Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem Featured on ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack

The highly anticipated N.W.A bio pic Straight Outta Compton hits theaters next month and a soundtrack for the film should be dropping around the release. Director F. Gary Gray was recently at Comic Con in San Diego and broke the news to MTV that new music from Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem will appear on the soundtrack.

While movie albums once were as good as actual LPs (see Above The Rim, Menace II Society, Belly), recently they've been mostly hot garbage. According to Gray, this one will be more like the golden era with Dre taking it to another level. “Dr. Dre, it took him 15 years to step out and say, ’I want to do music again’ in the way that he’s doing it,'" Gray said. "The soundtrack is insane. Seriously, it’s incredible. He went deep and you can hear some of his influences, with jazz and soul and a little bit of funk. And Kendrick Lamar is on, Eminem; a lot of great guest stars. But it’s really Dre and how he’s evolved and how he’s matured as not only a person, but as an artist. It’s deep and it’s great.”

So Dre is finally back in the lab and it sounds like he is in a good space musically. Will this motivate the good Doc to FINALLY put out his third LP (formerly known as Detox) sometime before the zombie apocalypse? Probably not. Maybe, though. Okay, we have no clue. But this is definitely a step in the right direction.