Curtis Young found out Dr. Dre was his father when he was 12 years old. Three years later, Young’s mother and her then-boyfriend separated, which caused Young to pursue meeting his father. Five years later, when he was 20, Curtis Young met the rapper-producer for the first time.
“I started trying to meet him and hiring lawyers, whatever I could do,” he says to XXL. “It was rough. It was really hard to finally get the DNA test and meet him.”
Young wound up getting the contact information for one of Dr. Dre’s lawyers and that’s how he was finally able to confirm Dr. Dre’s paternity. Young says that this period of time was trying for him and he had to find his own identity.
“You’re going through all this and you’re trying to find yourself, that’s a whole different period I went through,” he says. “I was like, ‘I just want to be just like him. I’m going to wear khakis and I’m going to be a gangster.’ It just really wasn’t me. I grew up in Compton, not that I’m no punk or anything, but I never had that in me. Everybody knew me and I was cool. I was the ladies man. Something that I had to grow into was just being Curtis Young. Curtis Young is a grown and sexy vibe, just talking about the life stories that I’ve been through. I had it rough. It’s not your average story.”
Young is working on his own music now, but is also slated to appear as his father in the forthcoming Dogg Pound For Life movie.
“There’s no sequel to Straight Outta Compton,” he says, referring to the N.W.A biopic that portrays his father. “This is the Dogg Pound For Life movie. I’m cast to play my father. That is official. Right now they’re looking for funding. There are talks with 50 Cent and some other people. The script is pretty much done. I can’t really speak on the characters but I just got photos of who’s going to be playing who. I’m just really excited to be a part of it.”
Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger, members of Tha Dogg Pound, are spearheading the film, which is yet to sign a director.
“We’re all at the beginning stages,” Young says. “We’ve got to get it funded, but they’ll get it funded. It wouldn’t make sense for someone to not fund that movie.”
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Dr. Dre his he really your Son? If he is why do you have to be away from your Son for that Long?… I really like you more than this…. That’s if you are wrong. 🙂 :p
Fuck outta here with DNA tests….maybe when he was 12, but you ain’t gotta be a doctor (no pun) to tell me that’s Dre’s son. Look at that forehead lol.
Dre Didnt know. The Mom never told him(the son) till he was 12yrs old and that was becuase her BF said something.
As great of a musician Dr. Dre is, he seems to be a pretty terrible father and husband
Both Curis and the daughter Manaj are very talented emcee’s. Manaj might even be better at rapping than the brother
Where is my dad?!
“Curtis Young is a grown and sexy vibe[PAUSE], just talking about the life stories that I’ve been through. I had it rough. It’s not your average story.”
So is it grown and sexy or is it rough Junior? LMAO
I feel for you Curtis. But the bottom line is, your father- ironically like mine- is an narcissistic asshole.
He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. FACT!
I love his music, but Andre Young- from what I’ve read that was said by people that know him- is a man you wouldn’t want around you. A user! A REAL puppet-master.
I think you are better off without him.
Every one need to at least know who his or her father is even if u don’t have nothing to do with him it always a sigh of relief to at least know so when you have kids u can know what not to do and be there for your kids
What’s up with his eye lol
Paternity test….LOL! Dre Spit him out…. Twin for real!!
HERE IS THE REAL STORY regarding Curtis Young, aka Dr. Dre’s Son First of all Curtis real legal name is Curtis Maclemore not Curtis Young his mother Cassandra Green did not put Dr. Dre on the birth certificate because she wasn’t sure at the time if Dre was his father she was sleeping with both Dr. Dre and his best friend at the same time.. In 2001 Curtis met my client Mystro who was a music producer Curtis and Mystro became really good friends and Mystro talked Curtis into trying to rap so Mystro started producing Curtis… One night coming from the studio Curtis told Mystro that he thinks his biological father might be Dr. Dre but he wasn’t sure because he never met him before and his mother didn’t know how to get in contact with him. Curtis begged Mystro to do what ever he could to find Dr. Dre so Mystro called to Aftermath and then they gave Mystro the number to Dr. Dre’s attorney The law office of “Howard King”, After Mystro talked to Mr. Howard King and convinced him that Curtis could be Dre’s son and this might be true not and not a get rich scam, He said ok and wanted to talk to Curtis personally… So Mystro gave Mr. King Curtis phone number… Here is where things started to go sour, weeks went by and Mystro hadn’t heard from Curtis mind you, they both would talk every day if they were not hanging out together they would be talking on the phone this was unusual they were BFF’s so Mystro being concerned stopped by his house and his Mother said rudely “Curtis is with his dad Dr. Dre and he’s doesn’t need you anymore!!” by then Curtis drove up in his brand new car “Hummer” that Dre just bought him and he told Mystro “Man I don’t need you no more I got Dre” he walked in the house and slammed the door in Mystro’s face…They never spoke again… Fast forward ⏩ Curtis tried to get Dr. Dre to produce music for him and Dre listened to his demo and said frankly “You are not ready” you should go to School and get your education so Curtis said ok Dr. Dre gave Curtis 5,000 Dollars a week!! NOT A MONTH A WEEK!!! To go to school but instead he took the money every week from Dre lying to him that he was enrolled in school and traveled and partied with his friends… Flying first class and sipping champagne!!! ✈️ So one day Dre called Curtis mom Cassandra to check up on how he was doing in school and Cassandra said “Curtis is not in School”!!! what are you talking about ? he’s in Vegas this weekend with his friends! Apparently Cassandra didn’t know Curtis was getting 5,000 a week from Dre… So Dr. Dre “DID” support Curtis but he misused Dre and slammed the door on the very person that made it happen in the first place my client Mystro…. I wish Curtis well, but what he did to the most important people in his life was very bad… If it wasn’t for Mystro Curtis would have never met Dr. Dre! Curtis has bad Karma coming to him. Ps. My client would like to clear his name, Curtis is publicly not telling the full truth on how he was able to find his father.
I believe what you’re saying 100% & I hope Dre doesn’t give him another dime! His mama was a ho & he’s clearly a user. Dre has no emotional connection with him, hell he didn’t meet him until he was GROWN & then misused him. So if he’s a struggling artist trying to come up OFF HIS FATHER’S NAME & NOT TALENT THEN TOUGH. Keep it moving Dre & let that punk make it on his own
i love Dr.dre
i love his son more
Black slummzs my rap name is blizsthewino