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Ice Cube says N.W.A treated an FBI letter as “publicity”
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"He's like, man, this the fucking FBI. So naive. Yeah, yeah. Okay, man. And then Eazy like, sound like publicity to me, man. We should tell everybody they trying to intimidate us."
Rapper and actor Ice Cube told Conan O’Brien that, at the height of N.W.A’s early fame, their label Priority Records showed the group a letter from the FBI and panicked about the attention. Cube recalls Eazy-E’s reaction was to treat the letter as a promotional opportunity, urging the group to publicise it as intimidation rather than a threat.
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- Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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- How Ice Cube & N.W.A Used An FBI Letter As Free Publicity | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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