Eric Lynn Wright , better known by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American Rapping, Hip hop production, and record executive from Compton, California....
was allegedly physically harmed by Suge Knight Suge Knight
Marion Hugh Knight, Jr. , better known as Suge Knight , is an entrepreneur in the hip hop music industry and co-founder and CEO of Death Row Records....
), there was a fear of further violence. Ruthless Records executives, Mike Klein and Jerry Heller Jerry Heller
Jerry Heller is best known for managing West Coast of the United States rap group N.W.A. and the founder, Eazy-E. He is co-founder and CEO of Ruthless Records ....
sought assistance from the JDL. Mike Klein, former Ruthless Records director of business affairs said "The Defense League offered to provide bodyguards to Eazy-E when Knight allegedly threatened him in the early 1990s." This provided Ruthless Records with muscle to enter into negotiations with Death Row Records Death Row Records
Death Row Records was a record label that was founded in 1988 in music by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight, and was once home to some of West Coast hip hop's biggest Rappers, including Tupac Shakur, Dr....
over Dr. Dre’s departure. While Suge Knight violently sought an outright release from Ruthless Records for Dr. Dre, the JDL and Ruthless records management were able to sit down with Death Row and negotiate a release in which the record label would continue to receive money and publishing rights from future Dr. Dre projects. It was under these terms Dr. Dre left Ruthless Records and formed Death Row Records with Suge Knight.
The FBI launched a money laundering Money laundering
The definition of money laundering is dependent on the jurisdiction in which the act takes place.In US law it is the practice of engaging in financial transactions to conceal the identity, source, or destination of illegally gained money....
investigation, on the presumption that the JDL was extorting money from Ruthless Records. This led to JDL spokesperson Irv Rubin Irv Rubin
Irv Rubin was chairman of the Jewish Defense League from 1987 to 2002. Over the years he was suspected of having committed various acts of terrorism and died in jail awaiting trial on charges of Conspiracy to bomb private and government property....
to issue a press release stating "there was nothing but a close, tight relationship" between Eazy-E and the League.
Jerry Heller explained JDL’s involvement with Ruthless Records as involving reasons additional to those the FBI investigated. According to Heller, Eazy E received death threats, and it was discovered that he was on a hit list by some white power skinheads. Heller has speculated that the FBI did not investigate these threats because of the song " Fuck Tha Police Fuck tha Police
" Fuck tha Police " is a protest song by the gangsta rap group N.W.A on the album Straight Outta Compton . Despite not being a single, it ranked #417 on Rolling Stone's list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
". Heller said, "It was no secret that in the aftermath of the Suge Knight shake down incident where Eazy was forced to sign over Dr. Dre, Michele and DOC, that Ruthless was protected by Israeli trained/connected security forces." Heller maintains that Eazy E admired the group for their slogan Never Again, and that he had plans to do a movie about the group.
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