Dr.Dre’s latest single from the near mythical proposed album ‘Detox’ is being met with mostly guffaws not at the music but at Dre’s choice of apparel. It’s not like he didn’t pioneer the extra-fitted double-breasted look twenty something years ago. Why switch your pitch if it can still get your plate out? Mangled baseball metaphor aside, the new single ‘Kush’ is a return to the formula that the Doctor has perfected.
Posse cuts?
Ghostwriters?!
Nate Dogg?!?
All of this is the chemistry that Dr.Dre mixes into his best music, along with the dopest drum tracks and piano riffs out the ass [ll]. You can act like you won’t fux with ‘Kush’, but if you leave your mom’s basement anytime in the next two weeks and find yourself in the club you best believe you will be bobbing your head to this track.
‘Kush’
‘Parental Discretion Iz Advised’
The bassline and masterful intro from the D.O.C. makes this track. D.O.C. even had enough verses in his rhymebook to make Dre sound nice with his. This shit still bangs hard after 20 years in the tapedeck. Are you peeping the piano plucks?
‘The Chronic’
This is emo rap in case any of y’all didn’t know. Dr.Dre rhymes about the breakup of his relationship [ll] with Eazy-E on top of a classic P-Funk bassline. Bernie Worrell inspired synth keys roll around in the background. Are you bobbing your head yet?
‘Still D.R.E.’
The drumkick is razor sharp. The synth bass is sublime. But above all the piano licks are supreme. And Jay’s pen is the frosting on top. Put this joint in rap’s top 100 all time tracks.
‘The Next Episode’
Hard. Body.
Dr.Dre’s jackets are still tight.
And so are his tracks.
‘Nuff said
