Hip hop’s most acclaimed producer Dr. Dre is focusing on putting the entire music industry chokehold. He decided to forge ahead with his on-again/off-again Detox LP and also put his platinum hands in some other projects. He’s preparing for a fall release.

With Eminem already on course for another diamond award with Encore, and Detox on deck to be just one of the potential blockbusters from the Aftermath/Shady/G-Unit musical trinity according to MTV reports, Dre says 2005 will be remarkable. “The new Eminem album is crazy, it is nothing less than that, it is so insane,”he said. Right now we got Busta Rhymes getting ready to complete his album, he’ll be dropping next year. E.V.E.! Eve, she signed and she’ll be dropping next year. Were going to try to control the whole year. Were going to try to control it and run the airwaves.”

The first two ’05 releases coming from the hip-hop empire is the Game’s The Documentary slated for a January 18 release and 50 Cent’s Valentine’s Day Massacre which drops on February 15.

When I first started I went out and did like 14,15 records,” 50 said of his album. “I know I’m gonna exceed everyone’s expectations on this project because they feel like Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was the best I could do. I guarantee this album will be 10 times better than my first record.”

G-Unit members Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Tony Yayo are also putting out albums in 2005(“Once 50 and Em drop I’mma come right after them,” Yayo said of his solo debut. “My album is strictly for the streets.”), while Game’s release is practically etched in stone. The video for his first official single “This Is How We Do” featuring 50 Cent should be getting some heavy rotation from BET and MTV.

With The Game growing up in a boys home and being taken away from his parents at age 8, he has 17 years worth of struggle he been going through by his self. From the seventeen tracks on his album, every track sheds light on a different situation he went through in the last seventeen years. Officially Dr. Dre and 50 Cent are the executive producers for The Documentary, but like all the albums that fall under the Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit umbrella, it’s a collaborative effort, with the family all chipping in to help one another. Eminem likened the crew as a football team.

“Let’s say Dre is the coach and I’m playing quarterback and 50 is the receiver, he’s the go to man right now. It’s about winning the championship as opposed to any individual getting the fame.”

As far as Dre beats go, there isn’t any fighting over them-no need to. “You know what?” Dre explained about how he determines the distribution of his much coveted tracks, which more often than not to be sure shot hits. “Whoever is in the studio at the moment or whoever is on the brain at the moment is who the track is going to.”

Clifford Bailey is a Lansing Community College freshman and a participant in the Young Publishers Club sponsored by the Michigan Bulletin which meets at the Magic Johnson Foundation Creation Station located at the Black Child and Family Institute - 835 W. Genesee, Lansing MI.