Yes, I do realize how many artistic works have been misogynistic or outright violent towards women. And it will continue until people of both genders say enough's enough and not look the other way.
One case I can think of is John Lennon, who wrote the song "Run For Your Life" with the Beatles. He later said it was the "one song I most regret writing." In the song he says things like:
"I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man"
"You better run for your life if you can, little girl [...] catch you with another man, that's the end, little girl"
"Let this be a sermon, I mean everything I've said. Baby I'm determined, and I'd rather see you dead."
So while he didn't apologize outright as far as I know, he obvious evolved, said he regretted it, and then wrote more positive lyrics about women. In "Power To the People", he says,
"I gotta ask you, comrades and brothers
How do you treat your own woman back home
She's got to be herself
So she can free herself"
Dr. Dre's lyrics seem to be more demeaning and graphic, and I won't post excerpts here. I don't know his work enough to know if he's gotten less (or not at all) misogynistic over the years. If so and he's a changed man, I'm very happy. But the fact that there are no recent reports of him assaulting women doesn't absolve him from what he did and wrote before.
No, I don't think everyone who's ever been misogynist should be required to apologize. But you'd kind of think you'd want to make amends if you realized it was wrong and had enough celebrity that people would listen to you.
Apple presents itself as being very progressive (although I don't think they do enough, they speak out for gay rights, improving workers' rights, the fight against AIDS, etc.). Unless he has changed, Dr. Dre would seem an odd choice to fit into that culture and their corporate image.
