100 Miles and Runnin'

the song 100 Miles and Runnin' (song) June 2020 June 2020 100 Miles and Runnin' EP N.W.A NWA-100MilesAndRunnin.jpg August 14, 1990 1990 Audio Achievements (Torrance, California) West Coast hip-hop gangsta rap hardcore hip-hop dirty rap 23:17 Priority Ruthless Eazy-E (exec.) Dr. Dre Yella Straight Outta Compton 1989 Niggaz4Life 1991 100 Miles and Runnin' ep 100 Miles and Runnin 1990 AllMusic 3 5 Entertainment Weekly D+https://ew.com/article/1990/08/31/100-miles-and-runnin/ 100 Miles and Runnin':Music Review:Entertainment Weekly Sandow, Greg Entertainment Weekly August 31, 1990 August 23, 2009 March 12, 2014 live https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212639/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318059,00.html RapReviews 6.5/10http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_NWAsEPs.html rapreviews.com review 2010-11-25 Robert Christgau C−http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1020&name=N.W.A Robert Christgau review 2010-11-25 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 1 5The Rolling Stone Album Guide 1992 Random House 512–513 The Source 4 5Reef September 1990 Shecter Jonathan Jonathan Shecter Bernard James Singles http://rapresearcharchive.blogspot.com/2010/03/nwa-100-miles-and-runnin-review-in.html live Record report The Source New York City Mays, David 3 5 56 1063-2085 https://web.archive.org/web/20200619174050/http://rapresearcharchive.blogspot.com/2010/03/nwa-100-miles-and-runnin-review-in.html 19 June 2020 19 June 2020 Final Rating: 4 https://thimk.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/the-source-september-1990-issue-featuring-krs-one/ The Source September 1990 thimk.wordpress.com The Source September 1990 issue featuring KRS-One Spin Alternative Record Guide 4/10N.W.A Greg Sandow Spin Alternative Record Guide Spin Alternative Record Guide Eric Weisbard Craig Marks Vintage Books 1995 0-679-75574-8 277–278 100 Miles and Runnin is the only extended play by American hip-hop group N.W.A. Released on August 14, 1990, through Priority Records and Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, this EP of five tracks reflects an evolution of N.W.A's sound and centers on the single "100 Miles and Runnin'.Jason Birchmeier, "N.W.A: 100 Miles and Runnin", AllMusic.com, Netaktion LLC, visited 28 Apr 2020. Two tracks, "100 Miles" and "Real Niggaz", incidentally incited N.W.A's feud with Ice Cube, who had left to start a solo rap career.Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jeff Mao, Gabe Alvarez & Brent Rollins, "Mo' beef, mo' problems: #7, N.W.A vs. Ice Cube", Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999), p. 238. The porno rap track "Just Don't Bite It" also drew notice. Pushing lyrical boundaries in its day, the EP went gold in November 1990 and platinum in September 1992.Gold & Platinum search, "100 Miles and Runnin", Recording Industry Association of America website, visited 26 Apr 2020. Backstory The EP's third 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 ComptonThe 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 1989 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'. became N.W.A's first single to see national radio play, and its music video see national television airtime.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 1million sold.RIAA searchable certification database 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 Recording Industry Association of America 2010-11-25 Ice Cube's departure and subsequent feud In 1989, Ice Cube, a rapper and songwriter 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), 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, Dr. Dre, Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren—a contract nearly unchanged, but a $75,000 signing bonus. Only Cube refused to sign it. In January 1990, he left N.W.A. 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), p. 302. N.W.A's EP, written by Ren and The D.O.C.,Vlad Lyubovny, interviewer, "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, "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, "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 as N.W.A. never responded to the diss, ending there.Vlad Lyubovny, interviewer, "DJ Yella: All of NWA knew Ice Cube won with 'No Vaseline' ", VladTV–DJVlad @ YouTube, 22 Aug 2015. EP highlights The 100 Miles EP previewed N.W.A's evolving sound, spare on Straight Outta Compton,Steve Huey, "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, Ruthless: A Memoir (New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007), "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".June 2021 Arriving in 2003, a remastered edition of Efil4zaggin fully appends the 100 Miles EP. Track listing All songs produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella: Performer(s) 100 Miles and Runnin L. Patterson T. Curry G Hutchisonhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TsW18Qd2s&list=PLocnpGR4BAxhpOe__ddcu1tFYvGXC5oFS&index=5&t=41s The D.O.C. Speaks On "No Vaseline" & His Friendship w/ Ice Cube YouTube 2015-11-13 2019-11-23 MC Ren Dr. Dre Eazy-E 4:32 Just Don't Bite It L. Patterson MC Ren 5:28 Sa Prize (Part 2) L. Patterson Tracy Curry MC Ren Dr. Dre Eazy-E The D.O.C. 5:59 Real Niggaz L. Patterson T. Curry MC Ren Dr. Dre Eazy-E 5:27 Kamurshol Tracy Curry 1:56 Personnel 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 Charts Weekly charts Chart (1990) PeakpositionBillboard200 27 N.W.A true June 21, 2021BillboardRandBHipHop 10 N.W.A true June 21, 2021 Year-end charts Chart (1990) Position US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/Billboard-1990-12-22.pdf 1990 The Year in Music Billboard 102 51 YE-20 December 22, 1990 June 21, 2021 77 Certifications United States EP 100 Miles and Runnin N.W.A. Platinum 1990 1992 true See also Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films References Footnotes Notes External links Mills David David Mills (TV writer) Recordings https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1990/09/02/recordings/c284a7e4-3c30-4c56-8552-44969be335c9/ The Washington Post Graham, Donald E. 2 September 1990 Bradlee Ben Ben Bradlee https://web.archive.org/web/20200619175800/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1990/09/02/recordings/c284a7e4-3c30-4c56-8552-44969be335c9/ 19 June 2020 N.W.A.: '100 Miles and Runnin' ' (review of album) album 26111 100 Miles and Runnin' Category:1990 debut EPs Category:N.W.A EPs Category:Ruthless Records EPs Category:Priority Records EPs Category:Albums produced by Dr. Dre Category:Albums produced by DJ Yella