It was a turning point for Dre.Īfter a tour with Michel’le, bassist Colin Wolfe became friends with N.W.A, and Dre began inviting him to play bass and keyboards as well as help with engineering. As the music industry began heavily policing the use of samples in rap, Dre and Yella decided to bring in musicians to play the sounds they had in their heads and to replicate and tweak some of the samples they’d otherwise use.
Where tracks like “Fuck tha Police” and “Gangsta Gangsta” contained several layers of gritty, tweaked samples, the music on EP standouts like “Real Niggaz” and “Just Don’t Bite It” sounded deeper, clearer and jazzier. The EP contained four new tunes with a noticeably different sound than Straight Outta Compton. “We was just trying to put out something to let everybody know that we were still going,” Ren says. Before long, N.W.A regrouped to record their own statement of intent, the EP 100 Miles and Runnin’. Early in the next year, he worked on Livin’ Like Hustlers, the first recording by Above the Law, the pioneering L.A.-area crew that predicted the G-funk sound. Dre had been busy in 1989 producing the D.O.C.’s classic full-length debut, No One Can Do It Better and R&B singer Michel’le’s self-titled debut. Undeterred, the members of N.W.A moved on. with everybody else,” says the D.O.C., the Texas rapper and associate who wrote some of the group’s lyrics. Ice Cube, the MC behind some of the group’s most cutting lyrics, clashed with Eazy-E and manager Jerry Heller over payment and quit at the end of the 1989 tour. It would have to go into a ‘Part Two.'”įor all of the surprise success and notoriety the self-proclaimed “World’s Most Dangerous Group” achieved with 1988’s revolutionary Straight Outta Compton, from platinum plaques to withstanding FBI threats, that version of N.W.A wouldn’t make it through the decade. “But there was just so much going on with that album.
“I think we got the story told pretty good in the movie, it’s pretty close,” Yella says.
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