Editing 100 Miles and Runnin' (section)

==Backstory==
Whereas the EP's track "Sa Prize, Pt. 2" is a sequel to "[[Fuck tha Police]]"—the most controversial track on N.W.A's official debut album, ''[[Straight Outta Compton]]''{{Efn|1=The 1987 album ''[[N.W.A. and the Posse]]'', a [[compilation album]] often recognized as N.W.A's first or even debut but neglected album, was released by Macola Records, a distributor of N.W.A's early singles and EP releases, but not planned by N.W.A as an album release. On the other hand, N.W.A's 1988 album ''Straight Outta Compton'', via N.W.A's next distributor, [[Priority Records]], was so planned by N.W.A, and thereby often is also, but contrarily, considered N.W.A's first album.}}—"[[100 Miles and Runnin' (song)|100 Miles and Runnin']]{{-"}}, rather, became N.W.A's first single to see national radio play, and its music video see national television airtime.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} It is the first N.W.A. project without [[Ice Cube]] and [[Arabian Prince]]. The EP attained gold sales, over 500,000 copies sold, by November 16, 1990, and on September 16, 1992, was certified platinum, over 1{{nbsp}}million sold.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIAA searchable certification database|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=100%20miles&artist=&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=2010-11-25}}</ref>

===Ice Cube's departure===
In 1989, N.W.A member [[Dr. Dre]], its label [[Ruthless Records]]' prime [[record producer]], did all tracks on Ruthless rapper [[No One Can Do It Better|The D.O.C.'s album]].<ref>David Diallo, "Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg", in Mickey Hess, ed., Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=LldOLnIQ66cC&dq=Straight+Outta+Compton+album&pg=PA322 p. 322].</ref> By May 1991, feeling underpaid, Dre left Ruthless. But still in 1989, [[Ice Cube]], a prime rapper and ghostwriter in N.W.A, who had been paid about $32,000 so far, asked group leader [[Eazy-E]] for a meeting on money allocation.<ref name=":02">David J. Leonard, "Ice Cube", in Mickey Hess, ed., ''Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture'', Volume 1 (Westport, Connecticut & London, England: [[ABC-CLIO]], 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=LldOLnIQ66cC&pg=PA301 p. 301].</ref> N.W.A's manager [[Jerry Heller]], Eazy's business partner, led the meeting.<ref name=":02" />

At Cube's concerns, Heller offered N.W.A's five members—Eazy, Dre, Cube, [[DJ Yella]], and [[MC Ren]]—a contract nearly unchanged, but a $75,000 signing bonus.<ref name=":02" /> Only Cube refused to sign it.<ref name=":02" /> By 1990, he had left the group and its label.<ref name=":02" /> In May 1990, Cube's debut solo album arrived as ''[[AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]]'', which [[Spin (magazine)|''Spin'']] magazine called a "masterpiece" and [[The Source (magazine)|''The Source'']] magazine gave a full five "microphones".<ref name=":2">David J. Leonard, "Ice Cube", in Mickey Hess, ed., ''Icons of Hip Hop: Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture'' (Westport, CT: [[Greenwood Press]], 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bXy2wTEsbCsC&dq=%22100+Miles+and+Runnin%27%22&pg=PA302 p. 302].</ref> N.W.A's EP, written by Ren and [[The D.O.C.]],<ref>[[DJ Vlad|Vlad Lyubovny]], interviewer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TsW18Qd2s "The D.O.C. speaks on "No Vaseline" & his friendship w/ Ice Cube"], ''VladTV''–''DJVlad'' @ YouTube, 4 Dec 2015.</ref> has two tracks smearing Cube.<ref name=":12" />

===Feud with Cube===
In the EP's title track, alluding to Ice Cube,<ref name=":12" /> Dre raps, "It started with five, but yo, one couldn't take it / So now there's four, 'cause the fifth couldn't make it." And in "Real Niggaz",<ref name=":12" /> soon after Ren raps, "Only reason niggas pick up your record is 'cause they thought it was us", Dre calls Cube both "too much cargo" and the proverbial traitor [[Benedict Arnold]].

Hosting rap TV show ''Pump It Up!'', [[Dee Barnes]] interviewed N.W.A, promoting the EP.<ref name=":2" /> Later, the show's producers sent Barnes to get Cube's rebuttal.<ref name=":0">Bethonie Butler, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/07/11/dr-dre-confronts-his-1991-assault-on-dee-barnes-in-hbos-the-defiant-ones "Dr. Dre confronts his 1991 assault on Dee Barnes in HBO's 'The Defiant Ones' "], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', 11 Jul 2017.</ref> Against Barnes's warning, the November 1990 episode splices interview clips to magnify the conflict.<ref name=":2" /> In January, drunk at a Ruthless party in Hollywood,<ref name=":0" /> Dre assaulted Barnes, reputedly in payback.<ref>Newsweek staff, [https://www.newsweek.com/number-one-bullet-204074 "Number one with a bullet"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', 30 Jun 1991.</ref>

Released in May 1991, N.W.A's next album, ''[[EFil4zaggin]]'' or ''Niggaz4Life'', furthered the feud in two more tracks: "Message to B.A." and, in a few lines, the hit single "[[Alwayz into Somethin']]{{-"}}.<ref name=":12" /> Cube's second album, [[Death Certificate (album)|''Death Certificate'']], released in October, retorts in "[[No Vaseline]]",<ref name=":12" /> depicting N.W.A as sellouts screwed by Jerry Heller. Cube thus won the battle, ending there.<ref name=":12" /><ref>Vlad Lyubovny, interviewer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdO7SJ5VGoQ "DJ Yella: All of NWA knew Ice Cube won with 'No Vaseline' "], ''VladTV''–''DJVlad'' @ YouTube, 22 Aug 2015.</ref>

===EP highlights===
The ''100 Miles'' EP previewed N.W.A's evolving sound, spare on ''Straight Outta Compton'',<ref>Steve Huey, [https://www.allmusic.com/album/straight-outta-compton-mw0000653426 "N.W.A: ''Straight Outta Compton''"], ''AllMusic.com'', Netaktion LLC, visited 1 May 2020.</ref> and now more layered, as in the "100 Miles" track.<ref name="allmusic-review2" /> This song's idea was from a film among Eazy's favorites, director [[Walter Hill]]'s 1979 gangster film ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''.<ref>Jerry Heller w/ Gil Reavill, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&q=%22N.W.A+and+the+Posse%22 Ruthless: A Memoir]'' (New York: [[Simon Spotlight Entertainment]], 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&dq="100+Miles+and+Runnin'+"&pg=PA183 p. 183].</ref> On the other hand, the track "Just Don't Bite It", says [[AllMusic]], "is an alarming porno rap that at the time of its release was as explicit as anything out there, including [[2 Live Crew]]."<ref name="allmusic-review2" />

From the ''100 Miles'' EP, three songs— "100 Miles and Runnin{{'-}}", "Just Don't Bite It", and "Real Niggaz"—would be collected on ''[[Greatest Hits (N.W.A)|N.W.A's Greatest Hits]]''. "Real Niggaz" appears, too, on N.W.A's second and final official, studio album, ''[[Efil4zaggin]]'', the backwards spelling of ''Niggaz4Life''. On it, "She Swallowed It" as well as "Findum, Fuckum & Flee"—ahead of dozens of other rap songs in later years—sample "Just Don't Bite It", as does the [[Punk (music)|punk]] [[ska]] band [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]]'s song "Let's Go Get Stoned".{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} Arriving in 2003, a [[remastered]] edition of ''Efil4zaggin'' fully appends the ''100 Miles'' EP.