Jerry Heller, as recently documented in Straight Outta Compton last year, has passed away at age 75. He was instrumental in launching Eazy-E, N.W.A., and Ruthless Records and though he’s often depicted as exploiting them too, his contributions did help their initial success.
He gave the world Eazy-E and N.W.A Music and for that we are forever grateful. — Eazy-E’s family
Some more tidbits from the USA Today report:
Heller also claimed he talked Eazy-E out of murdering Suge Knight, the bodyguard-turned-CEO of rival label Death Row Records who, as legend has it, physically threatened them into releasing Dr. Dre and two other artists from their contracts. At the time, Heller told his client that it didn’t make business sense to kill a glorified bouncer. In a 2013 interview with The Murder Master Music Show, he said he regretted stopping the murder: “You know something? I should’ve let him kill him,” Heller opined. “I would’ve done the world a favor.”
Billboard reports that at the time of his death, Heller still lived two doors down from Eazy-E’s old house in Calabasas, Calif., and drove the white BMW the rapper bought for him bearing the license plate “RTHLSS2.”
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