Dr. Dre Quotes in Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Ice Cube: Yo, Dre.

Dr. Dre: What up?

Ice Cube: I got something to say.

Eazy-E: [doing a rap song] Cruising down the street in my '64

Dr. Dre: That was dope, E. That shit was dope, man!

Suge Knight: So whatchu gonna call that bullshit?

Dr. Dre: Aftermath.

Tupac: What up, Dre?

Dr. Dre: What up, Pac?

Tupac: I was about to bust niggas in the mouth with this new album.

Dr. Dre: I feel that.

Tupac: Suge said you got some heat for a nigga.

Dr. Dre: Hell yeah!

[Plays Tupac a "California Love" Instrumental]

Dr. Dre: Fuck wit it.

Tupac: California love.

Verna Griffin: Spinning records ain't paying the bills around here.

Dr. Dre: What are you talking about? I get paid.

Verna Griffin: 50 dollars? So that makes you rich?

Dr. Dre: It's a start.

[repeated line]

Dr. Dre: That shit was DOPE!

[N.W.A have been warned not to perform Fuck tha Police. This takes place after they perform Straight Outta Compton]

Ice Cube: Hey, hold on, hold on! Y'all know what the motherfuckin' police tried to tell us back stage?

Dr. Dre, Audience: What?

Ice Cube: They tried to tell us what the fuck we can't play.

Audience: [boos]

Ice Cube: Motherfuckers tryin' to tell us what the fuck we can't say. This N.W.A.!

Audience: [cheers]

Ice Cube: We do what the fuck we wanna do. We say what the fuck we wanna say! So everybody, put them middle fingers high in the sky. And to the punk-ass cop backstage... Yo, Dre?

Dr. Dre: What up?

Ice Cube: I got somethin' to say.

[NWA performs Fuck tha Police but get interrupted halfway]

Dr. Dre: [NWA arrives back in L.A from the tour, Dre & Cube get off the bus] So Cube, we gonna keep this momentum going or what?

Ice Cube: Nah, not like this. I'd rather be broke than to get fucked. I told you not to sign that shit, Dre.

Dr. Dre: Nigga, I got bills to pay. And you know that! Plus you know I gotta money in my mom's hand from when Tyree passed.

Ice Cube: Yeah, I feel you. We gotta do what we gotta do. You they bread and butter, they're gonna take care of you.

Dr. Dre: Cube, we ruthless.

Ice Cube: WE N.W.A.

[looks at Eazy and Jerry]

Ice Cube: THEY Ruthless.

[man picking up Ice Cube asks him if he's coming]

Ice Cube: Aight I'm about to head out.

[daps up Dre]

Ice Cube: take care of yourself, Dre.

Dr. Dre: Peace.

[Cube gets into the car as Dre watches and sighs]

Eazy-E: [Eazy is in the studio, "Appetite for Destruction playing in the background]

[cuts off music]

Eazy-E: So what's up? When you talked to me on the phone, man you sounded pretty worked up.

Dr. Dre: Yeah I know you don't like hearing this shit... it's about Jerry. We gotta get rid of that motherfucker, E.

Eazy-E: [sighs] That's really why you came here? I thought all this shit was in the past, Dre.

Dr. Dre: This some real shit, man. And the shit been happening since the beginning. I had some people look into this, I ain't been getting my fair share-...

Eazy-E: Do you even know why you rich though? Do you know why you got a big ass house and you ain't sleeping on your auntie couch no more? Because Jerry made that possible for us. He kicked down the door for that shit to happen. For us! And you just gonna turn your back on him? What, you Cube now?

Dr. Dre: Cube was right, fool! E, look at the papers, man and you'll see what the fuck I'm talking about. And forget about Jerry, man! You keep talking about 'Jerry this, Jerry that'. We didn't make it because of Jerry, we made it because our shit is dope! And we can keep going, E. We can own the goddamn world, but we just can't be fucking with him no more! Man, we started this N.W.A shit. I just want it to be right.

Eazy-E: And this what you think right? Turnin' your back on someone after all he done for us.

Dr. Dre: You mean all he done for you. Right? Look at me. Look at me. When Tyree died, you said we was always gonna be brothers. But I guess you forgot about that. Ima start my own company with Suge Knight, E. Thought we were brothers, man.

[tosses papers and leaves]

Eazy-E: [N.W.A is in the studio recording their first diss track to Ice Cube, Real Niggaz] See that shit right there, that's what I'm talkin about. Fuck that nigga Cube, man. Nigga ain't shit!

Dr. Dre: How you figure, man? His record the hottest shit out right now, E.

Dj Yella: Yeah man, for real Cube killed that shit.

Eazy-E: So we supposed to just sit there, and not say nothin' and look like bitches and just take it?

D.O.C.: [inebriated] Take what? I don't give a fuck what you talkin' about. I like that shit.

[bumps into Eazy, mumbles]

D.O.C.: clown-ass.

Eazy-E: Why you drunk all the goddamn time? You need to get your shit together. Youse a muthafuckin artist, if you ain't noticed.

D.O.C.: How about you get your shit together, little nigga.

[to the woman with him]

D.O.C.: C'mon.

Eazy-E: [to Dre] How about you get your country-ass homeboy?

MC Ren: [fades to Ren still rapping his verse] ..."cause the vocals were local in nightclubs, and not gettin' paid in full. They got the nerve to cuss, only reason niggas pick up your record is 'cause they thought it was us".

[referring to Cube]

Suge Knight: [Dre meets up with Suge in the hospital to visit The D.O.C. who had just been in a car accident] DOC shouldn't even be alive. Got thrown out of a car, hit a tree.

Dr. Dre: Is he paralyzed?

Suge Knight: Nah. But his throat got crushed. He could lose his career over this. Where your people? Where Eazy and Jerry?

Dr. Dre: How the fuck should I know?

Suge Knight: Come here.

[in the hallway]

Suge Knight: What you know about Jerry? What you think about him?

Dr. Dre: He all right. I guess.

Suge Knight: What about your paperwork? You cool with that?

Dr. Dre: [pause] I think.

Suge Knight: You think?

Dr. Dre: Look, I just focus on the music, Suge. That's it.

Suge Knight: You see that motherfucker in there? Gotta make sure it don't happen to you, man.

Dr. Dre: Hey, um... maybe-maybe some of your people can look into my paperwork too.

Suge Knight: Most definitely. I'll arrange. Go see ya boy.