“It’s just ironic that I’m here tonight with MC Ren,” Ice Cube told Detroit, Michigan’s Local 4, who interviewed him on camera. Krayzie Bone Has Powerful Memories About Ice Cube & Eazy-E’s 1995 Reunion After Years of Beef Hip-Hop fans, and those following a 26 year-old storyline would be curious to see what Ice Cube thought of his former manager’s life and death. Parties close to him said that Straight Outta Compton‘s affect on his legacy sent him to an early grave. On Friday (September 2), Jerry Heller died at 75 years old.
The exec believed elements of the film were taken from his memoir without permission, as well as his character (played by Paul Giamatti) defamed. One critic of the film was Heller, who subsequently sued Universal Pictures and film producers for $110 million, the profits from the film, as of February.
In addition to box office sales records, the film garnered Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. That film dramatized Cube’s conflict with Jerry, as well as Eazy’s firing of his longtime partner. Dre and Eazy’s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright) produced Straight Outta Compton. Jerry Heller, Co-Founder Of Ruthless Records & N.W.A.
Sadly, he died in March of 1995-never making the full group reunion possible. As legend has it, Eazy fired Heller shortly thereafter.
Reportedly, Cube’s condition to return to the group on hiatus was that Jerry Heller would not be involved. In the middle of the decade, when Cube and Eazy-E reunited at New York City’s Tunnel nightclub, the pair toiled with an N.W.A. Dre, and others joined Cube in speaking out against Heller’s business practices during the early part of the ’90s. On 1991 album Death Certificate, Cube landed sharp jabs at Eazy, Jerry, and his band-mates through popular diss track “No Vaseline.” At Jerry in particular, Cube rapped to Eazy, “ You let a a Jew broke up my crew,” referring to the Cleveland, Ohio native’s religious beliefs. Instead, the group and its former star traded disses. would release an album, 1991’s Elil4zaggin without Cube. Within months, Cube angrily left the group and launched a solo career that is ironclad more than 25 years later. During the quintet’s first national tour, Cube-arguably the lead MC on the Straight Outta Compton album began questioning his contracts and royalty statements from Ruthless Records, and its label co-founders Eazy-E and Heller. soared to the top of the pack, meeting criticism for its profanity and lewdness with massive commercial success. music executive beefs, Ice Cube’s problems with Jerry Heller are perhaps the most significant.