Dr Dre Abuse Victims Speak On Exclusion From NWA Biopic

Just a week after rap mogul Dr Dre opened up about his storied abuse allegations, two women involved in the incidents years ago have spoken out about their exclusion from the new NWA biopic.

In a filmed interview with VladTV, R&B singer Michel’le who was previously engaged to Dre and also shares a son with him, said she was not surprised for not being mentioned at all in Straight Outta Compton.

"Why would Dre put me in it? If they start from where they start from, I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up," Michel'le said.

While she admitted she does plan to see the film, she knew that her involvement with Dre would not be covered.

"My part has no value to probably what they really want to talk about."

Meanwhile, US rapper and journalist Dee Barnes who was attacked by Dre at a 1991 release party, has seen the new biopic and penned an essay for Gawker about her thoughts.

"That event isn't depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don't think it should have been, either," writes Barnes.

"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…"

"But what should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theater, and the movie’s timeline skipped by my attack without a glance, I was like, ‘Uhhh, what happened?’ Like many of the women that knew and worked with NWA, I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton's revisionist history."

Barnes believes Dre should own up to what he did and that in her opinion, the film only covers what the group want to cover.

"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."

"Straight Outta Compton transforms NWA from the world’s most dangerous rap group to the world's most diluted rap group. The biggest problem with Straight Outta Compton is that it ignores several of NWA's own harsh realities. That's not gangsta, it's not personal, it's just business."

It has also been reported that the daughter of the late NWA member, Eazy E has stated her intentions to produce a documentary about her father, as she feels Straight Outta Compton left vital parts of his story out of the film.

Meanwhile, not only has the biographical film smashed box office expectations and broken a few records, Dre's first album in 16 years, Compton, which was inspired by the movie topped the Australian charts last week and pulled in some massive streaming numbers through Apple Music. 

The album garnered 25 million streams in its first week and sold nearly half a million downloads through the iTunes store.