up ♪ >> the east coast kind of felt like, well, we invented hip-hop, you're not going to come in as the new kid and suddenly decide this is the thing. like the east coast is the home of hip-hop, and we're all going to have a say in where hip-hop goes. ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] compton ♪ >> you going to continue making a lot of money off of this, do you think? >> long as it's violence, it's going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away is ice cube. ♪ tried to kill me ♪ >> same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. >> knight, 6'3", 330-pound