Having just had part of his right leg utated as a result of a lengthy battle with Type II diabetes, Andre “Doctor Dre” Brown” is now the subject of a GoFundMe caign to raise the money necessary for his full recovery and care. A multi-talented performer who made his mark in a number of media over the course of 25 years, Dre is best known as the co-host of “Yo! MTV Raps” (1989-1995), the groundbreaking television show that introduced rap and hip-hop to the world at a time when most mass media, including MTV itself up until that point, shunned the burgeoning African-American youth culture.
In an interview with�TV Guide�in 2019, Doug Herzog, an executive at Viacom, MTV’s parent company, recalled, “The impact of “Yo!” was immediate and massive. It changed everything. It was a gigantic cultural shift.”
