Ice Cube Speaks On Jerry Heller's Death

Ice Cube isn’t losing sleep over the death of ex-manager Jerry Heller.

Heller, who died on Friday at 75, served as the manager of Cube’s former group N.W.A. and the two had a rocky relationship embroiled with financial drama.

“I ain’t going to pop no champagne, but I ain’t gonna shed no tears either, it is what it is,” Ice Cube told a Detroit radio station over the weekend.

“I’m not losing no sleep over it,” the 47-year-old added.

Heller was largely credited with giving N.W.A. their start in the music industry — and making way for the West Coast hip hop scene.

However, when radio host Big Greg commented that Heller was the reason for N.W.A.’s existence, Cube stopped him in his tracks.

“Whoa watch your mouth, watch your mouth, watch your mouth,” he said.

Ice Cube and fellow groupmate Dr. Dre quit N.W.A. because of their relationship with Heller, even claiming the music exec swindled them out of thousands of dollars.

Ice Cube even slammed Heller in a diss track titled “No Vaseline,” where he rapped the line “N.W.A. ain’t s--t without Ice Cube!”

Heller later sued Cube and Dre for $110 million, claiming defamation over the portrayal of him in the recent N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton.”

Mickey Shapiro, who served as Heller’s lawyer, said the negative way actor Paul Giamatti represented Heller was the reason for his death.

"Jerry Heller would be alive today if not for that movie," he told TMZ.

Heller suffered a medical emergency, believed to be heart attack, while driving on Friday and then slammed into a mini-van resulting in his death.

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