans who have grown with him.
Intro - Set up the album, towards the end i thought it was going lead into this beat https://www.youtube.com/v/Nc9qD1_Wfr4&list=PLLRf4xR2brZRKxpTART4sg14ixS2zPztn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9qD1_Wfr4&list=PLLRf4xR2brZRKxpTART4sg14ixS2zPztn) ....it aint the lights...haha
Talk About It - I absolutely hated this when i first heard it, but it grew on me the more i listened to it 3/5
Genocide - One of them experimental Dre sounding tracks...ala The Setup, Eve's Satisfaction, etc... I liked the change up towards the end 4/5
It's All On Me - Probably my favorite on the album, smooth track....and the night came in when that nigga Knight came in.....wooo 5/5
All In a Day's Work - This goes hand in hand with the previous track, loved the chain gang break in the song, any one else notice the same digging sound from Legend of the Fall Offs? 5/5
Darkside/Gone - Loved Gone more so than Darkside, it was vintage dre. Darkside 3/5 Gone 5/5
Loose Cannon - Like the beat change ups throughout, hearing Xzibit and Cold 187um was nice. The skit at the end was cool the first couple of times, but i wish i could remove it now 4/5
Issues - To me, its like the first track, it had to grow on me, maybe its the beat...i don't know. Don't feel it fit Cube's style 3/5
Deep Water - The simulated drowning was something different, it felt like you were underwater listening to this track, the trumpet at the end was the icing on the cake. 5/5
One Shot One Kill - It was nice to hear Snoop hungry like this, sounded like the lyrics were written for Dre. Like the rock sounding beat, it pays homage to Dre's earlier days 4/5
Just Another Day - Like the 808s on this one, Game was outshined by Asia Bryant in my opinion 4/5
For The Love of Money - Another one that had to grown on me, the bassline is cool and all, but maybe its because i wasn't a fan of the original version either 3/5
Satisfaction - Could've been single material, Snoop's part is my favorite...notice how the bassline is more predominate during his part paying homage to the Doggystyle days 4/5
Animals - Beautiful track by those involved (Dre, Premo, Anderson Paak) 5/5
Medicine Man - The only track with Eminem and based off his recent work i was a little worried. But the buildup to the second beat in the song was phenomenal and Em delivered for the most part 4/5
Talking to My Diary - Ah yes, the finale, and a Detox beat from five years ago. Even though it sounded better on the commercial, this is the hardest beat on the album. At first i thought it was too short with the lyrics. But the trumpet send off at the end is perfect, almost like the credits were rolling after a movie 5/5
So, that how i feel about this album. Again, solid piece of work, but i was expecting something different. I can appreciate what he did with this album. But, now there is talk of other music that was put on hold for this. Which is cool and all, hopefully it wont take more than a year or two to release it. Maybe it will be Detox(or Take the Cure....whatever the title change to) All i know is after he released this album, i am fiending for some really hard beats.
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^nice review, what's good hittman? U still fux wit ejrizo?
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havent talked to him in a very long time. around the time kush came out...and that was it
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Can somebody upload the leftovers from "Compton" for me?
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Can somebody upload the leftovers from "Compton" for me?
peep the forum, it cant be past page 3 or 4
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6806114/best-hip-hop-albums-2015
I know its Billboard but Dre should have been at least top 3 :grumpy:
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6806114/best-hip-hop-albums-2015
I know its Billboard but Dre should have been at least top 3 :grumpy:
It's the lack of promo bruh .. First Rolling Stones and now Billboard. The album didn't get the proper build-up and marketing. Coulda been huge, but seems as if it was done 100% for the music.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6806114/best-hip-hop-albums-2015
I know its Billboard but Dre should have been at least top 3 :grumpy:
It's the lack of promo bruh .. First Rolling Stones and now Billboard. The album didn't get the proper build-up and marketing. Coulda been huge, but seems as if it was done 100% for the music.
im so sick of seeing rappers using excuses about promotion today there are so many pipelines to promote yourself social media ect how ya think tde did it in mid 2000s tours and you tube videos dre had the ultimate promotion a fucking movie if this was the 90s and early 00s then that's different bottom line dre doesn't connect with the youth today and is 20+ years past his prime as a artist and if it wasnt for em and kendrick and the fact this came from a movie the sales would of been a whole lot less 40 to 50 k if that
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6806114/best-hip-hop-albums-2015
I know its Billboard but Dre should have been at least top 3 :grumpy:
It's the lack of promo bruh .. First Rolling Stones and now Billboard. The album didn't get the proper build-up and marketing. Coulda been huge, but seems as if it was done 100% for the music.
im so sick of seeing rappers using excuses about promotion today there are so many pipelines to promote yourself social media ect how ya think tde did it in mid 2000s tours and you tube videos dre had the ultimate promotion a fucking movie if this was the 90s and early 00s then that's different bottom line dre doesn't connect with the youth today and is 20+ years past his prime as a artist and if it wasnt for em and kendrick and the fact this came from a movie the sales would of been a whole lot less 40 to 50 k if that
Witout a single to resonate wit the people, all that other noise is meaningless .. If a song like "talk about it" was put out as a proper single, then you have something that can resonate wit the youth.,there was a lot of potential singles and club bangers on there, they just never tried to put it out there like that.,
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Who's still listening to this album?
