Jerry Heller Talks NWA Fallout, Ice Cube Beef, Dr. Dre + More 

Ice Cube saw right through Jerry Heller. He was was the smart one to get away. Dr. Dre caught on later. Plain & simple. But much respect to Eazy-E for helping to bring this music to the forefront. Without Eazy's push, we wouldn't know about N.W.A.

omfgg his voice is just like the actor that played him in soc

no vaseline is still affecting him huh?

Damn, heller really hates Cube. Give Cube some credits instead of talking shit about him on something that happened 20 years ago. Ice Cube is the reason Eazy-E started rapping and Ice Cube wrote most of the lyrics in N.W.A

Why the hell is Stan Lee talking about N.W.A?

ICE CUBE never got arrested. He became a boss, was the only smart one out of the group not to sign a dumbazz contract, he paved his own way and won doing it. U can't get more gangsta than that.

Cube didn’t claim Jerry to be stealing he said he was manipulating them into signing bogus ass contracts that weren’t advantageous to them. Jerry knew what Cube was talking bout.

YOU'RE FIRED, JERRY

Jerry Heller & Suge Knight Ruined Ruthless Records & Death Row Records!!

Eazy had no beef with Jerry because he was the only one in the group getting paid

In my opinion Jerry heller was the best rapper in nwa, ice cube was hard but damn jerry could spit like a machine gun. Jerry is the most underated rapper of all time, his album " I'm cumming for Jew niggaz" was the best diss album of all time. That's just my opinion

I see why Cube wrote no vaseline😂

Glad you said that about The D.O.C. I always say that his car crash is one of the biggest tragedies in hip-hop. He was about to be a hip-hop MEGA STAR if he could have had a 2nd album in his prime.

Ice Cube came from a good home! Married his beautiful wife and raised his children well.

Lmao he avoided using the picture of NWA with ice cube because he knew ice cube would legally come for his head.😂😂😂😂

Hearing this interview with Jerry makes me see how well Paul Giamatti did while playing Jerry in Straight Outta Compton

I'm hella weak from some of these comments. I not going to disrespect my elders but I will say this without Ice Cube it would not be N.W.A. Jerry used Eazy E bottomline. Love Ice Cube

I dont believe anything this man is saying

"Its impossible to steal money in the recording industry..." pft! yeah, ok Jerry.

Nobody is claiming Jerry stole money, they are claiming they didn't get paid what they are owed. Nobody says a C.E.O who makes 300x his employee is stealing money. Jerry still doesn't get it after all these years.

NWA ain't shit without Ice Cube ah,ha!!!!!!!

He lost me when he said its impossible to steal money

He never denies he gave them bad deals. A bad deal is still legal. Getting or not getting sued is not proof of whether you're a crook or not.

Paul Giamatti is a great actor. He had him nailed. You can stop watching and just listen to Heller's voice and you hear Giamatti in Straight Outta Compton.

Ice Cube was the most strategically smart one of the time

People watch straight outta Compton and think they know everything now lmao.

"You let a Jew break up my crew "" best lyrics of all time

Jerry Heller is what we call a typical Record label owner back in the day, if you watch the movie Cadillac Records this is just how they roll. Jerry isn't lying, he just doesn't think what he's doing is stealing, he's using and old business model where the artist always end up broke. The nobody sued me thing is funny because these are street guys they only know one way. If they use that way they end up in prison and Jerry knows that so he's being intellectually dishonest.

He kept saying Cube was the youngest but he was the smart not to sell out to him. Cube didnt sign that contract, which he hates cuz he saw talent in Cube. He couldn't make more money off him

*You can't steal when its already in the contract to get robbed*

This interview is terrible. You didn't challenge him on one of his claims. What do you mean "it's impossible to steal money in the music business"...You let him get away with saying that nonsense. It's absolutely possible!!

Easy fired this dude.. He was fired from ruthless. just sayin, Heller doesn't seem to mention that fairly important fact.

R.I.P Jerry Heller, some people agree that you did some bad shit, but we can all agree that you still looked after NWA and at least put the members in a better place than when they were struggling.

