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DR. DRE - COMPTON: A SOUNDTRACK BY DR. DRE (Official Discussion)
UCC:
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...
doggfather:
--- Quote from: DJSpin on August 08, 2015, 08:30:01 AM ---Where can I buy a hard copy, is it even out yet?
--- End quote ---
Will there be hard copys?
WestSideDon:
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....
dameons:
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.
Detox Is A Myth!!!:
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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