Jerry Heller

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…

— Jerry Heller

I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.

— Jerry Heller

I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the…

— Jerry Heller

I don't want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Geffen, Irving…

— Jerry Heller

I am what I am, but I'm not a thief. And I'm not scandalous.

— Jerry Heller

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even…

— Jerry Heller

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

— Jerry Heller

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

— Jerry Heller

There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't.

— Jerry Heller

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…

— Jerry Heller

“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”

— Jerry Heller

“Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That’s what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.”

— Jerry Heller

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good…

— Jerry Heller

I consider the most important period of my life, from March 3rd, 1987, I think it was, to March 26th, 1995: the…

— Jerry Heller

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

— Jerry Heller

N.W.A were the audio-documentarians of their time. They were trying to shock people with the violence of their language and the subjects…

— Jerry Heller

Eazy was a true visionary. He really was like flesh and blood. Like a son. He was a good kid. He was…

— Jerry Heller

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

— Jerry Heller

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

— Jerry Heller

Suge was a part-time security guard at Ruthless. He can be a very charming guy, and my initial instincts were to help…

— Jerry Heller

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most…

— Jerry Heller

“Eazy, Dre, Cube. Conceptualizer, musicalizer, lyricizer. Father, son, and holy ghost. The trinity behind N.W.A.”

— Jerry Heller

“He never liked me. So I never liked him. A long time ago I made a decision that made things a lot…

— Jerry Heller

“I thought you looked like a guy who liked to enjoy hisself,” Eazy told me later. “You were the first white guy…

— Jerry Heller

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had…

— Jerry Heller