Dre later recalled: "The split came when Jerry Heller got involved. Both Ice Cube and Dre accused Heller of breaking up N.W.A with the way he managed the group. However Ice Cube's diss tracks only occurred after the remaining members of N.W.A. Dre departing and aiming criticism at Heller and Eazy in diss tracks. N.W.A broke up in 1991, with Ice Cube and Dr.
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Dre, Michel'le, and The D.O.C., that Ruthless was protected by Israeli trained/connected security forces." Heller has maintained that Eazy-E admired the JDL for their slogan "Never Again" and that he had plans to make a movie about the group. Heller speculated that placement on the hit list might have been because of N.W.A's song "Fuck tha Police." Heller said, "It was no secret that in the aftermath of the Suge Knight shakedown incident where Eazy was forced to sign over Dr.
Heller claimed Eazy-E received death threats and it was discovered that he was on a Nazi skinhead hit list. Heller explained that JDL’s involvement with Ruthless was for more reasons than the FBI investigation. JDL spokesperson Irv Rubin issued a press release stating, "There was nothing but a close, tight relationship" between Eazy-E and the League. The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a money laundering investigation, assuming that the JDL was extorting money from Ruthless Records. The presence of bodyguards provided Ruthless Records with muscle to enter into negotiations with Knight over Dr. The JDL offered to provide bodyguards to Eazy-E when Suge Knight allegedly threatened him in the early 1990s. Dre’s departure from Ruthless Records, Heller and Ruthless director of business affairs Mike Klein sought assistance from the Jewish Defense League (JDL). Death Row Records and Jewish Defense Leagueĭuring Dr. The one thing these releases have in common was Dr.
Fad), Eazy-Duz-It (Eazy-E), Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A), No One Can Do It Better (The D.O.C.), Michel'le's self-titled debut, and Niggaz4Life (N.W.A). Under the direction of Heller and Eazy, Ruthless Records had six platinum releases in three years: Supersonic (J. On March 3, 1987, he met Compton, California rapper Eazy-E, and the two became co-founders of Ruthless Records. He managed both C.I.A., which Ice Cube was a member of, and the World Class Wreckin' Cru, which included Dr. In the 1980s, Heller began managing acts on the nascent Los Angeles hip hop scene, many of whom recorded for the now defunct Macola Records in Hollywood. Wright) was going broke and had creditors seeking restitution. Despite this fact the founder of Ruthless (E. At the time of Eazy-E's death, and Heller's departure from Ruthless Records, the company was generating revenue in excess of $10 million per month. Dre, whose careers Heller helped establish, and sold millions of records for Interscope Records, Priority Records, Atlantic Records, MCA Records, and Sony Records. The label included artists and producers such as Dr. To date, Ruthless Records has sold in excess of 110 million records, not counting singles. His work with Ruthless Records and with Eazy-E formed the foundation for the successes of Priority Records and Interscope Records. Starting in the mid-1980s, Heller represented rap musicians as the genre became popular with the record-buying U.S. Heller believed that a key factor in keeping acts working between or after a hit record was to not be greedy and package his own clients together, but tour them in salable packages with other headline acts that were clients of other agencies.
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He later bought out partner Don Fischel who went on to package independent TV productions. After working at Coast Artists, Associated Booking and the Chartwell, he opened the Heller-Fischel Agency in Beverly Hills, California which grossed $1.9 million during its first year, $3.7 million the second, $5.8 the third, and over $7 million its fourth year of operation representing rock stars The Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, and Black Oak Arkansas as well as writers at the time Carly Simon, Van Morrison, and Cat Stevens. Born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Ohio, Heller served in the United States Army and attended college at University of Southern California, and started working in the agency business in 1963.