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annals of youtube

Behold: The Pliesroll, Brought To You By Some Bored Guy On The Internet

This morning while doing my YouTube rounds, I found a clip claiming to have as its audio bed a high-quality version of Kanye West's Tears For Fears homage "Coldest Winter," so I—hoping to hear the song without all that peaking and radio static that nearly ruined last week's leak somewhere around listen No. 10—clicked. But instead of "Coldest Winter, however, we're treated to a video that fuses together a photo of Steve Jobs holding a pitcher of Kool-Aid, paparazzo shots of The Game and Snoop Dogg, and gunshot sounds in a way that's seemingly inspired by both Paperrad and ransom notes. More »

2:15 PM on Tue Oct 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
145 views, 1 comment

Latest by Al Shipley: Part prankster, part Plies fan, part "person with way too much time on their hands," ChangeStyle feels like he can only communicate with the YouTube community by freaking/faking them out. Please excuse his hands. more »

project x

Project X Hits the Hip-Hop Nostalgia Circuit

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down top-ten lists from every genre imaginable. After the jump, he sits through VH1's latest TV-based listicle, 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs, and finds a few poignant moments among the MC Hammer jokes: More »

11:00 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
523 views, 14 comments

possibly upcoming releases

Dr. Dre's "Detox" To Have Its Day... As Soon As The Dre-Branded Cognac Comes Out

Could a press release from Drinks Americas Holdings, the beverage company that has a joint venture with Universal Music Group to develop beverages of the alcoholic and virgin varieties around the record company's artists, have offered business-page readers an inside line on a possible release date for Dr. Dre's years-in-the-making Detox? A press release issued today by the company claims that not only will Dre's branded cognac and sparkling vodka be released to the marketplace sometime within the next 60 days, said product launches will go hand-in-hand with the release of Detox, courtesy of a "fully integrated marketing program." I guess the plan is to get drunk on the liquor, and then detox with... oh, you know. The relevant chunk of the release is after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
4,301 views, 7 comments

Latest by westartedthis: i can't wait to see Dr. Dre on Emeril Live, oohing and aahing while Emeril uses Dr. Dre brand Cognac to make "kicked up" cherries flambe. then, Dre and Doc Gibbs do a calypso version of "Let Me Ride" more »

allegedly upcoming releases

Dr. Dre Imagines A World Where "Detox" Is Actually On Shelves

Last month, Snoop Dogg said that Dr. Dre's long-in-the-works Detox was "on and poppin'," but while Andre Young himself says that the album isn't quite ready to drop yet, he is a little more confident about its eventual release, saying that it could even come out this year. "In a perfect world, I'm shooting for a November or December release," Dre told USA Today. So will Detox, which is slated to have guest spots from the likes of Nas, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne, beat Chinese Democracy to stores? Or will Dre figure out some sort of crazy cross-promotion between his sparkling vodka and Dr Pepper that will result in the entire country getting blitzed out on booze, beats, and Axl Rose's lyrics at the same time? More »

12:30 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Maura Johnston
409 views, 7 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: This ties in nicely to a joke I just read on popbitch.co.uk: Q: What's brown and rhymes with Snoop? A: Dr Dre. more »

what about michel'le?

Snoop Dogg Swears Dr. Dre's Detox Is Ready To Go

A lot of people wonder if Dr. Dre will ever stop lifting weights and giving tracks to other Aftermath artists long enough to release his much-awaited Detox, but after four years of delays, Snoop Dogg says it could drop any second. "You know me, I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off. I see what he got them waiting for, it's on and poppin'. He got records, he got heat." He also has to figure out which tracks featuring which rappers are actually worth releasing in 2008, as the game has changed many times since the release of The Chronic 2001. (Just ask The Game.) More »

11:30 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,598 views, 3 comments

Latest by StuntKockSteeev: I'd love to see Devin rip another Dre beat, but I certainly wouldn't bet money on it. more »

fourth-quarter recovery

Interscope Plans A Hot Winter, "EW" Flatters Keane

The music industry may be shrinking and stumbling, but Interscope's got a bunch of potential fall releases that might make this a decent year for them if not anyone else in major labeldom. Assuming a weak first single doesn't land an act in "Jimmy Jail," U2, Eminem, Dr. Dre, The Pussycat Dolls, the Black Eyed Peas and No Doubt should all be dropping new iPod ads—sorry, I meant albums—later this year. And let's not forget the vague possibility that Chinese Democracy could join this roster. Entertainment Weekly also names Keane in its list of Interscope's "marquee names," but seeing as how that band's last album didn't even go gold, I don't think we'll be so kind. More »

10:30 AM on Wed May 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
657 views, 8 comments

Latest by blobby: Why do the other ones even bother holding microphones? more »

hip-hop drunkies

Dr. Dre Wants To Get You High Drunk (But Asks That You Enjoy Responsibly)

