Apple isn’t going to risk their brand by rebranding cheap Chinese crap, they have nothing to gain from that. It’s much more likely they designed headphones and the Chinese factories made cheap clones.

Apple acquired Beats in 2014. Beats existed - and sold overpriced headphones - for 6 years prior.

Headphones made in partnership with Monster which is hardly ‘cheap Chinese crap’. If anything it’s not cheap.

I never said they were cheap. I did, however, say they were Chinese, and while I can't seem to find any info online about where Monster manufactures its headphones, it's statistically probable that they're made in China (maybe not literal rebrands of existing Chinese-made headphones, though, so I'll concede that point).

Whether or not they're "crap" is subjective, but if Monster's cables are any indication, their price is likely not consistent with their quality.

They aren't. Neither were they invented by Dr. Dre. They were developed in SF, at Ammunition Group LLC.

Dont you mean the image of Beats was developed by Ammunition Group, and then slapped on Monster headphones?

Do you mean to tell me that the headphones were not personally made by Dr Dre? They partnered with Monster as unsurprising a rapper might know what he wants in headphones but doesn’t know how to actually manufacture them.