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Now I've got myself all wrapped up watching interviews and reading about points of contention surrounding the film...
Christ, Yella is a dipshit, I swear. Obviously he has (had) skills and was a big part of the sound of both SOC and the later material that was so crucial to g-funk, but the guy has the intellect of a fatty corpuscle.
It's sad to listen to him talk about the group's legacy. He's a clueless human being who was clearly running on autopilot for much of his own life. When asked how many times "the '4 Life' album" went platinum, he kinda makes a blowfish face and says something like,
"had to be double... Cause remember it was number 1. It hit at #1, which is... Even today, I believe, is veeeery rare.... Especially for a hip hop album!"
It's kinda hard not to drop your jaw at that. What the hell is wrong with this guy? He also had no concept of the legal or contractual elements of being on a label. He doesn't know when he was or wasn't on or off contract, and has no idea about the rest of the group. It's like he never thought about it.
I also read an interesting (and long) piece on Heller containing a revealing interview. I didn't know Paul Giamatti was playing that role, but I'm sure he nails it.
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