N.W.A members Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella performed together for the first time since 1989 at the BET Experience event in Los Angeles yesterday (June 28), according to Hotnewhiphop.
Ice Cube left N.W.A in 1989 to embark upon a solo career after feuding with recording company Ruthless Records over monies he believed were owed to him.
Ruthless Records was owned by Eazy-E, who died in 1995 due to complications from AIDS.
The other surviving member of N.W.A, Dr. Dre, did not appear at the BET Experience concert.
During their performance yesterday, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella performed N.W.A’s landmark 1988 song “____ Tha Police.” The three were joined by Snoop Dogg to perform N.W.A’s 1999 song “Chin Check,” which features Snoop Dogg and was included on the Next Friday soundtrack.
The N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton is slated to arrive in movie theaters August 14.
Videos of Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella performing at BET Experience are as follows:
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So sad and imature men who are 45 years old rapping about robbing, pimping, shooting and being gangstas. Get a life and raise your children and stay of the mic. You had your run a long time ago.
Someone obviously didn’t listen to the music.
Your comment was booooring!
I promise snoop and cubes kids will be better raised than yours
I think we just seen the long awaited, official video for the song.
Damn… Ren should drop the MC from is name. He doesn’t command the microphone at all. Cube always delivers on the mic.
Your crazy. You need to hear what he sayin on those sola albums. He was the hardest member out the group.
Cause Nikki is a poser and nwa was original it was about the struggle letting people know what’s really going on in the world.
Wheres Dre’s weak ass? Like he’s too good to be there or something. All he did is jack other peoples work and eat off other folks plates his entire career n now he cant go out there n do something for the fans?
Snoop didn’t actually join them. I had hoped he would, but he did not. Snoop just performed prior to Cube coming out. I’m glad that I got to see it though. Seeing Cube, Ren, and Yella on stage was incredible. Shout to W.C. as well who also performed with Cube.
Thats not the first time they performed together since 1989… I saw them perform With Dre at the “Up in Smoke” tour in like 2001. jus sayin
I don’t believe DJ Yella was part of that tour. I also don’t remember them performing any material from the N.W.A library, but whether or not they did, it was the first time Ren, Cube, and Yella had been on stage together since ’89.