On Saturday Dr. Dre announced the imminent release of his third album, Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, which came with the news that he’s ditched the long-brewing full-length Detox. Given that Dre’s been hyping Detox since the release of his last album, 1999’s 2001, the unreleased project’s failure has taken up much of the oxygen surrounding Compton: A Soundtrack, even though Dre is putting that LP into the world soon. Very soon, in fact: Compton, which was inspired by the forthcoming N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton, will be available through iTunes and Apple Music on Friday, a full week before the movie that provides the album’s namesake hits theaters.
I begrudgingly complied in order to hear Tink’s Winter’s Diary 3 when it dropped late at night last week, though the interface kept me from listening to the mixtape more than once. After I downloaded Winter’s Diary 3 I had to sit through an advertisement, and I’d decided to download the mixtape to avoid the ads that had cut through the app’s stream—Tink’s luxurious, enticing songs couldn’t keep me on the app for long.
