What direction do you think Dre will go in musically after Missionary? And what direction would you prefer him to go?

[mbewane]

I'm not sure I really care anymore. Only listened to like half of Missionary. It's cool, but it doesn't move the needle.

He'll never do it, but it's the same for RZA and Kanye : I would love them to just do some music without thinling about who's gonna rap on it, or about current trends, or about public reception. Just have fun, explore, innovate. Those three are some of the most creative musical minds and I would for them to just go all out and act more like musicians than as HH producers. Guys lilke Madlib, El-P, Muggs and countless others have made dope strictly instrumental albums (meaning albums conceived as instrumental albums, not instrumentals of tracks with rappers), I would really have loved that those three tried that. The closest we got waas the Japanese version of Ghost Dog OST and it's some of the most innovative RZA work imo.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

On some rap fantasy shyt id like to hear a Dr. Dre produced Chicago drill album

Dr. Dre with all drums and no samples

 

[BK The Great]

I’m wondering how this never leaked. This is why I rather hear songs from the vault. I know he has like a 1000 of these.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

I’m wondering how this never leaked. This is why I rather hear songs from the vault. I know he has like a 1000 of these.

This does sound much like ideal Dr. Dre

G-Unit/Aftermath era


I know the general sentiment is that his age discludes him from further participation in gangsta rap
Moving forward this sound coupled with him rapping like he's a Titan rather than a gangster, that'd work

Basically like the way he was rapping on that song at the end of The Eminem Show album

 

[BK The Great]

This does sound much like ideal Dr. Dre

G-Unit/Aftermath era


I know the general sentiment is that his age discludes him from further participation in gangsta rap
Moving forward this sound coupled with him rapping like he's a Titan rather than a gangster, that'd work

Basically like the way he was rapping on that song at the end of The Eminem Show album

I liked Compton & The Grand Theft Auto Contract EP, this sound is what he should just use if he’s gonna drop again. Or just polish up some vaulted songs and drop those as well.

 

[Deadman187]

He's about to be 60 years old in a few weeks, he should just retire. He's made his mark in music already, and has nothing else to prove

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

He's about to be 60 years old in a few weeks, he should just retire. He's made his mark in music already, and has nothing else to prove

He's not a professional athlete breh

 

[Da King]

fukk she thang

 

[Da_Eggman]

Directions straight to Larry Holmes gardens

 

[Boonapalist]

Go the R&B route or just stop. He started out with the World Class Wreckin Cru making electro R&B may as well go back to his roots. nikka old as hell

 

[Pop123]

What ever direction retirement is in, go that way sir

 

[NormanConnors]

Missionary > the hot garage known as Compton, still looking at Dre sideways for dropping the ball with Jon Connor too.

 

[NormanConnors]

Go the R&B route or just stop. He started out with the World Class Wreckin Cru making electro R&B may as well go back to his roots. nikka old as hell

Not a bad idea right here

 

[zayk35]

Add more bass, stop with the sparse ass hollow beats. Update his signature West Coast sound and stop trying to fit Marsha Ambrosius adult contemporary beats into a Rap album.

That's precisely what I was expecting from Missionary. Ppl think when we say an updated version of the signature West Coast sound, that we want G-Thang pt. 2. No, but just like 2001 was a slick and polished up Version of G-Funk, you would think there would some remnants of the sound. But Missionary was a complete pivot. Not a terrible album, but nowhere near his better, and more celebrated work from the 90s and early 2000s.

 

[Boonapalist]

Not a bad idea right here

The Michell’e album was cool and Something in My Heart still gets play on the Quiet Storm stations. And the few R&B songs he’s produced over the years have been mostly good