“Ice Cube writes rhymes, that I say”. Eazy.

the fact that he knows so well how much dre and cube earned already says it all

Jerry Heller talking about "everyone made so much money, why would I steal?" Then goes on to talk about how rich Cube and Dre are....but the stuff he references are projects that Cube and Dre got themselves, long after NWA. he's trying to act like Dre making millions off 'Beats by Dre' negates missing money from NWA. Comes across as a sleight of hand trick. Am I wrong about this? Someone who knows the story better than I do, feel free to tell me if I'm wrong, cause Heller sounds shady af to me.

I think they just signed a terrible contract, but back then and to young people who didn't understand the shark infested waters of the music business it comes across as stealing. I don't believe that Ice Cube was jealous of Easy E I just don't.

"Ice Cube writes the rhymes, that I say..." - How did Cube NOT write Eazy's rhymes when that's an ACTUAL EAZY E LYRIC!?!?!

Straight Outta Compton is not a documentary! Dre and Cube co-produced the movie. Obviously, they'll make the people they hated look bad and make themselves look good. Why do you think you don't see Dre beating up women in the film?

Ice Cube made this Jew feel some type of way.

The only person I believe is Ice Cube. Shame Eazy isnt still about for his clarification on where he stands on this

In the end, Eazy, Dre, and Cube were just too big for each other. They were all leaders and just had to do their own thing. I know it has to do with beef and all that caused N.W.A. to split, but when you really think about it, Dre and Cube felt they could get more alone, so they did. Can't blame these dudes for wanting to get more. Sure, Dre had to deal with suge for a while but he eventually found success, Cube branched out of music and into films, point is, these guys had different passions to pursue to do more. We probably wouldn't have had Eminem or Boyz N the Hood if these guys didnt separate.

YEs Dre is a billioaire... the talent this guy haves!

Ice Cube diss and their reaction was the best bit of the movie.

Jerry Heller learned from the old Motown executives

I love how everyone's getting mad cos' the new generation is just starting to listen to N.W.A., Because of the movie. Have you heard the music on the radio now? They saw the movie and fell in love with the history and music. WHY the fuck does everyone want to knock them for that? Okay...so you listened to them before they came out...congrats. The new generation is listening out for better music, and they found that with watching the movie. Let them learn. Chill out.

Notice how jerry knows straight away how much money other people are making even when jerry isn't even involved.

Whoa, talking about D.O.C.! All this sure brings back a lot of memories!

Dre didn't write most of the lyrics! Cube, Ren, and D.O.C wrote most of the music! Stop lying Jerry!!

"guys sittin in our office with Uzis 24 hours a day" 😂

I don't defend or accuse Heller. I don't know Heller nor the things he did (or did not do). But the venomous comments I have read here against this man are depressing. If you smear a black man or use racial slurs, you are publicly crucified. Insulting Heller's skin color or religion, on the other hand, is somehow legitimate. Hypocrites.

Too many people on here that watched Straight Outa Compton and now they know it all and are now the biggest fans since "back in the day" 😂

Even though heller did some odd funky business, you have to admit he made an artist realize and transformed the music genre. Especially with Ice cube and dr.dre

He really hates Ice Cube; probably because he was right about Jerry. He is even trying to discredit his writing of songs for the group. The days of cheating artists is not over, but it is harder because of technology and because of smart informed artists.

Very interesting interview, an intriguing perspective from Heller.

Dang, Paul Giamatti nailed him. Oscar nod should be coming for him.

Jerry was a crook plain and simple. That group sold a ton of albums and went on multiple tours but yet Cube was still living at his moms house. That shit makes no sense. Jerry was robbin NWA

Straight up sincere crook!! Labels have been robbing artist for decades..

Jerry Heller is a Straight G!

"He didn't hang out with us" when an 80 year old man says HANG OUT.Kill me please

Shots fired! "Ice Cube wasn't really a street guy"

Awesome interview! I love hip-hop history lessons, I love hearing it from the folks that were around it.

Just because Easy E never spoke bad about him doesn't mean he hated him. He just didn't want to do business with him any longer.

