TAGS : Dr. Dre

As the news came out last week that Dr. Dre’s long-awaited album Detox was pushed back yet again, this time to 2011, hip-hop fans, myself included, experienced a few emotions.  The weary, brave-hearted Detox apologists said, “Oh well, we can wait. We’ve waited this long, it will be worth it.  Everyone who has worked on it said it’s going to change the game!”  The smug, arrogant brand of hip-hop lover who never really listens to Dr. Dre anyway looked down their collective noses through their oversized non-prescription glasses and said, “Ha! We knew it would never come out! And even if it does, it’s going to suck anyway!”

Outside of actual rapping, keeping it real in hip-hop has always been the hardest thing an emcee can do. Life imitating art or art imitating life? It’s controversial to say the least. The idea that the character a rapper portrays should mirror who they are in real life.