Review: Compton Draws Listeners Back Into Dr. Dre's World

Just a few days after announcing the followup to 2001, Dr. Dre has released Compton in its entirety. Download it here.

"They want to know if he's still got it" The question, posed in Dr. Dre's 1999 single "Still D.R.E." — whether the man born Andre Young was still able to deliver the caliber of music that made him a household name — has recurred often over the

I thought it was somehow connected to the Straight Outta Compton movie, but this is its own movie. I think, while on set, Dr. Dre was transported back to the mindset he was in when making N.W.A. music in the '80s and '90s, then applied it to the present.

Dr. Dre plead no contest to the Barnes assault in 1992; he was fined, sentenced to community service and put on probation. Dre — real name Andre Young — also plead guilty to battery of a police officer that same year. In 2013, singer and Dre's ex

Sometimes the best thing to do with a project that's been hanging over your head is to blow it up and start over. The California hip-hop architect Dr. Dre has a raft of achievements under his belt: The former N.W.A. member, innovator of the sinewy