Chicago Sun-Times, IL — LOS ANGELES — The music manager who helped introduce N.W.A to the masses has died. Jerry Heller was 75 years old. Heller’s cousin, Gary Ballen, says Heller died Friday night at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, after suffering a heart atta... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Jerry Heller, the combative music manager whose fraught relationship with the seminal hip-hop group N.W.A was searingly portrayed in last year’s box office hit “Straight Outta Compton,” died Friday of a heart attack at Los Roble... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Jerry Heller, the combative music manager whose fraught relationship with the seminal hip-hop group N.W.A. was searingly portrayed in last year’s box office hit “Straight Outta Compton,” died Friday of a heart attack at Los Robles ... more info

Stereogum — Jerry Heller, the controversial music industry veteran who first brought N.W.A. to fame, has died. TMZ reports that he died on Friday after “suffering some sort of medical emergency while driving.” He was 75. Heller rose to prominence in the 1960... more info

Time — Heller helped introduce N.W.A. to the masses more info

411 Mania — He was 75 years old... more info

Consequence of Sound — Music industry veteran suffered a heart attack while driving his car. more info

TMZ — Jerry Heller, the groundbreaking/controversial manager who brought Eazy-E and N.W.A. to fame and helped change the landscape of music is dead. Heller was embroiled in controversy for decades, right up until his death Friday.  He was accused of… ... more info

AllHipHop — RIP JERRY! more info

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