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Podcast: Holdin’ Court Podcast
Episode: Rhythm D Talks Producing Real Compton City G'z For Eazy E, Jerry Heller, And The Movie Straight Outta Compton.
Description: David Weldon grew up in South Central Los Angeles. As he was coming of age as a hip-hop producer in the early '90s, he got caught up in a feud between the two biggest West Coast rap names of the time: Eazy-E and Dr. Dre. The pair had great success together with N.W.A, bringing gangsta rap to the masses, but Dre left the group over a financial dispute and allied with former bodyguard Suge Knight, as part of the upstart label Death Row Records.Weldon, who goes by Rhythm D, was...