J.J. Fad earned Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records its first gold certification and Dr. Dre his first gold production credit for the single “Supersonic,” but the female Rap group is not mentioned in the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton.
“I think there was a certain image that they wanted to put out there, and I don’t think they wanted us to soften that,” Juana “MC JB” Sperling says during an interview with the Los Angeles Times. MC JB is joined in J.J. Fad by Michelle “Sassy C” Franklin and Dania “Baby D” Birks.
“That’s just my perception, and I don’t know if it’s true or not,” MC JB continues. “The way the story was told was very hardcore, so I’m thinking, there were a couple soft sides, but our presence in it might have been a little too soft.”
Supersonic – The Album, the first album from J.J. Fad, which hails from Rialto, California, which is 60 miles Northeast of Compton, also went gold, in 1988.
Despite being left of out Straight Outta Compton, J.J. Fad’s and “Supersonic’s” influence has been significant in other ways. Eminem adopted portions of the song in his “Rap God” single and Fergie paid homage to the cut on her hit single “Fergalicious.”
“I just think that Ruthless owes them a great debt of gratitude,” says Jerry Heller, who helped Eazy-E run Ruthless Records.
“They generated a lot of money for our company,” Heller added. “People never thought about some of the other stuff we had there, like J.J. Fad and Michel’le, but that was a big part of the Ruthless story. Eazy and I loved those girls.”
J.J. Fad tours with fellow Ruthless Records alumni Arabian Prince, but Baby D says that the group is no longer in touch with any of its other former lablemates.
“We don’t even have contact with no one anymore, you know,” she says. “I guess because they’re still in the light, we think about them. But I just honestly think that even if they weren’t in the light, we’d think about them because we’ve always thought about them. Because they were like family.
“I wish it would have gone differently,” she adds, “but there’s nothing that I could do about it. I don’t regret anything they’ve done for us or that we did for them. I just would like for them to take into consideration, you know, look at us and say, ‘Thanks, girls, after all these years.’”
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DR. DRE HATES WOMEN. HE LOVES DICK.
why does everyone think they were supposed to have a part or be mentioned in Straight Outta Compton just because they were around at the time? FUCK!! IT’S THE NWA STORY!! JJ Fad DID NOT HELP FORM NWA OR GO THROUGH THEIR STRUGGLES AS A GROUP.
It’s not that they were just around at the time, they were part of the musical family too. Just as pivotal as anything NWA themselves did. They were artist that they signed, they produced for them, they sold records for Ruthless and the extended NWA brand. If they were just the groupies hanging around the office all day, I could understand that particular opinon. But that’s not that case here. Any who, I’m not mad that Straight Outta Compton is getting the success that it’s getting. And I’m glad it was a bio-pic done the right way, it wasn’t an Aaliyah/Whitney/Lifetime fiasco. And the women of JJ Fad didn’t really say anything bad, just that since they (and Michel’le amongst a few others) were part of the musical fam/history of NWA they deserved some type of mention. They didn’t need to omit the women behind the men.
Because they are cock roaches thirsty for some lime light. Narcissism, jealousy and self-importance. It is unfortunately a large part of our society.
I get what he saying Dr dre and ice cube made it look like they done everything, it was no credit for eazy e like this man was nwa! They had in the movie that eazy was depressed when they broke up and eazy used them! If anything they used him he put up the money he was the one selling everything he had money before the group and after the group broke up! They showing snoop dog and tupac, but where all the people eazy signed! Everything was wrong in the movie! And he never got jumped I’m starting to think dre and ice cube killed eazy!
Yeah, guess you were there…eat a dick Vick!
@TRayne name a JJ Fad song not titled “Supersonic” I’ll wait…
I’ll name 3, Way out, blame it on the muzick, and Meenie, Beats, that Suspersonic album was slept on album it has some club classics on there that you can still get the party jumping with in 2015
Remember tupac was already big when he came to deathrow and snoop well they were lucky to get him, neither needed deathrow, the movie focused on the perils and gains of each pivotal member and their critical role to the group