"Straight Outta Compton," the hit biopic about the rise of hip-hop group NWA, leaves out a troubling part about the group's rise to fame, says journalist and rapper Dee Barnes in a recent post on Gawker . The omission: Dr. Dre's violence towards women. In 1991, Barnes was viciously beaten by then-N.W.A. rapper Dr. Dre on the floor of the woman's bathroom of the Po Na Na Souk nightclub in Los Angeles. Barnes says Dr. Dre was provoked by a recent segment which aired on her FOX show "Pump It Up!" in which Ice Cube, who had just left the group, trashed his former colleagues. According to Barnes, Dr. Dre slammed her head against a wall, kicked her, stomped on her fingers, and attempted to throw her down a flight of stairs. Barnes later filed a civil suit against Dre that was eventually settled out of court. When the timeline of "Straight Outta Compton" skips over her attack without so much as a mention, she says she found herself "a casualty of Straight Outta Compton ’s revisionist history." "[My attack] isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton , but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. But what should have been addressed is that it occurred." Barnes writes, adding that " Straight Outta Compton transforms N.W.A. from the world’s most dangerous rap group to the world’s most diluted rap group," by ignoring their misogyny. Barnes says Dr. Dre — who produced the film along with Ice C
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