In a video interview with the Associated Press, singer Akon revealed what Dr. Dre‘s next song might be like.
“Actually, that’s what really excites me more about it,” says Akon, initially speaking about Lady Gaga, who is signed to his label imprint. “You got some straight, hardcore Hip Hop guys actually moving into the dance realm.”
“That’s shocking,” continued Akon, “when you got someone like Dr. Dre about to do a dance record. That’s my point. That’s crazy. But, in a way, it’s so exciting for me because that just shows our industry is so open-minded to everything. And believe it or not, with that open-mindedness, we can create magic.”
“It actually sounds great,” said the singer of the unnamed Dre record. “He played it for me. I was shocked. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s dope!’ When the world hear this, they might go crazy!”
It is unclear whether the record will be on Dr. Dre’s long-awaited Detox, or whether he’s simply producing it for another artist.
View the interview below:
At this point, Detox has to be the indisputable greatest album of all time.
wtf is dre doing?
I’m not looking forward to detox anymore with this and the other comment about how he’s been going to the clubs to figure out what to do for detox…
I guess he’s trying to create the ultimate album. If he were to do what he did on chronic, chronic 01, and let it come natural. Detox would be a hit. Instead he’s trying to follow up with what’s new. I still have respect for him, but I’ve been anticipating this album for a few year’s now, and still nothing.
“The industry is not so open minded to everything” That is definitely not true. Tech N9ne for example the #1 independent artist in the world has no radio/video play. Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Mistah Fab, Murs, Slaughterhouse, (r.i.p)Mac Dre, Messy Marv, the list can go on forever. The industry needs to get off of their high horse, and let some of these real lyricist’s/hip hop artist’s be recognized for their talent and hard work they have put in for some time now.
Correction “The industry is so open minded to everything”
Take a chance INDUSTRY
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I think Akon is talkin shit…tbh alot a these guys say things and they’re just making things up 4 attention…now a just don’t care about Detox…but i am looking 4ward 2 R.E.D…and WTF happened 2 Relapse 2?SMH
man R.E.D. aint gooooon drop.. u saw the HIPHOPDX article about new release dates and RED wasnt in it
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Dre will die of old age and detox will be released posthumously be jimmy iovine
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I think detox has been built up to much. Dre just cause timbaland went the dance route doesnt mean the KING of hip hop beats should. I love dre but I dont want to see this!!
dont think the dance record is gon be on detox, however if dre makes a dance record for anyone, its going to bang i swear, just think of the sound alone, no one mixes records like dre, sonically he is the best and you know the rest of his talents so that record sure would be fiire
I am not open minded to the idea that Lady Gaga, a rich upper class white italian, represents a part of hip hop, i am quite certain, that the origins of hip hop come from Jamaica and toasting was one of the first ways to create a rhythm and story without singing. I really resent you compiling pop music with the music of a common persons struggle and saying they share same themes. This is an insult to hip hop not a compliment. I don’t like your thinking right now Akon.
Who cares where its started from. What we should worry about is where its headed
Gimme a fucking break with all that “jamaica, keep it real” bullshit. Fuck outta here. this is 2010, not 85. We’re over that “we represent the struggling man” thing. You wanna hear rappers talk about the struggle? Listen to Pac or Scarface.. The rest of us are on to the next one..
Not saying we should ignore all that, but come on man hip-hop needs to evolve. It’s exactly because everyone does the same old shit that hip-hop is dying.. So don’t come her with that shit because if anything, going back to talking about the same shit will further bury the genre.
Dre, if a track with Gaga will mean you’ll make that fire and will mean you’ll bring something to music that no one else can, then have at it boss. Don’t listen to what these “keep it real” heads are saying, these are the same dudes that never buy an album anyways.
Hip-hop needs to be more open-minded. It needs to let in more concepts, more sounds, more diversity and most of all more tolerance. That’s a cornerstone of rap to begin with.
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SMH, Man, Remember Hiphop use to be tight in the 90s, Man, What happen?2pac passed on, thatz what happened, plus how i suppose to belive this dre track is tight,why? cause Akon said it,Akon aint no special artist, dude singing voice is annoying and plus he sign Lady Gaga, she ass, but hope fully the track be tight tho.
Ya’ll must’ve forgotten about the Wrecking Cru, Dre started out making Danc music
I just hope its not gonna be on Detox
drucifer1983 makes an excellent point, dre did start out makin the club jams..
i dont care if this track is good or the production… i only care about rap records from dre…
Rap is dying. Even Dre knows and acknowledges this. Expand your horizons.
a dance record??? man we all ready have enough of those out, dre needa come with something fresh and new not just play to what everybody else doing right now
Everything Dr. Dre puts out is fresh and new…that’s why it takes him 7+ years to come out with it.
It takes time to make timeless music. Dre is in a league of his own. All time best producer of all time…ya favorite rapper agrees with me too
LOLLL !!!! fcuk DETOX sheit is gonna be wack as hell
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I agree … honestly, who the fuck is waiting for this shit! That goes for detox 7 this “dance” shit. Keep it real!
Detox gonna be wack? Has Dre put out a wack album before? Both the Chronics is hiphop classics. So tell me where’s your proof that its gon be wack? His track record speaks for itself u remedial fuck.
Dance records is what is bringing in the money these days so I guess he had to get on it.
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Dr. Dre dance record = Gaytox
Please don’t do it Dre!!!
U stupid if u think a Dre dance record is wack. What do you base that on? Where’s the evidence to back that ignorant ass statement up with??? Which songs? Do ya homework home boi b4 u speak…otherwise u just sound uneducated…like a republican…
I’ve said it a million times (as the rest of you probably have too), good luck waiting on Detox. I put that in the same category as the Loch Ness Monster.
BTW: I had a hater on here who was a Dre stan, he might be somewhere dancing for Dre to his new record. Where u at BMIZZ?
Of course he’s working on a dance record. You got to be fucking retarded if you’re just discovering this now. Detox will never come out so who cares.
Given Dr Dre track record for club joints (In da Club, No more Drama, etc…) We probaly wont be dissapointed…..
So is this what the kids in the clubs are listening to? Ha!!!
Dre’s credibility diminishing even further.
His specialty these days is delaying the albums of his artists & his own. (Game should have stayed away) & Akon is now a dance artist anyway so he would get excited about it. No more Dre day.
Dr. Dre started out doin` dance music in the first place,remember World Class Wreckin` Cru? So this is not as far of a stretch as some of you guy`s are makin` it out be.Even on Straight Out Of Compton there was a song on there called Somethin` To Dance To,if I`m not mistaken.The illest producers are not trapped in one genre.A few years back I told him that Detox should be about him expanding musically,detoxing from just so-called gangsta rap.The nigga ain`t been in Compton for over 20 years anyway,lol.His music should reflect where he is at the moment and it ain`t the hood,hate to disappoint ya.Since some say he is the hip-hop eqiuvalent to Quincy Jones then he can`t just do The Chronic & 2001 type records just like Q didn`t just do Off The Wall & Thriller.And don`t worry there are some very mean beats on Tox,at least It was 2 years ago…
Fuck corny dance music. I want bangin dark hip hop beats