Dee Barnes Says ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Overlooked Dr. Dre Beating Her & Other Women

August 20, 2015 by TJB Writer in Latest News with 6 Comments

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. In his lyrics, Dre made hyperbolic claims about all these heinous things he did to women. But then he went out and actually violated women. Straight Outta Compton would have you believe that he didn’t really do that. It doesn’t add up. It’s like Ice Cube saying, “I’m not calling all women bitches,” which is a position he maintains even today at age 46. If you listen to the lyrics of “A Bitch Iz a Bitch,” Cube says, “Now the title bitch don’t apply to all women / But all women have a little bitch in ‘em.” So which is it? You can’t have it both ways. That’s what they’re trying to do with Straight Outta Compton: They’re trying to stay hard, and look like good guys.

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F. Gary Gray

Later in her essay, she points some of the blame at the film’s director F. Gary Gray.

That’s right. F. Gary Gray, the man whose film made $60 million last weekend as it erased my attack from history, was also behind the camera to film the moment that launched that very attack. He was my cameraman for Pump It Up! You may have noticed that Gary has been reluctant to address N.W.A.’s misogyny and Dre’s attack on me in interviews. I think a huge reason that Gary doesn’t want to address it is because then he’d have to explain his part in history. He’s obviously uncomfortable for a reason.

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ShelbyMoore August 20, 2015 at 8:43 am

Dre beat all the black women that he was with but treat his snow bunny like a queen. Fawk boi.

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Anonymous August 20, 2015 at 2:18 pm

I do not condone violence of any kind towards anyone and Dre was dead wrong for his behavior back then. But the movie wasn’t about either of their personal lives or story it was collective on them as a group therefore, no time or reason to go into specific incident of their personal lives, if that was the case the movie would have gone on forever as it was long enough but got straight to the point regarding “NWA” as it should have.

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- ATL August 21, 2015 at 7:31 pm
  
  I agree with your comment.The movie was about NWA.The movie was not titled the women of NWA.
  
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cij August 20, 2015 at 3:52 pm

Trust me Auntie Karma has her designated time with this guy, no one who’s done other’s wrong is excluded from Auntie Karma’s to do list….#Truth

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Anonymous August 20, 2015 at 9:04 pm

The movie was about the group and what they went through becoming rappers. Although I understand what she went through and by no means condone abuse, but that had no part in the music and how they came together. He did acknowledge the abuse.

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India August 20, 2015 at 10:13 pm

The movie was NWA not about the fact that Dre was a woman beater. However, Karma has had her way with him bc Dre lost his son later on in life. So when you do shit to people please remember what goes around comes around. This is not the first I heard of Dre beating a woman. But NWA was good tho

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