What issues and controversies surrounding this film, would you label contrarian?there are a lot of contrarian "issues" popping up around this movie, but dre being able to erase his past is pure bullshyt. dee has a right to speak up, she's spoken out about this before, but of course it's going to come up now that there is a film revisiting the era that this happened in. she'd look stupid writing this article in 2010 when no one is discussing the past, but with SOC, we are discussing that exact era and revisiting these men from back then. the way yall are dismissing the victim is ridiculous.
If they'd included it, I think the whole film from that point forward would've had to been centered around domestic violence. Folks would've been mad either way, because of the trajectory of Dre's career after the incident. People would want the movie to end with Dre getting some sort of karma payback, even though none of the sort happened immediately after the Dee Barnes incident.
there are a lot of contrarian "issues" popping up around this movie, but dre being able to erase his past is pure bullshyt. dee has a right to speak up, she's spoken out about this before, but of course it's going to come up now that there is a film revisiting the era that this happened in. she'd look stupid writing this article in 2010 when no one is discussing the past, but with SOC, we are discussing that exact era and revisiting these men from back then. the way yall are dismissing the victim is ridiculous.
I agree. Reading the article, made me kinda sad how she was black balled. She had an incredible career ahead of her, that was basically ruined not by her own doing, but by Dre whooping her butt. That's like the ultimate insult to injury. You get beaten up, and you get blackballed because folks had to choose sides, and the abuser has monetary leverage to make folks choose him. It was Gary Grey, Dre and their guilty conscious that kept her out of opportunities going forward.I read the piece and it was done well in my opinion. It was more about Dee Barnes watching the film and seeing how they would portray it, if at all. She was pretty fair and didn't seem bitter at all, but she just keeping shyt real about how fukked her life has been. She even said they shouldn't have shown it, but they should have still somehow acknowledge Dre's actions against women in the movie in some form. It's fukked up that her whole life got ruined for some shyt she didn't have nothing to do with. Like she got her ass whooped is one thing, but the worst part is she was blackballed from the industry, when she wasn't even the person that created the situation between Cube & NWA. She tried to get them to not use the footage.
Dre's a fukk boy for not making the shyt right by at least apologizing and letting her live after he knew the full truth.
I think people are feeling some type of way about any time something big is happening to a brother, they need to pull out all the dirt they can find about him. As if the underlying actions in the dirt is irrelevant but in fact they are just trying to shyt on the person in question. These stories from 20-25 years ago have been reported more than all the royalties from the soundtrack going to charity in Compton. What's most relevant?
What Dre did to her was super wack along with all the other wack shyt he might've done.
And just like that...A film that has the potential to discuss Black business, dirty dealing Jews in the music industry and police brutality comes right back to Amerikkkas favorite topic..
The violent barbaric male negro...
Good job Black Feminists, liberals and New Blacks.. Yall have been used as pawns again...
Maybe we can get Obama to denounce Cube, Dre or F Gary by the weeks end...
Was the Terrie B beating ever confirmed? Dee said it happened in front of a bunch of A-List celebrities, but I don't know.. I know the Michel'le beatings happened. No doubt about it. He abused her pretty badly.regardless whether yall think its opportunistic or not: Dre did viciously beat her and a few other women.
There was plenty of truth in the movie. Some truths were just kept out. And for a good reason.So why make a movie about nikkas in their 20's, and not put some truth sprinkled in the lies.
Breh this is a movie, not a book, or expose by the New York Times
The format didn't even allow MC Ren to get his full due, and he was the groups CO-Lead writer and vocalist....Yall really tripping that Yo-Yo and Rage didn't get their proper shine?
Lets be honest the only person out of that list that shouldve been depicted in the movie is Michel'le, and she wasnt depicted for the same reason Dee Barnes wasntTairre B, YoYo, M'chel le', ect.... These women are in the bricks of the foundation as well as Jewell and Lady of Rage.
Elaborate on the duck tales... And not the little obvious ones like the origin of "Bye Felicia". Give me hardcore pivotal moments that were duck tales.There was to many inaccuracy and duck-tales in the film to even care about putting Dr. Dre punching women in the movie.
btw, people who did not watch the film out of political reasons but yet complain about Dre not slapping women in the film, were you going to watch the film if they did?
The movie never presented cube or Dre as gangsters. Like at all. They even had a funny moment in the film where Lonzo mocks Cube and Dre for not really being bout that life, and praising Eazy for really being about the thug life. Dre and Cube were portrayed pretty honestly it seems(with a pinch of movie hyperbole).I lived around them nikkas, Dre wasn't doing none of that shyt spare me I know first hand, and neither was Cube.
This. You don't see people bringing up Sean Penn holding Madonna hostage and beating her for 9 hours when they were married anytime he drops a new movie.Only men of color are expected to pay for life for the mistakes they've made.
Charlie Sheen shot a bytch and with him it's
"Shucks. That darn Charlie "
FOH
Let Dre eat. It happened 20 years ago what do you want from the man. Move on