Watch the new Doggisode with Snoop Dogg, DJ Battlecat, D.O.C., DJ Quik, 1500 or Nothin and DJ Pooh in the studio recording for Detox below. Enjoy!
“We need to leave here with 4 Hit Records for Dr. Dre, 2 solo and 2 with me on it.” (Snoop)
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Dr. Dre and Eminem had their track “I Need a Doctor” prematurely leaked to the Internet last November. The track, produced by Alex Da Kid (he was behind last year’s “Love The Way You Lie,” Eminem’s single with Rihanna) and featuring singer Skylar Grey (who also sings on Diddy-Dirty Money’s “Coming Home”), will now hit the airwaves mastered on February 8th! They shot the video this weekend.
Make sure to check out www.DrDre.com now!

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It took more than a decade, but the seemingly impossible has happened: The new Dr. Dre single “Kush” featuring Snoop Dogg, Akon & Sly has officially arrived. The track now available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon.com.
“It’s about weed smoking, and I don’t want people to think that’s what my album’s about,” Dr. Dre said. “This is actually the only song with that type of content in it. But it seems that everybody likes it. So we’re going to go ahead and push with it.”
“Kush” feels like vintage Dr. Dre, with a heavy low end, a cinematic piano riff, a …

Backstage at the Jay-Z And Eminem concert last week: Dr. Dre and Dj Iroc chop it up about “Detox”! West West ya’ll!

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Dr. Dre is preparing to release his long-awaited third disc later this year, the follow-up to his 1999 album, 2001, which featured The Message, a track dedicated to his deceased brother. It was speculated that Dre would record a similar tune in memory of his second son Andre Young, Jr., who suffered a fatal drug overdose in August 2008, aged 20.
Dr. Dre admits he has recorded some music for his tragic child but fears it is too personal to add to the tracklisting for Detox.
“I’m actually back and forth about that. I’m leaning towards no because I don’t know …

Lloyd speaks about meeting Dr. Dre and hearing his long-awaited album “Detox.” Plus, what does Dre think of Lloyd’s new music?

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Fiending for a check-up with the Doc? Peep a few excerpts from VIBE’s August/September cover story on Dre. Dre to hold you down till August 13. Interview by: Jerry Barrow
ON THE DETOX HOLD-UP:
When you first announced Detox did you think it would take this long?
Absolutely not. I thought it would take at worst case a couple of years. 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. …

Reflection Eternal (Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli) talk to Hard Knock TV’s Devi Dev about the impact of Dr Dre’s Chronic album and how Gansta rap dominated music in 1993.
Hi-Tek also talks about being signed to Dre’s aftermath label as a producer, how Dre is a mentor to him and how people perceive Dre. He also talks about the status of Detox. Some memorable quotes from this interview from Tek:
“If you cant make the Dre cut That’s your fault”…”Dre has built nothing but superstars”…”You don’t deserve producer credit if you don’t produce, just because you make a beat doesn’t …

Dr Dre says Detox is coming out by the end of this FALL, says he wants to make sure he give everyone what they are waiting for so they are not disappointed? Dre also tells HardKnock.TV’s Devi Dev in this interview that the “Under Pressure” leak featuring Jay-Z is not a finished song, its not blended right and there is no hook on it yet! Ps the lovely lady next to Dr Dre is his WIFE!
This interview took place at the 23RD ANNUAL ASCAP RHYTHM & SOUL MUSIC AWARDS where DR DRE received the ASCAP’s Founders Award.

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Dr. Dre.’s “Under Pressure,” featuring Jay-Z, leaked online. The unfinished (old) track has no chorus and isn’t mixed or mastered. The word is, that “Under Pressure” is off “Detox”!
“I want to set the record straight for everybody who’s been waiting to hear my music. The song that’s on the internet is an incomplete song that I’m still working on. When it’s ready, you’ll be hearing it from me”, so Dr. Dre!
Make sure to check out DrDre.com and Detox-DrDre.com!

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