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Ice-T reports that rapper/producer Dr. Dre is “home, safe and looking good” after a FaceTiming session on Friday. Earlier this month, Dr. Dre was hospitalized in intensive care with a brain aneurysm at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. But the 55-year-old Dre is now on the road to recovery. He suffered the…

UPDATE, 8:19 PM: Prolific music producer and music industry giant Dr. Dre said he is doing well after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm. Dre addressed his friends, family and fans with a social media post shared on Tuesday night. “Thanks to my family, friends and fans for their interest and well wishes. I’m…

EXCLUSIVE: The Defiant Ones, the four-part documentary series from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, is headed to Peacock. The streamer has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to the series, which launched on HBO in 2017. It will launch on NBCUniversal's nascent service on September 4. Written by Allen Hughes, who directs…

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…