Dr. Dre feat. 50 Cent - Could’ve Been You (Unreleased Detox Track)
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The whole situation was a disappointment. I didn't really enjoy "Compton", and most of the songs that were meant for Detox were actually better. But I think Dre couldn't get it right and was overwhelmed, after having released only two classic and massively popular albums, there was his reputation and legacy to upkeep. I think it took Dre an insane amount of time to try to match his prior work. To buy more time and build hype some of the best songs that were meant for Detox were released as singles instead, and I think Compton is Dre's last album because he knew he couldn't get the final one right to the same levels, and decided not to waste any more time trying. Detox wouldn't live up to the hype, so he went with a different farewell album instead that wouldn't have to be compared to peoples' expectations for Detox.
In his head, it's probably better to remain the legendary producer rather than water down your reputation by releasing inferior music, especially if you can't cut it anymore as a rapper. He doesn't need it to make more money anyway.
In his head, it's probably better to remain the legendary producer rather than water down your reputation by releasing inferior music, especially if you can't cut it anymore as a rapper. He doesn't need it to make more money anyway.
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Not sure, but these surely were:
https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.2576/title.the-top-8-leaks-from-dr-dres-aborted-detox-album#
Some of them are really good, but not 2001 or Chronic level. Between that and the leaks, I can see why he did what he did and canceled Detox. It must have been a really frustrating time. What surprises me is that he went on to release Compton, which isn't anywhere as good as the songs we've heard meant for Detox.
I guess it was more of a "you wanna leak my shit, ok, you've heard the singles and bangers before the thing was ready so here goes everything else I've been working on and I'm peacing out, hope you're happy" kinda thing.
Detox would still be a good album in hip-hop terms, while Kush and Shit Popped Off are bangers. I can't believe it would have also had the Nicki Minaj song and "I need a doctor". That's a perfectly good album, had it not been leaked but released in one whole piece instead.
https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.2576/title.the-top-8-leaks-from-dr-dres-aborted-detox-album#
Some of them are really good, but not 2001 or Chronic level. Between that and the leaks, I can see why he did what he did and canceled Detox. It must have been a really frustrating time. What surprises me is that he went on to release Compton, which isn't anywhere as good as the songs we've heard meant for Detox.
I guess it was more of a "you wanna leak my shit, ok, you've heard the singles and bangers before the thing was ready so here goes everything else I've been working on and I'm peacing out, hope you're happy" kinda thing.
Detox would still be a good album in hip-hop terms, while Kush and Shit Popped Off are bangers. I can't believe it would have also had the Nicki Minaj song and "I need a doctor". That's a perfectly good album, had it not been leaked but released in one whole piece instead.
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Here's the problem.
Dre is a funk/soul artist just as much as he is a hip-hop artist.
The Chronic is a funk record. It has live instrumentation, it has Parliament-Funkadelic samples (hell, the name G-Funk is a play on P-Funk), it even has George Clinton himself and other P-Funk musicians all over the record - Dre even rocks a Funkadelic t-shirt in the "Dre Day" video.
"2001" is a soul record - Example A
Now, the climate in the music industry post-Napster largely moved away from sample based beats (with some exceptions like Kanye) because there's less money and artists don't want to share credits and pay for sample usage when they are making less money than they used to.
I didn't hear a huge amount of soul and funk in the leaked Detox tracks nor the Compton record. And that is what Dre excels at.
It's also the same reason the last two posthumous Tupac albums sucked ass. Mechanical soulless plastic beats with no groove. You're gonna do Pac like that? The man whose biggest hit was based on "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby? The man who regularly, regularly sampled Prince, Cameo, Zapp, P-Funk, jazz artists like Earl Klugh, DeBarge, Guy, Kool & The Gang, Stevie Wonder, Bootsy Collins?
Shit is fucking lame. Funk and Soul are dominated by some of the greatest musicians in the world. That's why 99% of all the best hip-hop is sample-based.
Dre is a funk/soul artist just as much as he is a hip-hop artist.
The Chronic is a funk record. It has live instrumentation, it has Parliament-Funkadelic samples (hell, the name G-Funk is a play on P-Funk), it even has George Clinton himself and other P-Funk musicians all over the record - Dre even rocks a Funkadelic t-shirt in the "Dre Day" video.
"2001" is a soul record - Example A
Now, the climate in the music industry post-Napster largely moved away from sample based beats (with some exceptions like Kanye) because there's less money and artists don't want to share credits and pay for sample usage when they are making less money than they used to.
I didn't hear a huge amount of soul and funk in the leaked Detox tracks nor the Compton record. And that is what Dre excels at.
It's also the same reason the last two posthumous Tupac albums sucked ass. Mechanical soulless plastic beats with no groove. You're gonna do Pac like that? The man whose biggest hit was based on "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby? The man who regularly, regularly sampled Prince, Cameo, Zapp, P-Funk, jazz artists like Earl Klugh, DeBarge, Guy, Kool & The Gang, Stevie Wonder, Bootsy Collins?
Shit is fucking lame. Funk and Soul are dominated by some of the greatest musicians in the world. That's why 99% of all the best hip-hop is sample-based.
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