Voting Station

Jerry Heller

Please vote to return to collections.

Entrepreneur

The Resume

    (October 6, 1940-September 2, 2016)
    Born in Cleveland, Ohio
    Booking agent for rock tours
    Handled American tours by Elton John, Pink Floyd, the Who, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Van Morrison, Ike and Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey and Grand Funk Railroad
    Co-founder with Eazy-E of Ruthless Records
    Managed N.W.A.
    Wrote ‘Ruthless: A Memoir’ (2006)
    Portrayed by Paul Giamatti in the N.W.A. biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’ (2015)
    Died after suffering a heart attack while driving and crashing his car

Why he might be annoying:

    He said, ‘I was a nigga growing up in Cleveland. Only we called it ‘kike’ back then.’
    Ice Cube and Dr. Dre blamed N.W.A.’s breakup on him.
    He claimed that he talked Eazy-E out of murdering Suge Knight and that he regretted doing so: ‘I should have let him kill him. I would have done the world a favor.’
    He filed a $110 million lawsuit against NBC-Universal and the members of N.W.A. over his portrayal in ‘Straight Outta Compton.’
    He ranked #1 on the 'L.A. Weekly' list 'Top 10 Managers in Music History Who Fucked Over Their Clients.'
    Despite constantly saying that he wanted to ’set the record straight,’ he seemed to revel in his reputation as the most hated man in hip-hop: ‘I’m the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.’

Why he might not be annoying:

    ‘Straight Outta Compton’ screenwriter Jonathan Herman said, ‘He really believed in these guys. This old white dude really did champion their music.’
    He said Eazy-E was ‘like a son to me,’ and the two remained close until the rapper’s death from AIDS.
    Ice Cube made anti-Semitic raps about him in ‘No Vaseline.’ (Example: ‘You can’t be a nigger for life, crew/With a white Jew telling you what to do’).
    Despite that, he said he did not think that Ice Cube was anti-Semitic himself: ‘It was just a way to sell records.’
    He said, ‘I want to be judged by what I’ve done, not by what people like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have said about me.’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying