Nobody finds it a little amusing...

[Sir Petey]

basically its not hitting your ears the same way and giving you that "warm fuzzy feeling" in the pit of your stomach because youve outgrown the whole schtick of a middle aged man making teeny bopper records but you havent came to terms with it yet.

a musical mid life crisis.

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

Who gives a fuck about sales, people only bring up sales to belittle an artist they don't like or dick suck one they do. No one really gives a fuck about them but a minority of super stans.

This most recent single is only selling because it's an Eminem track. Way to go Dre.

You better GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SALES... because it's a copy-cat industry.  And right now we have all the artists and fans wanting to be like fucking Lil Wayne and Nikki Minaj and ghetto trash like that, all this SHAAWWTY WANNNA FUCK, SHAWWTY IN THE CLLUUUUB, bullshit!!!...

But if you go back to 2000/2001 when Eminem was on top, you had all the artists and fans getting heavy into lyrics, and the styles that were coming out were highly lyrical and creative, and very expressive.  With Dre on top in those days you had artists like Xzibit getting a lot of props, artists with real credibility, lyricism, creativity, who rapped for the men not just bitches in the club.

Go back even farther to the mid-90's when Nas and Wu-Tang were on top of the East Coast and Death Row was on top off the West Coast nearly every damn rap song you heard was dope and it was like a golden age in hip-hop!

Or even further back to the late 80's when Rakim and KRS were on top you had artists getting into consciousness and the whole culture was a movement that was inspiring a lot of people to do more than just shake their ass in the club.

...So how much Dre's album sells means a whole lot and fuck anybody that says otherwise!!! 

[Sir Petey]

[Portugoal]

chris rock said it best...

"what ever music was on the radio when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you"

Basically... The audience they're targeting with INAD is not the audience most people here are a part of. If you don't like it, don't buy the fucking album and put the good old "Chronic" in your cd-player again.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

not that amusing.

Oh, no. It's hilarious. It just depends if you invested all your hopes & dreams into Detox.

my entire life is invested into Detox. On suicide watch after I Need A Doctor! no more jokes please

I'm sure you mean it sarcastically but sadly I'm pretty sure its true of you

you're completely wrong, but that would impossible to prove or for you to accept.

hint: there could be another reason why i'm not that fussed about other people's opinions or opinion trends, amusing or otherwise.

lmao you've posted more about Detox than probably any other fanboy

[UCC]

"what ever music was on the radio when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you"

Outside of hiphop, my favorite music is mostly from the 60s and 70s when I wasn't born yet, so there goes that little argument

I guess it must take me back to my glory days of 1-2 decades before I was born... or maybe I just like the way it sounds?

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

"what ever music was on the radio when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you"

Outside of hiphop, my favorite music is mostly from the 60s and 70s when I wasn't born yet, so there goes that little argument

I guess it must take me back to my glory days of 1-2 decades before I was born... or maybe I just like the way it sounds?

I think a better way to say it is, whatever music you were listening to when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you.

[UCC]

"what ever music was on the radio when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you"

Outside of hiphop, my favorite music is mostly from the 60s and 70s when I wasn't born yet, so there goes that little argument

I guess it must take me back to my glory days of 1-2 decades before I was born... or maybe I just like the way it sounds?

I think a better way to say it is, whatever music you were listening to when you first started getting laid is gonna be the best shit of all time to you.

I wasn't listening to 60s and 70s stuff when I started getting laid either, quite a bit after that... in fact I can't remember what stuff I was into around that time and it's irrelevant to what a song sounds like...

Just because you're getting laid at the time doesn't make someone's rapping better or the beats better, so I don't get that quote at all

[Quadruple OG]

That song was found as a result of people buying the album based off of "How We Do".

Flat out wrong with that statement. As someone mentioned, it was not only the street single but was getting tons of spins. Hell, Snoop jumped on the song so he could hop aboard the bandwagon.

"Westside Story" was well known before "How We Do" dropped.

[Portugoal]

I still don't understand that they altered "Higher" for the album version.

[Quadruple OG]

that in most threads that get created in this section, somebody mentions that "The West is dead", "The West doesn't sell", "Somebody needs to put the West back on the map" & then when Dr. Dre releases a single that still may not, but is without doubt going to the right direction to do so & everybody is against it?

I think basically where I am going with this is, alright. You're all dying for West Coast Hip Hop to be relevant again, so what exactly do you want released to do so? Like what would your dream song be that would realistically do great on the charts & still have that classic West Coast feel to it? Let's be honest, "Kush" was West Coast & it did alright. I mean, I'm not complaining about it's numbers, but didn't come close to the Top 25, if I'm not mistaken. So that's a pretty good attempt at a mainstream, but yet a West Coast feel to a song & it didn't work out at all as far as "bringing the West back".

So you tell me, if you want the Coast to be "back on the map", yet you're going to basically make ten threads about boycotting the one single that could very well do just that; what exactly would you accept? & I mean something that will realistically work. Not some West Coast junkie dream.

As far as the topic goes, the reason people dislike the track is because it's more of a track Eminem would use for one of his records than a Dre track. Dre's been talking about how Detox was going to redefine rap and this song goes against that because it just recycles what many of Eminem's productions sound like. Not saying that "Kush" was ground-breaking, but it's more along the lines of something fans were expecting. I think the name "I Need A Doctor" fits the whole Detox theme, but the execution went horribly wrong.

My solution would have been for Dre to release "Shit Popped Off" (or I guess the radio edit would be "Popped Off") or "Topless" as singles. Both those tracks had bigger buzzes and were better than "I Need a Doctor".

[Sir Petey]

not that amusing.

Oh, no. It's hilarious. It just depends if you invested all your hopes & dreams into Detox.

my entire life is invested into Detox. On suicide watch after I Need A Doctor! no more jokes please

I'm sure you mean it sarcastically but sadly I'm pretty sure its true of you

you're completely wrong, but that would impossible to prove or for you to accept.

hint: there could be another reason why i'm not that fussed about other people's opinions or opinion trends, amusing or otherwise.

lmao you've posted more about Detox than probably any other fanboy

i was about to say, dont make me go look up the posts dude made right when kush came out...matty was caught in a whirlwind of sadness and rage over that song lol.

[QuietTruth]

'Start From Scratch' was like 20/10.

[Matty]

not that amusing.

Oh, no. It's hilarious. It just depends if you invested all your hopes & dreams into Detox.

my entire life is invested into Detox. On suicide watch after I Need A Doctor! no more jokes please

I'm sure you mean it sarcastically but sadly I'm pretty sure its true of you

you're completely wrong, but that would impossible to prove or for you to accept.

hint: there could be another reason why i'm not that fussed about other people's opinions or opinion trends, amusing or otherwise.

lmao you've posted more about Detox than probably any other fanboy

i was about to say, dont make me go look up the posts dude made right when kush came out...matty was caught in a whirlwind of sadness and rage over that song lol.

i wrote a load about it and stand behind everything i said, namely that it wasn't very good based on dre's previous singles, produced or solo. you won't find any quotes where i'm explictly mad or unhappy, because there are none. there are, on the other hand, plenty of people saying 'fuck dre' 'dre sucks' and getting mad about the current single.

that's not to say i don't care at all, otherwise why would i post all that stuff. but the discussion is in context, i enjoy giving my opinion in detail and this is the right place to do it. anyone else is free to do so too.

and considering how long 'detox' has been brewing, it's a topic that can be discussed as much as anyone likes imo. i don't think its necessary for some posters to be popping up in almost every single dre thread complaining 'not this again' and bagging on people, because that whole attitude is far worse than the people 'excessively' talking about it.

[Black Excellence]

How bout some Westside Story beats wit niggas rappin' over 'em who ain't dressed in broad tight jeans in they music videos lookin' like some homo ass rock stars.

Did you ever see the insert in the Eazy E 187umm album?

thats DRE you're describing

LOL