Chapter 1

JERRY HELLER:

So I said, “You got anything to play to me?” and he just looked at me and he said, “Yeah.” So right then and there, I knew that this was a no-bullshit, no-nonsense kind of guy willing to let the music do the talking, not telling what he’d done or who he has or how he was going to do it, you know. He just said, “Yeah.”

When someone can make me say wow, they’ve got something that’s worth getting into. It’s very hard to make me say wow! And the wow factor in music is an important factor and I think that anyone is successful is had to have said it. I’m sure that Irving (Azoff) said it when he heard The Eagles for the first time. I’m sure that Albert Grossman said it when he heard Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan for the first time. So I think it’s an important thing, the wow factor. And this made me say wow because it was a combination of Gil Scott-Heron, The Rolling Stones, The Last Poets and The Black Panthers and I said to myself, “This is the first time that the voice of our inner cities is really gonna be heard”.

Chapter 4

YELLA:

It could be different things, or the most unique AIDS that ever happened because I knew somebody that used to live on my street a long time ago had AIDS. It took them nine months to a year to die. They were skinny, you know, just sick and this was – woo!

Every day above ground is a good day. People think, “Oh, I can’t pay my bills, I can’t pay this…” That is nothing. That is not that bad. Once you get under the ground, there’s no more of that, you know? You got to enjoy life while you can. I think Eazy’s death opened up the eyes — opened up the world’s eyes. Let ‘em know that AIDS, hey, that’s real stuff, you know.

Chapter 11

DR. DRE:

Now that Tupac is gone and Suge Knight is on lockdown, have you thought about working or approaching Death Row artists and restructuring and not acting as barbarians and doing this for the love of music only?

Why would I do that? No! I mean, as far as I’m concerned right now Death Row doesn’t even exist. I don’t do backflips. I’m looking for the future. My eyes are on tomorrow not yesterday, straight up.

It’s gonna happen. Me and Snoop are gonna work together in the future. Those four artists I just named to you, we’ll be working together at some time in the future. When, I don’t know.

Chapter 16

DR. DRE:

Is revenge one of the states of mentality on this album?

I wouldn’t say it’s revenge. It’s basically like I said, it’s the shut the fuck up album. I had a couple of years where — Actually it was like this: I got married and my music softened up a little bit because I felt funny saying the lyrics that I was saying and being married and being a family man, but my wife actually was the motivation for me to get back to doing what I do, hardcore dirty Hip-Hop, straight up. I’m just happy doing that.

Did you make any sacrifices?

None at all. No sacrifices were made for this. The only thing I had to do, man, was go in there and do my thing and I had the support of a lot of good people.

Chapter 19

ICE CUBE:

What happened to the militant Ice Cube?

You lookin’ at him! You lookin’ at him. People always ask me why you don’t do records like you did earlier. People got to be receptive to the shit you sayin’. You can’t just do the record ‘cause you want to do it.

Hopefully Terrorist Threats will send a wave through the consciousness of Hip-Hop and the time will be right for another one of them albums like back in the day. I got more shit. I was learning new shit back then, so whenever you want it, man. I’ll serve you with it.