Eazy-E Should Have Killed Suge Knight, Jerry Heller Suggests

[CORREA]

Jerry Heller calls The D.O.C. and Rakim “the greatest pure rappers,” says he plans on watching “Straight Outta Compton” with his lawyer.

N.W.A.’s ex-manager, Jerry Heller recently appeared on UGS Radio’s Murder Master Music Show to discuss a variety of topics including his relationship with Eazy-E, the upcoming Straight Outta Compton biopic, the hit-and-run accident allegedly involving Suge Knight, and more.

During the interview, Heller was asked about talking Eazy-E out of killing Suge Knight years ago, and comments he made later about regretting the remarks he made to Eazy. The former music manager says he still regrets talking Eazy “out of doing what he felt that he wanted to do” and added that the late rapper was right about his decision and he was wrong.

He also referred to Suge as “an evil human being” and revealed that Eazy knew the former Death Row Records CEO was trouble from the start.

"I think that Suge Knight is an evil human being,” Jerry Heller said. “And I always said when Suge Knight started to get involved—Cause he was a bodyguard at Ruthless. He drove Dre around sometimes. Usually he was with The D.O.C. Who I feel was probably the greatest, pure rapper. He and Rakim were the greatest pure rappers that I ever heard. But he was a bad guy. He was a bad guy then and he’s a worse guy now. The guy is lucky. And I think that like they say in Vegas to OJ Simpson, ‘It's payback time’… Eric (Eazy-E) knew he was a problem from the beginning and that was that meeting when I talked him out of doing what he felt that he wanted to do. And if you know Eric, he was very firm in his ideas. And actually as it turned out that he was right and I was wrong."

With the release of the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton scheduled for this August, Heller was asked if he’s seen a trailer for the film. He stated that he’s yet to see anything regarding the film and plans on watching the movie with his lawyer to ensure that the film is accurate.

"I haven't seen anything yet,” he said. “I’m waiting until the movie comes out and I’ll be there in the front row with my lawyer and looking to make sure that it’s an accurate movie. Cause they didn't reach out to me at all to give any kind of advice, or insight, or background. So, it's hard for me to believe that they got it right. Well, I didn’t expect them to because that's the way they are. But I certainly thought that Universal, or Warner Bros., or one of their companies would insist on it. I’m really shocked that even though they didn't reach out that somebody didn't reach out.”

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

I agree. Dude was gonna die anyway, would've been a big favor to the world to bring Suge with him.

[me1]

heller mentions this in the Ruthless book he wrote a few years back as well.

that time he said it was very interesting because he said that eazy would have done it himself (vs hiring someone to do the hit). who knows if that's actually true, but crazy if it is

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

ahhh... well... very interesting actually... I mean Jerry was made to look like the bad guy in "Wit A Dre Day" and all that, but then just a few years later Dre ended up leaving Death Row empty handed—the very company he built and co-owned.  So that is pretty fucked up.  So in that way, history has proved Jerry and Eazy to be right.  But certainly at the time Death Row was stompin on Ruthless.

I still say I love Suge if not for his fatal flaw of beefin with Dre and Snoop.  It seems like he did a lot of good for hip-hop, for the West Coast, etc... if he would've just been able to take a back seat to Dre in early 96'.  I mean... how dumb do you have to be to overtake creative control from a musical genius like Dr. Dre??  Suge could've just stayed business, and let Dre handle the music, and we would of never had to live with the Bad Boy, No Limit, Ruff Ryders era of bullshit that confused young rap fans like me in the late 90's.

[soopa-man]

ahhh... well... very interesting actually... I mean Jerry was made to look like the bad guy in "Wit A Dre Day" and all that, but then just a few years later Dre ended up leaving Death Row empty handed—the very company he built and co-owned.  So that is pretty fucked up.  So in that way, history has proved Jerry and Eazy to be right.  But certainly at the time Death Row was stompin on Ruthless.

I still say I love Suge if not for his fatal flaw of beefin with Dre and Snoop.  It seems like he did a lot of good for hip-hop, for the West Coast, etc... if he would've just been able to take a back seat to Dre in early 96'.  I mean... how dumb do you have to be to overtake creative control from a musical genius like Dr. Dre??  Suge could've just stayed business, and let Dre handle the music, and we would of never had to live with the Bad Boy, No Limit, Ruff Ryders era of bullshit that confused young rap fans like me in the late 90's.

