Who was in NWA ? Why did they break up?

Answer 1

You're probably a youngin if you askin this question...but N.W.A
stood for ****** Wit Attitudes which consisted of Dr. Dre Ice Cube MC Wren DJ Yella and the late Eazy E who did of AIDS in 1995. Ice Cube was the first to split over money controversies that he felt was owed to him...he was the tightest of the bunch by far. Then everybody else split due to Eazy E and his mismanagement of funds and other business. Dr. Dre went on to form Death Row records with Suge Knight a former NFL player who was kicked outta the league for selling drugs. As for MC Wren and DJ Yella who knows what they doin. But as a group NWA was legendary and went on to sell millions of records by basically introducing the world to west coast gangsta rap with hits like "**** the Police", "100 Miles and Runnin", "Eazy Does It" and other hits...

Answer 2

Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy E, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Snoop Dogg
go to http://www.nwaworld.com/bio.shtml for the rest.

Answer 3

Eazy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DR. Dre and Dj Yellah. They broke up due to contract disputes. Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, didn't want to sign with the same label, due to a shady contract.

Answer 4

I remember only Ice Cube, MC Ren, Doctor Dre, and Eazy E. There were some others I suppose. Eazy E died. But they broke up before that.

Answer 5

Eazy-E (Deceased 1995)
Ice Cube
Dr. Dre
MC Ren
DJ Yella
The D.O.C.
Arabian Prince


Ice Cube left the group in late 1989 because he suspected that Eazy and his manager, Jerry Heller, were skimming money off of the group's album profits.[citation needed] He wasted little time putting together his debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, which included “A Message to the Oreo Cookie”, an interlude in which vehement insults are addressed to an unnamed individual – perhaps the increasingly gentrified Eazy-E, as the track concludes with a sneering “think about it – ******’ sell-out.”

N.W.A. responded slowly; in their next release, some five months later, they merely alluded neutrally to Ice Cube’s departure, rapping in the title track of their EP "100 Miles and Runnin'" that the group "started with five but one couldn't take it / So now it's four, 'cause the fifth couldn't make it."

However, the following year, the band’s next full-length release, Efil4zaggin ( Niggaz4Life spelled backwords) showed a clear animosity towards their former member. Insulting references to Ice Cube are found in several songs, and in the middle of the album the track “A Message to B.A.” echoes his “Message to the Oreo Cookie”. In this interlude, Ice Cube is first addressed by the name "Benedict Arnold", after the notorious traitor of the American Revolutionary War, but then named outright in a montage of abuse. “When we see yo’ ***, we gon’ cut yo’ hair off an’ **** you with a broomstick,” promises MC Ren. The track ends with the voice of Dr. Dre echoing Ice Cube’s original message: “Think about it – punk ************.”

The insults escalated: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted had avoided direct attacks on N.W.A., but on Ice Cube’s second album, Death Certificate, Ice Cube fired back. He sampled and mocked the “Message to B.A.” before embarking on a full-length rap, "No Vaseline", accusing N.W.A. and their associates of a variety of failings, including being phonies, fools and homosexuals. Some considered his call for the murder of Eazy-E excessive, and his references to Jerry Heller’s religion prompted accusations of anti-Semitism ("You can't be the ***** for life crew, with a white Jew telling you what to do"), which may have prompted the track’s omission from the UK release of the album.

After Eazy-E’s death and the break-up of N.W.A., tensions eased: Ice Cube teamed up with Dr. Dre to record a track for Snoop Dogg’s short film and musical project Murder Was the Case, and both Dr. Dre and MC Ren guested on the track “Hello” on Cube’s 2000 album ‘‘War & Peace - Volume 2 (The Peace Disc).’’