Words matter. These are the best DJ Yella Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The first time I saw the Rodney King video, I remember thinking, ‘Wow, these cops just got 100 years in jail.’ Obviously that didn’t happen.
It’s true, we grew up in a ghetto. To us it wasn’t too bad, but the police brutality was like that. You see three or four black kids hanging out, they pull you over, jackin’ you, makin’ you get down on the ground.
I made adult films for over 12 years. Apart from the directing aspect, I did all of it – the filming, the editing and the stills. I shot about 300 movies, which was great fun.
You know, I wasn’t a rapper, never wanted to be a rapper. That wasn’t my style.
Universal woke us up with a movie called ‘Straight Outta Compton.’
If we did another tour, we probably would have stuck together. But a lot of little things happened with people coming in and talking behind the scenes.
I had no idea NWA would blow up as big as we did.
I like being quiet and just having fun.
When I graduated from high school, I became a DJ in a club, a local hang-out called Eve After Dark.
We never even thought about a Hall of Fame. We never even thought about a gold record, tell you the truth.
Before the L.A. riots, I’d only heard of the original Watts riots. But I’d also seen violence like that close up, but in smaller scenarios.
We didn’t know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn’t make a nickel.
The truth is that there wasn’t much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We came in so different, so real, that we were immediately heard.
Me and Dre go back so far – a long 30 years – even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each other now is the same way we talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff.
When we broke up, the group was Number One on the Billboard chart. I mean, groups don’t break up at Number One. They break up at Number 1,000.
When we were doing music, that’s how we did-we just did it for the music. We weren’t thinking about money, we weren’t thinking about fame. Music was our passion.
The early ’90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube’s, the Snoop’s, the Dre’s – that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.
I don’t see the violence stopping, from the L.A. riots 25 years ago to the Baltimore riots from 2015 to today – at least, not until a cop goes to jail. Until someone gets 30 to 50 years – something substantial – I really don’t think it’ll stop.
