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Dr. Dre Confirms “Detox” Nearly Done, Could Come Later This Year

7/23/08, 9:04 am EST

Dr. Dre’s Detox could be out as soon as this November or December, the rapper/producer told USA Today. Dre’s protégé Snoop Dogg recently said the album was completed, and now the Doctor is confirming the report. “I’m just now — over the last couple of months — starting to feel that it’s going to be right and it’s something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it,” Dr. Dre said. “In a perfect world, I’m shooting for a November or December release.” It’s been nine years since Dre’s second proper solo album 2001. The album will reportedly feature a new crew of musicians, as well as beats via live drums. “We have an entirely new thing going with the drums that’s incredible, and we’re still developing that,” Dre said. Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z and Nas are all expected to make guest appearances. Detox may be Dre’s swan song, however, as the producer said “I’m going to put this record out, promote it, tour and then become a hermit. I’m going to stay in the studio and produce.”

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Robin | 7/23/2008, 8:30 pm EST

No more bluffing!!!!! Ever since I fell in love with eminem from “the marshall mathers lp” I became obsessed with rap, tupac, nas, jay z, and his protege’s 50 Cent and D 12. But no album has been bumped in my house car and at party’s like 2001. Doctor Dre’s just stalling cuz he’s scared of the competition because of lil wayne and a grammy win. But REALLY!!! Release the damn album, everyones rooting for it, and lil wayne has nothing on the Godfather of rap.

the beginning | 7/26/2008, 8:07 pm EST

Hey Robin, re-read the article again and know that they’re doing something that hasn’t been done in hip-hop since maybe never: rap via live drums. Listen to Bob Marley in `No Woman No Cry` and think about it. Lil Wayne got hip-hop in a choke hold, but that doesn’t mean that the greatest producer, who’ve produced for the real G. O. A. T. And is one of only a handful of brothers in the game that have inside info about the most media hyped beef ever. We’ve waited this long for it and have been patient for this long, lets just wait for the holiday season release. It’ll probably clean house at the next grammys.

toshiro | 7/27/2008, 6:46 pm EST

There’s something hilariously ironic about how using real drums is “entirely new” and “incredible.”

Rayban | 8/26/2008, 3:35 pm EST

It’s been a long time coming and the Doc wanted the magic full on!
The tragic death of his son may just be the undoing of it’s release.
We’re with you Doc…..let this album be the one that honours your boys life…..respect!

Steve from Co-Op | 8/26/2008, 3:41 pm EST

No rap is better than old school! It all the same nothing new under the sun meaningless. Rap use to be fun and every year since 1979 I was more and more excited with the development of the the art. NOW! It’s all the same rhymes twisted around. I like some new rap. But I still listen to my old school, like Rakim, STET, BDP, P.E. and the group that changed my whole view of the rap game De La Soul and the native tongue. But when Dr. Dre made The Chronic I was blown away. I was living in L.A. at the time. With all that was going on in L.A. I was proud to be a part of that history. Still being a native New Yorker I felt I was trading teams. The Chronic was so hot that New York City was consumed as well so I didn’t feel so bad anymore. 25 years of LL Cool J still doin it, Tupac, Snoop, Biggie, Dr. Dre and Jay-Z. They are the last of the original style rappers. Everyone else are just really good copies. Taking nothing away from any rapper, if you can rap God bless you and good luck cause I can’t do it. Just think Dre wasn’t even suppose to rap he just does it all. With money coming in from everywhere you can wait 9 years for perfection.

Steve from Co-Op | 8/26/2008, 3:45 pm EST

No rap is better than old school! It’s all the same nothing new under the sun, meaningless. Rap use to be fun and every year since 1979 I was more and more excited with the development of the art. NOW! It’s all the same rhymes twisted around. I like some new rap. But I still listen to my old school, like Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, LL, BDP, P.E. and the group that changed my whole view of the rap game De La Soul and the native tongue. But when Dr. Dre made The Chronic I was blown away. I was living in L.A. at the time. With all that was going on in L.A. I was proud to be a part of that history. Still being a native New Yorker I felt I was trading teams. The Chronic was so hot that New York City was consumed as well so I didn’t feel so bad anymore. 25 years of LL Cool J still doin it, Tupac, Snoop, Biggie, and Jay-Z. They are the last of the original style rappers. Everyone else are just really good copies. Taking nothing away from any artist, if you can rap God bless you and good luck cause I can’t do it. Just think Dre wasn’t even suppose to rap he just does it all. With money coming in from everywhere you can wait 9 years for perfection.

Chris | 9/14/2008, 3:09 pm EST

Okay, so its mid-september and still no new word on Detox since earlier this summer. I have (or had) a lot of faith in Dr. Dre but I’m starting to lose hope. Riding on the fact that this is probably the 4th or 5th “tentative” release date for the same album, I am starting to beleive that the album may never come out. My reasoning: first of all if the album was going to come out in december, giving him the latest date, I think he would have already put out a single. Kanye already put out “Love Lockdown” for his upcoming, “808’s & Heartbreaks”, and has set a release date of Dec. 16, 2008. So with all the hype of Dr. Dre’s coming album, why don’t we see the same thing. I must note that to give up hope entirely on this reason, I would wait to say that no single=no album would until later in october. Mostly i have a problem with the logistics of “hyping” an album for 7 years. We the enthusiasts have come to expect something unrealistically awesome. Dr. Dre absolutely has the power to awe the greater crowd with his talent, but under the circumstances i think the pressure must be incredible. I just don’t want to beleive that dre is a flake but given this situation i am starting to crumble. Having said all this i think we can give up hope if we haven’t heard anything by late october, which is giving the man a lot of time.

