Recovering Music Industry Requires Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre is a songwriter who can help federal lawmakers recover some decency.

Blog entry written on 21 July, 2025, by Corinne Devin Sullivan, at the Archive Coffee & Bar located at102 Liberty Street NE, in Salem, Oregon.

Photography at the Archive Coffee & Bar by Corinne Devin Sullivan.

There’s a book I wrote. Its title is, Twenty-Seven: The Human Right the Music Industry Forgot. It’s a “call to action” concerning more than 100 years of human rights abuses of artists in music.

I’m spending time at The Archive tonight in Salem, Oregon. Rows of books and old-fashioned radios make the establishment a nice place for me to return to work on my blog. I carried in my laptop and was directed to occupy one of the beautiful booths. The Archive is a place where people come for fabulous dinner fare but do not mind the coffee drinkers working on their laptops. Everything here fits together nicely.

My drink tonight is a London Fog which is more exciting than most people think. It’s keeping me awake, and I need to stick with it because I have a lot on my mind.

I was thinking about time immemorial. Remember that movie, Straight Outta Compton (2015)? Audiences watched the story about the first years of Dr. Dre’s billion-dollar career.

Dr. Dre has done it all. He’s famous in so many categories: songwriter, music producer, a performer, an entrepreneur, and more. The movie portrays the terrible circumstances leading up to his success. Man, what that Dr. Dre had to put up with as a young man and with the people coming at him after he became known for influencing society! His life was often on the line. The stress of doing these things must have been unimaginable. I don’t know how Dr. Dre is even still here because many would have given up. He’s still making incredible art. I believe that man is a hero to most people.

Per Wikipedia, Dr. Dre’s debut solo album, The Chronic (1992), made him one of the best-selling American music artists of 1993.

I well recall hearing about a billions-dollar deal when Apple purchased Beats from Dr. Dre.

I was thinking about talking to Dr. Dre if I can dial him up somehow. Instead of that style, I’m like, “Hey, what’s with the Music Modernization Act,” as though I can talk from here to the federal lawmakers from 2018. I’m saying this like, “Do you really think it’s appropriate for streaming services to be handed over the sales of every music recording in such a way the Music Modernization Act allows without putting it to the vote of the public?”

I feel the need to do something about this singular act by congress that has virtually handed over the entire music industry to just a tiny handful of streaming companies and their ilk. Definitely something you want to know about, friends.

I don’t think there’s any justification for theft. But that’s what that Act amounts to, particularly since not a single vote by the general public was ever officially requested and it allows the use of every recording the United States has to offer.

I think the end of the Music Modernization Act from 2018 is called for based on a failure to require a public vote. I need your help to carry the word around the nation about this act and that it must be cancelled to return profits to artists.

An artist such as Dr. Dre shows true qualities of a genius. It’s hard to express the help he has delivered to the culture of America and what that’s been worth to all the people he inspires.

If someone at the top complains and tells you they “know but can’t find a solution better than the Music Modernization Act”, I suggest someone seeks out Dr. Dre’s people for a consultation.

I like that thought.