100 Miles and Runnin'

Whereas the EP's track "Sa Prize, Pt. 2" is a sequel to "Fuck tha Police"—the most controversial track on N.W.A's official debut album, Straight Outta Compton{{Efn|1=The 1987 album N.W.A. and the Posse, a compilation album often recognized as N.W.A's first or even debut but neglected album, was released by Macola Records, a distributor of N.W.A's early singles and EP releases, but not planned by N.W.A as an album release. On the other hand, N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, via N.W.A's next distributor, Priority Records, was so planned by N.W.A, and thereby often is also, but contrarily, considered N.W.A's first album.}}—"100 Miles and Runnin'{{-"}}, rather, became N.W.A's first single to see national radio play, and its music video see national television airtime.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} It is the first N.W.A. project without Ice Cube and Arabian Prince. The EP attained gold sales, over 500,000 copies sold, by November 16, 1990, and on September 16, 1992, was certified platinum, over 1{{nbsp}}million sold.{{cite web|title=RIAA searchable certification database|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=100%20miles&artist=&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25|publisher=Recording Industry Association of America|access-date=2010-11-25}}

In 1989, N.W.A member Dr. Dre, its label Ruthless Records' prime record producer, did all tracks on Ruthless rapper The D.O.C.'s album.David Diallo, "Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg", in Mickey Hess, ed., Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=LldOLnIQ66cC&dq=Straight+Outta+Compton+album&pg=PA322 p. 322]. By May 1991, feeling underpaid, Dre left Ruthless. But still in 1989, Ice Cube, a prime rapper and ghostwriter in N.W.A, who had been paid about $32,000 so far, asked group leader Eazy-E for a meeting on money allocation.David J. Leonard, "Ice Cube", in Mickey Hess, ed., Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, Volume 1 (Westport, Connecticut & London, England: ABC-CLIO, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=LldOLnIQ66cC&pg=PA301 p. 301]. N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller, Eazy's business partner, led the meeting.

At Cube's concerns, Heller offered N.W.A's five members—Eazy, Dre, Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren—a contract nearly unchanged, but a $75,000 signing bonus. Only Cube refused to sign it. By 1990, he had left the group and its label. In May 1990, Cube's debut solo album arrived as AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, which Spin magazine called a "masterpiece" and The Source magazine gave a full five "microphones".David J. Leonard, "Ice Cube", in Mickey Hess, ed., Icons of Hip Hop: Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bXy2wTEsbCsC&dq=%22100+Miles+and+Runnin%27%22&pg=PA302 p. 302]. N.W.A's EP, written by Ren and The D.O.C.,Vlad Lyubovny, interviewer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TsW18Qd2s "The D.O.C. speaks on "No Vaseline" & his friendship w/ Ice Cube"], VladTV–DJVlad @ YouTube, 4 Dec 2015. has two tracks smearing Cube.

In the EP's title track, alluding to Ice Cube, Dre raps, "It started with five, but yo, one couldn't take it / So now there's four, 'cause the fifth couldn't make it." And in "Real Niggaz", soon after Ren raps, "Only reason niggas pick up your record is 'cause they thought it was us", Dre calls Cube both "too much cargo" and the proverbial traitor Benedict Arnold.

Hosting rap TV show Pump It Up!, Dee Barnes interviewed N.W.A, promoting the EP. Later, the show's producers sent Barnes to get Cube's rebuttal.Bethonie Butler, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/07/11/dr-dre-confronts-his-1991-assault-on-dee-barnes-in-hbos-the-defiant-ones "Dr. Dre confronts his 1991 assault on Dee Barnes in HBO's 'The Defiant Ones' "], The Washington Post, 11 Jul 2017. Against Barnes's warning, the November 1990 episode splices interview clips to magnify the conflict. In January, drunk at a Ruthless party in Hollywood, Dre assaulted Barnes, reputedly in payback.Newsweek staff, [https://www.newsweek.com/number-one-bullet-204074 "Number one with a bullet"], Newsweek, 30 Jun 1991.

Released in May 1991, N.W.A's next album, EFil4zaggin or Niggaz4Life, furthered the feud in two more tracks: "Message to B.A." and, in a few lines, the hit single "Alwayz into Somethin'{{-"}}. Cube's second album, Death Certificate, released in October, retorts in "No Vaseline", depicting N.W.A as sellouts screwed by Jerry Heller. Cube thus won the battle, ending there.Vlad Lyubovny, interviewer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdO7SJ5VGoQ "DJ Yella: All of NWA knew Ice Cube won with 'No Vaseline' "], VladTV–DJVlad @ YouTube, 22 Aug 2015.

The 100 Miles EP previewed N.W.A's evolving sound, spare on Straight Outta Compton,Steve Huey, [https://www.allmusic.com/album/straight-outta-compton-mw0000653426 "N.W.A: Straight Outta Compton"], AllMusic.com, Netaktion LLC, visited 1 May 2020. and now more layered, as in the "100 Miles" track. This song's idea was from a film among Eazy's favorites, director Walter Hill's 1979 gangster film The Warriors.Jerry Heller w/ Gil Reavill, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&q=%22N.W.A+and+the+Posse%22 Ruthless: A Memoir] (New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&dq="100+Miles+and+Runnin'+"&pg=PA183 p. 183]. On the other hand, the track "Just Don't Bite It", says AllMusic, "is an alarming porno rap that at the time of its release was as explicit as anything out there, including 2 Live Crew."

From the 100 Miles EP, three songs— "100 Miles and Runnin{{'-}}", "Just Don't Bite It", and "Real Niggaz"—would be collected on N.W.A's Greatest Hits. "Real Niggaz" appears, too, on N.W.A's second and final official, studio album, Efil4zaggin, the backwards spelling of Niggaz4Life. On it, "She Swallowed It" as well as "Findum, Fuckum & Flee"—ahead of dozens of other rap songs in later years—sample "Just Don't Bite It", as does the punk ska band Sublime's song "Let's Go Get Stoned".{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} Arriving in 2003, a remastered edition of Efil4zaggin fully appends the 100 Miles EP.

All songs produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella:

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• Andre "Dr. Dre" Young – producer, vocals
• Lorenzo "MC Ren" Patterson – vocals, lyrics
• Eric "Eazy-E" Wright – executive producer, vocals (tracks 1, 3–5)
• Antoine "DJ Yella" Carraby – producer, DJ
• Tracy Lynn "The D.O.C." Curry – lyrics (tracks 1, 4), vocals (track 3)
• Gregory Fernan "Cold 187um" Hutchison – lyrics (tracks 1)
• Michael Sims – bass, guitar
• Brian Kilgore – tambourine (track 2)
• Donovan Smith – engineer
• Steve Huston – artwork
• Kevin Hosmann – art direction
• David Provost – photography
• Jerry Heller – management

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• {{cite news|last1=Mills|first1=David|author-link1=David Mills (TV writer)|title=Recordings|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1990/09/02/recordings/c284a7e4-3c30-4c56-8552-44969be335c9/|newspaper=The Washington Post|publisher=Graham, Donald E.|date=2 September 1990|editor1-last=Bradlee|editor1-first=Ben|editor1-link=Ben Bradlee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619175800/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1990/09/02/recordings/c284a7e4-3c30-4c56-8552-44969be335c9/|archive-date=19 June 2020|quote=N.W.A.: '100 Miles and Runnin' '}} (review of album)
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