Dr. Dre Announces First Album in 16 Years, World Says "We'll See" (Album Cover Art + Tracklist)

Soundtracks seem to be the move nowadays don't they?  Shortly after Eminem's Southpaw soundtrack debuts, The Doctor announced that he would be dropping his first album in 16 YEARS, a soundtrack to the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. Crazy to think that the thing that inspired Dr. Dre to finally drop a project was a movie (NWA movie, probably not so crazy). The buzz around this project is obviously going to be INSANE, so I'm here to drop a few facts (and probably rumors) about the project.

The soundtrack is called Compton: A Soundtrack By Dr. Dre (simple name, but it's not about the name) and will feature the likes of Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and many more, and will be entirely produced by the man himself. Did you expect anything less?  The album cover and track list can be seen below.

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So what do you expect from Dre's "grand finale" (as he calls it)?  It's too hard to predict anything at this point in terms of what the album will sound like, which can be a good or bad thing. We know the Snoop, Eminem and Kendrick tracks will be fire, but you have to wonder the approach Dre takes on the soundtrack. The grey area for soundtracks is always making music that sounds great while at the same time fitting the theme of a movie. So does Dre take it back to music he knows from his NWA days, or does he shift the culture and make music like no one has ever heard before?  Only time will tell, and we'll be finding out when the soundtrack drops on August 7th.