Dr.Dre Power 106 Interview (Speaks on Kush leak...) + Dr.Dre on new XXL cover

[yourdead]

Interview with Dre from power 106

http://radiobigboy.com/?p=19288

[rick1]

MP3 version (interview is approx 9 min):

http://hotfile.com/dl/82987507/f6b1f2f/Dr._Dre_interview_on_Power_106.mp3.html

[Will_B]

Thnx. All the info for Kush direct from the man himself +1

[m-b]

Dr. Dre phoned into Big Boy‘s Neighborhood on Power 106 this morning in. While discussing Detox, he spoke on yesterday’s leak and says he’s releasing it as a warm up single.

http://rapradar.com/2010/11/16/dr-dre-speaks-on-kush-leak/

[OG Hack Wilson]

Akon dissed Nate Dogg a few years ago and this is what happens?  Akon replaces Nate for h ooks?


gay

[teecee]

he also said the song isn't representative of the album, content or sound wise

[Stan]

Nice!  Sounds like it is actually happening!!  End of December, then mixed in January, so early next year.  Hopefully he releases another single b4 the end of the year.

[JML-G]

warm up or not - @ least we get SOMETHING after more than 10 years lol

[woof]

Dre is also working on Snoop's Doggumentary Music that's what he said

[Hoodlum204]

Dre is also working on Snoop's Doggumentary Music that's what he said

[Jome]

[Dre-Day]

i don't believe that Dre doesn't know who's leaked it

[EnzoUK]

#DETOX!!

[Meho]

Obviously a planned leak, the way he was talking at the radio station. Maybe not the final version but still.

Power 106’s Big Boy scored a rare interview with Dr. Dre, who has been holed up in the studio finishing his oft-delayed Detox. The elusive rapper-producer spoke about his new buzz single “Kush,” plans for Detox‘s release next year, and which rappers he’s listening to these days. Among the highlights…

On the status of Detox… “I see the finish line right now. I’m wrapping it up. I need about two or three more songs and hopefully I’ll start the mixing process at the end of next month. And from that point I’m about 30 days out.”

On why Detox took so long… “I felt like I was doing it more out of obligation as opposed to just really feeling it. As of last year, I’ve been really feeling where it’s going and I think I’m ready. Hopefully, I won’t disappoint.”

On “Kush,” the leaked single from Detox, featuring Snoop Dogg and Akon… “There was a version of it that leaked that I wasn’t really happy about, so we’re gonna go on and push it and put it out because everybody seems to like it. I just thought that the content of it, it’s about weed smoking, and I don’t want people to think that that’s what my album is about. This is actually the only song with that type of content in it. It’s not a representation of what the album is.”

On his plans for Detox… “We plan on doing maybe about six videos and we’ve been talking about touring. I’m not positive about that, but I definitely want to do it.”

On the state of hip-hop… “It’s aight. There are a lot of artists that I like, I love Wayne, I love Drake, I love the new artist J. Cole. There’s some new brothers coming out on my record, SLim the Mobster, he’s out of South Central. I think it could be better and hopefully I can do my part to assist in that.”

Listen to the full interview below.

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The Doc is back. Hip-hop’s legendary producer Dr. Dre is finally preparing to release his highly anticipated comeback album, Detox, and XXL got the chance to pick the rap icon’s brain for the December/January 2011 issue.

After over a decade the West Coast superproducer is finally preparing the first quarter 2011 release of the long-awaited Detox. In a candid interview with Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten, the master beatsmith said, “I’m really feeling it now. My energy has been back and forth with the record, tussling with doing it out of obligation, as opposed to doing it because I really feel it. My feelings about it have been going up and down. Now I’m in that place where I’m really feeling it, and it’s coming out right. It’s like, Yeah, I’m excited about it.”

Dre has been teasing fans with the disc’s release since first announcing Detox in April 2002 but, as he explains in the XXL cover story, it’s been Dre himself that has been the cause of the many years of delay. The beat maestro, who turned 45 this past February, says, “The only part that has been pushing me back is just the fact that I’m getting older, and certain things to talk about… But I can incorporate other artists, new artists with this record, to say some of the things I won’t say. It’s been a little tussle in that area also, just because of age and being able to identify with the younger audience.”

Staying motivated over the years has been a struggle for Dre, who told XXL that there were moments where he almost gave up on Detox. “I’ve been through that thing several times, where I’m like, ‘You know what? I quit. I’m not doing this. Everything is starting to sound the same.’”

In the story, Dr. Dre also reveals that Detox might be the last time fans will hear him rap. “I don’t ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it,” he said. “But as far as me going into the mic booth, that shit is over. I’m always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with. But, yeah, that’s it. I don’t see myself doing it the way I’m doing it now. I’m in the studio at least five or six days a week for 16, 18 hours. I think I’m going to back off a little bit and spend some time with the family.”

With 27 years in the industry, Dre has experienced one of most successful runs in the game, but the mysterious legend is conflicted about his own legacy. “I have mixed emotions about it,” he said. “I think it’s incredible what I’ve done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can’t help but go, Damn, there’s things I could’ve done better, you know?”