Frankly, I'm surprised that so many didn't know about this since this definitely made headlines (in the same vein of Chris Brown/Rihanna) when I was a kid:

 

On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes, the host of a well-known Fox show about hip-hop called Pump It Up! Dre was reportedly angry about a Pump It Up! segment hosted by Barnes that aired in November 1990. The report focused on N.W.A., and concluded with a clip of Ice Cube, who had recently left the group, insulting his former colleagues. Soon after the attack, Barnes described it in interviews: She said Dre attempted to throw her down a flight of stairs, slammed her head against a wall, kicked her, and stomped on her fingers. Dre later told Rolling Stone, “It ain’t no big thing – I just threw her through a door.” He pleaded no contest to assault charges. Barnes’s civil suit against Dre was settled out of court.

 

Barnes agreed to watch F. Gary Gray’s just-released film about N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton, and reflect on it for Gawker.

 

http://gawker.com/heres-whats-missing-from-straight-outta-compton-me-and-1724735910

 

(And, yes, I'm aware there's another thread on this movie, but I refuse to validate the existence of SON's resident David Duke.)

 

 

Edited August 19, 201510 yr by VirginiaHamilton

Thanks for sharing her story. I'd never heard about it before now.

I only vaguely remember it. I paid zero attention to hip hop back then. I was still firmly in my cheese metal phase.

That's the thing that always needs to be remembered about biopics. They only tell a small part of any story.

They also chopped out Dr. Dre abusing one of the mothers of his kids, R&B singer, Michel'le. 

 

While I am glad the film is doing good for Ice Cube, who is a standup guy, this film has tarnished my view for Dr. Dre.