That alleged abuser is Dr. Dre, who has an extended documented historical past of bodily violence in opposition to ladies, with essentially the most publicized accusations of assault from legendary Hip-Hop journalist Dee Barnes, which led to expenses of assault and battery, in addition to Dre’s ex-wife Nicole Younger, and Dre’s ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Michel’le.It’s Michel’le’s pure falsetto you hear singing the post-chorus line on “Like That,” the Future and Metro Boomin document Lamar surprise-featured on, and the one which set his beef with Drake in movement. The post-chorus pattern comes from Michel’le’s intro to the 1988 Eazy-E single “Eazy-Duz-It.”At The Pop Out, Lamar carried out his verse on “Like That” and jubilantly sang Michel’le’s post-chorus line earlier than turning to the group. “It is solely proper that we begin from day one, ? So the place would we be with out our legends?” The needle then dropped on one of the crucial iconic Hip-Hop beats of all time, the intro to Dr. Dre’s “Nonetheless D.R.E.”The painful irony of the proximity of Michel’le’s voice and Dr. Dre’s presence made for a sophisticated second throughout an in any other case extraordinary evening — particularly on condition that Ok.Dot has additionally been accused of home abuse by his opponent Drake. On the diss “Household Issues,” Drake claimed that Lamar “beat on” his fiancée Whitney Alford and alleges he “employed a disaster administration group” to maintain the incident quiet.Because the launch of “Household Issues” and its subsequent responses, followers have known as out the hypocrisy of the 2 beefing rappers for utilizing ladies as low-cost punchlines and pawns, buying and selling accusations of home violence and pedophilia and grooming.Whereas Lamar’s platforming of Dr. Dre is dismaying, it isn’t shocking, because the “Not Like Us” rapper has platformed and defended different alleged abusers previously, together with alleged rapist Kodak Black in 2022. Kodak Black appeared on three songs on Lamar’s 2022 album, Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers.In 2015, after backlash for the erasure of his abusive previous within the biopic Straight Outta Compton, Dr. Dre shared an announcement to the New York Occasions apologizing to the “ladies [he’s] harm,” attributing the violence to extreme consuming and an absence of construction in his life. He vowed to proceed “working to be a greater man for [his] household.” “I deeply remorse what I did and know that it has without end impacted all of our lives,” mentioned Dre.Michel’le didn’t settle for his apology outright. “He apologized to the general public,” she informed HuffPost in 2016. “I don’t suppose that was an apology to me, as a result of if it was, he would’ve known as me both with out the general public… I simply suppose he did a common apology as a result of he had a film out, and he’s bought a model and that’s what you do. I’m not mad at him. If he feels free with that, then that’s good. I don’t know if Dee Barnes took it to coronary heart.”