30 Quotes by DJ Yella

We never even thought about a Hall of Fame. We never even thought about a gold record, tell you the truth.

When we broke up, the group was Number One on the Billboard chart. I mean, groups don't break up at Number One. They break up at Number 1,000.

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

Cops are doing crazy things now, and they catching theyselves; bodycams, carcams. But until they really start giving these cops time - 50 years, 100 years - it's not gonna stop. As long as they keep getting off, nothing's gonna happen. It's been going on since before N.W.A.

The first time I saw the Rodney King video, I remember thinking, 'Wow, these cops just got 100 years in jail.' Obviously that didn't happen.

When I graduated from high school, I became a DJ in a club, a local hang-out called Eve After Dark.

When we were doing music, that's how we did-we just did it for the music. We weren't thinking about money, we weren't thinking about fame. Music was our passion.

The truth is that there wasn't much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We came in so different, so real, that we were immediately heard.