![]() ![]() Game is well known as one of Dres most notable protégés. He has released 6 studio albums as an emcee, his most recent being the 2014 Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf drop. Dre is still capable of making hits for all to enjoy, or if those hits are locked away forever in his studio. Credits: 1 Performing ('Just Another Day') Compton native Game has been putting out music since the early 2000s. You may like it, but you probably won’t be singing along to it a year from now, or hearing it on the radio any time soon. I am here to tell you to give it a listen if you want to hear work from serious professionals. I am in no place to say this is a bad album, but only an album that is too specific. Obviously, my beats never made the cut but Dr. Detox, according to him, was not up to his standards and will sadly never be released. Straight Outta Compton, and the first Blueprint back in the day. Unfortunately, Dre has come out and said that this is his last album. A Young nigga got it bad because I’m brown. The lyrics of the song include: Fuck the police comin’ straight from the underground. Inspired by the new NWA film, the album seems to be one big history lesson that could have been covered by two or three songs. Because He made Fuck tha Police with N.W.A.: In 1988, the song Fuck tha Police was released by the rap group N.W.A. Where is the song to dance to in the club? Where is the song to ride with all your friends with the windows down? Even Snoop Dogg’s appearance on “One Shot One Kill”, featured him as serious and spitting hard with authority, something you have to actually hear to believe. But for Compton, this is every single song. It’s always good to have one or two tracks that are conscious, that are about the struggles of life, a concept in music that hip-hop actually has a hand in inventing. However that is just the problem, the album is not for everybody. Matched up with crystal-clear production that only the doctor could provide, this album gives any connoisseur of hip-hop a flawless performance. Paak, and old household names like Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Ice Cube. As the tracks continue on you can hear powerful lyrics from those in their prime like Kendrick Lamar, the up and coming like King Mez and Anderson. It begins with a quick history of the city of Compton, transitioning perfectly into “Talk About It”, one of the hardest hitting beats a human can muster. To a hip-hop fan, this album is incredible. Has he lost his touch? Did he wait too long? Or is 50 just not an ideal age to be making a hip-hop album? With a few listens, I found out pretty quickly. Compton is by no means as monumental, and doesn’t even come close to touching the wide array of listeners as Dr. Instead we have the new album Compton: a collective effort from Dre and Co that is inspired by the history of LA, Dre’s life and the newly released film, “Straight Outta Compton.”Īlthough Compton debuted at #2 (released August 7th), it stayed under the radar for those of us who had his 2001 album–a follow up to 1992’s The Chronic–on repeat for about 5 years straight, way back around the turn of the century. After patiently waiting for 15 years, we still don’t have the long awaited, mythical, and historical Detox album that Dr. ![]()
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