I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them.

The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.

I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

No one country can confront them alone…the only way forward is together.