Compton Dr. Dre or confessions of a child rap – Le Figaro

CRITIQUE – The rapper released his third solo album today. A choral disc of surveying its balance sheet and portrays the scene of his hometown, while passing the torch to younger generations.

Andre Romelle Young alias Dr. Dre, 50, radiates on the planet since the 1980s rap With only two solo productions, he managed to produce two albums became classics: The Chronic (1992) and 2001 (1999). Today released his third disc that looks just as worship: Compton: a soundtrack by Dr. Dre

Dr.. Dre made a surprise early this week by unveiling this event that nobody expected. For years, the rapper promised to leave Detox . But even his most loyal fans did not believe more. Finally, sixteen years after 2001 is a surprise and with a completely new album he resurfaced musically.

Compton: a Soundtrack by Dr. Dre was conceived as the soundtrack of the movie NWA – Straight Outta Compton , due August 14 on US screens and September 16 in France. A feature film that traces the career of the famous rap group west coast NWA, formed in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles. Training that popularized the gangsta rap and launched Dr. Dre.

Recently, the musician was best illustrated by its working business man. Like Puff Daddy or Jay Z, he went into business by offering the market’s Beats headphones, whose brand was bought last year by Apple, for the modest sum of $ 3 billion (2.75 billion euros). No surprise then to discover Compton only available on Apple and iTunes Music …

For more than twenty years in the music business, Dr. Dre was primarily become a famous producer . With its Aftermath Entertainment label, founded in 1993, he has launched the careers of Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent or Kendrick Lamar. Protected that can be found today on this new album, which gives pride to the guests, even the youngest. The featurings be counted in spades. Dr. Dre meets his family, but has a knack of not doing an oldies meeting.

For Compton certainly compiles the legacy of Dr. and is not nostalgic for all that. And the album due to signify the eyes of the whole Earth. Like the feature film he wants to illustrate, this disc was designed to still spend a little more Dr. career to posterity. To mark the occasion, the rapper has put the dishes in the large. Especially since he announced: Compton is supposed to be his last disc. Unable to provide a warm disk. Betting largely won.

Since its Intro , we understand that Dr. Dre has actually failed to take this disc lightly. Already known to be a perfectionist, he plunges the listener into his perfect soundtrack. We already believes watching Straight Outta Compton with a generic with a lot of brass, strings and a voice that sets the stage. Welcome to Compton, California, with his black middle class, neighborhoods where gangs engage battle.

Designed as a film, Compton embarks the listener into the maze of history of Dre and his city. Over the songs, the rapper book. His latest title, Talking To My Diary (speaking in my diary), also ends the chapter of his confessions. At 50, he took stock, calmly, with even a little anger in the belly bottom.

So, it does not forget its exasperation – “ Though I gave everything to this game, They Still complain ” (“I gave everything to rap, but they always complain, “on All in a Day’s Work ) – nor his resentment towards the police and its excesses. His album even takes a political turn when he evokes the excesses of the security forces in Animals as those who have recently led to the death of Michael Brown.

The whole is completed with a master precision. Production licked simpering from start to finish. There is power, emphasis, of the dark. Loose Cannons is one of the most significant titles, true story scripted, with its squealing horns, his sweet flute and xylophone in the beginning, which becomes a nightmare to suit shouting and whistling bullets .

Dr juggles gangsta rap debut ( Talk About It , Genocide ), where choruses appeased are all the same surface and securities where soul like jazz make some inroads (trumpet solo superb on Deep Water or Talking To My Diary ). He handles the samples gracefully. Arrives with yet very different titles, making the atmosphere of Compton homogeneous. Despite his many guests, it’s Dr. Dre who is in charge of this choral album where it seems to pass the torch to younger generations. Compton , as personal as thought to mark the great history of rap. Dr. Dre signed his “grand final”.