After a decade in limbo, fans surely have questions as to whether Dr. Dre will ever deliver his highly anticipated third solo album Detox. Now, in writer Jerry L. Barrow’s interview with Dr. Dre for VIBE‘s upcoming fifteenth anniversary Juice issue, the legendary producer hopes to dispel the public doubts about the project. According to Dre, his work producing for other artists and signing talent to his Aftermath imprint have prevented him from completing the final project.
“I thought [making Detox] would take at worst case a couple of years,” he said. “For example, actual work time on The Chronic was nine months and actual work time on my last album, 2001, was about 10 months. The actual work time on this album is about half of that, where I’m seriously focusing on it. There is always something coming up. Like signing talent, old and new.”
Dr. Dre also discussed the numerous leaked reference tracks off of Detox, including the Jay-Z-assisted single “Under Pressure.” He says that many of the reference tracks were the result of an email hack. Although he doesn’t blame fans for going to such desperate measures to hear his new music, he is upset that “Under Pressure” leaked in such an unfinished form, lacking even a hook.
“Somebody actually hacked into our emails, so that made our red flags go up,” he said. “We’re in a new age and that’s a sign: Wake up motherfucker. You have to be more careful with your shit. That’s all there is to it. I know what’s up now.”
He also added, “[The ‘Under Pressure’ leak] was a little bit more frustrating because at least [Eminem’s] ‘Crack a Bottle’ had a hook on it. I wouldn’t be as mad at a leak if the song was done…I’m not mad at the fans. I’m mad at the person that leaked the shit. I have no idea how it got out. It’s not even worth looking to see who did it. It happens. The most painful part about it is that I’m passionate about what I do so people should hear it in the right form.”
Click here to read the full excerpt of the interview.
Yo, even tho i was underwhelmed by the unfinished version of “Under Pressure” i gotta say, its tough to shake my faith in Dre’s ability…even tho its been a RIDICULOUSLY long wait for this album, i have total confidence it will be fire, and bang hard as FUCK…i will be coppin this whenever it drops…and for the first time in years, Dre actually has me sort of believing its actually gonna come out “soon” (meaning within the next YEAR i guess lol, but regardless)…i mean, he keeps saying it will be out by years end…fingers crossed it does, but i’m not holding my breath for any release date he gives out, he loves to make people anticipate his work…and i guess A LOT of people are right now so its working….damn…
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No offence but that under pressure track is trash…I will give it another shot if we ever get to hear the final version but right now, I truly hope that’s not any indication of the direction his album is taking.
LOL @ signing talent to his aftermath imprint!!!
he likes to sign people and not put our their shit cause he says he has to put out his album first… LOL
Very true, Dre is straight bitch on all fronts
NixNox said it, I read it & I gotta agree!
honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if it was interscope that leaked the under pressure song, Dre and Jimmy said back in April that the song Under Pressure would be released as a SINGLE a couple weeks from then, one month later it leaks from a hacker? unfinished? yeah right
Wait so… if The Chronic took 9 mos and 2001 took 10 mos… and this one has only taken half of that, are we gonna have to wait another 11 years for it to come out??
When there was first talk of this album Eminem was at his most fertile as an artist & 50 Cent was untouchable. The idea of hearing all of them and their respective groups (D12 & G-Unit) spitting some good shit with great rappers from Dre’s Death Row days (RBX, Snoop, Daz, Kurupt, etc) seemed like a dream come true. However, as much as I like Em’s new album, and as much as I’m still a 50 Cent fan (which means I usually have to argue with a million people who act they’re on more steroids than he is/was), things are not the same anymore. I think Dre made a mistake waiting this long, and now the album, no matter how good, will never have the impact it could have. To me this album should’ve taken the top spot on his priority list. Certainly higher than working with artists like Rich Boy…
totally agree, timez av changed, n even the best artists dont sell that well nowdays cos of the net, and timez av changed, the industry b driven by the teenybopper dance sound now, b hard to sell tru gangsta shit nowdays and have it reach top of the charts
Totally agree, this album should have been out years ago, when he had good veteran and fresh new talent on his label, but now i’m not sure whenever he puts out this album it would have the same impact as the first two.
The planets! WOW that is super cool! How does Venus sound compared to mars, and the might Jupitor with all its wraith and power! Amazing, you know, not many people realize how traumatic it is for Dr. Dre when someone lets his work out he didn’t finish. The music is Dr. Dre’s fingerprints, and they identify him!
been a mad Dre fan for ages, but I cant help thinkin that they leaked it themselves on purpose to gauge the public’s reaction, and coz it was less than favourable, they aint release a mixed finished version. I know I sound like a hater, but hopefully the fallout and mixed reaction to under pressure signals to them to go back to the lab n put out that classic dre shit that we all know is in him!
Yeah coz a hook really woulda turned that trash into something listen-to-able. 🙂
Guess you ain’t peeped Crooked I’s version, that shit was bangin’
Hip Hop Dx, why do you print what are obviously bold face LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES?
Yah, the Mad Hacker stole shit from his hard drive! And it sucked!
As for Dre signing “talent,” where the fuck is it?
Doc has been washed up for over a decade, signing his name to at best generic “Dre beats.”
The idea that “Under Pressure” was the “future” when it sampled 30+ year old Kraftwerk track is laughable; just ask Afrika Bambatta, among many others, who did it first.
SMH @ Dre talking bout an album he’ll drop after Detox. Dre’s words are like a woman’s words. There’s no value to it.
“And since we all came from a woman/ Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman/ I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?/ I think it’s time to kill for our women/ Time to heal our women, be real to our women/ And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies/ That will hate the ladies, that make the babies” ~2Pac
nigaa fuck a instrumental album.
get detox out and then we can talk about other albums. slow ass nigga. dre gon be 80 and on his fuckin deathbed when this shit finally drops.