Earlier this week former hip hop journalist Dee Barnes penned an essay about her brutal assault at the hands of Dr. Dre being left out of the N.W.A. biopic 'Straight Outta Compton [click here if you missed that].'
Turns out the incident was included in the original screenplay…
The LA Times got a hold of an earlier version of the script that including the Dee Barnes scene:
In the scene, Dre, “eyes glazed, drunk, with an edge of nastiness, contempt” (per noted from the script) spots Barnes at the party and approaches her.
“Saw that [expletive] you did with Cube. Really had you under his spell, huh? Ate up everything he said. Let him diss us. Sell us out.”
“I just let him tell his story,” Barnes’ character retorts, “That’s what I do. It’s my job.”
“I thought we were cool, you and me,” Dre fires back. “But you don’t give a [expletive]. You just wanna laugh at N.W.A, make us all look like fools.”
The conversation escalates, Barnes throws her drink in Dre’s face before he attacks her “flinging her around like a rag-doll, while she screams, cries, begs for him to stop.”
