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Mar 17, 2017 · But in 1991 when he formed Death Row with Dr. Dre, Suge hired Green, the seasoned professional, to document the burgeoning label in all its glory.
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 ).
Mar 22, 2023 · March 22, 1996: On this day in 1996, Dr. Dre parted ways with Death Row Records, the infamous West Coast label he cofounded in 1991 with Marion "Suge" Knight.
Feb 15, 2022 · In 1994, Dr. Dre was sentenced to an eight-month prison stint for leading police on a chase when they tried to arrest him for driving drunk. Dr. Dre also spent years fighting Death Row Records for failing to give him royalties following the reissue of the 1992 album The Chronic .
- 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 ...
Jul 11, 2017 · By Tom Connick. 11th July 2017. Dr Dre releases new track. Dr Dre has discussed his history of assault and abuse towards women, stating that he “was out of [his] fucking mind.” Dre’s...
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Feb 17, 2023 · According to Dr. Dre associate and producer Erotic D, Suge Knight's solution was simple: He showed up at the Ruthless offices, threatened Eazy-E with bodily harm if he refused to let Dr. Dre and DOC out of their contracts, and left the offices with said contracts in hand, delivering them to Erotic D for safekeeping (via DubCNN). With that done ...
