Dj Yella Retiring?

[Mat]

Has Yella worked with Afroman? and CMW?

I Need info on this to

[Krull2025]

That's what he said. Maybe the album was already done and scheduled to be released.

Well, I guess you haven't bothered to listen to the album.

Interview, The Source, june 1996.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21630929@N04/2244541308

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Well, I guess you haven't bothered to listen to the album.

Interview, The Source, june 1996.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21630929@N04/2244541308

I was going by what he has repeatedly said in interviews. I was looking for another video he did on that same platform and found the video I posted. That's rhe first time I heard him add anything to his normal I stopped making music when Eazy died statement. I haven't heard that album. I would love to hear the instrumentals.

I have posted a few videos in the Train Of Thought section of Yella giving his testimony if anyone is interested. Also, a recent documentary he made was posted in this section not too long ago.

[Krull2025]

I have posted a few videos in the Train Of Thought section of Yella giving his testimony if anyone is interested. Also, a recent documentary he made was posted in this section not too long ago.

Read his book and seen the documentary.

I was going by what he has repeatedly said in interviews. I was looking for another video he did on that same platform and found the video I posted. That's rhe first time I heard him add anything to his normal I stopped making music when Eazy died statement. I haven't heard that album. I would love to hear the instrumentals.

I think he says that because it makes it a better story.

Here's a text scan of the interview.

ONE FOR EAZY
DJ YELLA
Interview, The Source, june 1996.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21630929@N04/2244541308

When Eazy E died last year from AIDS, DJ Yella went
back to being a man without a country. After the orig-
inal N.W.A split, Yella found himself at the bottom of
the totem pole, yet he still went on to become a
major contributor to Eazy E's solo releases, and slow-
ly made a name for himself as a legitimate producer.
So after Eazy's passing, he decided that he had to do
all he could to keep Eazy's memory alive.

Several
months passed before he started work on his own
solo album, One Mo Nigga Ta Go, yet his dream of
honoring Eazy through a unified project would go
unrealized. His requests for a guest appearance were
ignored by the Niggas With Attitudes, and other rap
celebs kicked him to the curb even harder. Still, Yella
was determined to develop a project that would cap-
ture the memory of the godfather of gangsta rap.
And, in the end, that's exactly what he did.

"I cried when I saw Eric in the hospital," Yella said.
"I only got to see him one time, and after that could-
n't nobody see him. People started to just grab for
the money he had, and do crazy things after he died.
Even at the funeral it was a circus, that's why my
video was made to look like a funeral. I wanted to
show how the funeral should have been, and did it in
a way Eric would have liked if he was here. I wanted
to let people know what type of person he really was.
If you knew him, you loved him."
THE SOURCE: Why did you decide to come out with a
recording and rap now?
YELLA: Well, I ain't rapping. It's more like a Quincy
Jones-type album. Quincy never sings, he hires people.
I'm not a rapper. I'm not going to embarrass myself.
So what are you doing on your verses if you're
not rapping?
To me, I'm talking. It's like poetry.
Is this something that you've always wanted to do,
but never had the chance before now?
Not really. I never thought about it before. After Eazy
died, it took months before I even thought about
doing anything. When I started doing this album,
Ruthless Records called me to finish the Eazy E
album, and I stopped mine to finish his.
Did you find it harder to work with Ruthless after
Eazy died? It must have been difficult for you to go
there knowing that he wasn't going to be there.
I didn't have any problems. Me and Eric were hand-
shake people. We didn't have any contracts, we did
business the old style way. When Ruthless was
looking for me to finish the album, I had to make
sure the paperwork was done because Eric's not
there. There's a whole new breed of people there.
I don't know them.
What did Eazy's death mean to you?
I think he was taken away from us for a reason. It might
be to open up the eyes of people to AIDS. I don't think

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36
I'd be here talking to you if he wouldn't have been
around. It just wouldn't have happened probably. If it
wasn't for Eazy, there wouldn't be no BG's rapping on
records. He started a landmark, this so called gangs-
ta rap. No telling what would be out here if he hadn't
started it.
How did you get put on with N.W.A?
When me and Dre was in the Wreckin' Cru, we was
about to leave 'cause the money wasn't right. Dre
already knew Eric, but Eric wasn't a rapper.
Then why was Eazy allowed to flow on "Boyz In
the Hood?"
He wasn't rapping, just reading paper. What got peo-
ple was the sound of his voice and what he was talk-
ing about, not the style. He'd tell you that he wasn't
a rapper, but after a few years, he picked it up.
I just saw the video for your first single. It sounds
like Kokane is telling people to watch their busi-
ness, because Eazy had a shady side.
He's not saying that, he's saying that we all have bad
days, and he's telling other people to watch their
business. The music business is a bad business.
Other N.W.A members have said publicly that Eazy
robbed them, but I've never heard you come out and
say that. Did he ever short change you?
Never.
Why do you think you were immune when the
others weren't?
Eric didn't cheat anybody, people just wanted more
money. Eric had the label, and the label had other
groups, that's why he had more money. Why should
he cheat you out of a little money when he's paying
you a lot? He helped so many damn people, it's a
shame. Most groups break up over money, but was-
n't nobody getting cheated. Cube wanted to do a solo
album, Dre was listening to people telling him he
wasn't getting paid right.
So the rumors portraying Eazy as a greedy financial
whiz are false?
Eric didn't know half of what was going on in his own
business. All he knew was to spend money, buy cars,
and do what he wanted. He was never into the business
business, he had somebody else doing that. Whether
they cheated us I don't know. But him personally? New.
Dre knew him too long, why should Eric cheat him?
But in the end, all we have is one person's word
against another.
I put it like this. Eric lived in a $2 million dollar
house, Dre's living in a $1 million dollar house. It
don't look like you're getting cheated... to me it
don't. People talk, but I can tell you the truth.
Nobody was getting cheated. That's bullshit.
You produced each of Eazy's solo projects, and they
all went platinum. You must have come into some
money yourself.
Yeah, but I think I was the most down-to-earth per-
son out of the whole group. I was more into regular
living. I got jet skis, motorcycles... I like to enjoy
life. Music is cool, but I don't live music, I'd rather
live normal. I go through Compton and people
won't trip 'cause I'm there all the time, but if they
say, "I saw Dre in Compton," people would go.
"huh?" Because that's rare. You got to look at the
real things in life.
Why isn't there a Cube/Yella collaboration on your disc?
Actually, I tried to contact Cube and got shined on. He
didn't want to do nuthin' on my album. I guess mine
wasn't up to his par.
Did someone else in his camp make that decision.
or did the this come from Cube personally?
I talked to him a couple of times. I told him I was
working on Eazy's album while I was doing mine,
and he told me he'd do something on Eazy's
album, but not mine. Then I hear from his people
that he didn't want to do nuthin'. Ren, I was try-
ing to catch him and would have loved to have him
there. And Dre, I could never talk to him person-
ally, but he would have did something. I've known
Dre too long, but people don't stick together. I
could understand if you're too busy, but how long
does it take to rap something? To say a verse?
I'm the low man on the totem pole right now, but
I've been down with Eric since day one. I'd never
turn my back on him. I was the only N.W.A mem-
ber at his funeral.
Why?
Cube was supposedly out of town, but damn they got
planes flying all the time. Ren and Dre, I don't know.
I hate funerals, but this one I had to go to so I can go
to bed and sleep and not regret not going.

VICTOR EVERETT
THE SOURCE - JUNE 1986

[Krull2025]

I haven't heard that album. I would love to hear the instrumentals.

it features Dirty Red, B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta.

What you should check out though is the Yomo & Maulkie album that Yella produced top-to-bottom.

Are U Xperienced? is the debut and only studio album by American hip hop duo Yomo & Maulkie. It was named after the Jimi Hendrix 1967 album Are You Experienced. It was released on September 17, 1991 via Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, and was produced by DJ Yella. Though the album was met with some positive reviews, it was a commercial failure and did not appear on any album charts. Three singles were released: "Mama Don't", "Mockingbird", "Glory"/"Are U Xperienced?", but the only single "Glory" made it to the Billboard charts, peaking at number 7 on the Hot Rap Songs.[2] Labelmates Jimmy Z and Jewell were featured on the album.

Parts of the song "For the Love of Money" (including Jewell's backing vocals) were later recycled on the track "Foe tha Love of $", as well as an accompanying instrumental track, "Moe Cheese", by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, from their 1994 extended play Creepin on ah Come Up.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_U_Xperienced%3F

Fun fact
Yomo came up with the N.W.A name (1.45)

[Krull2025]

[thegooddoc]

DJ Yella is just another one of Dre's co-producers who fell off after working with Dre.  No denying that he had talent, just wasn't the same without Dre.

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it features Dirty Red, B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta.

What you should check out though is the Yomo & Maulkie album that Yella produced top-to-bottom.

Fun fact
Yomo came up with the N.W.A name (1.45)

I always said that I would check it out once I found out the fo the luv of $ beat was originally on that album but I never got around to it. I only want to hear instrumentals nowadays.

[Krull2025]

I always said that I would check it out once I found out the fo the luv of $ beat was originally on that album but I never got around to it. I only want to hear instrumentals nowadays.

02 Funk E Instrumental
https://gofile.io/d/iIVbcn

05 Hip Hop Instrumental Re-Mix
https://gofile.io/d/LMxt3s

[Krull2025]

Yomo & Maukie - Mama Don't (instrumental)
https://gofile.io/d/rbIQXB

Yomo & Maukie - For The Love Of Money (Instrumental)
https://gofile.io/d/e3wm0n

[BJV]

i don't think so

he went the religious route from what i recall

He coulda continued and put some nuns in his flicks

[Sccit]

He coulda continued and put some nuns in his flicks

LOL

[b.laden]

hope he take DrDre with him.