Editing 100 Miles and Runnin' (section)

===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" />