Damn.. Paul Giamatti nailed it!

Excellent channel, i will check back

If it was ALL GOOD why did Easy E end the business relationship?

when a old man like jerry heller talks n.w.a it makes it sound like all this went down in the 60s

"It's not possible to steal money." Thanks Jerry!

he sounds just like the jerry from straight outta Compton! lmao

RIP Eazy e your the best

I'll buy this book. He is honest man.

whoa!!!! Jerry mentioned the Cant Stop Wont Stop book

We studied this case in school when I studied music business and film. What NWA actually claimed Jerry stole was actually money they owed. They were spending money before they even earned it. For example. If I gave you a two million dollar budget to create an album as advance, i expect you to pay back that 2 million dollars after the sales of the album has passed - to recuperate what i had lost in investing on the production of your album. Now - most rappers have a tendency to touch that advance money / album budget and usually start blurring the lines between an advance - and revenue. Now the revenue is actually what the rappers can take home and START spending. So when they did the math of their album sales and thought they were getting less than what they were supposed to they started thinking Jerry stole that amount from them - when in reality the amount that was taken from them was actually the amount given to them to MAKE the album PLUS other expenses like (CHAINS, LAMBORGHINIS, ESCORTS, DRUGS, CLOTHES, ETC.) Just thought I'd let some kids know this since I see a lot of youth entering the entertainment business and it's easy to get jerked if you don't know how it works.

imagine if easy was alive today. how much could shit could heller actually talk then?

Thought I was playing Madden 12 for a second that music in the background brings back so much memories

Good interview....

I approached this with an open mind figuring there's two sides to this. This dude's such a weasel and full of double standards. I feel sick at the thought of how he's able to convince himself he's the victim here. The NWA guys realised they were getting a raw deal and he's still in denial about it.

8:00 Lol is he saying that Ice Cube is a studio gangster?

I was never afraid of Jerry. He was actually an option.

"Have a good night, Jerry!"

Ice cube didn't have money because he wasn't signed into a share of NWA until Jerry illegally tried to sign him without letting him even reading the papers or letting him show his lawyer. That's probably why he lived with his parents

Why Easy dead and we still got Jerry Heller smh

I believe in the whole "three sides to every story" theory, but when it's just your side and a bunch of people on the other side telling the same story about you, it kinda makes me think

Happier time? That was the height of #Los Angeles #Gang #Banging!

in the late 80's they didnt have computers like that

I can tell he really loved Eazy E.

The guy they had play him in the movie actually sounds remarkably like him!

That's nice the way jerry's talks good about ice cube

Ice Cube was smart to leave he's no yes man. Ruthless went to the dogs after Cube left. And then Dre left!

This guy says Ice Cube wasn't a "street guy"....lmfao

Good Interview...always wanted to hear his side of the story.

Arabian Prince left first and really opened Cube's eyes

Cube was the original godfather of gangster rap. He wrote all the songs he wrote all of eazy shit in the early years. NWA needed cube more than he needed them. Dre was the music guy and cube was the main writer of the group. Without his rhymes n bars it would never have worked. Ren was okay but him and yella I feel just kinda tagged along. Dre's beats cubes lyrics and eazy"s voice n money was all that was ever needed. cubes lyrics made the biggest impact for the group Idk if he was getting ripped off for real but I don't feel like cube has any reason to lie about it. N if Dre eventually left for the same reasons then something must have been going on. There's no smoke without 🔥

R.I.P. Jerry Heller 1940-2016

I really like Jerry he never said a bad thing about anyone! 💜👍🏻

Interesting interview.

"Ice Cube write the rhyme's that I say" .

Jerry could be telling the truth when he said he did not steal money from the members of NWA. Artists in ruthless signed slave deals so as long as Jerry/Eazy pays Dre, Cube, Ren, D.O.C. their pittance in accordance to the contract then Jerry and Eazy did not steal, they merely exploited their artists.

My nerdy ass sees the word fallout and I clicked on this shit fast as hell. I wasn't disappointed tho

Ey guy, it doesnt matter wich side is right, we cant forget that NWA maybe never got a chance without Jerry Heller.