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Jerry Heller: N.W.A Manager ... Dead at 75





9/3/2016 6:29 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
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7:30 AM PST -- Heller died after suffering some sort of medical emergency while driving in Ventura County Friday just before noon. We're told he slammed into a mini-van and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. It's unclear if he died from the medical emergency, the collision or both.
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Jerry Heller, the groundbreaking/controversial manager who brought Eazy-E and N.W.A. to fame and helped change the landscape of music is dead.

Heller was embroiled in controversy for decades, right up until his death Friday. He was accused of fleecing members of N.W.,A. Some members, including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, accused him out outright stealing.

Heller and Eazy-E founded Ruthless Records, which churned out a number of rap stars ... until Suge Knight and Death Row Records stole the big ones.



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Heller filed a defamation $110 million lawsuit against producers of "Straight Outta Compton" for the way he was portrayed. He vowed on TMZ Live to continue that fight. The case was pending at the time of his death.

Heller also worked with huge rock and soul acts in the 60s and 70s including ... Elton John, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Who and Ike & Tina Turner.

He was 75. RIP




 
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Jerry Heller, Former N.W.A Manager, Dead at 75
Longtime music industry figure co-founded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E

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Jerry Heller, the longtime music manager that helped launch the career of N.W.A. and the gangsta-rap movement, died Friday at the age of 75. Alyson Aliano/Redux
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Jerry Heller, the longtime music manager that helped launch the career of N.W.A.and the gangsta-rap movement, died Friday. He was 75. No cause of death was provided, but Heller's cousin confirmedHeller's death to Billboard.




Jerry Heller Talks 'Compton' Lawsuit, 'Very Hurtful' Movie
Heller started his career in the music industry as an agent and promoter, working with artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marvin Gaye, the Who and Black Sabbath in the Sixties and Seventies.

By the mid-Eighties, as hip-hop swelled in popularity, Heller co-founded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E; the Compton rapper reportedly paid Alonzo Williams of the World Class Wreckin' Cru, another Heller-signed act that featured Dr. Dre, for an introduction to the manager.

N.W.A. formed in 1986 with Eazy-E and Dre linking up with C.I.A.'s Ice Cube and Arabian Prince; a year later, in 1987, Ruthless released the supergroup's first single "Panic Zone. By the release of 1988's Straight Outta Compton, MC Ren and DJ Yella would join N.W.A, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

In addition to N.W.A, Ruthless also became the one-time home of acts like J.J. Fad, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the D.O.C., Michel'le, Jimmy Z and more.

Heller served as the N.W.A's manager for four years, although the group began to disintegrate in 1989 after Ice Cube quit over royalty disputes with Heller, resulting in the rapper's scathing diss track "No Vaseline." By 1991, Dr. Dre would ditch Ruthless for Death Row and skewer Heller in the video for his "Dre Day." However, Heller and Eazy-E's partnership continued until the rapper's death in 1995.

"I was with him until the day of his untimely death," Heller told Rolling Stonein November 2015. "I still think about him every day. He was like my son. He was a visionary. He was the greatest, and I've always believed that only he and I really understood the significance of what N.W.A was."

Following the release of Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A. biopic that portrayed Heller – played by Paul Giamatti – in a negative light, the former manager filed a $110 million defamation lawsuit against the film's producers, including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Heller also spoke to Rolling Stoneabout what he perceived as the film's many inaccuracies. However, the majority of Heller's lawsuit was dismissed this June.

"As for the things that bothered me, I've been in the business for six decades. I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another," Heller said. "I have a certain reputation, and that reputation certainly doesn't entail the things that they said about me. It was very hurtful. I thought 'No Vaseline' was hurtful. But actually, this was more hurtful. Look, I am what I am, but I'm not a thief. And I'm not scandalous. I did more for N.W.A ... I mean, it was just incredible, the success that we had. So for them to call me a thief is just terrible."

In 2006, Heller released Ruthless: A Memoirto tell his side of the story and address certain accusations he claimed were untrue.

This story is developing.

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Gerald E. “Jerry” Heller (October 6, 1940 – September 2, 2016) was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for managing west coast rap supergroup and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E. He rose to prominence in the 1960s and '70s, importing Elton John and Pink Floyd for their first major American tours, and representing Journey, Marvin Gaye, Joan Armatrading, Van Morrison, War, Average White Band, ELO, Eric Burdon, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ike & Tina Turner, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, The Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Four Tops, Dr. John, Jose Feliciano, The Grass Roots, and The Standells, among many others.

In the mid-1980s he worked with R&B and hip hop acts like Michel'le, World Class Wreckin' Cru, J.J. Fad, The D.O.C., Egyptian Lover and L.A. Dream Team.

Heller played a role in the emergence of West Coast rap music when he cofounded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E and discovered, signed, or managed the likes of N.W.A, The Black Eyed Peas, Above the Law, The D.O.C., and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

Heller died on September 2, 2016 due to unknown causes.[2][3]
 
I don't wish death on no one cause there's no returning from that and He wouldn't be who he was if they didn't put him in the middle of their business(eazy) which I don't care how smart you are you need a Jew at some point to talk to other's or to help get your money from other jews.Jerry was a snake no doubt about it,a garden snake that kept the rodents from the harvest that happen to kinda look like a diamond back,depending on who you ask and with the changing of the season's.
I just hope he got what was coming to him for his services and that he get's no royalts,points,or credit for anything N.W.A,Eazy, related...his children's children shouldn't be able to say they are living good off of other's sweat,tears and unfortunately death.

R.I.P......he doesn't have to worry about Suge no more lol
 

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