Whispers of a new Snoop Dogg/Dr. Dre album have been in the air for the past couple years, but Dr. Dre recently revealed new information about it in an interview with Entertainment Tonight after the duo’s appearance at the Olympics closing ceremony: the new album will include a song featuring Sting.Dre may have accidentally revealed the news when interviewer Nischelle Turner asked how many of the album’s tracks on which he will rap. “I did a couple of songs; I’m not sure one of them is gonna make it,” he says, before Turner asks him who else will appear. “We have Sting on a song, we have…” Dre pauses. “Man, it’s an amazing roster of artists on this album — I shouldn’t have even said that, to be honest.”
The album, called Missionary as a callback to Snoop’s debut 1993 album, Doggystyle, will feature a robust number of songs, with Dre saying he wanted 14 songs, while Snoop wanted 16. “I feel this is some of the best music I’ve done in my career — I’m not playing. I think people are really gonna enjoy this,” he adds. “I have to be done and delivered by September 1 to have a November release,” Dre reveals.
“It’s been 30 years, and believe it or not, I’ve only [previously] produced one album with [Snoop], ‘Doggystyle’ — this is my first time producing an entire album of his,” Dre continued, which is an interesting statement given that Dre is credited with producing all of Doggystyle, though he’s only credited with co-writing one song on the album, “Gin and Juice.”
When asked what it was like making an album with Snoop over 30 years later, Dre says, “It was much more fun, to be honest, because we were kids at that time — he was 19 and I think I’m six years older. So one’s gonna show a different level of maturity with his lyrics and my music.”
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg have worked together plenty of times over the years, initially on Dre’s 1992 solo album, The Chronic, and later on tracks like “Forgot About Dre.” Their performance at the 2022 Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige got fans buzzing about the possibility of new music, and their recent performance at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony has only added more kindling to that flame.
