Better late than never? Well that’s been the philosophy that has been adopted by the music industry for years. As fans, we’ve come to accept that an artist releasing an album on the actual release date has become more of a luxury and not the norm. In fact the only incidence of pushing a project UP is in effort to curtail a leak or to improve promotion and sales. At the end of the day, the fans which are by all accounts decreasing, get the short end of the stick.

So in an age where the music well…complete sucks, the anticipation a project like Dr. Dre’s “Detox” is to some like waiting for Christmas morning. But what if Santa never showed up or Christmas got pushed back to mid-January? Well we’ve been hearing about the “Detox” album for what seems like years so is it ever coming. Yes says Interscope head, Jimmy Iovine but not surprisingly it won’t release this year like Dre previously said and its ALL EMINEM‘S FAULT, the label exec explained.

“We only tried to put [Eminem] out this year to replace Dr. Dre, but we got into a quagmire,” Iovine told Billboard. “Eminem was always coming next year. But what happened was, I lost Dr. Dre to Eminem. Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem’s album. Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything. That’s how we lost Dre.”

Its so incredible that the music business even in its deteriorated state still doesn’t live up to the standards of any other business. Granted, music is an art form, imagine telling your boss that you’ll finish that spreadsheet next week because you’re helping your colleague “Morris” whose in the zone. What’s good with some deadlines? Even indie artists have them or else they won’t make money and become irrelevant to the small audiences they’ve built. Although Iovine said that Dre is expected to get back to work in January, I, personally, will believe it when I see hear it.