Que | 10/7/2008, 9:43 am EST

Dre YOU CAN NOT RELEASE THIS ALBUM WITHOUT GIVING REDMAN 16 BARS.

FILIXICAN | 10/17/2008, 10:38 pm EST

DR. DRE IS TAKING OVER WEST COAST FOR LIFE!!!!

TLove | 10/21/2008, 4:55 am EST

Yo Dre Stick to producing

jarrad | 2/4/2009, 3:20 am EST

Man what tha fuck is lil wayne gonna be on tha album fuh?
seriously, jay and nas fair enough there old school legends.. but i mean puttin lil wayne on there, come on gimme a fuckin’ break
but when you think about it it could be good take this for example..
if wayne is on a song wit dre and em has a verse in it people can see first hand how much better emienm is than lil wayne. Hmm hope that happens.
redman and snoop better be on tha album.

adam | 2/14/2009, 7:00 am EST

i cant believe lil wayne is dre mad
nas n jay lethal i’m happy at that but not wayne dre needs to listen to the stuff waynes putting out at the min n then make his dission if he did wayne would be gone

get off weezy | 2/20/2009, 8:30 am EST

Wayne is not a bad artist! havein’t u noticed? he sells albums that shouldn’t be sold. just using his song sold millin copies for that rockgroup who re did lollipop! i been hearing about this album since 2002 and still nothing has come up. i’m waiting but i dont want to hear about releases that don’t happen. dont mention it if it aint happening. should only talk about it right before the release so people are not waiting and get mad (which you are retarded if you get mad at an artist for not releasing an album when YOU are expecting it) and not buy your album and start a resistance that will try to prevent the sale of said album. AMERICA YOU CONSIST OF 85% RETARDED MOTHER FU*CKERS!!!!!!!!!

Dr West | 5/31/2009, 8:46 am EST

Lil’ Wayne is one of very few out there still spitting fire. I hate rap nowadays, even the greatest (still alive) don’t do great no more: Eminem, Nas, Andre 3000, Ice Cube. But Lil’ Wayne still keeps (mostly) focus on the lyrics while these other cats are all about bangers and rappin bout cash, cars and bitches. So I would really like to hear the #1 hip hop producer of all time with a crowned lyricist!

Josh | 6/4/2009, 10:26 pm EST

I will wait another 5 years for Dre to put out his album. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. When you are a perfectionist like Dre is, then shit takes time. He isn’t going to release Detox unless he feels that it is 100% what he wants it to be.

Anonymous | 6/5/2009, 3:18 pm EST

Firts off Dre is the Shiznit! But, if you are truly the Shiznit at producing it should not take you 9 to 10 years to produce an album. Then you have to think about it, he has produced a few of eminem’s albums in less time. so, to me it’s bullshit. If you notice the pattern, it’s every 9 years, so in 2010 until 2019, we’ll be hearing the same excuses if he’s alive, then the album will drop.

RUMM

aftermathmatics | 6/14/2009, 6:02 am EST

We’re all whinin wishin & waitin- but once this baby drops- awards or not, live drums or not, old schoolers, new schoolers,hot, cold, & unknown artists, featured or not featured. I can tell you one thing, there’s one reason above all else this album has been almost a decade in the making, & that is- Dr. Dre Is hoping to father ” the greatest rap album of all time ” one that will more than excite and please any rap fan from all corners of the genre, for the old, for the new & for the new to come. Will Detox be that album? who knows, but with the man that brought you some of the most classic albums ever produced (i.e. Doggystyle, All eyez on me, Straight outta compton, The Chronic, Eazy duz it, to name a few) you can bet ”the good Dr.’s” going to try & make this album’s efforts ”take the cake” so to speak from his already astonishing contributions to the world of rap music. Id dismiss attempting that from any other producer in the game. All in all I cant wait to tear this album open & see.

Furney | 8/19/2009, 4:54 am EST

This is gonna be a bomb record dre…you do your thing in that studio perfectly lol and definately getting this when it drops,,,but i will have to agree to boot Lil Wayne off…his flow is wack and he doesnt even know whats actually releases on his records probably cant even figure out yours dre…waste of time…he should go back to birdman…his loving “daddy”….cause he’ll bring the track hes on down as well as album the rest of line up is sick and cant wait to Hear it

Lindelam' | 8/21/2009, 5:03 am EST

Doc’s a fuckin genius man, with em, nas, jigga, detox will surely rock. Wiezy, uhmmm, not sure…

will | 10/19/2009, 11:47 am EST

This wait might just be strategy but I’m contempt with a december/november release.

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