Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre (Discussion Thread) *Stream*

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just finished listening to it, made sure i don't rush to it and am relaxed when i finish it and not tired from work or anything.

so i obviously read a lot of what you guys, and other places were saying before i listened to it.

after listening to it, this is what i thought to pimp a butterfly was going to sound like after reading all the amazing reviews of that before i listened to it. don't get me wrong, tpab was good, but i appreciate it more now than i did initially. this is dope off the bat, and rarely do albums get worse for me over time, only better.

there's no crowd other than the fast food crowd that can dislike this imo, if anyone genuinely does, sorry to hear that cause that sucks for them. this is great to be able to listen to. another dr. dre album was not guaranteed, this is a gift for us brehs, seriously.

oh and btw, just so no one thinks i was taking a shot at kendrick or something, i'm not a hater or a stan type of lame, that boy is great here. i consider this as dre's passing of the torch to him. Cube, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Game have all been great, but I think this guy will be the most consistent for the longest. Shout out to all of Dre's family tree, what a run.
 
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Omerta said:
after listening to it, this is what i thought to pimp a butterfly was going to sound like after reading all the amazing reviews of that before i listened to it. don't get me wrong, tpab was good, but i appreciate it more now than i did initially. this is dope off the bat, and rarely do albums get worse for me over time, only better.
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this is pretty much exactly what I said to my friend yesterday. TPAB took more time because some of the songs weren't exactly the most traditional 'rap' songs

edit. I'm not saying this album is generic just "easier" to listen to. it took me like a week or 2 before I started to enjoy TPAB more
 
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comfortablynumbd said:
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im going as far to say this is the greatest rap album ever

3 thorough listens all the way through. and bumping my favorite tracks nonstop all day.

when i first started listening i thought "dre rapping over trap beats? seriously?" and then the album just kept getting more interesting. just randomly changing up at different times.

its like dre took todays modern sound and just made it musically/artistically coherent.

the vocals i thought were drowned out and overprocessed at first and everybody sounded different than how you're used to hearing them. but then i saw it was consistent with the sound of the album. the mixing is glorious.

10/10

all you dudes not feeling this are either deaf, retarded, or just hating.

straight masterpiece.
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it's a pretty dope and consistent album all around

nothing revolutionary but it could have been much worse
 
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I think a lot of people on here wanted Dr. Dre to retread the old sound, or have nostalgia of Chronic 2001 when I DO recall when that 1st dropped people complained it didn't sound like The Chronic and the 2nd half of that album was unfullfilling. It took for people to soak everything in with Chronic 2001 for people to embrace it as a masterpiece as it deserves.

Compton the soundtrack is a musical escapade and a fitting closure to Dr. Dre's legacy. It shyts on everything that's been released production-wise in 2015. It embraces the new LA sound that's vibing today and pushing the envelope. When the smoke clears and people look back at Dre's ENTIRE legacy, they will applaud this album equally as they have with everything else. This is a masterful album.
 
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Damn Brehs

Dre came through crazy

Only listened once on some monitors gotta do it up in the whip today


Won't score it until the whip test but it's an amazing album
 
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I've never been more disappointed in a rapper's performance than I am of King Mez. This was his opportunity and he came with straight trash bin flows and verses. Wow smh.

Outside of that, I have to give the album a few more spins before I can give a review. First impression is that it's a solid project. While ambitious in it's sound it didn't grab me sonically enough for me to give it some of the high praise I've been seeing in the thread.

I definitely was surprised at how thorough the Vets came on this record and salute them. They, along with KDot, were the highlights. Dre as a rapper is hard to listen to now, not only because of his voice. But because now when I listen to him, I'm more focused on who he sounds like and who wrote the verse as opposed to just his words.

If I were forced to give it a rating right now I'd say 3.5/5. Solid but not groundbreaking. Give it a couple weeks I might feel different.
 
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gluvnast said:
I think a lot of people on here wanted Dr. Dre to retread the old sound, or have nostalgia of Chronic 2001 when I DO recall when that 1st dropped people complained it didn't sound like The Chronic and the 2nd half of that album was unfullfilling. It took for people to soak everything in with Chronic 2001 for people to embrace it as a masterpiece as it deserves.

Compton the soundtrack is a musical escapade and a fitting closure to Dr. Dre's legacy. It shyts on everything that's been released production-wise in 2015. It embraces the new LA sound that's vibing today and pushing the envelope. When the smoke clears and people look back at Dre's ENTIRE legacy, they will applaud this album equally as they have with everything else. This is a masterful album.
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people act like 2001 was critically aclaimed. i remember that album getting 3/5 and 6/10. at least from the review i remember. The Source gave it 4 and a half mics though.
 
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