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Legendary hip-hop pioneer Dr Dre will not face any charges over allegations made by a motorist earlier this week who claimed he pulled a gun during a dispute over a car blocking his driveway, after no evidence was found.

TMZ reported on Wednesday (July 27th) that the L.A. County District Attorney rejected the case due to insufficient evidence, after they reviewed the police report of the incident which happened on Monday and was widely reported.

Dr Dre will not face any charges over Monday's incident after the D.A. rejected the case

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Hip-hop royalty Dr Dre was briefly arrested at his Malibu home yesterday after he was accused of pointing a gun at a man whose vehicle was blocking his driveway, before being released shortly afterwards with no evidence of it having happened.

According to NBC Los Angeles, LAPD arrived at the 51 year old producer and rap star’s home in the 22000 block on Pacific Coast Highway on Monday morning (July 25th), responding to an “allegation that a man had brandished a gun.”

Dr Dre was briefly searched and handcuffed outside his home after a man alleged he pointed a gun at him

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Dr Dre has finally announced he’s releasing a new album, his first in 16 years. Speaking on his 'The Pharmacy' show on Apple Music, Dre revealed the record was titled Compton: A Soundtrack and will hit iTunes and Apple Music on August 7th.

Dre Dre has announced new album, Compton: A Soundtrack.

The album is not a soundtrack to upcoming N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, but has instead been inspired by the film, which will hit cinemas on August 14th. The 16 track album will feature guest appearances by Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and The Game.

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Surprise albums are becoming increasingly common in 2015, to the point where they’re failing to have the desired impact any more. Even so, there were many eyebrows raised on Wednesday as rapper Ice Cube mentioned that Dr Dre would be releasing a new album over the weekend.

The 46 year old former N.W.A. star was talking to Philadelphia radio station Power 99 today (July 29th) about the forthcoming biopic about the legendary rap group Straight Outta Compton, which arrives on August 14th, when he dropped the bombshell that a new album, featuring original material by Dre and others inspired by the movie, would be arriving this Saturday (August 1st).

Is Dr. Dre's much-vaunted third album 'Detox' going to be released this weekend?

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Following his close collaboration with Apple in the recent past, Dr. Dre has announced that he’ll be hosting a new radio show on Apple Music starting tonight (Saturday July 4th).

The 50 year old former N.W.A. rapper and producer will be hosting a regular fortnightly show called ‘The Pharmacy’, apparently focussing on west coast hip-hop. It goes out on Beats 1 at 6pm EST (or 10pm GMT), and will last for one hour, with DJ Pooh, Eddie Francis and Wyann Vaughn all joining Dre in the studio.

Dr Dre will be hosting a fortnightly show on Beats 1

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Audio giant Monster is suing Beats Electronics LLC - owned by Apple - over alleged "fraud and deceit" in the way that it gained control of the popular brand of Beats by Dre headphones. Monster and Beats formed a partnership in 2008 and developed a hugely successful line of high-end headphones.

Celebrities including Lady Gaga have endorsed Beats Headphones

According to a suit filed in San Mateo County Superior Court in California on Tuesday (January 6, 2014), Monster engineered the success of the headphones - worn by numerous celebrities - before being unfairly cut out when Beats was sold to Apple last year. The suit names Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre as well as HTC America Holdings Inc. 

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The story of influential rap group N.W.A. is getting the Hollywood treatment, with biopic Straight Outta Compton about to begin production. With the main cast in place, this week the movie found itself in the headlines again after an offensively worded casting call was sent out looking for female extras. But a biopic about the godfather’s of gangster rap was alway going to incur some controversy and this probably won't be the last time the film makes headlines. While we’re still a year away from seeing Straight Outta Compton on our screens, here’s everything we know so far about the N.W.A. biopic.

The story of the legendary rap group is being made into a movie

The Cast

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Universal has apologized after an agency working on its behalf issued an offensive casting call for the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, asking for woman in four different categories based on their attractiveness and ethnicity. 

Sande Alessi Casting posted the open call earlier this week, inviting L.A based woman to audition in one of four categories. The call, quoted by Gawker.com, requested A, B, C or D girls. It read:

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Eminem didn’t want to perform at Wembley Stadium, the 90,000-seater home of the English national football team. Instead, he wanted to be part of the Hyde Park British Summertime lark but was refused due to the content of his lyrics.

Eminem performs at the MTV Movie Awards 2014 (Getty/Christopher Polk)

And Wembley stadium didn’t want Eminem to attempt to fill it either, despite being used to the fruity vernacular of the Detroit rapper - his first gig in the capital since 2001 will forever be remembered for sound issues.

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So Eminem is still a thing. Despite the rapper’s career deflating slightly after the 00s, he is still big. Big enough to fill Wembley Arena with screaming fans. In fact, Slim set sort of a record Friday, being the first rapper to ever perform at the massive London venue. Technically, he shared the honour with Dr. Dre, since the rapper/producer joined his former protégé for a couple of songs. Dre treated fans to a couple of vintage track, including Still Dre, Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang and Forgot About Dre.

At 41, Eminem is still going strong and powering through shows.

And he wasn’t the only one helping out Eminem at Wembley. The rapper also brought out Danny Brown and Odd Future to open for him. So overall, it sounds like fans got more than they bargained for with the gig. There was a clear theme to the show, the same one Slim’s been playing on for a couple of albums now: do not mess with Marshall Mathers. He opened with a triple hit of Bad Guy, Square Dance and 3AM.

