November 2010: Dre releases “Kush,” featuring Snoop and Akon, the first official single from Detox. “I had a little bit of a leak in my security and what have you, but I got new shit coming and trust me, it will not be, you know what I mean? Y’all niggas gonna love this shit!” September 2010: In an interview with Dj iroc, Dre says “Under Pressure” and other leaked tracks will not be included on Detox when (if?) it is released. It receives a decidedly lukewarm reception. Two months later, an unfinished version of the song leaks. Dre does not release Detox.Īpril 2010: Dre and Interscope Records head Jimmy Iovine announce the lead-off single for Detox will be “Under Pressure,” a Dre/Jay-Z duet. Billboard reports the record is “currently slated for a late 2009 release on Aftermath/Interscope.” Pepper (above), Dre debuts a few seconds of the beat to a reported Detox track titled “Shit Popped Off.” At the end of the ad, Dre assures the viewer, “Slower is better – trust me, I’m a doctor.” In a joint appearance on BET’s 106 & Park, Eminem and 50 Cent assure fans that Detox is on its way. November 2008: Axl Rose releases Chinese Democracy, rendering moot Detox‘s longstanding unofficial nickname, “hip-hop’s Chinese Democracy.”ĭecember 2008: Eminem tells Billboard Dre has put Detox aside to work closely with him on the new album Relapse. June 2008: In an interview on the “Big Boy’s Neighborhood” radio show, frequent collaborator and Detox guest artist Snoop Dogg admits, “I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off.” Snoop’s view is firm: the record is completed, “and it’s coming… I see what he got them waiting for, it’s on and poppin’.” You create new pressure when you wait that long.” No kidding! Dre does not release Detox.Īugust 2007: 50 Cent, who reportedly guests on Detox, explains of the delays: “He’s working on it. On the track “Higher,” Dre not only produces but takes the mic, proclaiming, “Doc got something to say, be quiet/ Look out for Detox.”įall 2005: Dr. January 2005: The Game releases The Documentary. The same month, Eminem releases Encore with several Dre collaborations on one of them, the title track, Em insists, “And don’t worry ’bout that Detox album/ It’s comin’/ We gonna make Dre do it.” “Dre got his groove back, and he’s ready to do the Detox,” says The Game, who worked with Dre on his debut album The Documentary. November 2004: MTV reports Interscope Records has Detox slated for a Fall 2005 release. “That’s why he spends so much time putting them together and they don’t come out every five minutes.” Storch predicts the album won’t street until the end of 2004.ĭecember 2004: Dr. Dre always tries to top his last one,” Storch explains. January 2004: Co-producer Scott Storch tells MTV Detox is “the most advanced rap album musically and lyrically we’ll probably ever have a chance to listen to,” confirming that they’ve been working on the album for the past year, though the final tracks haven’t been chosen or titled. “It’s probably going to take me like a year to get it all the way together,” Dre says. He says Detox is in its early stages, “gathering sounds and what have you.” But MTV estimates the album will hit shelves in summer of 2003.
As a matter of fact, I’m tired of hearing other people talk about it”. He describes an ambitious first-person theme album that will eschew “lowriders and blunts and all that… That’s played.
Dre tells MTV about Detox, which he claims will be his final solo album. Blige, and recent Dre discovery Eminem.Īpril 2002: After taking some time off and producing new tracks for Eminem, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Mary J.
Dre releases his second studio album 2001, an influential, widely acclaimed blockbuster (sextuple platinum) featuring Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, Mary J.
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Dre is releasing a new album, perhaps as soon as this Saturday, “inspired by the Compton movie.” This would be kind of a giant deal, since the good doctor hasn’t put out a full album of his own since 1999 - yep, sixteen years, which means that if 2001 were a person, it’d be driving now (and asking Dad awkward questions about its name.) But what might’ve prompted dancing in the streets and rolling in six-fours was instead greeted by a collective shrug, as even the most trusting and faithful of fans have reason to be a tad skeptical about the notion of a new Dre record. Yesterday, in the midst of an interview promoting the forthcoming NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube casually dropped a bombshell: that Dr.