NWA Manager Jerry Heller's Nephew, Terry Heller Talks Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube New Podcast & More!

How you guys doing today? >> Good. Happy New Year. >> Happy New Year to you, man. I like the I like the the coat, man. That's pretty nice. >> It matches my company. >> Okay. I like that. I like that. What What have you been up to lately? What are you working on? >> Uh well, I bought a roofing company 18 months ago. So, uh been focused on expand. It was a 28-year-old company. Been uh focused on expanding that. >> Okay. Nice. Even now, for the people that don't know, Jerry Heler is your uncle. My uncle. >> Who would you say did he manage all of NWA or was >> he did one time? Yeah. Okay. So, >> and he ran the record labels. >> He ran Ruthless Records. Okay. And so, you you ran that with him, right? >> Well, I didn't run it. I worked as an ANR in the ANR department. So, I signed groups. >> Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. Let me ask you this. What do you feel? How do you feel about the portrayal that the movie Straight Out of Compton did on >> your uncle? Was that accurate or >> I mean, I've been asked this a million times. Listen, it's a movie. It was fictionalized. Uh, I think it was a great movie. It was a powerful movie. There were parts of it that were accurate. There were a lot of parts that weren't accurate. Obviously, the negative stuff about my uncle were not accurate. >> Okay. And he's not here to defend himself. >> So, >> that's my job. >> That's your job. Okay. How are things now with you and Dr. Dre and and Easy E? I mean, um, Ice Cube, how with how are things with you guys? >> I've always had a great relationship with Dre. I've never really had a relationship with Cube. I mean, we know each other, but I was still in Ice Cube when Cube was at the record label. By the time I got out of high school and started working for them in the early 90s, he was long gone. But >> okay, >> you know, um, you know, I'm I'm >> I have no problem with Ice Cube. >> No problem with Ice Cube. Okay. So, if you saw him today, everything's good. >> I want Listen, at some point in the near future, I want to set the record straight. You know, there's a lot of talk. I mean, obviously, he wrote literally the greatest disc record of all time. >> Okay. He literally gave us and NWA a knockout. The Mike Tyson of of uh of uh disc records, but I want to set the record straight. I mean, look at NWA uh threw the first jab or threw the first punch and uh he he responded and and he did it, >> you know, right? >> Okay. Okay. Let me ask this. I heard some rumors online that you were going to start a podcast. Is that true or what's going on? >> Yeah, it's called the Foundation. and we're launching >> uh soon and I'm actually hoping to sit down with him and and >> maybe he'll see this and he'll he'll he'll sit down and we'll we'll break bread. >> Okay, there you go. Now, now he's got the new Friday movie coming out soon, the final chapter of all the Fridays. Are you going to be in the theater watching this or >> I'll absolutely support it. I'm a big Chris Tucker fan. He's a great guy and yeah, I'm h I will happily support it. >> Okay. Okay. And also too, there's been a lot of uh Dr. Dre's old bootlegs from the Rodeium swap meet are starting to recirculate online. I've even seen fans that have rare pressings of them on vinyl that are being redistributed. Is Ruthless Records going to be involved with distributing those old tapes or are those going to remain bootlegs or >> we have to understand when Easy died our involvement with Ruthless ended. >> Okay. >> So, I don't know what's going on with that. I have no involvement. Um, no clue. >> No clue. Okay. >> So, Dre has a really uh good team. All right. >> I think he's uh still represented by Peter Pno and I'm sure uh whatever move they're making uh Dre's got. They're watching his back. >> Nice. Nice. And do you have any Now I know Easy E's son is also rapping too. Are you involved with his son at all? >> We know each other. I'm not involved at all. This I've been out of the entertainment industry for 20 years. >> Okay. >> But um I have a friendship with him. He came to Jerry's funeral. Uh very respectful guy. I know he's out doing some of uh I know he's touring actually with Ice Cube. >> I've seen some clips of that. So, listen, he's he's uh >> he's continuing Easy's legacy and they look a lot alike. So, >> they do. They do. I know. Were you around Easy a lot? Um >> every day. >> Every day. >> We live two doors apart. >> Oh, really? Okay. Do you have a moment that you shared with him that you kind of that you'll always remember? >> Ah, there's so many moments. by Dr. Dre and his his guns. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's not an easy moment, but uh I'll tell you one story. So, I just started working at Ruthless. It's my first week, and Dre is moving from Westlake Village to Calabasas. >> All right. >> And I get a call from the office saying I need to go to his house. There's um there's an issue. The mover's called. Now, remember, there were not I don't even know if I had a cell phone back then. >> Okay. So, I rush over to Dre's house and he's on tour and the movers tell me to come here and I walk up and in the m in the primary bedroom in his closet there was like 40 guns on a blank on a on a on a movie mattress. >> Okay. >> So, I called the office and they said, "Listen, deal with it." >> Right? >> So, I go, "What do you mean deal with it?" They go, "Put the guns in his Corvette and drive it to the new house." So, I'm thinking I'm about to take a bunch of these guns. So, I've never even shot a gun at this point. I'm going to put him in the Corvette and drive over there. And my first week on the job, I'm going to get arrested for like uh transporting guns, >> right? 40 40 illegal guns. >> I mean, I I swear to you, but fortunately, nothing happened and the job got done. >> There you go. All right. Well, hey, we're looking forward to that podcast. And one more time for the people that to check it out. It was The Foundation. >> It's called The Foundation. And >> how can they hear that? >> Yeah. Oh, how can they hear all all platforms? And uh it's it's uh where culture meets commerce. So a lot of those stories that we're talking about, the different businesses I've been in and uh you know, I used to own a sneaker store. I used own a restaurant group. So we're going to talk about all that. All things business. >> There you go. Hey, well, you're definitely the the top businessman. You got a lot going on. Good. Glad to catch up with you, uh Fletch. Nice to meet you. >> Yeah. So there was a lot of uh you know, questions that were kind of people were unsure about. So thank you for your time. We appreciate that. And we'll still keep jamming the NWA. All right. Thank you, man.