Dr. Dre doesn't seem to be a fan of the rap albums that have come out in the last nine years or so. He spoke about it with Complex after being asked what was the last LP that fired him up.
"Well, if you’re talking about new s--t, I would say "good kid, m.A.A.d city" and "To Pimp a Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar were the last hip-hop albums that inspired me," he said. The former album was released in 2012 and the latter three years later so again, it's been a while since a rap album has truly moved the legendary producer.
Last year, Kevin Hart asked Dre a similar question about hip-hop albums on his Hart to Heart podcast. The former N.W.A member first said that older people shouldn't be so harsh on the music younger artists are making. But he still said much of the newer music isn't for him.
"Hip Hop is what it is," Dre told Hart. "Anybody that’s talking about the state of hip-hop right now, when talking about it from a negative place, sounds like somebody’s f------g grandfather. This is just what it is. Hip-Hop is evolving. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it ... I’m keeping it all the way 100 with you. Some of this s--t, most of this s--t, I don’t like. I don’t listen to a lot of that s--t. But I’m not hating on it. I’m never gonna hate on it."
Dre released the highly anticipated Missionary album with Snoop Dogg on Friday, December 13. It's their first collaborative LP since Doggystyle, released in 1993.