Hopefully Dr. Young can start recouping some of those lost Death Row royalties soon; Dre's branching into the alcohol-purveying business this year, because sometimes you gotta go where nobody's going to forget about Dre. The first Dre-branded bottles of fancy booze will appear on liquor store shelves within the year, but with Dre's corporate partner Drinks America nixing the idea of a chronic-infused appletini mixer, what sort of "premier" potent potables can we expect from a guy who already knows a little something about high-end consumer goods? More »

10:10 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Jess Harvell
390 views, 2 comments

Latest by gorillavsmarykate: Yes, I have to note the irony of coming out with a new line of alcohol while simultaneously releasing an album called "Detox." more »

Forgotten man Dr. Dre just wants what's coming to him. Especially because what's coming to him might be thousands (millions? zillionz?) of dollars from the bankrupt Death Row Records, who haven't coughed up royalties from The Chronic in some time. [Billboard]

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If you ever wanted to know what Dr. Dre was really digging in 1986, this vintage mixtape is the definitive (at over 300 records chopped up in 60 minutes) answer, but in short: tons of vintage rap, electro tunes heavy on the Linn rhythms and st-st-stuttering vocals, the timeless drums from Billy Squier's "Big Beat," Jheri-curled R&B choruses, and scratching, scratching, scratching. Unsurprisingly, it is the shit. [Sucker Free]

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Dr. Dre stopped by the Consumer Electronics Show to show off the new headphones he's cooked up with Jimmy Iovine (and presumably a buncha tech guys). "'When I'm making a track I'm trying to capture the sound that makes me go 'now THAT's the shit!' And I want that reaction from everybody who hears it," Dre sez. "I spend a lot of time in the studio listening to my music through headphones. With Beats, people are finally going to hear it the way they should: the way I do." Does this mean for only $399.95 this Talk Talk record I'm listening to will suddenly be full of g-funk synths played on bassoons and Mark Hollis singing like Nate Dogg? A man can dream. [Gizmodo]

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with nelly furtado as medusa

Get Ready For The Clash Of The Super-Producers (Who Also Kinda Rap)

In a moment of weird Oedipal convergence/confusion as he attempts to give the (really dumb but apparently here to stay) "Super Tuesday" marketing plan some traction in an MTV interview, Timbaland confuses his "daddy" for his "big brother" as he claims he wants to schedule his next solo joint to drop concurently with the (ha ha) forthcoming Dr. Dre album: More »

4:49 PM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By jharv
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act surprised

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:
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12:37 PM on Fri Sep 21 2007
By mjohnston
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y'all ain't got no love for death row?

Dr. Dre To Death Row: Press Eject And Give Me The Tapes

Dr. Dre has served notice on Death Row Records that he wants The Chronic back in his tender care, hitting his former home base with a lawsuit citing a previous failure to pay agreed-upon royalties as reason enough for the bankruptcy courts to fork over the album's rights to its creator. He's also worrying that one of the rats fleeing the sinking Death Row ship in the midst of the label's Chapter 11 "restructuring" might end up selling the copyright to the album for a handful of magic beans. Perhaps if Detox ever drops we'll be treated to an updated "Dre Day 2027" video with Suge Knight in a bad Jheri curl and a sleazy Chapter 11 lawyer that's a barely disguised racial stereotype.

Dr. Dre Sues Death Row Over The Rights To The Chronic [XXL]

10:00 AM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By jharv
402 views, 3 comments

Latest by Bazooka Tooth: "Perhaps if Detox ever drops we'll be treated to an updated "Dre Day 2027" video with Suge Knight in a bad Jheri curl and a sleazy Chapter 11 lawyer that's a barely disguised racial stereotype." And with that sentence, Mr. (or more »

Taking it all the way back to 2002: The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" gets mixed up with Dr. Dre, to pretty decent results. How no one has done a remix of either of these songs with YACHT's "See A Penny, Pick It Up" yet is beyond me. [Discobelle]

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dre delay

Dr. Dre's "Detox" Shaping Up To Have Release Date Sometime Around That Of "Chinese Democracy"

Dr. Dre's Detox—the rapper/producer's first solo album since 1999's 2001—has been in the works for what seems like years, with Wikipedia listing a hopeful release date of "2007" for the record. Well, according to XXL's Elliott Wilson, that not-specific-at-all date has enough detail that it'll probably need to be pushed back; a proposed cover story announcing Dre's return (and, presumably, Detox's late-'07 release date) for the 10th-anniversary issue of the magazine was scuttled at the last minute, and Lil' Wayne and Baby were put on the magazine's cover instead: More »

6:03 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By mjohnston
5,588 views, 5 comments

Latest by Bazooka Tooth: I would fucking love to hear this record. more »

mp3

Leak Of The Day: Timbaland Shows Off His "Shock" Tactics

Last night, Timbaland's long-awaited Timbaland Presents Shock Valueleaked its way around the Internet. Due out next month, Value has more guest stars than Brett Ratner's grotto, including Justin Timberlake, Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott, Fall Out Boy, and, best of all, Magoo! We missed you, Magoo! Three tracks are below; can you guess which supporting artist demands listeners to "bounce like your ass got the hiccups"? More »

9:42 AM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Raftery
5,689 views, 15 comments