Straight Outta Compton is a deep dive into N.W.A.'s backstory. But as Dee Barnes noticed, it failed to mention how Dr. Dre beat up several women, herself included. In an essay posted on Gawker, Barnes recounts the 1991 incident where Dre smashed her face and body into the wall of a Hollywood nightclub.

"Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A., I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history," Barnes writes.

The reason why was, as host of Fox hip-hop show Pump It Up!, Barnes had interviewed Ice Cube shortly after he went solo. Cube had dissed N.W.A., so the show's producer decided to include that footage in a story about the group. While Dre tried to deny the incident once, fellow N.W.A. member Eazy E would tell Rolling Stone that "bitch had it coming."

"While audiences are left with a clear understanding of the social conditions that would drive young black men in South Central Los Angeles to write and produce 'Fuck tha Police,' we have no concept of what propelled Ice Cube to write 'A Bitch Iz a Bitch,' or just how much of the pornographically demeaning second half of N.W.A.'s 1991 album, Niggaz4Life, fit the group's 'reality rap' ethos," Barnes writes.

Straight Outta Compton just topped the box office with a $56.1 million opening week. The biopic was directed by F. Gary Gray—who, Barnes claims, was also holding the camera when she interviewed Cube.