Dr. Dre: No “Detox” Until Next Year
The Los Angeles times has a lengthy profile of Dr. Dre today, and not only does it explain his VMA physique in part by saying that he spends two to two-and-a-half hours at the gym a day and now only has six percent body fat, it talks about the rivalry between the Game and 50 Cent (which Dre says isn’t his fault) and the release date of his now-eight-years-in-the-making Detox and his plans after it comes out, if it ever does:
And what about the album release date?
“I was really hoping to have it out this year, but it’s going to have to be pushed back a while because of some other things I’ve got to work on,” he continues, sitting in the lounge of the recording studio where he spends all those hours behind the buttons. He’s still two or three tracks away from calling it finished, he says.
Any second thoughts about “Detox” being his final solo album? No, he says emphatically. “I think it’s time to move on,” he adds, calling rap performing “a young man’s game.”
More important, the move will free him to pursue his long-standing interest in films. He has signed a multiyear production pact with New Line Cinema. Dre, who will team with director Philip G. Atwell, is also interested in scoring films and eventually directing.
But he expects recording studios to continue to be the center of his world, and he’s optimistic.
“When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration,” Dre says. “Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn’t even make his best record, ‘Thriller,’ until he was 50.
“That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.”
And will be ahead for another eight years, presumably.