What an amazing project, the more you listen to it, the better it gets - Definately a Classic in my eyes.
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Who's still listening to this album?
What an amazing project, the more you listen to it, the better it gets - Definately a Classic in my eyes.
Hard copy still in my car CD player, been there for months now.
Don't know why some hate on it, pretty good album.
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Who's still listening to this album?
What an amazing project, the more you listen to it, the better it gets - Definately a Classic in my eyes.
Hard copy still in my car CD player, been there for months now.
Don't know why some hate on it, pretty good album.
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Who's still listening to this album?
What an amazing project, the more you listen to it, the better it gets - Definately a Classic in my eyes.
It came out in August... And I bumped it regularly all the way until January. So that's like a solid 6 months it was in my rotation. I'm laying off now for a bit, then I will bring it back out for the memories later. To remember the end of my year 2015.
This album was an instant classic certainly up to Dre's high standards.
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https://www.youtube.com/v/AoYfm1fL-V4
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nice interview and he spoke well about the vision of the album being an experience
But even this interview was taken just after the release of the album.... Since the first month of its release we haven't heard a word about the album anywhere... Just google it and everything you find will be from the time of the albums release... It's like it already came and went and dres done some concerts and I don't believe he's ever performed any songs off the album just the same old songs
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Been a year n still no single or video .. Damn shame
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Been a year n still no single or video .. Damn shame
safe to say that was never in the plans for the album lol I could have seen one for the "Diary" joint with maybe some clips from the movie thrown in but that ship has sailed
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Been a year n still no single or video .. Damn shame
safe to say that was never in the plans for the album lol I could have seen one for the "Diary" joint with maybe some clips from the movie thrown in but that ship has sailed
It's a shame because there are def some single worthy joints that woulda doubled or tripled sales
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Honestly, I have been saying it since the day the album dropped... it's really nothing to write home about. The fact that it came and went is no surprise to me.
And hearing that new T.I. joint just makes me angry. Imagine what COULD have been.
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Been a year n still no single or video .. Damn shame
safe to say that was never in the plans for the album lol I could have seen one for the "Diary" joint with maybe some clips from the movie thrown in but that ship has sailed
Funny enough he filmed videos for "Kush" and "I Need A Doctor" and never dropped Detox. Then he drops Compton and doesn't bother to film a video.
I thought a "Talk About It" video would've been epic.... show just only King Mez for the first part of the video, with the intro down in the hood of Compton, crime, gangs, then cut to Dre with— "I Just Bought CALIFORNIA!!"—with Dre overlooking Cali from his mansion atop the Valley. Like the way he overlooked Cali on "Let Me Ride" but now taking it to the next level
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Honestly, I have been saying it since the day the album dropped... it's really nothing to write home about. The fact that it came and went is no surprise to me.
And hearing that new T.I. joint just makes me angry. Imagine what COULD have been.
I didn't like it much either...that TI track is nice though
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hmm the TI track is delicious. only a couple on Compton I like more- like the game song maybe
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The T.I. track would be about the worst song if it was on Compton. Like Focus says.. those are just songs.. but the tracks on Compton are an "experience" ya dig?
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The T.I. track would be about the worst song if it was on Compton. Like Focus says.. those are just songs.. but the tracks on Compton are an "experience" ya dig?
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The T.I. track would be about the worst song if it was on Compton. Like Focus says.. those are just songs.. but the tracks on Compton are an "experience" ya dig?
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Still on rotation. Dope album as fuck. Prodction is crazy.
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Still on rotation. Dope album as fuck. Prodction is crazy.
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Homies acting like this wasn't just click bait advertising for the movie
This went number 1 on iTunes at just the right time. All ish that boosted movie interest and still cats are debating why they never put out a single? It was marketing. Dre didn't even put his face on the album cover. No video. Kids don't wanna see that
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Homies acting like this wasn't just click bait advertising for the movie
This went number 1 on iTunes at just the right time. All ish that boosted movie interest and still cats are debating why they never put out a single? It was marketing. Dre didn't even put his face on the album cover. No video. Kids don't wanna see that
Lol no
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The T.I. track would be about the worst song if it was on Compton. Like Focus says.. those are just songs.. but the tracks on Compton are an "experience" ya dig?