Real shit, I think suge just started feeling him self after All Eyez On Me, if you look at it Suge made every one at death row give up tracks for that album, got dj quik to do all the usual Dr Dre mixing, made Daz and Dre give up tracks that were meant for Snoop and Dre albums even for Dogg Food, after all that suge had to think he had an ear or just as much as skill to sell millions on par with Dre.  Remember suges name was on every death row album that went double platinum or better, record execs only looks at that shit... When it was truly Dre the whole time making it happen

[Black Excellence]

I agree. Dude was gonna die anyway, would've been a big favor to the world to bring Suge with him.

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

Real shit, I think suge just started feeling him self after All Eyez On Me, if you look at it Suge made every one at death row give up tracks for that album, got dj quik to do all the usual Dr Dre mixing, made Daz and Dre give up tracks that were meant for Snoop and Dre albums even for Dogg Food, after all that suge had to think he had an ear or just as much as skill to sell millions on par with Dre.  Remember suges name was on every death row album that went double platinum or better, record execs only looks at that shit... When it was truly Dre the whole time making it happen

yeah.. I think that is kind of true.  Cause remember "California Love" and when All Eyez On Me dropped, Dre was still there, in the video, and doing the MTV interview with Pac to launch the album.  So that was like the pinnacle, everybody on Death Row, everyone happy, I mean... I am still sad that those days didn't last longer.

But I believe Suge truly loved Pac so much, and believed in Pac so much, and felt like with him and Pac together—anything was possible.  He forgot that it was Dre that built that ship, and it was still Dre who gave Pac the perfect song "California Love" so that Pac's album could blow through the roof.  He forgot that Dre was that steady hand in the background making sure everything came out sounding right and up to standard all those years.  Pac was a livewire, unpredictable, I mean even if Pac had lived he may have left Death Row completely after a follow up to 7 Day Theory.  The smart move would've been to back off a bit, but that just wasn't Suge's mentality and he went all in with Pac, and 'Forgot About Dre'—so to speak.

[OG Filthy Wimp]

jerry heller injected eazy with aids because he fired him

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Real shit, I think suge just started feeling him self after All Eyez On Me, if you look at it Suge made every one at death row give up tracks for that album, got dj quik to do all the usual Dr Dre mixing, made Daz and Dre give up tracks that were meant for Snoop and Dre albums even for Dogg Food, after all that suge had to think he had an ear or just as much as skill to sell millions on par with Dre.  Remember suges name was on every death row album that went double platinum or better, record execs only looks at that shit... When it was truly Dre the whole time making it happen

yeah.. I think that is kind of true.  Cause remember "California Love" and when All Eyez On Me dropped, Dre was still there, in the video, and doing the MTV interview with Pac to launch the album.  So that was like the pinnacle, everybody on Death Row, everyone happy, I mean... I am still sad that those days didn't last longer.

But I believe Suge truly loved Pac so much, and believed in Pac so much, and felt like with him and Pac together—anything was possible.  He forgot that it was Dre that built that ship, and it was still Dre who gave Pac the perfect song "California Love" so that Pac's album could blow through the roof.  He forgot that Dre was that steady hand in the background making sure everything came out sounding right and up to standard all those years.  Pac was a livewire, unpredictable, I mean even if Pac had lived he may have left Death Row completely after a follow up to 7 Day Theory.  The smart move would've been to back off a bit, but that just wasn't Suge's mentality and he went all in with Pac, and 'Forgot About Dre'—so to speak.

That's the problem. You can't be the powerhouse label of the music industry with one artist. He had the three biggest names in rap at the time and let everything fall apart by focusing on only one of them.

[Blood$]

Easy wouldn't have had the balls to do such a thing to Suge

[Black Excellence]

Easy wouldn't have had the balls to do such a thing to Suge

think that if you want to.

[me1]

Difference between Eazy and Suge is that Eazy wouldn't let the street shit compromise business. Killing Suge would have been bad business.

Assuming of course he could have touched him, in the first place..big IF