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The hip-hop Doc explains why he killed his long-delayed album and decided to release 'Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre' instead.

• Aug 3, 2015

AceShowbiz - Details of Dr. Dre's upcoming studio album have been unveiled. During his Beats 1 radio show "The Pharmacy", the producer announced he would drop his new album on August 7 and it's not his long-delayed record "Detox". It's titled "Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre".

The album features soundtracks for "Straight Outta Compton", a movie about the Doc's former hip-hop group N.W.A. The lineup includes Ice Cube, Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Jill Scott, Snoop Dogg, The Game, and Eminem.

"I was leaving the set, going to the studio, and I felt myself just being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album," Dre said. "I kept it under wraps, and now the album is finished. It's bananas." He added, "It's gonna be my grande finale."

He also explained why he killed "Detox". "The reason Detox didn't come out was because I didn't like it," he said as quoted by Billboard. "I don't think I did a good enough job, and I couldn't do that to my fans and I couldn't do that to myself, to be perfectly honest with you. I just wasn't feeling it."

The N.W.A biopic will hit North American theaters on August 14. Directed by F. Gary Gray, it stars O'Shea Jackson, Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, and Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella.

"Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" Track List:

1. "Intro"
2. "Talk About It" (Feat. King Mez & Justus)
3. "Genocide" (Feat. Kendrick Lamarc, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
4. "It's All On Me" (Feat. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid)
5. "All In a Day's Work" (Feat. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius)
6. "Darkside/Gone" (Feat. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar)
7. "Loose Cannons" (Feat. Xzibit & COLD 187um)
8. "Issues" (Feat. Ice Cube & Anderson Paak)
9. "Deep Water" (Feat. Kendrick Lamar & Justus)
10. "One Shot One Kill" (Jon Connor Feat. Snoop Dogg)
11. "Just Another Day" (The Game Feat. Asia Bryant)
12. "For the Love of Money" (Feat. Jill Scott & Jon Connor)
13. "Satisfiction" (Feat. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez)
14. "Animals" (Feat. Anderson Paak)
15. "Medicine Man" (Feat. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak)
16. "Talking to My Diary"