New music: Kendrick Lamar feat Dr Dre – The Recipe

While we all wait for Dr Dre to finish his almost mythical Detox album – perhaps not a top priority given he recently sold a 51% share of his Beats headphone company for $309m – it's good to know he still has an ear for a signing. Twenty-four-year-old rapper Kendrick Lamar will release his debut album, Good Kid in a Mad City, via Dre's Aftermath label later this year, and Dre pops up on Lamar's first single, The Recipe. Produced by Scoop DeVille (Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent) and built around a looped sample taken from Twin Sister's gauzy Meet the Frownies, it's a celebration of west coast "high" life. Originally titled Women, Weed & Weather (that mantra forms the chorus), according to Lamar The Recipe is what you get when you mix all those things together. It's so good it can even make you believe you're driving around LA in a drop top Escalade when you are, in fact, sat on the No 67 bus.