Dr. Dre will finally end fans’ 16-year wait for a new album when the rapper releases his Straight Outta Compton soundtrack, which will consist of new music entirely produced by The Chronic mastermind, a source tells Rolling Stone. Dre is expected to confirm the album, the companion piece to the N.W.A biopic, on his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy this Saturday (Aug 1).
Ice Cube dropped a dime when he appeared on Philadelphia’s Power 99 Wednesday morning (July 29). Despite Cube giving an August 1st release date for the album, multiple sources have revealed that the album will be released a little later.
“It’s mega. It’s Dr. Dre, it’s what everybody’s been waiting for,” Cube told the Rise & Grind Morning Show. “It’s definitely a dope record, and he’s dropping it all on the same day.”
It’s unclear whether any of the music destined for Dre’s Straight Outta Compton soundtrack was originally slotted for Detox, Dre’s long-in-the-works-and-indefinitely-postponed follow-up to 1999’s 2001. Dre reportedly began working on Detox in 2001, and by 2008, Snoop Dogg confirmed that Detox was “finished.” Dre later hinted at Detox during a Dr. Pepper ad campaign in 2009, the same year numerous unmixed tracks reportedly ripped from the LP – tracks from sessions with T.I., 50 Cent and R. Kelly – were leaked. After the leak, those close to him revealed that Detox was dead since Dre wanted to distance himself from the project.
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