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Dr. Dre Addresses Abuse Accusations With Apology, Apple Releases Supporting Statement
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I'm not a huge fan myself, but I do remember Bone Thugs 'n Harmony for some reason.
Dr. has no meaning??? here u cant give lectures or grade bachelor theses unless you got a dr. to name a pretty basic example
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I don't know anything about the incident you are describing and I've mentioned that people do overreact but...if she hadn't posted in the first place, nothing would have happened...
To me, that's kinda like saying "yeah, that kid might've ended up getting his skull caved in, but if he didn't flick that guy in the nads with that Tonka truck, it never would've happened".
There's that other story about that one woman who heard two guys behind her making stupid, juvenile jokes about dongles or something at some industry even or another. Instead of giving them a death glare, then rolling her eyes like she should've, she went straight to the internet to try and start a shaming event. It ended up blowing up in everyone's faces. The whole thing was 15 different kinds of dumb, and three people lost their jobs because of it.
Actions do have consequences, but they should be proportional.
As for the women I mentioned earlier on, here you go. To me, it's endemic of everything that's wrong with the internet mob scene.
Exactly. How many COUNTLESS times have all of us seen some of the most brilliant people on the planet be as fallible as regular everyday people??? Is ones talent defined by ones "behavior"? If so a TON of historic masterpieces should be destroyed.
Did somebody say AMADEUS???
Some of "you" need to turn your comments into "I" statements and look into your own closets, attics, and mirrors.. Some of the biggest finger pointers in history are themselves the worst offenders.
This isn't an apology. This is nothing more than a damage control, corporate attorney concocted, protect interests, phony apology. It was done to protect income and earnings of Dre and all those affiliated. He's had 25 years to apologize, and only now, with big corporate connections and interests, does this bogus apology come. What a joke.
Quit worrying! How many times do I have to tell you that they won't find the bodies?
Here are a few examples of his writing style, if you're not familiar. Favorites such as:
"Fu** Wit Dre Day"
"B*tches Ain't Shi*"
"Sh"ttin' On The World"
"Fuc* You"
"Murder Ink"
and many others.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/****witdreday.html
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/bitchesaintshit.html
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/shittinontheworld.html
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/****you.html
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/murderink.html
I think it's safe to conclude that his lawyers wrote the apology.
People not taking responsibility for things is endemic of everything that's wrong with the world.
I think it's safe to conclude you don't know much about the music industry. There's no guarantee he wrote the lyrics to any of those songs. He certainly didn't write for NWA; Cube did. The music industry has people who do nothing but write lyrics for other artists. For the sake of argument, let's say he did write those lyrics. How could you say, because he wrote the lyrics, he couldn't write the apology?
Is the assumption that he would write the apology in the same style as gangsta rap lyrics? If it is, that's a pretty poor assumption. That leap in logic would have to cross a chasm to land on firm ground.
And you're missing the point. This isn't about people not taking responsibility for one's own actions. It's about mob rule disguised as justice, and extreme retribution doled out for minor infractions.
I bet if he beat or treated your mother, wife, girlfriend, daughter the way he's treated and abused the women in his life, you might then "get the hostility". But, maybe not. Too bad.
The kind of "man he is today" is the result of making a lot of money by taking advantage and promoting, encouraging, and glorifying violence, misogyny, thuggery, illegal drug use and infecting his fellow "brothers" with this damaging message. Then, he made more money by taking advantage of those same "brothers" by selling them cheap, overpriced, lousy headphones.
The "man he is today" appears to be nothing but a hypocritical, parasitic, sellout.
I think it's safe to conclude you don't know much about the music industry. There's no guarantee he wrote the lyrics to any of those songs. He certainly didn't write for NWA; Cube did. The music industry has people who do nothing but write lyrics for other artists. For the sake of argument, let's say he did write those lyrics. How could you say, because he wrote the lyrics, he couldn't write the apology?
To the claim that lawyers wrote the apology and not Dre, your counter argument is that "artists" in the music industry don't write their own stuff? They have "people" who do that for them. You then suggest that it's reasonable to conclude that they (artists/Dre) do, OTH, write their own multi-billion dollar corporate affiliate public apology letters? LOL!
Another genius Apple apologist.
Him saying he was sorry 25 years later would not be an issue, would not have made it past year 1 and i would most likely be in jail
I got your point the first time. I merely point out, once again, that a deliberate choice that goes astray is still a deliberate choice. The irrefutable fact is that the woman's actions started something and idiots escalated it way beyond reason. But she still started it.
So true. And that is really the issue with this Dre debacle. Tim Cook should never have recruited this guy. But TC only sees dollar signs and will ignore all else in pursuit of profit. He made the same idiotic move with that John Browett character. He thought Browett could increase profit and failed to look at this persons character, history, reputation, philosophy, and methodologies. Although, the Browett issue is nothing in comparison to this Dre idiocy.
We can at least partially agree there. She said something stupid, though it was kind of tongue in cheek. No doubt about it she probably deserved a good smack upside the head.
But it went far beyond that. The reaction to it was, to me, more than a little scary.
Really?! You're gonna go there with a *Stage Name*?!?! Dr. Hook, Dr. J, Dr. Buzzard, Dr. Demento...
Except this isn't true. This isn't the first public apology he's issued for these exact same events...
My god man, you need to give it a rest. On almost every forum you defend Apple with countless posts. Sorry, but all your efforts aren't helping to boost the sagging stock price, which I guess you must hold a lot of. I can't think of any other reason you are so feverishly defending this company no matter what the issue is.