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Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine Partner With Atlanta Public Schools

The "Iovine and Young Center" will launch at Frederick Douglass High School in 2024.

A New Book Reveals How Dr. Dre’s Loose Lips Kept Him From Being “Hip-Hop’s First Billionaire”

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @BeanzGotGamez Dr. Dre let the excitement of the pending Beats Apple deal cost him some money a new book details. Tripp Mickle’s new book After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul shared an interesting nugget about the infamous Beats Apple deal and its announcement to the world. Per Mickle’s book, he writes that Tim Apple, oops, we mean Cook saw the deal as his easy way into the music streaming service. The book also reveals that Dr. Dre’s partner Jimmy Iovine had a feeling a leak could spoil the massive deal. Little did he know he would be right and that it would be his business partner doing the leaking. “At 2 am, Iovine got a call from Puff Daddy, who was screaming that Dre and Tyrese, a rapper, wer...

Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine Teaming With LAUSD To Open Possibly The “Coolest High School In America”

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason LaVeris / Getty Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are backing up the Brink’s Truck to help Black and Latino teenagers get a good education in South LA. Monday (Jun.14), L.A. Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner and Beats By Dre founders Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, a Compton native, and Jimmy Iovine, announced they are teaming up to launch what could be “the coolest high school in America.” The school, currently known as Regional High School .1 until it is formally named, will help develop young leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs by offering students a unique curriculum of multidisciplinary, hands-on learning, with a strong emphasis on real-world projects with top companies and non-profits that is based on the USC Iovine and Young Academy’s approach to teachi...

HHW Gaming: Dr.Dre, DJ Pooh, Jimmy Iovine & More Make Appearances In New ‘GTA Online’ Update The Cayo Perico Heist

Source: Rockstar Games / GTA V: The Cayo Perico Heist We still don’t have Detox, but we do have a Dr.Dre sighting in the latest GTA Online update. GTA V first arrived on consoles in 2013, and now as we close out this sh*tty year, heading into 2021, the game is still going strong thanks to GTA Online. Its latest update, The Cayo Perico Heist, will take players to a new island location to do something we can’t do in real life at the moment, and that’s hit the club. In the update, which is described by Rockstar Games as its “latest cultural event,” the uber-popular online component will build on the in-game nightlife component first introduced with the After Hours update in 2018 with its latest immersive new virtual nightclub experience, The Music Locker. When players press the start button t...