![]() 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. ![]()
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