Did Ice Cube get paid N.W.A?

Did Ice Cube get paid N.W.A?

Yet by late 1989, Cube questioned his compensation and N.W.A’s management by Jerry Heller. Cube also wrote most of Eazy-E’s debut album Eazy-Duz-It. He received a total pay of $32,000, and the contract that Heller presented in 1989 did not confirm that he was officially an N.W.A member.

How much was Eazy-E worth at death?

On January 30, 1996, ten months after Eazy-E’s death, his final album, Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton, was released. According to his son Lil Eazy-E, Eazy-E was worth an estimated US$50 million at the time of his death.

Who owns Ruthless Records now?

Ruthless Records was an American record label founded by Eric “Eazy-E” Wright and Jerry Heller in Compton, California in 1986, where all of the Ruthless trademarks have been owned by Comptown Records, Inc. since 1997.

Did Jerry Heller work with Elton John?

Heller worked with many world-famous performers — like Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Who and Journey — before he hooked up with Eazy-E in the 1980s to co-create Ruthless Records.

Who owns N.W.A royalties?

Eazy-E is largely known as the businessman behind N.W.A., or at least one of the more business-minded members of the group. The rapper founded Ruthless Records, the group’s record label, and owned the rights to N.W.A. music until his death in 1995, when the rights were inherited by his widow, Tomica Woods-Wright.

How much did Dre pay Eazy-E?

Leigh Savidge’s 2015 book Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row, record promoter Doug Young estimates “Eazy was getting like 25 or 50 cents a copy for Dre’s Chronic album.” That means that Eazy raked in as much as $1.5 million from the LP, which had been certified triple platinum by the time of …