He has the record going, but I'm sure he thinks there are pieces missing still. "Dre's album is definitely the most important thing right now, because he is definitely in the final stretch. Dre was in the final stretch of Detox work. In an interview with Billboard, DJ Khalil said that Dr. Dre were collaborating on both Detox and Swizz Beatz's project, Haute Living. On May 21, 2011, Swizz Beatz confirmed that he and Dr. Dre, 'In Da Club.' Without that momentum from that song, I'm not sure they would have taken to 'P.I.M.P.' the same way or '21 Questions' or any of the other hit records I released following that." My first single off of Get Rich or Die Tryin' - people constantly tell me it was a classic - was produced by Dr. When you got a producer that has that kind of production track record, you even have to credit both Eminem's success and my success to Dr. In January 2011, 50 Cent was interviewed by MTV regarding why the album was so highly anticipated. "It let me know that I still got love out there and I'm not wasting my time in the studio with what I'm doing, with the music or with all the Beats product that we're putting out." It inspired me, it made me want to hurry up and get back in the studio and put more effort and more work into my own project," and "The response from the people out there was just incredible,". He also expressed the inspiration and encouragement he received to finish the album, saying, "Being on the stage with Eminem and Jay-Z was one of the most incredible feelings I've felt in a long time. In September 2010, at a press conference for "Beats By Dre" headphones, Dre hinted at a Christmas release. Finally, on that same May, Dre premiered the first official snippet of Detox in a Dr. Dre had about ten songs finished for the album. That same yer, 50 Cent and Eminem asserted in an interview on BET's 106 & Park that Dr. In December 2008, Dre told MTV that the album would be released after Relapse and 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct, released in May and November 2009, respectively. Dre revealed that he aimed to release the album in November or December 2008, saying, "I'm just now, over the last couple of months, starting to feel that it's going to be right and it's something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it". Snoop Dogg later confirmed the album's completion and said that Dre was still deciding which tracks would be included. When you put a new album against the last two classics, people will scrutinize it if they become impatient."Īfter rumors by All Hip-Hop of Detox being complete in May 2008, it and Eminem's sixth studio album, Relapse, were revealed to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008. You create new pressure when you wait that long. In a 2007 interview with 50 Cent, he stated Detox was continually delayed because of Dre wanting a perfect album, saying, "He's such a perfectionist. Afterwards, Dre announced that Detox would still be released while he was at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards presenting the Video of the Year award. The album, already famous at the time for being delayed so much, was announced for a September 2007 release date, though it was delayed again once the deadline passed. The planned 2005 release date passed and Dre was still working on the album, being in the second phase of recording with 18 tracks complete at the time. The revival and promised completion was reflected in the lyrics of Eminem's "Encore/Curtains Down" and The Game's "Higher". Upon completion, he resumed work on Detox with a plan to release the album in late 2005. In 2004, Dre took focus off the album to work on producing for fellow rappers Eminem, The Game, and others.
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Dre had stated he was tired of rapping about marijuana use and stereotypical gangster lifestyle, he planned to make Detox a hip-hop musical telling the story of a professional hitman and his family, with an intended summer 2003 release date but this version was never released. Dre's final studio album, which has been confirmed at different points throughout the album's production process. Even at the beginning of production, it was announced that it would be Dr. The recording of the album dates back to early 2002, where the very first version of Detox was called "the most advanced rap album ever," by producer Scott Storch.