When Ice Cube left N.W.A., Cold 187um of Above the Law says the whole ordeal was "disheartening" to all those involved. "When that happened it was like everything got exposed," he recalls. "Around Ruthless [Records] it was like a question mark, really. But then you have to think like, we're really young and it's a lot of money coming in, so who knows what's going on?"
Big Hutch - who claims he "ghost-produced" on N.W.A.'s "100 Miles and Runnin'" - remembers there being a bit of understood animosity between Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Ice Cube around the time Cube departed. "I think that's what people didn't grasp at the time. But it's like, if we're all brothers and we rollin' with something just roll with us," Cold 187um relays to us. If it were up to him, however, Jerry Heller would have gotten the boot before Ice Cube moved on to do his own thing. He feels them all being young at the time played a big part in the group's demise, and had Eazy-E been "more seasoned" he would have known to fire Heller, being that "everybody had question marks" regarding the manager.
In the end, Cold 187um has a hell of a lot of respect for Heller, especially since he got his "first legal money from him." "He was really an a**hole in the early days," he remembers, but once he stood up to him that all changed. "If you wasn't one on one with him, he wouldn't respect you."
Hear more from Cold 187um regarding Ice Cube leaving N.W.A. and his thoughts on "No Vaseline" in another informative West Coast exclusive.
