>> DR.
DRE HAS RELEASED AN APOLOGY OVER HIS TREATMENT OF
WOMEN DECADES AGO.
THIS WAS IN RESPONSE TO CRITICISMS HE
RECEIVED FOR THE MOVIE THAT CAME OUT, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON.
YEARS AND YEARS AGO, DECADES AGO, THERE WERE SEVERAL CASES
INVOLVING HIM PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING OTHER WOMEN.
ONE OF
THOSE WOMEN WAS AN ENTERTAINMENT
JOURNALIST BY THE NAME OF DEE BARNES.
SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY HIM, HE PUNCHED HER IN THE FACE AND
SLAMMED HER HEAD AGAINST A WALL REPEATEDLY.
HE WAS VERY DISMISSIVE OF THE CRITICISM UP UNTIL NOW.
HE SAYS, "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 THIS IS AN EXCUSE FOR WHAT I DID.
I'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR NINETEEN YEARS AND EVERY DAY I'M
WORKING TO BE A BETTER MAN FOR MY FAMILY, SEEKING GUIDANCE
ALONG THE WAY.
I'M DOING EVERYTHING I CAN SO I NEVER RESEMBLED THAT MAN AGAIN.
I APOLOGIZE TO THE WOMEN I'VE HURT.
I DEEPLY REGRET WHAT I DID, AND KNOW THAT IT HAS FOREVER
IMPACTED ALL OF OUR LIVES.î
>> WROTE DR.
DRE'S PUBLICIST.
>> HE'S TOTALLY CHANGED.
YOU KNOW WHAT CHANGES YOU?
$4
BILLION, TURNS YOU INTO A GOOD
PERSON.
>> TO BE FAIR TO DR.
DRE, BEATS WAS SOLD FOR $200 BILLION,
OF WHICH HE GOT 800 MILLION.
NOW, THE REASON HE'S DOING THIS
NOW, AS OPPOSED TO EARLIER, IS TWOFOLD.
THE MOVIE CAME OUT,
HIS ALBUM CAME OUT, FIRST ONE IN
SIXTEEN YEARS.
I LIKE HOW ANA PAUSED ñ
>> I DON'T KNOW WHY WANTED TO SAY IT WAS N.W.A ñ
>> IT WAS FUNNY.
SO THE SECOND REASON HE IS HAVING TO DO IT IS
BECAUSE HE IS NOW A BUSINESSMAN.
HE HAS THIS HUGE DEAL WITH
APPLE, AND THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY ON THE LINE, SO APPLE NEEDS HIM
TO CLEAN IT UP SO THAT APPLE CAN COME OUT WITH THEIR PUBLICIST
SAYING THAT HE IS A CHANGED MAN.
WE ACCEPT WHAT HE WROTE IN THE
NEW YORK TIMES, LET'S ALL CONTINUE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY
TOGETHER.
THAT'S HOW THIS WHOLE THING GETS WHITEWASHED AND HOW
WE MOVE ALONG.
DON'T GET ME WRONG, I LOVE DR.
DRE'S MUSIC,
AND I DEEPLY RESPECT HIM AS
A PRODUCER AND A BUSINESSMAN.
SO I AM NOT BIASED AGAINST DR.
DRE, IF ANYTHING I AM BIASED IN FAVOR OF DR.
DRE ñ AND IT HAS
BEEN A LONG TIME, AND THAT IS ALSO THERE, AND PEOPLE DO
CHANGE.
THIS MIGHT BE TRUE, BUT HE DIDN'T WRITE THAT.
SO, IF HE
REALLY HAD THIS AWAKENING WHEN HE REALIZED, I DON'T WANT TO BE
THAT MAN ANYMORE, WE MIGHT HAVE BELIEVED THAT TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO.
>> THE TIMING IS VERY CONVENIENT FOR HIM, AND IN THE PAST HE
HAS BEEN DISMISSIVE OF THE CRITICISM.
SO, IT WAS NOT UNTIL NOW, THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ON ABOUT
IT, THAT HE DECIDED TO MAKE A STATEMENT.
I ALSO FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT HE APOLOGIZED, AND RIGHT
AFTER HE APOLOGIZED, APPLE ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT ABOUT IT.
I'M SURE APPLE PUSHED HIM IN THAT DIRECTION AS WELL.
THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT HE HAS CHANGED, HE HASN'T
BEATEN ANYBODY UP THAT WE KNOW OF IN THE LAST COUPLE DECADES.
>> THE THING IS, HE'S GONNA RELEASE A NEW RAP SONG THAT
AGAINST BEING MISOGYNISTIC.
IT'S GONNA BE A BIG HIT.
>> OH THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN?
>> AND HE IS A CO-PRODUCER IN THE MOVIE, AND THE MOVIE DIDN'T
MENTION ANY OF THE VIOLENCE TO WOMEN, OR THE MISOGYNY IN THE
LYRICS.
PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT'S NOT WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT, BUT IT
GLOSSED OVER IT.
>> I MIGHT SOUND LIKE A DICK, BUT, IF I MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT ME,
AM I GOING TO PUT IT BAD THINGS ABOUT ME?
IT IS NOT MADE BY SOME
DOCUMENTARIAN ABOUT DR.
DRE, AND THEN YOU SAY WHY DIDNíT YOU PUT THE
BAD THINGS IN?
IT IS MADE BY DR.
DRE, SO OF COURSE IT SHOWS DR.
DRE IN A
POSITIVE LIGHT.
THAT'S NOT SURPRISING.
DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD NOT GET ON HIM
FOR THE VIOLENCE, YOU SHOULD.
HE NEVER CAME OUT AND SAID, THAT WASN'T COOL.
>> IF HE IS REALLY APOLOGETIC, IF HE HAS REALLY CHANGED,
LIKE ANA SAYS HE SAYS, HE WOULD HAVE PUT THAT IN THE MOVIE
TO SHOW YOUNG MEN THAT THIS IS NOT HOW YOU ACT.
EVEN IF YOU ARE A FAMOUS RAP STAR, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.
BUT HE DID NOT DO ANY OF THAT, SO IT SHOWS IT IS AN EMPTY APOLOGY.
>> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO
SHOW THAT HE HAS CHANGED, AND THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW.
>> GIVEN THE TIMING OF IT, I AM ENORMOUSLY INCREDULOUS THAT ALL
OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A CHANGING OF HIS HEART.
AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S HIS
MOVIE, HE'S NOT GOING TO PUT SHITTY STUFF ABOUT HIMSELF
IN HIS OWN MOVIE.