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Dr. Dre introduces Inductee Eminem onstage during the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony astatine Microsoft Theater connected November 05, 2022 successful Los Angeles, California.
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Lawyers for rap fable Dr. Dre are demanding that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene halt his utilizing his music, aft the arguable person utilized the deed "Still D.R.E."
"I don't licence my euphony to politicians, particularly idiosyncratic arsenic divisive and hateful arsenic this one," Dre, who was calved Andre Young, said successful a statement.
Greene, who represents a territory successful northeast Georgia, has promoted the far-right and baseless conspiracy mentation QAnon, and successful February 2022 she spoke astatine a achromatic nationalist event.
In December she said she would person "won" the Jan. 6 Capitol onslaught if she had planned it with erstwhile Trump adjutant Steve Bannon, which earned a rebuke from the White House as good arsenic Democratic lawmakers.
The missive from Dre's attorney, Howard King, dated Monday, demands that the Greene instantly cease and desist from utilizing Dre's music. The missive says she has been utilizing it connected societal media.
"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," the missive reads. "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."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., conducts a quality league with members of the House Freedom Caucus extracurricular the Capitol to reason the Equality Act, which prohibits favoritism connected the ground of sex, sex identity, and intersexual orientation, connected Thursday February 25, 2021.
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Music work Rolling Stone reported that the recognizable "Still D.R.E." bushed was utilized successful a video posted to Twitter, which appears to person since been removed.
A spokesperson for Greene connected Monday sent a effect from the Congress subordinate to Dr. Dre that read: "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."
— Phil Helsel contributed.
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