Jerry Heller, Former N.W.A Manager, Dead at 75

Jerry Heller, the longtime music manager that helped launch the career of N.W.A. and the gangsta-rap movement, died Friday. He was 75. No cause of death was provided, but Heller's cousin confirmed Heller's death to Billboard.Heller started his career in the music industry as an agent and promoter, working with artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marvin Gaye, the Who and Black Sabbath in the Sixties and Seventies. By the mid-Eighties, as hip-hop swelled in popularity, Heller co-founde