Meh...
I just can't throw Compton in the car and ride out to it. It's just not an everyday album. It's like you have to be in the "mood" for it.
Dre has always had a sound that was for riding out, partying, chilling, etc. It fit every scenario. He made hits too. Compton is just something else. It's not bad by any means, but I just don't see it as the pinnacle of music greatness that others are calling it. It's creative yes, but not an everyday album.
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Meh...
I just can't throw Compton in the car and ride out to it. It's just not an everyday album. It's like you have to be in the "mood" for it.
Dre has always had a sound that was for riding out, partying, chilling, etc. It fit every scenario. He made hits too. Compton is just something else. It's not bad by any means, but I just don't see it as the pinnacle of music greatness that others are calling it. It's creative yes, but not an everyday album.
How can you not ride out to tracks like "All In A Day's Work", "Just Another Day", "Talking to My Diary"?...all the album goes perfect in the ride... I mean I really don't get what your talking about... I could listen to Compton in just about any mood... because it actually has more range than any other Dre album, when you have songs "All On Me" that are more reflective then tracks that are hype like "Talk About It"
...I really don't understand why it's hard for any of you cats to wrap your minds around this album.
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Meh...
I just can't throw Compton in the car and ride out to it. It's just not an everyday album. It's like you have to be in the "mood" for it.
Dre has always had a sound that was for riding out, partying, chilling, etc. It fit every scenario. He made hits too. Compton is just something else. It's not bad by any means, but I just don't see it as the pinnacle of music greatness that others are calling it. It's creative yes, but not an everyday album.
How can you not ride out to tracks like "All In A Day's Work", "Just Another Day", "Talking to My Diary"?...all the album goes perfect in the ride... I mean I really don't get what your talking about... I could listen to Compton in just about any mood... because it actually has more range than any other Dre album, when you have songs "All On Me" that are more reflective then tracks that are hype like "Talk About It"
...I really don't understand why it's hard for any of you cats to wrap your minds around this album.
You literally just named the only songs I ever play on that album. lol
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Meh...
I just can't throw Compton in the car and ride out to it. It's just not an everyday album. It's like you have to be in the "mood" for it.
Dre has always had a sound that was for riding out, partying, chilling, etc. It fit every scenario. He made hits too. Compton is just something else. It's not bad by any means, but I just don't see it as the pinnacle of music greatness that others are calling it. It's creative yes, but not an everyday album.
How can you not ride out to tracks like "All In A Day's Work", "Just Another Day", "Talking to My Diary"?...all the album goes perfect in the ride... I mean I really don't get what your talking about... I could listen to Compton in just about any mood... because it actually has more range than any other Dre album, when you have songs "All On Me" that are more reflective then tracks that are hype like "Talk About It"
...I really don't understand why it's hard for any of you cats to wrap your minds around this album.
You literally just named the only songs I ever play on that album. lol
SO U DONT FUCK WIT DEEP WATER? LOOSE CANNON? FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY?
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Meh...
I just can't throw Compton in the car and ride out to it. It's just not an everyday album. It's like you have to be in the "mood" for it.
Dre has always had a sound that was for riding out, partying, chilling, etc. It fit every scenario. He made hits too. Compton is just something else. It's not bad by any means, but I just don't see it as the pinnacle of music greatness that others are calling it. It's creative yes, but not an everyday album.
How can you not ride out to tracks like "All In A Day's Work", "Just Another Day", "Talking to My Diary"?...all the album goes perfect in the ride... I mean I really don't get what your talking about... I could listen to Compton in just about any mood... because it actually has more range than any other Dre album, when you have songs "All On Me" that are more reflective then tracks that are hype like "Talk About It"
...I really don't understand why it's hard for any of you cats to wrap your minds around this album.
You literally just named the only songs I ever play on that album. lol
SO U DONT FUCK WIT DEEP WATER? LOOSE CANNON? FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY?
Yah...those are the two best verses on the album, Conner in "love of money" and Kendrick in "deep water" and this is coming from someone who doesn't have either of kendricks albums but that verse is unbelievable
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You don't fuck with "One Shot One Kill"?
"Just Another Day" is actually the only track that I skip on this album.. it's also the only song that don't feature Dr. Dre on it at all. Only one song without Dre is less than his previous albums.
...and i have to say that at first i was really disapointed. I just thought Dre would come up with a new sound like he always has done with his albums, but he didn't and his flow is what it is.
I actually think that the album does not sound like anything else at all.
It's a shame that there's only one song with Dre and Snoop
There's 2.. Snoop is on both "Satisfiction" and "One Shot One Kill".
