Dr. Dre Wants Nothing to Do With that Cringy Marjorie Taylor Greene Video Set to ‘Still D.R.E.’ - Rolling Stone

Dr. Dre and his ineligible squad person taken enactment against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene aft she utilized the “Still D.R.E.” instrumental successful a self-promotional video shared Monday, Jan. 9.

The objectively goofy clip pairs the “Still D.R.E.” bushed — which Dre produced with Mel-Man and Scott Storch —with immoderate slo-mo clips of Greene not precisely moving hard but walking astir the halls of Congress. There’s besides immoderate footage of Greene taking a telephone telephone from “DT” (yeesh) and celebrating the extremity of Kevin McCarthy’s abject humiliation erstwhile helium was finally elected Speaker of the House connected the 15th try. 

After the video popped up connected Twitter, Dr. Dre’s lawyers issued a letter, obtained by Rolling Stone, accusing her of “wrongfully exploiting this enactment done the assorted societal media outlets to beforehand your divisive and hateful governmental agenda.”  The missive added that Dre (real sanction Andre Young) “has not, and volition never, assistance you support not broadcast oregon disseminate immoderate of his music.” 

After claiming the usage of “Still D.R.E” successful the clip constituted copyright infringement, the missive continued, “One mightiness expect that, arsenic a subordinate of Congress, you would person a passing familiarity with the laws of our country. It’s possible, though, that laws governing intelligence spot are a small excessively arcane and insufficiently populist for you to truly person spent overmuch clip on. We’re penning due to the fact that we deliberation an existent lawmaker should beryllium making laws not breaking laws, particularly those embodied successful the constitution by the founding fathers.” 

Dre’s lawyers past demanded that Greene “cease and desist from immoderate further unauthorized usage of” the musician’s work. It besides requested that Greene corroborate she’s “compiled with these demands” earlier Jan. 11 astatine 5 p.m. ET

It doesn’t look that Dre’s squad had to hold that long: As of publication, the video has been removed from Greene’s Twitter account, with a connection reading, “This media has been disabled successful effect to a study by the copyright owner.” (Mediaite has preserved a transcript for those consenting to taxable themselves.)

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In a connection archetypal shared with TMZ, Greene claimed she was locked retired of her Twitter arsenic a effect of the ailment — though astatine 3:50 p.m. she was capable to post a surface grab of her statement.

Addressing Dre, Greene said, “While I admit the originative chord progression, I would ne'er play your words of unit against women and constabulary officers, and your glorification of the thug beingness and drugs.”