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Compton (also known as Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre) is the third studio album by American hip hop recording artist Dr. Dre. Recorded largely at Record One in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, it was released by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records digitally on August 7, 2015, and two weeks later on physical formats. Dre led production of the album, with other contributors including Focus..., Dem Jointz, Bink and DJ Premier. Featured artists on the release include Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and more.

Throughout the 2000s, Dr. Dre periodically worked on his planned third album Detox, while mainly focusing on production for other artists. Most of the material for this release was ultimately scrapped, however, and Dre began writing and recording Compton during the production of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, which inspired the material on the album. Compton, as well as the official cancellation of Detox, was announced on Dre's radio show The Pharmacy on Beats 1 just one week before the album was set to be released.

Compton was a commercial and critical success. The album reached number two on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, the Australian Recording Industry Association and the British Phonographic Industry. Critics praised the album for its innovative, modern musical ideas, the personal, introspective nature of many of the songs' lyrics, and the performances of many guest artists. As was the case with the planned Detox, Dr. Dre has claimed that Compton will be his final studio album.

Background and Detox
At the time of the album's announcement, Dre simply summarised that "The reason Detox didn't come out was because I didn't like it. It wasn't good". Producer DJ Premier echoed these sentiments in an interview with Billboard magazine, explaining that Detox was scrapped because it was "not up to [Dre's] standards of quality", dubbing it "officially over".

Recording and production
Most of the lyrics on the album were written by Dre with King Mez and Justus, who worked on the majority of the project with the rapper and producer. Speaking about writing with the two, Dre noted that "We would just go into the studio, put up the track and for some reason, the stars aligned and we killed it, man." Mez is credited for songwriting on 12 of the 16 tracks, is a featured artist on three, and performs additional vocals on another six; Justus is credited for songwriting on seven songs and is a featured artist on three.

Promotion and release
Dr. Dre officially announced Compton during his radio show The Pharmacy, broadcast on Apple Music's Beats 1 station, on August 1, 2015. Revealing that it had been recorded during the production process for the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, he explained that "During principal photography, I felt myself going to the studio and being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album", sharing the title Compton: The Soundtrack due to the film's influence on its content.

Compton was premiered on Apple Music on August 6 when it was played on a loop for three hours, after which DJ Zane Lowe hosted a show about the album.

Commercial
Upon its release, Compton debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with equivalent album sales of 295,000 units, of which 276,000 were pure sales and the remainder on-demand streams and digital track sales. The album also replicated the success of Dre's previous two albums by topping the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In its second week of release, Compton sold 42,732 copies in the US according to Hits Daily Double. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on October 13, 2015, indicating sales in the US of 500,000 copies. As reported by Billboard, the album has sold over 502,000 copies as of January 30, 2016. It also topped the Canadian Albums Chart.

Compton debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, giving Dr. Dre his first ever number one in the region. The album, which was the first non-physical release ever to top the chart, sold 45,721 copies in its first week of release (including 2,079 streaming sales), putting it over 28,000 units ahead of the number two album, Frank Turner's Positive Songs for Negative People. It also topped the UK R&B Albums Chart, holding the top spot for three weeks. The British Phonographic Industry certified Compton silver on August 28, then later gold on October 30, indicating sales in the UK in excess of 100,000 units. The album also debuted at number one on the Irish Albums Chart.

Elsewhere, Compton peaked at number one on the Australian Albums Chart, the Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart, the Dutch Albums Chart, the French Albums Chart, the New Zealand Albums Chart, the Swiss Albums Chart, and the Scottish Albums Chart. The album also reached the top five in Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Denmark, Finland, and Hungary, and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association for sales of 35,000 units.

Critical
Compton received widespread critical acclaim; aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized rating of 82 out of 100, based on 36 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Jonah Weiner of Rolling Stone described the album as "brilliant, confounding [and] enthralling", praising Dr. Dre's rapping performances, the ambitious production styles used and the "vibrant" lyrical content on display. Similarly, Billboard writer Kris Ex claimed that the record "lives up to its cinematic aspirations", dubbing it "one of the most engaging listening experiences of the year".

Accolades
Numerous publications ranked Compton in end-of-year lists for the best albums of 2015, including The Detroit News (#5), Hot Press (#7), CraveOnline (#8), The Plain Dealer (#9), Clash (#16), Q (#19), Pitchfork Media (#32), The Guardian (#35), Complex (#47), and Drowned in Sound (#75). The album was also included in unordered lists published by HipHopDX, The Daily Telegraph, and AllMusic, as well as genre-specific lists compiled by Stereogum (#9), Rolling Stone (#11), and Spin (#42).

In December 2015, Compton was announced as a nominee for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, alongside J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint. The award was presented to Lamar for To Pimp a Butterfly.

