Ruthless Records

This has been going on since the beginning of making money in hip-hop.

Even when you think about Ruthless Records, which was held...

The main person was Jerry Heller, but they showed you Eazy-E. Eazy-E got a stake in it.

I mean, at the end of the day, that was rapitalism.

So much beef was happening at this time, you know what I'm saying? It was very entertaining, though.

Ruthless records, dude.

Yeah, it was very entertaining.

Ruthless.

And so I love that you get to see that about Dr. Dre.

You know, obviously then you get into like the split up of NWA and then, you know, the Ruthless Records, Lynch Mob rivalry to the formation of Death Row Records into Dr. Dre's recording of The Chronic.

Oh, I can't say enough amazing things about that album either.

Into the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict, then you get to see the rivalry between Suge Knight and the trouble that he caused, not just with Eazy-E but also with Dre.

And, you know, so I think I think that people say that like.

definitely the movie captures time and place but in terms of like if you're gonna go like historically accurate and the timeline of the band or the bands as they were you know in this particular time period that's covered you know people people say that you know 35 to 40 percent probably factually accurate in terms of timeline is kind of the consensus I've gotten from from people that were also living parallel to these guys at the same time and place

And one of the big things I think is Eazy-E is kind of shown as maybe down on his luck near the end there when in fact he was doing pretty well with Ruthless Records after the band broke up.

So it wasn't as if he was...

I don't know him from the beginning, but I know he, he turned motherfuckers into stars.

Dr. Dre got shitted and raped by the, the, the nigga Jerry from Ruthless Records, and Eazy-E didn't rape him.

It's just E- Dr. Dre like, "Nigga, I'm bigger than this shit.

I'm leaving Ruthless.

And then he became who he is.

He knew Eazy-E when Ruthless Records was coming up, right, with Dr. Dre.

That's how he got Dr. Dre, the knowledge of Dr. Dre.

That's how he got the knowledge of creating Death Row from Ruthless Records.

Ruthless Records' original West Coast gangster rap label.

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Yes, so the plot thickens.

Shit, gangster shit.

Death Row Records, Ruthless Records, Dogg Pound.

[smacks lips] talking shit.

And you know.

Will and apl.de.ap form the Atban Klann with their friends, Mookee Mook and DJ Motiv8.

While still in high school, Atban Klann signed to Ruthless Records, the famed LA rap label notably co-founded by Eazy-E of NWA fame/infamy.

But Atban Klann don't got so much of a brash, confrontational gangster rap, "fuck the police" type vibe, and this single, Puddles of H2O, kinda tanks.

And Atban Klann's purported debut album, called Grass Roots, because of course it is, the record gets shelved, and Eazy-E passes away in 1995.

Um, put on a city, did records with Pac and Big, probably one of the first groups to do that.

Ruthless Records is a legendary label?

Ruthless Records.

Yeah.

Was, was a-

Ruthless Records not legendary?

Was a legendary label?

Yes.