http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA770wpLX-Q&feature=player_detailpage




My cracka ass is feeling it

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 6:48 PM. Reason : gfsd]

2/25/2011 6:48:35 PM

not enough product placement

2/25/2011 6:58:43 PM

I've always thought the song was meh

it will be nice to hear Dre again though. Been way too long.

Watching that video does fill me with a lot of nostalgia though. Now, I am convinced that I need to get a porche, and a HP. Also, I need to contract AIDS.

2/25/2011 7:10:37 PM

Is it just me or is basically every Dre song about how much he hates rapping and how much he wants to quit?

2/25/2011 7:12:08 PM

Yes, I think that he has threatened us a couple of times.

But that's what gangsters do. They threaten people.

2/25/2011 7:13:49 PM

Damn, I had forgotten about this guy.

2/25/2011 9:24:50 PM

You forgot about Dre?

2/25/2011 9:31:56 PM

Stuff white people like

2/25/2011 11:17:54 PM

i liked how eminem angrily raps him out of a coma, and then dr. dre starts lifting weights while making vague references to people who are no longer his friends.

2/26/2011 2:08:28 AM

dude's jacked now

2/26/2011 9:32:51 AM

Steroids. how do you think Timbaland used to be so big

2/26/2011 10:37:05 AM

I forgot about him

again

and, for the record, I don't give a shit and never have given a shit whether or not he could afford to provide his family with groceries.

2/26/2011 11:23:25 AM

I was constantly talking about firearms because I was under the impression that he had exchanged those in his possession for monetary compensation.


Its seems I was mistaken.

2/26/2011 11:52:55 AM

this song is way better than what I thought would wind up coming out of the "Detox" album. I figured Dre was going to over-produce and over-critique the album to the point that it would be garbage. I really like this song.

Dr. Dre is jacked as shit, I knew he had gotten into shape, but it looked like he was wearing an Arnold Schwarzenegger suit.

Also, I've read some shit where people claim that Eminem wrote Dre's verse, which I dont really get.

anyways, solid track

2/26/2011 12:01:06 PM

I recall the time I once sent him hate mail proclaiming his fall from grace in the rap community.

Turns out, he was just in his laboratory with a mere pen and paper tablet trying with fervor and diligence to attain success for his recording and distribution company!

Silly me. TOTALLY thought he had just fallen out of favor with his peers.

[Edited on February 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM. Reason : asddss]

2/26/2011 12:32:47 PM

some over produced whiny trash that sounds like an eminem track about how much life sucks as a millionaire.

2/26/2011 11:23:05 PM

Your son dies, your friends, producers and professional colleagues all bail on you.

Yea, you can be in a pit of despair.

Money doesn't buy happiness isn't a saying for no fucking reason.

[Edited on February 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM. Reason : fa]

2/26/2011 11:36:52 PM

Stole the women in water thing from 300 though.....

2/26/2011 11:49:46 PM

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"Is it just me or is basically every Dre song about how much he hates rapping and how much he wants to quit?"

Dude is 46, he's waaaay too old to be rapping. He really does need to quit.

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"Also, I've read some shit where people claim that Eminem wrote Dre's verse, which I dont really get."

There's a long history of Dre's verses being written by other people. Em's been doing it since Chronic 2001.

2/27/2011 1:21:28 AM

Actually Royce da 5'9" wrote a good majority of Dre's lyrics before Royce and Eminem fell out

2/27/2011 8:41:15 AM

I didn't realize there was an age limit in rap

with that said

the song sucks

2/27/2011 8:43:53 AM

I didn't know his son died.

2/27/2011 9:44:17 AM

3.5 mil views in 3 days.... not to shabby

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"Stole the women in water thing from 300 though....."

yah the 300 oracle part was the only thing that i wasnt overly thrilled with. product placement has never bothered me so overall solid.

[Edited on February 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM. Reason : d]

2/27/2011 10:36:08 AM

Kush is a good one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJDaOVz2qY

2/27/2011 12:56:46 PM

Remember Xzibit? He was all over Dre's last album. Whatever happened with that guy?

[Edited on February 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM. Reason : d]

2/27/2011 9:59:45 PM

^"He was added to the permanent design team for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for the Fall 2010 season after several guest appearances during the 2009/2010 season."

2/28/2011 11:54:21 AM

Kush is good

[Edited on March 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM. Reason : and its good to see some decent rap and not this constant barrage of hiphop garbage]

3/1/2011 10:15:25 AM

The new Dre songs are complete garbage - as someone said, they sound like leftovers from "Recovery". They're almost as bad as Lupe's new album. gracious, the whole genre is pumping out a bunch of shit these days. If you had told me 10 years ago that there would be a point in time when I would actively dislike everything put out by Dre, Snoop, and Em, I'd have thought you're crazy. But sadly, it's true.

At least my homies Pill, Rittz the white rapper, Big Krit, and Curren$y are giving me hope. new south, yes lawd!

3/2/2011 2:30:56 PM

I haven't listened to Lupe's new album yet, but there's no way it can be awful, right?

3/2/2011 2:35:36 PM

the song in the first post on this thread is really bad

3/2/2011 2:55:10 PM

^^ i know, right?? i loved "the cool" and "food and liquor", but his new one is pretty rough. it leaked a couple of days ago. he went euro-pop on it, heavy techno production. and to top it off, there's a track with trey songz. freaking trey songz. could not have been more disappointed. maybe it will grow on me, but i seriously doubt it. lyrically it isn't that awful, but musically it sounds like he's trying to cater to brazilian teenagers. i saw someone post that it was lupe's "nastradamus". my take is that it's his "808 and heartbreaks". either way, he could've done better

3/2/2011 9:49:18 PM

Hate to derail the thread, but
^ Most people I've heard have either really loved LASERS, or hated it. Doesn't seem to be much in between. What it sounds like happened is the label got involved and forced to put some songs on the album that he probably would not have put on there himself. He says "The Show Goes On" is pretty much the label's song. I guess after all the issues with trying to get the album released, he just gave in to what the label wanted. I've only heard Show Goes On, Words I Never Said, and All Black Everything...I like those songs pretty good. But I haven't downloaded the leak. He's one of my favorite artists so I hope he's not changing his style too much...The Cool and F&L were great.

