Michel’le Biopic Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Me Coming to Lifetime

This October, Lifetime will air a biopic about Michel’le, the R&B singer who was engaged to Dr. Dre and had a son with him. It’s called Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Me, and stars Rhyon Nicole Brown (“Lincoln Heights”) as Michel’le, Curtis Hamilton as Dre, and Jamie Kennedy as N.W.A. manager Jerry Heller. R. Marcos Taylor will play Suge Knight, as he did in last year’s Straight Outta Compton. A new promo video for Surviving Compton teases, “Behind the men who changed hip-hop is the woman who knows the truth,” and finds Brown tearing a Parental Advisory sticker from her lips. Watch it at Billboard.

Last year, as Dre was promoting Straight Outta Compton, as well as his new record Compton, his history of abuse against women re-entered the public spotlight. At the time, Michel’le spoke out against the film, as well as Dre’s legacy. She said, “The biggest problem with Straight Outta Compton is that it ignores several of N.W.A.’s own harsh realities.” When Dre publicly apologized “to the women [he’s] hurt,” Michel’le rejected it. “I don’t really think it’s a sincere apology,” she said. “I didn’t ask for a public apology and I think if he is going to apologize he should do it individually. To just group us like we are nothing and nobody—I just don’t think it’s sincere…. Treat us like we have names.”

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