Michel'le has maintained she suffered brutal physical violence from Dre for years during their relationship. She was also Dre's girlfriend and eventually the mother of his child. None of this was in Straight Outta Compton, though, because Michel'le was more than just a fellow artist at Ruthless and Death Row. When Ruthless Records released Michel'le after Suge Knight allegedly intimidated Eazy-E into releasing her and other artists from the label, she took her distinctive sound and commercial power with her and produced hits for Death Row Records for years. At a time when radio stations rarely played rap music in regular rotation, it was Michel'le's Nicety and Something in My Heart that helped make Ruthless a commercial success.
R&B vocalist Michel'le gave the label one of its most distinctive sounds and is arguably responsible for its breakout success. Ruthless Records, the label of N.W.A., Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and others, was not an exclusively male empire.
Dre and Ice Cube, and mourned again the loss of a young Eazy-E-all members of the early '90s group-it was all too easy to forget the part of the story that had been omitted from the film. As audiences embraced the revival of a young Dr. The urban soundtrack of black male resistance-to police brutality and economic and racial inequality-resonated across the two decades that had elapsed since the hip hop group first gained prominence. When Straight Outta Compton appeared in theaters in 2015, it brought the music and story of N.W.A.