Trots den allmänna bilden av Dr. Dre som en enastående entreprenör, producent och hiphop-mogul har N.W.A-medlemmen en del negativt laddade utropstecken i sitt förflutna. Före detta TV-personligheten Dee Barnes tog nyligen upp problematiken i Dre’s karaktär i succéfilmen “Straight Outta Compton” som helt och hållet utelämnar legendarens anklagelser gällande kvinnomisshandel via en artikel i Gawker. Barnes säger sig vara en av kvinnorna som erfarit Dre’s sämre sidor under ett release-party 1991. Barnes skrev följande angående incidenten efter att hon själv sett filmen:
“That event isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn’t want to see a depiction of me getting beat up, just like I didn’t want to see a depiction of Dre beating up Michel’le, his one-time girlfriend who recently summed up their relationship this way: “I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat on and told to sit down and shut up.”
But what should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theater, and the movie’s timeline skipped by my attack without a glance, I was like, “Uhhh, what happened?” Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A., I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history.”
Barnes fortsätter även med att skriva:
“Dre, who executive produced the movie along with his former groupmate Ice Cube, should have owned up to the time he punched his labelmate Tairrie B twice at a Grammys party in 1990. He should have owned up to the black eyes and scars he gave to his collaborator Michel’le. And he should have owned up to what he did to me. That’s reality. That’s reality rap.”
Barnes lade upp följande bild på Instagram där hon syns tillsammans med Dr. Dre:
//Ludvig Löfström
