BaSICCally said:
we were just talking about tha at work tonight, how come dre smacked dee barnes?
The incident began in 1990 with a segment about N.W.A on her Fox TV rap video show, Pump It Up. The show crosscut between members of the group dissing their former partner Jackson and a previous interview with him dissing N.W.A. The members of N.W.A. were displeased with Barnes' inclusion of the clip. On January 27, 1991, Young (Dre in the quotation below) ran into Barnes at a record-release party in Los Angeles, where he picked her up and "began slamming her face and the right side of her body repeatedly against a wall near the stairway" as his bodyguard held off the crowd. After Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women's rest room. Dre followed her and "grabbed her from behind by the hair and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head."
Finally, Dre and his bodyguard ran from the building.