New Dr. Dre Song Leaked

Dr. Dre's long-awaited Detox album may have taken a step closer to reality Monday night, when a new song called "Kush" popped up online. The track, which features Akon and Snoop Dogg, is rumored to be a contender for Detox's first single.

Hardly a break from form, the midtempo "Kush" features several Dre staples: a vocoder, a repetitive piano hook, a lazy beat, a marijuana theme (with an "inhale/ exhale" hook) and of course Snoop, who weighs in with some classic if familiar lines ("I'm Bob Marley reincarnated, so faded").

Director Joseph Kahn recently tweeted that he's preparing a Dre video, although he didn't say which song it might be for.

Detox has been in the works, on and off, for at least seven years. Several unfinished tracks rumored to be from the album, including one called "Under Pressure" featuring Jay-Z, have leaked online over the past year, to Dre's profound displeasure.

[HipHopConnection.com via Nah Right]

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“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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