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Bruce Williams Responds To Dr. Dre's Lawsuit
Posted: Friday - October 31, 2008

As previously reported by Yo! Raps, Dr. Dre recently filed a lawsuit against Bruce Williams, author of Rollin' With Dre: The Unauthorized Account, claiming he loaned him over $100K and was never repaid. But in a recent interview with HipHopDX, Williams sat down to try to clear the air.

Although Williams' book was not mention in the lawsuit, there is some speculation about Dre feeling "some kind of way" about his personal life being detailed in writing.

When asked if the suit was about the book, Williams laughed and said, "That's a damn-good question, man. Shit, if I had that answer I'd give it to you straight up. I don't know. It's just funny that I get a lawsuit, but it ain't about the book."

"Y'all just now catching wind of this, right?," Williams queried. "I caught wind of this [planned lawsuit] a week after my book came out. So this is something I guess been in the works for a long time. And I guess it's finally coming to light where [the general public] knows about it now."

"I don't really know the whole details and everything behind it," he continued. "I'm getting 'em from my lawyer. There's only certain things that I can say. But I guess [Dre] says I owed him a $100,000 or something, for a loan or whatever. I never got a $100,000 loan from Dre. From what I'm gathering, this is [allegedly for loans made] over the course of all the 17 years that I worked with him. I can't say no more than that, man. But we can play it out and see how it come out in the end."

Although the man Williams once called his "best friend" is suing him, he says that he has no plans to file a countersuit.

"I don't really have no reason to counter sue, man," he said. "To me, the [lawsuit] is frivolous in the first place. And whoever's read the book, they can honestly say that it's a great book. I didn't throw nobody under the bus. I gave my opinions, and I gave you stories and situations."

In addition to his confusion about the suit, Williams also said that he is scratching his head at Dre's decision to take Detox in a direction that is such a harsh contrast from what his longtime fans are expecting.

"A lot of times now the [direction of the] album is a little bit different," said Williams. "Dre's albums have always been west coast albums, only people that's on the albums is the people that's on his label or [other artists] from the west coast, 'cause it had to have a certain vibe to it. That's what made those ridin' albums. And now it's so many other different people that come in to do a song, Fergie and all that [kind of] stuff. He's looking at it like, 'Okay, we fin to get a big switch [in direction] here.'"

"This album for him, Detox, is gonna be harder than any album he's ever done," he continued. "We're over 40. You done fucked all the bitches. You done shot up all the niggas. It's like, now what do you talk about? We've gotten older, man. So what appeals to me doesn't appeal to my son...You're not selling albums to us no more. We're the older generation. You're trying to sell albums to 13/14-year-olds. So you gotta identify with [them]. And I think that's what's gonna be the toughest part for him, because when we use to talk about Detox in the beginning he didn't even wanna do it. He was like, 'What am I gonna talk about?' And I mean, you can have rappers write for you, that's cool, fine and dandy, but it's got to be something that's gonna make you flow but also keep that street element. [But] I'm confident that in the end if he do release [Detox] it's gonna be dope. I'll give him that, it's gonna be dope."

Despite the stickly legal situation, Williams says that he has no hard feelings toward his friend and wishing his luck.

"I want people to understand, I'm not mad at Dre," he reiterated. "It's not a beef with Dre. I'll go buy a Dre album as soon as it come out. It's just sometimes people have to move on...You have to do you. If you have goals and aspirations, and they're not working in the spot you in, and you've been there for 17 years, you got to move on...And his son died. That's just a bad feeling for anybody. My deepest sympathies go out to him. No father ever wanna bury their child. He should just focus on family life and doing what he do."

Source: Yoraps

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