Dre’s statement came after criticism erupted that the hit biopic “Straight Outta Compton’ — about his former rap group N.W.A. — featured no references to past allegations of his abuse against women.
However, Apple, which acquired Dr Dre’s headphone and music streaming company Beats Electronics last year for $3 billion and made Dre an executive, said the company believed in the rapper’s sincerity.
‘Dre has apologised for the mistakes he’s made in the past and he’s said that he’s not the same person that he was 25 years ago,’ Apple said in a statement to Reuters.
‘After working with him for a year and a half, we have every reason to believe that he has changed.’
50 year-old Dre, is a founding member of Compton rap collective NWA (Niggaz with Attitude), the subject of Universal Pictures’ box office hit ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ apologized for his actions from 25 years ago, which included an incident with female presenter Dee Barnes.
‘I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did,’ the rapper, real name Andre Young, exclusively told the New York Times on Friday.