Did The D.O.C. have anything to do with the album? I don't see his name in the booklet. It's hard to believe Dre would release a new album without his involvement.
DOC had nothin' to do with any song that made the album. His dude Justus is featured on 3 songs plus some additional vocals on a couple others and did write most of the songs along with King Mez. Justus was brought to Dre by DOC and was discovered by DOC.
There's a leftover called "Naked" off which there's both a Dr. Dre version (tagged from the Pharmacy radio show) and a D.O.C. version (live performance)
Since you was in prison, did you know D.O.C. also got his regular voice back? He can't use it all the time yet, but it's gettin' there.. he did a song called "Self" with both his damaged and "new" voice and is currently workin' on his new album.
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You don't fuck with "One Shot One Kill"?
"Just Another Day" is actually the only track that I skip on this album.. it's also the only song that don't feature Dr. Dre on it at all.
it's also the song that has Game on it ;D
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it's also the song that has Game on it ;D
That alone would be a reason to skip that shit.. lol. He's also on "Deep Water".. "Compton!!!".
I still bump some of his shit tho': "Life's A Bitch", "How We Do", "Where I'm From (og version)", "Higher", "Killa Kalli", "Westside Story", "Buddens", "I'm Gangsta (Fresh Out)", "I'm So Sorry", "Y'all Ain't Fuckin' Wit' Us", "My Life In The Sunshine", "Same Ol' Heat", "Too Much", "Aftermath", "Room In Here", "Stomp"... that should be about it. Add "Deep Water" and you got 1 great album worth of songs.
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it's also the song that has Game on it ;D
That alone would be a reason to skip that shit.. lol. He's also on "Deep Water".. "Compton!!!".
I still bump some of his shit tho': "Life's A Bitch", "How We Do", "Where I'm From (og version)", "Higher", "Killa Kalli", "Westside Story", "Buddens", "I'm Gangsta (Fresh Out)", "I'm So Sorry", "Y'all Ain't Fuckin' Wit' Us", "My Life In The Sunshine", "Same Ol' Heat", "Aftermath", "Room In Here", "Stomp"... that should be about it.
now when you mention it that was defintiely him yelling on "Deep Water" lol I figured that was Dre this whole time
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Game is on deep water? I didn't catch that... And games first aftermath album still gets some play with me.... But other than that I'm not too big a fan.
And they performed "naked" live? One of the most dissapointing things is that none of the Compton songs are being performed live.
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Album sucks for me. I dont play it.
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Album sucks for me. I dont play it.
lol i still remember u texted me when u first heard it "this album is incredible in my beats by dre fam!!"
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Production value it has...replay value for me it didn't. On good speakers it is pretty grand sounding.
Fiona Apple has a brilliantly produced album or two. dont listen to those either.
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Fiona Apple go hard on some beats by dre tho
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Album sucks for me. I dont play it.
lol i still remember u texted me when u first heard it "this album is incredible in my beats by dre fam!!"
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This album was probably the last time i used my beats by dre headphones.
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Still listen to this one at least once a week. Best songs for me are Talk About It, Animals, and Talking to my Diary.
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Satisfiction is the winner for me
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Still cant listen to more than 10 seconds because of Dre sounding like a weirdo trying to rap like Kendrick. It makes me laugh and smh when he raps like that. So unnatural and awkward. And his productions not that epic anymore too. And way too much corny poppy singing.
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Still cant listen to more than 10 seconds because of Dre sounding like a weirdo trying to rap like Kendrick. It makes me laugh and smh when he raps like that. So unnatural and awkward. And his productions not that epic anymore too. And way too much corny poppy singing.
I felt dres rappin on the album was weird af when i first heard it, but the more I listened to it, the more u get used to it. Not the first time dre changed his style, 2001 had dre rappin a buncha Eminem style flows.. It comes wit the territory of depending on writers to write your shit,
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Thats pretty much what kills it for me...when hes not doing that it sounds like hes literally rapping through clenched teeth. I understand hes a tough guy...mr nwa but cmon fam.
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everything from the sonics to the vocal production is meant to fit with the whole aggressive, angry vibe.
but it's like the best chef in the world cooks you an indian dish and you don't like curry. and even if you did he's using these weird ingredients that make your stomach turn. i can appreciate the artistry but this is a giant flop coming from dre. i know he set impossible standards to live up to with 2001, but most of his earlier productions are so much better than this.
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I finally got the album like a month ago. The album's decent -don't get me wrong-, but from Dr. Dre you expect an album to be 8/10 or better.
Animals is the standout track for me. Talk About It has also been on repeat a lot.
Compton does not have a lot of replay value and often times the raps sound forced. The last song should have been the highlight of the album, but to me it sounds like a song from a great artist who shows that he lost his passion for music a long time ago.