Ice Cube Reveals Eazy-E Stopped Dr. Dre From Producing His Debut Album

[Street Knowledge]

Ice Cube has revealed that he wanted Dr. Dre to produce his debut solo album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted but Eazy-Estopped it from happening.

Cube went solo after leaving N.W.A. under acrimonious circumstances in 1989 but still wanted Dre behind the boards for his first record.

Speaking to Complex’s Idea Generation, the rapper and actor said: “I still tried to be friends with the guys who had nothing to do with the business. Me and Eazy was shaky, and I didn’t care about Jerry Heller at all, so it wasn’t no love lost there.

“But I tried to keep it together with Dre. I even wanted Dre to produce my solo record, and we was talking about it, but Eazy and Jerry vetoed it.”

Instead of Dre, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wantedwas produced by Public Enemy‘s Bomb Squad and Cube would go on to diss Dre on infamous track “No Vaseline” in 1991.

The two N.W.A. co-founders would later work again in 1994 on “Natural Born Killaz” which was originally planned for a Dre and Cube joint album titled Heltah Skeltah that was ultimately scrapped.

Ice Cube Reveals Eazy-E Stopped Dr. Dre From Producing His Debut Album

Ice Cube has claimed that he wanted Dr. Dre to produce his debut album after leaving N.W.A. but Eazy-E prevented it from happening.

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[Wepa Man]

This is a known fact

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Yeah, you could tell by a couple of NWA references on Amerikka's Most Wanted and such that Cube still had love for them. I think Eazy E was the driving force behind the disses

 

[blockburna420]

I just watched str8 outta Compton yesterday, that scene when cube and easy linked up again hit hard

 

[Yehuda]

He's also said he would've liked it if EPMD produced the record cause of their Zapp samples which made their music similar to what the West Coast was into.

 

[TripleAgent]

He's also said he would've liked it if EPMD produced the record cause of their Zapp samples which made their music similar to what the West Coast was into.

That could have been crazy.

 

[hex]

I never heard of this. The story Cube told before is he liked 3rd Bass beats so he wanted Sam Sever to produce for "Amerikkka's Most Wanted".

Sam Sever flaked on him but he ran into Chuck D while he was out in NY during the same session and the rest is history.

So I'm assuming the Dre thing was prior to all this.

Fred.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

The bomb squad honestly made AMW hit different. It was like an entire fukk you to the industry and you have a militant Cali rapper swanging for the fences, To this day, that album>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cube discography.

 

[threattonature]

He's also said he would've liked it if EPMD produced the record cause of their Zapp samples which made their music similar to what the West Coast was into.

Yeah isn't the story that he went to New York to the Def Jam offices to get a hold of EPMD and they either turned it down or he couldn't reach them and bumped into Hank Shocklee who told Cube he's a huge fan and would like to produce for him.

 

[Yehuda]

Yeah isn't the story that he went to New York to the Def Jam offices to get a hold of EPMD and they either turned it down or he couldn't reach them and bumped into Hank Shocklee who told Cube he's a huge fan and would like to produce for him.

I've heard him mention he didn't really a problem with Dre and would've wanted him to make his beats so I assumed the process was: he tried to get Dre but Eazy said no, went to NYC and tried to get Erick Sermon and got Bomb Squad instead.

 

[TripleAgent]

The bomb squad honestly made AMW hit different. It was like an entire fukk you to the industry and you have a militant Cali rapper swanging for the fences, To this day, that album>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cube discography except for Death Certificate

Fixed

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Fixed

Yeah DC is next to it

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Eazy, Jerry and Suge did some good things but ALOT of shīt went wrong because of those three.

Eazy was barely a rapper and all he had to do was make sure the business for the group was okay and Ruthless literally would’ve become Death Row before Death Row.

He already had Cube, DOC, Jewell, Michel’le, Dre (as a producer), Above the Law, Ren, BNTH (later on) and countless others.

Dre by extension was a talent magnet. Jerry and Eazy were really on some other shīt and it was clearly just “business” with them.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Heltah Skeltah was something i was looking fukkin forward too!!

 

[Awesome Wells]

Yeah isn't the story that he went to New York to the Def Jam offices to get a hold of EPMD and they either turned it down or he couldn't reach them and bumped into Hank Shocklee who told Cube he's a huge fan and would like to produce for him.

He was at Def Jam trying to get in touch with Sam Sever, who was doing 3rd Bass's production, and he saw Chuck D and Chuck asked him to be on "Burn Hollywood Burn" with Kane, and then he brought Cube to the studio to meet the Shocklee's.