UPDATE: No good deed goes unpunished in the online world, and Dr. Dre has removed his boasting Instagram post on his daughter’s USC admission after severe online backlash. Dr. Dre had earlier joked that his daughter had not bribed or scammed her way into the university, unlike other celebrity or executive children…

A streaming series based on the life of hip-hop producer and performer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young was rejected by Apple CEO Tim Cook because of its violent and dark content. The show, Vital Signs, featured drugs, guns and an orgy, the Wall Street Journal reported. Cook personally decided against moving forward on it…

Many lessons can be drawn from the experience of Jimmy Iovine, the Italian-American son of a New York longshoreman who became a record industry mogul and co-founder of Beats Electronics. One of them is how to deal with fear. "When I was a kid, I was a guy in right field saying, 'Don’t hit the ball to me,'" he tells…

HBO's docuseries The Defiant Ones heads into Emmy nomination voting season with considerable momentum. The four-parter about music industry impresarios Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine has already captured a major documentary award over some prestigious competitors. In December it won Best Limited Series at the IDA Awards…

Marion "Suge" Knight won't be getting a look at the bank records of Andre Young, known as Dr. Dre–at least, not any time soon–ruled Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Brian S. Currey in Compton on Tuesday. “The court quashes the subpoena as it is a nullity and wholly useless,” Currey wrote in tentative ruling…

The Defiant Ones, a four-part documentary series from director Allen Hughes about the unlikely partnership between music legends Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, will debut on HBO in 2017. "The Defiant Ones has everything you expect in a great story – drama and humor, tragedy and triumph," said Casey Bloys, president, HBO…

Straight Outta Compton – the PGA Award nominee that was the surprise smash of 2015, covering the rise and fall of rap group N.W.A – has brought relative newcomer Jason Mitchell Critics' Choice and SAG noms for best ensemble, with more Oscar buzz currently brewing. Mitchell's was no easy task. In the role of the late…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio execs who thought of F. Gary Gray as a go-to guy for taut thrillers like The Italian Job, The Negotiator, Law Abiding Citizen and Be Cool already are reassessing as Straight Outta Compton opens tomorrow with rave reviews and strong box office expectations. The film chronicles the fast rise and fall…

Straight Outta Compton also happens to be straight outta current headlines. Opening the same week as more inner-city civil unrest unfolds on the first anniversary of the riots in Ferguson, MO that followed Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white police officer, the showbiz biopic that charts the rise, fall…

Ahead of the film’s premiere, Universal Studios is “partnering” with movie theaters that request support during screenings of NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. Specific details are scant, and we’re hearing that the matter isn’t as simple as the studio outright reimbursing theaters for any costs associated with…

During the Grammy Awards broadcast, Universal teased that it would be releasing the first trailer for Straight Outta Compton, the F. Gary Gray-directed drama about the formation of the hip-hop group N.W.A., and the launch of an in-your-face sound that reflected the reality of kids in South Central. Check out the…

As Universal’s Bourne sequel moves out of its August 2015 slot, the studio’s N.W.A biopic is taking its place in next summer’s schedule. Straight Outta Compton, helmed by F. Gary Gray (Friday, Set It Off, The Italian Job), has locked the lead cast for the origin story of the seminal gangsta rap group that burst out of…