Dre Day

Trouble

May 1990

Dre POV

It's been a while since Cube left us, but now it was time for us to show that we could still go on and make records without him. He had a great album for his debut, Amerikka's Most Wanted but that just triggered the hate even more. Whenever it came to studio sessions, Eazy wasn't afraid at all to curse him out what so ever, and that fueled anger in all of us at some point, especially Eazy and Jerry. Obviously now, we started to work on this little E.P that is gonna be released in the summer of 1990 called 100 Miles and Runnin'. That E.P's purpose is to make sure that we can still continue without Cube, even though he did abandon us. I'm still trying to get my head around why he left but I know for a fact that Eazy wants to diss him and by all means he wasn't afraid to do it. 

I walked in the studio, and as usual I'm the first one there. Yella would then arrive shortly after, then T.A would make his way. Ren and D.O.C would come around the same time as each other but Eazy would come till later on in the day, and on rare occasions, he'd miss a studio session, either due to getting pussy, or dealing with business of Ruthless. 

It wasn't until I sat down that I saw or heard a familiar high pitched voice shout my name. 

"Dre!"

I instantly turned around to see my ex Michel'le right there before my eyes. I mentally groaned before I sat down on the chair and she tried to give me one of those flirtatious looks, which failed miserably. 

"What do you want Michel'le?" I sighed as I started to pick out the vinyls from my box of records, that I was gonna use to make the beat for this one song. I completely forgot that Michel'le along with me and the guys was a Ruthless artist. I haven't seen her around though in a while, not that I'm complaining but still, something feels very off to me. 

"You still paying child support?" she said and I looked up at her, with a questioning look on my face. 

"Bitch-I mean Michel'le" I corrected myself, before speaking. "What do you think I'm doing? Spending money on VCRs, gold chains and new pagers?!" I said in a sarcastic tone before going back to choosing my records that I wanted to sample for this beat I wanted to make. I heard Michel'le suck her teeth and I gave a small chuckle so that she didn't hear me. 

"Whatever Dre!" Michel'le said. "I was only asking, but since yo ass decided to be so rude-" I cut her off. 

"Yeah I don't want to hear it. Why are you here anyway?" I said to her not taking my eyes of the drum machine that I programmed. 

"I wanted to see the best do this thing! Am I not allowed to even watch my ex-I mean you do yo' thing with the drum machine and the instrumental?" Michel'le said and I couldn't help chuckle at her compliment. 

"Thank you Michel'le for your compliment." I said and returned to what I was doing. I was so focused into preparing this beat that I didn't notice Michel'le move closer to me. I took my gaze away from the boards for a second only to find Michel'le staring right at my face. 

"Okay." I mumbled under my breath. "This is getting a little awkward now!" I looked at Michel'le and I clearly felt the awkward demeanor of myself and her. 

"You know Dre." Michel'le said in a soft voice. "I've never stopped loving you." As soon as she said that I rolled my eyes and she continued anyway. 

"I'll always love you Dre."

I scoffed at what she said. "Bitch-I mean Michel'le!" I once again corrected myself. "I don't love you. Our relationship, what we had is dead, it's no more. The only person I love is Jade. Jade Wright to be exact and I'll never ever stop loving her."  I said with a smile on my face.