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Dr. Dre: "Detox" wasn't good; "Compton" is my Grand Finale!
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When it comes out, the record will boast 16 new Dr. Dre songs and feature appearances by Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, the Game and Xzibit, among others. Its release also signals an end to years of speculation about the release of Detox, the long-in-gestation, mythical album which he says he has abandoned. Compton, Dre has said, will be his "grand finale."
Compton is subtitled "A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" and serves as a companion piece to the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, which will hit theaters next Friday. "During principal photography, I felt myself going to the studio and being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album," Dre said on his Beats 1 program The Pharmacy earlier this month. "I kept it under wraps, and now the album is finished. It's bananas.... I'm really proud of this."
Regarding why he put the kibosh on Detox, Dre explained on The Pharmacy that it wasn't up to snuff. "This is something you're not gonna hear many artists say," he said. "The reason Detox didn't come out was because I didn't like it. It wasn't good. I'm gonna keep it all-the-way 1,000 with you, seriously. I worked my ass off on it, I don't think I did a good enough job, and I couldn't do that to my fans and I couldn't do that to myself, to be perfectly honest with you. I just wasn't feeling it."
Compton, however, is an album he's proud of. "I just wanted to do something special for Compton," the producer said.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...mpton-20150806
Detox, the ORIGINAL R8 is never coming  
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