Jerry Heller
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Oct 21, 2026
Carlos OrtegaHOST
I've been listening to that rap record for like the longest called No Vaseline.
Carlos OrtegaHOST
It is a diss on NWA, Jerry Heller, Eazy-E, all that.
Carlos OrtegaHOST
I've been listening to this and I'm saying, this is a record of the people who I associate with.
Carlos OrtegaHOST
Not a lot of them, but many of them.
Jenn TullyHOST
You know, you get to see All of it.
Jenn TullyHOST
You get to see, you know, Jerry Heller coming in and taking over management of the band through a deal with Eazy-E and Cube being skeptical.
Jenn TullyHOST
You get to see Dre's genius and, you know, him early on just being obsessed with music.
Jenn TullyHOST
Like, that's something I think you could always tell about Dr. Dre.
Jenn TullyHOST
Oh, I can't say enough amazing things about that album either.
Jenn TullyHOST
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.
Jenn TullyHOST
And then sort of the deterioration of Eazy's relationship with Jerry Heller.
Jenn TullyHOST
kind of the reconciliation of Cube, Dre, and Eazy.
Scott RoseGUEST
And they did.
Scott RoseGUEST
Cherry, Jerry Heller and all the, uh, ra- label executives and, and the CIA, they put them all in a hotel room one day and said, "Listen, prisons are becoming privatized.
Scott RoseGUEST
We wanna fill them, so we want to create gangster rap.
Scott RoseGUEST
So you're gonna give us NWA, and then we're just gonna keep doing-
Jeff GeaghanHOST
Yeah
Scott RoseGUEST
... th- they came to him.
Scott RoseGUEST
Jerry Heller and that whole team of people wanting to create, you know, hip-hop and gangster culture.
Scott RoseGUEST
Tupac is, yeah.
James LewisHOST
And then you go out and you go solo.
James LewisHOST
You put a couple solo albums out, and then you start your own group and your own record label, and then you bleep everyone over financially like you were bleeped over [laughs] by, by Jerry Heller at NWA, and the cycle continues.
James LewisHOST
You've seen that with Young Money.
James LewisHOST
You've seen that with Drake.
Oct 7 · 1 Mention
Skip CheathamHOST
Yep.
D.L. HughleyHOST
Happy birthday posthumously, of course, to Jerry Heller, the NWA manager, and happy birthday to Ricky Hatton, the boxer.
D.L. HughleyHOST
S- they're, those are posthumous.
D.L. HughleyHOST
Such a young kid to, to, to meet his untimely demise.
Pete FoxHOST
[laughs]
Kenjon BarnerPANELIST
Uh, when, when Jerry Heller, uh, was going off o- after, after Ice Cube dissed him with No Vaseline.
Kenjon BarnerPANELIST
And, and, and they looked at him and said, "Who, whose record label is it? Easy?"
Pete FoxHOST
[laughs]
Alicia ShaniseHOST
We had one of the first ones to really, really, really... do something.
Alicia ShaniseHOST
That was Jerry Heller who Easy Eve signed to and we've seen how that shit went.
Alicia ShaniseHOST
But that's neither here nor there.
Alicia ShaniseHOST
Just know that Jenny's Pops is playing a true to form role and Jenny is pissed.
MC RenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I done seen Snoop give away an Eddie Bowers.
MC RenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Fuck Jerry Heller and them white superpowers.
Flip ThatHOST
I'm a joker, I wanna
Snoop DoggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
smoke, fuck that I'm a joker, I wanna choke, fuck that I'm a ride where I wanna ride, fuck that Cause I'm a
Bo Daddy HarrisGUEST
Kick rocks.
AJ HoffmanHOST
Yeah, that's how, that's what happened with NWA, with Jerry Heller.
AJ HoffmanHOST
Uh-
Bo Daddy HarrisGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Tess BarkerHOST
Dre isn't happy at his label Ruthless, though.
Tess BarkerHOST
He feels like founders Eazy-E and Jerry Heller aren't giving him proper respect.
Tess BarkerHOST
So, Suge reportedly confronts Eazy-E at a recording studio and gets him to release Dre from his Ruthless contract.
Tess BarkerHOST
In 1992, Death Row comes out swinging with what is still widely regarded as one of the best rap albums of all time, Dr. Dre's The Chronic.