Dr. Dre lost $200 million by bragging of Apple’s Beats acquisition

In 2014, Dr. Dre made an infamous video celebrating Apple’s acquisition of Beats in which he called himself “the first billionaire in hip-hop,” but it almost killed the entire deal, according to Tripp Mickle’s new tell-all book After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul.Nick deCourville for The Mac Observer:Mickle explains that CEO Tim Cook discovered Beats and wished to acquire it… [He] had to contend with Jimmy Iovine. Finally settl