Track listing

 * Notes
 * undefined signifies an additional producer.
 * "Intro" features additional vocals by Candice Pillay and Dem Jointz.
 * "Talk About It" features additional vocals by Sly Jordan and Marsha Ambrosius.
 * "Genocide" features additional vocals by King Mez, Dem Jointz, Candice Pillay and Sly Jordan.
 * "It's All on Me" features additional vocals by Sly Jordan and King Mez.
 * "All in a Day's Work" features additional vocals by King Mez, Sly Jordan, Danny Tannenbaum and Jimmy Iovine.
 * "Darkside/Gone" features additional vocals by Sly Jordan.
 * "Loose Cannons" features additional vocals by King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius, Anderson .Paak and Joslynn Brown.
 * "Issues" features additional vocals by Snoop Dogg, King Mez, Xzibit, Dem Jointz, Candice Pillay and Joslynn Brown.
 * "Deep Water" features additional vocals by Wyann Vaughn, King Mez, Cheyenne L. Surratt, The Game and Joslynn Brown.
 * "One Shot One Kill" features additional vocals by Dem Jointz, Anderson .Paak, Craig Owens and Candice Pillay.
 * "Just Another Day" features additional vocals by Wyann Vaughn.
 * "For the Love of Money" features additional vocals by Lia Mack.
 * "Animals" features additional vocals by DJ Premier and Erik "Blu2th" Griggs.
 * "Medicine Man" features additional vocals by Sly Jordan.
 * "Talking to My Diary" features additional vocals by Slim the Mobster, Anderson .Paak, Sly Jordan, Theron Feemster and Focus...


 * Sample credits
 * "Intro" contains narration from the television program Compton Black City.
 * "Genocide" contains a sample from "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)", written by Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons and Rudy Taylor, and performed by The Gap Band.
 * "It's All on Me" contains samples from "The Lord Will Make a Way", performed by the S.C.I. Youth Choir.
 * "Darkside" contains excerpts of Eazy-E from Julio G's Westside Radio.
 * "Gone" contains a sample of "Spirits of Ancient Egypt", written by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.
 * "Loose Cannons" contains a sample of "Underground Session", written by Jean-Pierre Alarcen and performed by Janko Nilović.
 * "Issues" contains a samples of "İnce İnce Bir Kar Yagar", written by Aşık Mahzuni Şerif and performed by Selda Bağcan.
 * "One Shot One Kill" contains elements of "Ogni Riferimento a Fatti Realmente Accaduti è Puramente Casuale", written by Luca Cavina, Tommaso Colliva, Enrico Gabrielli, Massimo Martellotta, Fabio Rondanini, and performed by Calibro 35.
 * "Just Another Day" contains a sample of "Fang Jai Viangjan", performed by Thepporn Petchubon.
 * "For the Love of Money" contains a sample of "Foe tha Love of $", written Antoine Carraby, Mark Green, Anthony Henderson, Stanley Howse, Steven Howse, Bryon McCane, Charles Scruggs, Yomo Smith and Eric Wright, and performed by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony featuring Eazy-E; and elements of "Vendesi Saggezza e Cervello di Seconda Mano", written by Alberto Gaviglio and Michele Conta, and performed by La Locanda delle Fate.

Personnel
Personnel credits adapted from the album's digital booklet. • Curt Chambers – bass (tracks 4, 6–8, 10 and 11), guitar (tracks 7, 8, 10, 11 and 15)

• Andre "Briss" Brissett – keyboards (tracks 1, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16)

• Trevor Lawrence, Jr. – drums (tracks 1, 4–6 and 14), percussion (tracks 1 and 6)

• Theron Feemster – keyboards (tracks 6, 7, 10 and 16)

• Erik "Blu2th" Griggs – bass (tracks 1, 10 and 14), guitar (tracks 1 and 10) , keyboards (tracks 1 and 14)

• Dontae Winslow – trumpet (tracks 5, 9 and 16), flugelhorn (track 5)

• Fredwreck – keyboards (tracks 7 and 15)

• Scott Mayo – flute (track 7)

• Sean Kantrowitz – guitar and bass (track 12)

• Rogét Chahayed – keyboards (track 12)

• Erik T. Coomes – guitar and bass (track 16)

• Ron Blake – trumpet (track 16)

• Francisco Torres – trombone (track 16)

• Jason Freese – saxophone (track 16)

• Joseph Trapanese – string arrangements (tracks 1, 2 and 16)

• Jennifer Hammond – string arrangements (tracks 1, 2 and 16)

• Joel Iwataki – string recordings (tracks 1, 2 and 16)

• Quentin "Q" Gilkey – engineering (all tracks)

• Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri – engineering (all tracks except 1), mixing (tracks 13 and 15)

• Carl M. Cartagena – engineering (tracks 3, 6, 14 and 15), engineering assistance (all other tracks)

• Victor Luevanos – engineering (track 8), engineering assistance (all other tracks)

• Ric McRae – engineering (track 3)

• Julio Ulloa – engineering assistance (track 8)

• Derek "MixedByAli" Ali – engineering (track 9)

• RJ Colson – engineering assistance (track 10)

• Jacob Gabriel – engineering assistance (track 10)

• Kyle VandeKerkhoff – engineering (track 11)

• Dmitry Zaytsev – engineering (track 14)

• Mike Strange – engineering (track 15)

• Robert Reyes – engineering assistance (track 16)

• Charles "CharlieRed" Garcia – engineering assistance (track 16)

• Dr. Dre – mixing (all tracks)

• Focus... – mixing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12), keyboards (track 4) , bass (track 5)

• Dem Jointz – mixing (tracks 3, 13 and 15)

• DJ Premier – mixing (track 14)

• Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering

• Mike Saputo – art direction, design

• Steve Berman – cover artwork

• Jeremy Deputat – photography