![]() Shortly after Eazy-E's death, the group signed to Tommy Boy Records in 1996. ![]() It contained the minor hit "Black Superman". Two years later in 1994 the group released Uncle Sam's Curse, which was their last album on Ruthless Records. Dre by this point had left Ruthless Records for Death Row Records. Dre's new sound was largely inspired by his own sound on that album. Cold187um has claimed that he was the first to pioneer the G-Funk style and Dr. Dre's The Chronic, featured a similar G-Funk sound to that album. ![]() The group's second full length album Black Mafia Life came out in 1992. The song "Freedom of Speech" appeared in the 1990 movie " Pump Up the Volume" and was also featured on the movie soundtrack album. "Murder Rap" appeared in the in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the West Coast fictional radio station, Radio Los Santos as well as the 2008 film " Pineapple Express". The songs "Untouchable" and "Murder Rap" became minor hits from the album. Above the Law member Cold187um worked closely with Dre on production and the two had great influence on each other. Their first album on Ruthless, 1990's Livin' Like Hustlers, featured guest appearances from N.W.A. There they became close associates of the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. In 1989, the group signed to the late Eazy-E's Ruthless Records. Above the Law is a rap group from Pomona, California, founded in 1989 by Cold 187um, KMG the Illustrator, Go Mack, and DJ Total K-Oss. ![]()
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