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Mar 17, 2017 · When HBO was looking for photos to use in The Defiant Ones, a four part documentary series telling the story of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine that premieres this spring, they reached out to...
- Eazy-E Couldn't Rap
- Jerry Heller's Story
- Police Harassment in Torrance
- N.W.A. Gets Arrested For Performing "F*ck Tha Police"
- Ice Cube Smashes Up The Priority Records Office
- Dr. Dre's Death Row Departure
- Ice Cube vs. N.W.A.
In the beginning stages of Ruthless Records and N.W.A., Ice Cube wrote a rap called "Boyz N The Hood"for a New York-based rap group called H.B.O. (Home Boys Only). After they refused to record it and faded into obscurity, Dre and Cube thought it would be a good idea for Eazy-E to record it instead. Not having rapped ever before, he didn't want to d...
N.W.A.'s former (shady) manager Jerry Heller (played by Paul Giamatti in the movie) wrote a memoir titled Ruthlessin which he said that Eazy-E approached him for a record deal. In the movie, Heller approaches E. Either way, their relationship does not end well.
In the film, while recording their iconic album Straight Outta Comptonin Torrance, California with Heller, the group steps outside only to be harassed by police because of the way they look. It not only happened to them in real life, but it sadly happens to young black men and women to this very day.
In the movie, N.W.A. performs their controversial anthem "F*ck Tha Police" at their show in Detroit in 1989 after being told not to. After a shooting in the audience, chaos ensues and the groups run to their tour busses only to be handcuffed for performing the song. In reality (according to Heller's memoir), they were escorted to their hotels after...
The scene where Ice Cube smashes up the Priority Records office with a bat because they haven't paid him almost didn't make the final cut of the movie. Luckily it did, because it happened in real life.
After Dr. Dre split from N.W.A., he partnered with Suge Knight and Death Row Records. Many people know that Knight wasn't exactly the nicest guy. In one scene of the movie, while Dre is recording with Tupac at the Death Row offices, he sees Knight and his buddies humiliating a guy in his underwear. He gets fed up with Knight and speeds off in his c...
The feud that happened between Ice Cube and N.W.A. after he left was 100 percent real. When he released his solo debut, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, there wasn't a single diss about N.W.A. But the group decided to throw some shade towards Cube in their albums 100 Miles and Runnin' and Efil4zaggin. "No Vaseline" was Ice Cube's brilliant way of shutting ...
Mar 22, 2023 · On this day in hip-hop, March 22, 1996, Dr. Dre makes an industry-shaking move with his departure from Death Row Records.
By the late 1990s, the label began to decline after the death of its star artist, 2Pac, imprisonment of Suge Knight, and the departures of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Although Death Row was enjoying financial success, it was embroiled in controversies, lawsuits, and violence by its artists and associates.
Sep 14, 2021 · In 2014, rapper and record producer Dr. Dre (real name Andre Romelle Young) sued Death Row Records (via Rolling Stone) –- a label he co-founded in 1992 with Suge Knight (via the Los Angeles Times).
Dec 15, 2017 · Although Dr. Dre had already helped put L.A. gangsta rap on the map as a member of N.W.A, it was his solo debut, released in December 1992, that made the good doctor a household name and turned...
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Dec 15, 2017 · After recording the first half of the record in Dre’s home, the nascent Death Row Records established a nerve center in a Hollywood that had lapsed into pure Babylonian decay.
