A lot’s happened in the three years since Clive Davis last hosted his storied Pre-Grammy Gala at the Beverly Hilton. There’s been a global pandemic, which itself led to the event’s in-person cancellation for the past two Grammy seasons prior to Saturday night. We’ve seen changes in presidents and deaths of queens. The years haven’t seemed to have caught up with Davis, however, who at 90 years old still somehow has more stamina at his glitzy party than anyone else in the room.
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- 2/5/2023
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Dr. Dre's apology last week for committing violence against women as a young man drew the ire of at least one of his victims (former "Pump It Up" host Dee Barnes, who was assaulted by Dre in a Los Angeles nightclub in 1991), and now the rapper and producer's ex-girlfriend and former collaborator Michel'le, who has previously alleged that Dre physically abused her on multiple occasions while they were together, is weighing in. "It don't really think it's a sincere apology," she told BBC Radio's 5Live during a recent interview. "First of all, I didn't ask for a public apology...but I think if he is going to apologize he should do it individually. ...I think [his victims] deserve a personal apology. ...He's selling a movie [N.W.A. biopic 'Straight Outta Compton']. I just think its good PR at the moment." When pressed on the issue by BBC interviewer Dotun Adebayo ("[The apology] sounds sincere," he said), Michel'le said that...
- 8/24/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Dee Barnes, the woman who was attacked by billionaire rapper Dr. Dre in 1991, wrote an essay criticizing Straight Outta Compton as “revisionist.” Dee Barnes Speaks Out About Dr. Dre Attack Barnes, former host of the Fox’s hi-hop show Pump It Up!, was attacked by Dr. Dre back in 1991 at a Los Angeles nightclub. The incident is noticeably […]
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- 8/24/2015
- by Quentin Gueroult
- Uinterview
Welcome to Outrage Watch, HitFix's semi-regular rundown of entertainment-related kerfuffles. Not anxious enough already? Get your fix of righteous indignation below, and stay posted for outrage updates throughout the week. 25 years after allegedly assaulting multiple women including former "Pump It Up" host Dee Barnes, ex-girlfriend and collaborator Michel'le and rapper/singer Tairrie B, Dr. Dre has apologized for his past misdeeds in a statement to the New York Times: "In a sign that the uproar was threatening not only his reputation but also his business dealings, Dr. Dre, who has previously spoken dismissively or vaguely about the allegations, which are decades old, confronted them on Friday in a statement to The New York Times. While he did not address each allegation individually, he said: 'Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of...
- 8/21/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Universal's N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton" is a bonafide success. The massive $60 million opening this past weekend earned the picture the distinction of one of the best R-rated openings of all time. Critics and audiences have both been kind on the picture, and in general, praise has been coming from all corners. However, one controversy around the movie has been building over the past week, and it's soon going to become something that neither the producers or studio can ignore. But first, a brief bit of history is needed. After Ice Cube left N.W.A. in 1989, a beef brewed between the rapper and his former bandmates. In 1990, Fox hip hop show "Pump It Up" went to the set of "Boyz In The Hood" to interview Ice Cube, but before they rolled cameras, producers showed him what N.W.A. had to say about him in an interview shot for the program a few weeks earlier.
- 8/20/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
While the state violence endured by black men is a narrative that runs throughout the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, the real-life violence women experience at the hands of men — specifically, at the hands of Dr. Dre — is conspicuously missing. Dee Barnes, the former host of Fox hip-hop show Pump It Up! and one of Dr. Dre's victims, watched the film and wrote an essay for Gawker addressing the missing piece of the story line. "That event isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton," she says of Dre's attack on her in an L.A. nightclub in 1991. "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.
- 8/18/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
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