A source tells Rolling Stone that Dr. Dre will finally end fans’ 16-year wait for a new album when the rapper releases his Straight Outta Compton soundtrack, which will consist of new music entirely produced by The Chronic mastermind. Dre is expected to confirm the album, the companion piece to the N.W.A biopic, on his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy this Saturday. It’s unclear whether any of the music destined for Dre’s Straight Outta Compton soundtrack was originally slotted for Detox, Dre’s long-in-the-works-and-indefinitely-postponed follow-up to 1999’s 2001. For the new album, Dre has enlisted protégés like Kendrick Lamar and Eminem and what’s being labeled as an N.W.A reunion, although the exact members involved from that iconic group remains unknown.
