Dr. Dre Sold His Personal Album Collection

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In VIBE's cover-story outtakes, Dr. Dre reveals that he parted ways with his 80,000 records, but spoke on what he decided to keep.

On the inserts to Dr. Dre's last album, 1999's 2001, the Compton, California music icon and then-production partner Mel-Man were photographed in a room filled with records, including titles scattered on the floor. During Dre's recent VIBE cover-story conversation with Jerry L. Barrow, Aftermath Entertainment's founder was asked about the status of his vinyl vaults.

"The record collection is gone now," Dre answered, revealing that his collection was approximately 80,000. Claiming that he wasn't using the records anymore, Dre prepared to part with the accumulated collection. "What I did was just went through and jotted down everything I was in love with so I could order it [later]."

In the Nodfactor.com outakes to the final published interview, Barrow asked Dre which records he kept. Three among the set aside records were Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly soundtrack, Nirvana's 1989 debut Bleach and Barry White's Greatest Hits. Speaking about the Grunge record, Dre acknowledged, "That’s one of my favorite albums ever made. I still listen to that shit to work out."

Dr. Dre's third solo album, Detox, is planned for early 2011.
 

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I'm almost willing to bet that his collection was larger than any record store in the world nowadays. I think he should have kept them just for hip hops sake. Look at how his move is effecting the hip hop communities.
 

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Dr. Dre's third solo album, Detox, is planned for early 2011.

This one statement has made the whole article bullshit..totally ruined it for me....what was the article about again?
 

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My question is who is still anticipating it's release? I mean you've really gotta be a big Dre fan to have waited this long for it. I would buy it and add it to the collection but to care or not care on a release date at this point is ridiculous.
 

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His records with aftermath were sold with the rest of the collection..lmao.
 

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Part of the problem was he started recording the album in 2007 and it took him damn near 3 yrs (1 mo. short) to finish and release it. Which came at a bad time because hip hop was really digging for something new and fresh. Everybody knows that Ra could have come a lot better than that, The 18th Letter sold more records in one day than The 7th Seal sold in a month. Thats pitiful!
 
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