Rapper Dr. Dre [ tickets ] reportedly plans to file a lawsuit against the city of Detroit alleging that the city violated his civil rights by threatening to shut down a July 6 concert at the city-owned Joe Louis Arena if a five-minute video introduction to the show was shown on the venue’s big screen.

Tour organizers, who claimed they didn't have enough time to fight Detroit's ban in court, agreed to remove the video segment from the show.

The video segment, which opens the “Up In Smoke” hip-hop package tour, is said to contain nudity and a depiction of a liquor store hold-up. A spokesperson for Detroit police reportedly said that a concerned citizen alerted authorities to the video.

"The tapes were derogatory, they had explicit and pornographic scenes in them, and we didn't want them to be aired in our city," Sana Brikhl of the Detroit Police Department told the Detroit News. "There was no warning on the tickets, and it would have been immoral to allow the material to be seen by the children without their parent's consent. It would have been a violation of Michigan code to allow children to view explicit material."

Howard King, an attorney for Dr. Dre, told Reuters that the rapper plans to file the civil rights lawsuit against the city of Detroit this week in federal court.

Authorities in Auburn Hills, Mich., attempted to have the video exorcised from the concert that took place in that city on July 7. However, tour organizers reportedly got a federal court injunction that allowed them to show the clip.

The video was shown without incident in each of the 11 cities the “Up In Smoke” tour visited prior to the Detroit-area stops.

Other artists appearing on the "Up In Smoke" tour include Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Warren G, as well as special guests.