3/2/2011 10:34:34 PM

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"Dude is 46, he's waaaay too old to be rapping. He really does need to quit. "

there have been some old rappers

Wu-Tang Clan, for example, weren't young.

3/2/2011 11:35:18 PM

^^ let's continue to derail i would agree that those three songs aren't bad, but they're probably the best three songs on the album. and man, there are a few on there that are absolutely unbearable. i'm not trying to hate too much, because lupe is an amazing lyricist, but there are some REAL head-scratchers - and it's not just the john legend song and "show goes on", which are the two he specifically pointed out as songs the label asked him to do. i dunno, like i said, maybe it will grow on me!

3/2/2011 11:54:01 PM

^I don't know if I'd be able to stand it if I don't like this album. I've been waiting for this album for too long. The songs "I'm Beamin" and "Shining Down" that were leaked last year off the original version of LASERS were very good IMO...

3/3/2011 12:14:48 AM

kid cudi made an amazing album and then an awful album

3/3/2011 12:59:16 AM

^That's definitely true...MOTM2 is/was bad. It's growing on me to an extent, but it's just not good. MOTM1 is a very good album IMO.

3/3/2011 1:09:58 AM

The Show Goes On is a total Float On rip/sample/whatever. 0 creativity in that one

3/3/2011 1:33:59 AM

I prefer MOTM2 to the first one...

3/3/2011 8:08:46 AM

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"kid cudi made an amazing album and then an awful album"

maybe I missed something, but I didn't care for Cudi's first album

I'm starting to think that Trey Songz might be the new Nate Dogg in that a rapper cannot release an album without him on at least 1 hook.

[Edited on March 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM. Reason : .]

3/3/2011 10:13:45 AM

^^^ "Float On" by The Floaters? interesting, i didn't catch that, i can hear some sort of similarity though

So about Dre - saw an interview with Just Blaze where he's excited about the release of Detox. If Just Blaze was a part of the project, and excited about it, I'll def give it a listen. Just hope "I Need A Doctor" and "Kush" aren't entirely indicative of the album.

And about him being old - I agree, he's too old to be rapping about weed and guns. But what I wish these older rappers would do is cater to an older rap fan vs. trying to make music for 14 year-olds. There's a generation of people in their late 20's/30's who grew up on Dre, Outkast, Tribe, etc and are still rap fans - and who would purchase grown-folk rap if these guys would make it. Oddisee has a great song called "Different Now" in which he talks about growing up - nothing wrong with that, playa! (disclaimer, I'm on the other side of 30 now...old as hell)

3/3/2011 3:08:01 PM

Float On by Modest Mouse...

3/3/2011 3:11:34 PM

that's really the first "Float On" you thought of?

3/3/2011 3:13:13 PM

oh yeah, definitely so. The Floaters "Float On" was a good one! and soul music trumps all other genres...

3/3/2011 3:21:57 PM

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"But what I wish these older rappers would do is cater to an older rap fan vs. trying to make music for 14 year-olds. There's a generation of people in their late 20's/30's who grew up on Dre, Outkast, Tribe, etc and are still rap fans - and who would purchase grown-folk rap if these guys would make it. "

No. They won't purchase it. Get real. This is 2011 and nobody buy's CD's. There have got to be less than 10 platinum albums a year now.

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"He says "The Show Goes On" is pretty much the label's song."

The label is financing him making songs that will probably lose money, and then they asked him to make a couple that have a chance of commercial success. You people are living in fantasy land. Singles sort of sell, on i-tunes.

The economic reality is that if artists want a major label recording deal, they need to make singles that a large group of people want to buy and/or hear on the radio, just like in the 50s and early 60s before Sergeant Pepper came out.

3/3/2011 4:31:54 PM

^You're right about the label need to make money. I'm not arguing that. The label has an investment (Lupe Fiasco in this case) and they need to make money from that artist. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. And I actually like "Show Goes On", I think it's a good song. I just hope that Lupe does not have to change his style too much...I really liked The Cool and F&L. But I do understand that the label must get money out of their investment.

3/3/2011 5:41:58 PM

In the 90s the financial side of the music industry was largely about greed. Now it's about survival.

3/4/2011 9:07:42 AM

that lupe album is TRASH in the middle

[Edited on March 8, 2011 at 10:05 AM. Reason : .]

3/8/2011 9:57:00 AM

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"I'm starting to think that Trey Songz might be the new Nate Dogg in that a rapper cannot release an album without him on at least 1 hook. "

nah man that nigga trey aint shit whilst Nate Dogg was THE voice of the west coast

trey is just a trend like autotuning and whatever the fuckin shit flo-rida is on

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"I'm starting to think that Trey Songz might be the new Nate Dogg in that a rapper cannot release an album without him on at least 1 hook. "

stay classy Lupe, when your shit is garbage blame the label. How many dicks can yo butt take?

[Edited on March 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM. Reason : f]

3/8/2011 12:36:05 PM

trust me, I'm not putting Trey Songz on Nate Dogg's level when it comes to hooks. Or being a man. But dude's on everything.

3/8/2011 3:17:59 PM