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The NWA biopic, ‘Straight Outta Compton’, has a release date and a first-look picture courtesy of the collective’s most successful solo breakout artist, Dr Dre. He announced on Twitter that the Universal project will be released on 14 August 2015.

The film will tell the story of the seminal hip-hop group which was made up of Dr Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, MC Ren and the late Eazy E. Dr Dre and Eazy E will be played by newcomer actors Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell, while Ice Cube's son will take on the role of his father.

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Technology giants Apple are hoping to wrap up a $3.2 billion deal to buy Dr Dre's Beats Electronics, according to various media reports. Negotiations are thought to be at an advanced stage and a deal could be confirmed as soon as next week. 

Dr Dre Is Selling Beats

Should the deal go through, it will be Apple's biggest ever acquisition. It is being seen as a move by Apple to get a stronger foothold in the phone and music accessories market and the company has actually be selling Beats headphones in its stores for some time. 

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Dr Dre was already a legend by the time he first released his Beats By Dre headphones in late 2008 and since then he has surpassed the levels of music immortality to become one of the business world's most looked up to entrepreneurs. Dre and his Beats business partner Jimmy Iovine are launching their own online streaming service later this month, with plans on owning the music streaming market the same way they have dominated the headphone market.

Uplike Beats headphones, you can't wear Beats Music around your neck to let everyone know how cool you are

The subscription-only Beats Music will be launched on 21 January and will go head to head with Spotify, Pandora, Grooveshark and the rest, including soon to be launched services from Google and Neil Young, in a bid to add another bow to their business hat. The Beats enterprise hopes to do this by using their team's own musical know-how to sell their catalogues of music to the public. For example, the new service will work by using expert-made playlists rather than relying on algorithms to point listeners in the direction of new music, in addition to other potentially groundbreaking methods.

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The imminent arrival of Dr. Dre’s latest business venture, the streaming service Beats, has got Spotify looking over its green shoulder – and rightly so. With hype building for the Jan. 21 launch, some of Beats’ distinct advantages are being talked about. Instead of concerning itself with the battle for most tracks, Beats uses advanced algorithms in conjunction with human curation, making every interaction you make with the software count.

Dr Dre Plans To Take Over The World, Sort Of

This truly personalized experience is the fulcrum behind Beats potential success. In addition to this, signing up to work with AT&T might just be the company’s key to dominating the streaming market. Given that the majority of people will want to use the service on the move, going into partnership with the nation’s biggest mobile carrier is beginning to look like a stroke of genius.

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In what looks like a bid to retain customers in the wake of Beats’ imminent entry to the music streaming scene, Spotify are preparing to open up their mobile streaming platform to all of their customers for free.

Spotify are tooling up for all out war

Spotify sent out invites to an event occurring on December 11th on December 3rd. “We’re having a media event. Like to come? There will be donuts,” is all it said, but since then, Tech Crunch confirmed that unveiling will centre around limited free mobile access.

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It’s difficult to launch a new brand these days. Consumers like to buy from trusted sources, and when it comes to headphones, they don’t come trustworthier than Sony, Sennheiser and Bose. That was until Dr. Dre decided to enter the game, launching his Beats by Dre range of headphones into an already saturated market.

Dr. Dre's Beats Empire is about to expand even further

What happened next is common knowledge: his brand became one of the most sought after, fashionable and renown in the world. Suddenly, people were willing to spend $200 on a pair of headphones. With sports stars, celebrities and basically everyone else wearing the Beats logo over their ears, expansion was inevitable; so the announcement of a streaming service to rival Spotify from the music mogul wasn’t a surprise.

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Eminem has dropped the latest track from his upcoming album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which will be out in November. 'Rap God' follows earlier singles 'Berzerk' and 'Survival.' The new six-minute track picks up the fury and pace, name-checking peers over a window-wiper synth. Slim Shady raps at break-neck double time pace, taking no prisoners.

Eminem Releases New Song, 'Rap God.'

The new album's name harks back to Eminem's 2000 classic record, The Marshall Mathers LP, and the artwork certainly recalls that of Eminem's earlier life, featuring an image of his Detroit childhood home.

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Eminem released the full details of his 16-track line-up for his upcoming album, The Marshal Mathers LP 2. The follow-up to 2010's chart-topping Recovery will be released next month, and in a bid to produce further excitement, the Detroit-native released the full tracklisting, including guest spots, on Tursday, 10 October (via Billboard).

Em will release MMLP2 on 5 November

MMLP2 will feature a host of special appearances from the likes of rap's latest wunderkind Kendrick Lamar, Skylar Grey, Fun. frontman Nate Ruess and Bajan beauty Rihanna, who Em also worked with on his last album for the mega-hit 'Love The Way You Lie.' On top of these guest artists, we already know that long-time collaborator Dr Dre has at least one production credit on the album along with the legend that is Rick Rubin, with the pair also serving as executive producers. DJ Khalil, Scoop DeVille, Symoblyc One, No I.D. and Eminem himself have also contributed beats to the album.

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Two months after dropping his latest single Survival, Eminem has released the accompanying video.The rapper's theme song for Call of Duty: Ghosts comes equipped with a promo that acts as one massive commercial for the forthcoming game, set for release on PS4 and Xbox on November 15, 2013 and November 22, 2013 respectively.

Watch the explicit video for Eminem's Survival: