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Monday 26 September 2011

Dre's coloring Detox with shades Of R.E.D., says Game

Game started his first session for The R.E.D. Album in late 2008, with plans for Pharrell Williams to executive produce and, of course, be one of the few track masters to provide beats. After several months and close to a dozen tracks in with Skateboard P, the Cali rhyme slinger got the call from Dr. Dre to come in and resume work on Detox, a project Game says he has worked on with his mentor on and off for the entirety of his eight-year professional career.


That’s when the Doc inspired a different feel to The R.E.D. Album. “Dr. Dre. came in and said, ‘This is The R.E.D. Album? Cool. But you need this, this, and this and that,’ ” Game says of the shift in his focus. “I was like, ‘Well, where am I gonna get this, this, this and that?’ He was like, ‘We here, ain’t we?’

“We started working on The R.E.D. Album, and some of the songs we did for The R.E.D. Album he snatched for Detox. Then we worked on some more, and he gave me more for R.E.D. At that time, I was probably the happiest I was in my career. Back working with Dre. Working really closely. Our relationship has always been real easygoing, man. Especially when it comes to the music.”

Despite providing heavy input on R.E.D., Dr. Dre and Pharrell have just one song each on the LP that they produced. Most of the tracks were helmed by La Mar “Mars” Edwards, from the collective of musicians and producers 1500OrNothin. “We’ve been working on The R.E.D. Album for two, three years,” says Mars, who also wound up being a co–executive producer on the album. “He still has half of the album he has from two years ago. That goes to show you how artistic he is and how he knows what he wants. It was just fun. It was just fun records.

Us doing those fun songs was cool because he didn’t have them. Then we had to get back to the core of who Game is and why people bought [his] albums, Doctor’s Advocate and The Documentary. The whole project was between gettin’ it done and taking it back to whoever.”

In total, Game recorded more than 100 songs for his new album. He worked with everyone from the YMCMB family to T.I. to Yelawolf to a woman he used to lyrically terrorize during his stint as a member of G-Unit, Ashanti. Most of the records, obviously, didn’t make the cut. Songs like the Pharrell Williams–produced “Ain’t No Doubt About It,” featuring Justin Timberlake, hit the Internet unsanctioned, while Game himself leaked a myriad of others, like the Dre-produced and Ashanti-featured “Soft Rhodes,” on various mixtapes, such as Hoodmorning (No Typo): Candy Coronas. Ironically, neither Dre nor Pharrell has heard the album in its completed state.

“I didn’t play the whole album for either one of them,” Game says. “They both were instrumental to the conception of it. But I don’t have to do that. They both know I can do it. I stopped sending people music when it got to the last two months. Nobody knows what the entire album sounds like except my engineer. [The album] was a little dark. But at the end, I did songs with Wale and [Rick] Ross and Mario. We got to the end of the album, and I was like, ‘We ain’t
got no songs for the bitches. None.’

“I had to reach out for Drake and Lloyd,” he continues.

“I already had Chris Brown, but the song he’s on is more inspirational. So it wasn’t catered toward the ladies. I had to go back in and lighten it up a little bit.”

Now, with the right hue to his project, Game feels that R.E.D. has topped all his previous efforts. “I know there’s some people that say, ‘Game fell off.’ For all of those people, I can’t wait for you to hear this new album,” he says enthusiastically. “Dre is narrating the entire album. It’s five or six skits going through my life. It’s connected to the songs, on a time line throughout my life, all the way into current-day Game. I asked Dre would he do that. I wrote out the script, and he did it. I cannot wait until people get a hold of this album and put it in. For me, I feel like I put everything I had into this album. It took me three years. And like I said, everything I had, I put in the album.”



Source - http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2011/09/game-grown-man-excerpt-from-the-october-2011-issue/2/

19 comments:

  1. Why does "Drug Test" sound so familiar? I want to say it was a Detox leak, but I'm not sure. Anyone care to help me out here

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  2. It came out on Game's Hoodmorning mixtape and then it made The RED Album. It was a Detox throwaway for sure though.

    Contrary to the article Dre didn't produce anything on RED. "Drug Test" is a straight Khalil joint according to the actual CD and only Pharrell, Mars, and Game were credited as executive/co-executive producers. There was zero Dre production or music on the album which confused everybody and it's virtually impossible to say exactly what, if anything, Dre actually did for the record beyond the narrations. If he was guiding (as an executive producer) or mixing anything for RED he sure as hell didn't get any credit for it which doesn't compute but whatever.

    Something tells me Game/Interscope went on a campaign to mislead everyone by hyping up his reunion with Dr. Dre for the media to put the idea in people's heads that he had a hand in making it even though he didn't at all. I think it worked. Don't believe everything you hear or read, especially if it's about Detox.

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  3. Does any one know what happened to the "Dead People" track, that was supposedly produced by dre.
    I was really looking forward to that..

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  4. Dre probably didn't finish mixing it in time because Game and Jimmy had pretty much decided August 29 was going to be the absolute final deadline to put RED out. I was looking forward to it too, especially after Game opens his mouth bragging about it, but maybe someday it'll turn up because the concept was pretty crazy.

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  5. Ok guys, I have posted more than twice - a song produced by the
    The name of the song is:
    Bishop Lamont - Rain (google it)
    I hate this part were we comment - but our comments dont show.

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  6. Those of you who follow Slim Tha Mobster on Twitter may have seen last night that he said Lil Kim is featured on a track called 'Pussy', and it has made the final version of Detox........This was also confirmed by Chocolate (an Aftermath producer).........

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  7. "YOUNG YEN - CALIMAGIC"

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  8. That's an old track. it's from The Shawshank Redemption Album, released about a year ago

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  9. On the 21 September 2011, The D.O.C. confirmed on Twitter that previously released singles Kush and I Need a Doctor will not appear on the album. I'm happy with that news !

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  10. he wasnt referring to kush and inad lol, he was referring to psycho and die hard - which neither of those will be on detox.

    nothing new here.

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  11. Nah !! He was referring to "KUSH" and "I NEED A DOCTOR" on his TWITTER account.

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  12. did he actually mention those 2 tracks? i dont think so.

    A direct source/link would be useful ; )

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  13. Im gonna be pissed if Die Hard is not on Detox I love that song( what I've heard thus far I love the vibe and it has potential Just make it a double album and throw Kush and I need a Doctor along with it in the mix I know people might not like the idea but they've been a part of the long haul and it would still be nice to have them to compare with what's in store

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  14. i think there is a greater chance of 'die hard' being released/leaked but not on detox. Fans would still be happy.

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  15. I don't know what the fascination with Die Hard is, the song isn't that hot and Em's nasal hook singing is annoying. The joint is okay but worrying about whether it's on Detox is weird to me, you have enough of a finished snippet to enjoy and hear where the entire song goes (it doesn't go very deep or far in anything), the fans should put their concern into whether Detox has a caliber of songs that meet their expectations. INAD and Die Hard sure don't for me, and Kush was hot at the time IMO but it was way dragged down by the lyrical content (approaching 50 and rapping about weed, come on...) and Akon.

    To be honest I was already 99% sure the songs above weren't going to be on Detox because we know the record from last year was scrapped (the one Dre claimed was 1-2 tracks away from final mixing) and DOC was brought back to sort that shit out anyway and get a new version out. It isn't really news but I guess Die Hard not being on Detox may surprise people since the boxing show it was featured on clearly said it was from Detox. I just don't know why people care about Die Hard but I know I'm way past ready to hear at least a snippet of the kind of shit Dre is committing to Detox to get some hint of the level I can expect.

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  16. DOC tweeted saying INAD and Kush not on Detox. When referring to Psycho and Die Hard, he was saying that neither of them will be the next single.

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  17. when did doc say any of this? its not on his twitter page.

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  18. eminem should not be in detox. its a westcoast album

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  19. here are the DOC tweets regarding kush and inad not being on detox - http://twitter.com/#!/laxdill2/status/116594854456336384

    http://twitter.com/#!/WESTCOASTDOC/status/116601210475257856

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