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Here's What's Missing From Straight Outta Compton:

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Me and the Other Women Dr. Dre Beat Up 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 a