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Dr. Dre
ready to
release
his
'final'
album
after 16
years
New York
(AFP) -
Rap
mogul
Dr. Dre
will
release
his
first
album in
nearly
16 years
to
accompany
a film
on his
former
band
N.W.A.
and
hinted
the
record
would be
his
last.
Dr. Dre
-- who
has
become
one of
music's
richest
businesspeople
and
works
with
Apple --
said the
album
would
come out
on
August
7, a
week
before
the
biopic
"Straight
Outta
Compton"
opens in
US
cinemas.
The
album
will
feature
collaborations
with his
protege
Eminem,
former
N.W.A.
bandmate
Ice Cube
and
fellow
Los
Angeles-area
rap
giants
Kendrick
Lamar
and
Snoop
Dogg,
according
to the
pre-order
information
on
Apple's
iTunes.
The
rapper,
whose
birth
name is
Andre
Romelle
Young,
said he
decided
to
record
the
album --
entitled
"Compton:
A
Soundtrack
by Dr.
Dre" --
during
the
filming
of
"Straight
Outta
Compton."
"I felt
myself
just so
inspired
by the
movie
that I
started
recording
an
album,"
Dr. Dre
said
late
Saturday
on his
show on
Apple
Music,
the tech
giant's
new
streaming
and
radio
service
where he
has
played a
prominent
role.
"I
started
recording
a
soundtrack.
I kept
it under
wraps,
and now
the
album is
finished,"
he said.
Dr. Dre.
indicated
that the
album
would be
his
last,
writing
on
Twitter
that it
was "my
grand
finale."
N.W.A --
which
stands
for
Niggaz
Wit
Attitude
--
shocked
much of
white
America
in the
late
1980s
with its
unapologetic
takes on
street
life
through
songs
such as
"Fuck
Tha
Police."
From his
humble
upbringing,
Dr. Dre
went on
to
develop
headphones
and
other
audio
products
under
the name
Beats
Electronics,
which
Apple
bought
last
year for
$3.2
billion.
Forbes
this
year
estimated
his net
worth at
$700
million.
While
focusing
on the
music
business,
Dr. Dre
has not
released
a solo
studio
album
since
"2001,"
which
despite
its name
was
released
in late
1999.
For
years he
has been
reported
to be
working
on an
album
called "Detox,"
but he
said on
his
radio
show
that he
had
abandoned
it.
"This is
something
you're
not
going to
hear
many
artists
say. The
reason 'Detox'
didn't
come out
was
because
I didn't
like it.
It
wasn't
good,"
he said.
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