Actor/Rapper Ice Cube recently recounted his split from iconic rap group N.W.A. (N*ggaz Wit Attitude) in the early 1990’s and revealed his aim to have Dr. Dre aboard his AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted project.
“You know, I had went to New York, back and forth with N.W.A, and ended up being real cool with [then-Def Jam executives] Russell [Simmons] and Lyor [Cohen]. And they would have me come down to Rush [Management Offices] and I would f*ck with some of the biggest names in hip-hop at the time. EPMD came through; you’d see everybody walking through. From a person who was a hip-hop fan and then became entrenched in hip-hop as an artist it was cool to do. So when I went solo, I was like I wanted Dr. Dre to do AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, but Jerry Heller vetoed that. So since he vetoed that sh*t–and I’m pretty sure Eazy didn’t want Dre to do it. But Dre did want to do it; we gotta put that on record.
