Dr. Dre Coming Out With New Album (Photo : Twitter)
Record producer and rapper, Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Romelle Young, is set to release his third solo album, which is coming out after a long gap of 16 years. The album titled "Compton: A Soundtrack By Dre" will be out on Aug. 7, Friday, on iTunes and Apple music.
The news was dropped by the rapper himself on the Beats 1 radio show, "The Pharmacy," where he provided further details by saying that the album is inspired by the upcoming NWA biopic, "Straight Outta Compton," Billboard reported. The album will also feature a slew of popular hip hop artists, such as Ice Cube, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar.
Dr. Dre further informed that he felt so much inspired after watching the biopic that he started compiling and recording the album right away. The 50-year-old rapper candidly called his upcoming album as his "grand finale and admitted to keeping it kept under wraps until now. The album will be out one week prior to the release of the biopic, which will cover the story of the rise of hip-hop group NWA, which made him the star he is today.
Dr. Dre also announced that his hotly anticipated album "Detox" has been scrapped off and will not be released anytime sooner. His last release, "The Chronic 2001," was highly successful and had been certified six times platinum.
The six-time Grammy award winner was focusing more on production work which made him not able to release more album. As one of the industry's most successful businessmen, he was named the second richest figure in the American hip hop scene, owing to his other music related business venues like Beats By Dre line of headphones which he later sold off to Apple for over $3 billion, Forbes reported.
