![]() And how urgent, and how vital, and how audaciously, expensively weird. A bigger surprise than the simple fact of its (very rapid) release is just how self-evidently good this record is. As the years went by, the expectations became more impossible and the hype more biblical (in 2004, Dre’s onetime co-producer Scott Storch called it “the most advanced rap album musically and lyrically we’ll probably ever have a chance to listen to”), so it was something of a relief when Dre finally announced on Beats 1 last week that he’d scrapped Detox for the supremely humanizing reason that “it just wasn’t good.”īut, in the same breath, he confirmed that he had a new record on the way that he was actually proud of: Compton: A Soundtrack. ![]() Dre album” was a punch line in and of itself, thanks to the good doctor’s mythically delayed, over-ten-years-in-the-making third album, which, since 2001, was set to be called Detox. Before last week, the phrase “the forthcoming Dr. ![]() First, there is the fact that it exists at all. Dre’s new album, Compton: A Soundtrack, is a pleasant surprise.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |