“I thought you looked like a guy who liked to enjoy hisself,” Eazy told me later. “You were the first white guy I ever really talked to who wasn’t trying to collect rent or arrest me.” — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents.… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
I don't want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Geffen, Irving Azoff, and… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers.… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
“Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That’s what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.” — Jerry Heller Copy Share
One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
I consider the most important period of my life, from March 3rd, 1987, I think it was, to March 26th, 1995: the day I… — Jerry Heller Copy Share
N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
