Dr. Dre Announces 'Compton: A Soundtrack' Exclusively for Apple Music

Dr. Dre announced over the weekend on his own Beats 1 radio show "The Pharmacy," the exclusive debut of "Compton: A Soundtrack" on Apple Music (via Pitchfork). The album is set to be released this Friday, August 7, and will be available exclusively to iTunes and Apple Music customers.

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The Apple exclusivity announcement was made by Dr. Dre, alongside fellow musician and former bandmate Ice Cube, and director of Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray. Although officially a soundtrack for the film -- which chronicles the real-life story of Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and a few others, around the formation of legendary hip hop/rap group N.W.A. -- "Compton: A Soundtrack" is also Dr. Dre's first album in over 15 years. The album will have 16 tracks in total:

01 Intro
02 Talk About It [ft. King Mez & Justus]
03 Genocide [ft. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay]
04 It's All on Me [ft. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid]
05 All in a Day's Work [ft. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius]
06 Darkside/Gone [ft. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar]
07 Loose Cannons [ft. Xzibit & COLD 187um]
08 Issues [ft. Ice Cube & Anderson Paak]
09 Deep Water [ft. Kendrick Lamar & Justus]
10 One Shot One Kill [ft. Snoop Dogg]
11 Just Another Day [ft. Asia Bryant]
12 For the Love of Money [ft. Jill Scott & Jon Connor]
13 Satisfaction [ft. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez]
14 Animals [ft. Anderson Paak]
15 Medicine Mane [ft. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak]
16 Talking to My Diary

While Dr. Dre's initial presence following Apple's acquisition of Beats in the spring of 2014 was low-key, this summer's launch of Apple Music has seen increased visibility for the rap pioneer. Thanks to the streaming service, the musician has his own weekly show on Beats 1 and even began to release some of his original music exclusively on Apple's new music platform.

Tags: Apple Music, Dr. Dre, pitchfork.com

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satchow

46 months ago

Great! Exactly what Apple Music needs - garbage so called music praising criminality, violence, misogyny and racism!

Guess it's okay when movies, books and video games do this, but not music. Okay.

Rating: 32 Votes

Colino

46 months ago

Great! Exactly what Apple Music needs - garbage so called music praising criminality, violence, misogyny and racism!

Rating: 24 Votes

terminator-jq

46 months ago

For those of you confused why this is such a big deal (or for those of you who are unfamiliar with rap / hip hop), let me break it down:

1. Dr. Dre hasn't released an album in over 15 years. His 3rd and final album was supposed to be called Detox and over time it became somewhat of a white whale, not only in hiphop but in the entire music industry. Around 2009 there were rumors that Dr. Dre had recorded around 400 songs for Detox but the album never showed up. Long story short, we all kind of assumed that Dr. Dre would never release anything else other than headphones. This is a big part of why this unreleased album that we can't even hear snippets of, is already the top selling album (of all genres) on iTunes.

2. Dr. Dre is one of the best producers in music. Songs that Dre made back in the 90s still sound great today. I can pretty much guarantee that this album will have top notch production on every track.

3. Dr. Dre introduced some of the biggest rappers of this generation including: Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.

4. The hiphop genre has been overloaded with clowns like Fetty Wap, Young Thug (the names alone should tell you something) and a bunch of other talentless idiots that bring down the entire genre. It's about time that a real genuine hip hop album comes along to remind us what hip hop should sound like.

For those of you wondering why there are so many features, this is because Dr. Dre is more of a producer than a rapper.

Rating: 17 Votes

newyorksole

46 months ago

Great! Exactly what Apple Music needs - garbage so called music praising criminality, violence, misogyny and racism!

ahhh because no artist in Rock/Pop/Metal/Country have ever talked about those things.

Rating: 14 Votes

Enygmatic

46 months ago

Apple's doomed - they're promoting Hip-Hop... *chuckles*

This thread is full of cultural faux-elitists. Even worse - dumbass, anonymous, keyboard faux-elitists.

Rating: 11 Votes

Flood123

46 months ago

Ghetto trash like dr dre should be fired.

Hmmm. Did you happen to proofread your comment before submitting? It didn't seem a tad bigoted to you? Either you are utterly lacking in social grace or you are are racist. Maybe both. Who knows? Good luck with that.

Rating: 10 Votes

ScottishDuck

46 months ago

I've got news for you: all rap is trash. Complete and utter trash, save for the odd track in the 80s.

The best thing that could happen to all rappers is for them to retire from inflicting their violence on the rest of the world. Perhaps we should send them all to that new planet discovered recently, where they can shout at each other to their hearts' content.

Otherwise, there's always Australia, Great Britain's former penal colony. Plenty of empty space for them there (even though it's a bit hot).

Feel free to present your own musical tastes for us to critique.

Rating: 9 Votes

satchow

46 months ago

You don't even know what race the commenter is - which actually makes you appear rayciss.

Because nothing you say about your own race can be racist.

Rating: 8 Votes

keysofanxiety

46 months ago

It's ridiculous how many albums of this genre feature other artists in the songs, it's practically every single track. Back in my day, there weren't that many! *prods with walking stick*. Oh, and all this were fields. Fields as far as the eye could see ...

Rating: 8 Votes

PinkDogg

46 months ago

Awesome news! I can't wait for the film & it's always exciting when Dr. Dre puts out some new tunes!

P.S. for the haters:

When you diss Dre, you diss yourself.
Learn about music history, and understand the monumental role that Dr. Dre has played in music.
There is amazing music to be found in EVERY SINGLE genre. I just feel sorry for the close minded people that are missing out.

Rating: 8 Votes

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