Dr. Dre – Turn Me On (and a roundup of Detox news).

Any updates on Detox? Let’s see.

October 09: Dre mentions that he’d like Jay-Z to appear on Detox as more than just a ghostwriter.

March 2010: Michael Yo from E! News lets slip that there’s a Dr. Dre and Jay-Z song coming out “this week.” It doesn’t.

April 2010: The song is called “Under Pressure” and Nah Right tells us it’s “an upbeat club record and Ester Dean wrote the hook.” It’s supposed to drop that coming Friday. It doesn’t. Dre says the song will drop “in the next two weeks or so.” It doesn’t.

May 2010: Dre says “Under Pressure” was delayed because Eminem wanted to drop. He says he wants to drop a single this summer.

June 2010: The song leaks and the world collectively vomits. Dre issues a statement saying it’s unfinished.

August 2010: Dre tries to feed us some bullshit:

I thought it would take at worst case a couple of years. For example, actual work time on The Chronic was nine months and actual work time on my last album, 2001, was about 10 months. The actual work time on this album is about half of that, where I’m seriously focusing on it. There is always something coming up. Like signing talent, old and new.

Dr. Dre has probably amassed a second career’s worth of material since he’s started working on Detox. It’s just a matter of time until he feels like releasing it, at which point he’ll be better known for his headphones than any music he may have made.

Oh yeah, here’s a new track that’s really funky, but only two minutes long. I want to shake the leaker’s hand at times like this. Despite Dre’s best efforts, we get to listen to his music.