Produced by Ice Cube himself and Sir Jinx, with samples from Brick's "Dazz" and The Average White Band's "Humpin'", "No Vaseline" is a West Coast hip hop track characterized by its aggressive delivery and raw, unapologetic lyrics.
Cube also ridiculed Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella, stating that they had sold out to the industry's corporate interests.
"[3] He uses homophobic and antisemitic slurs[5] as he accuses both Eazy-E and Heller of unfairly exploiting the rest of the group: "You little maggot, Eazy E turned faggot / With your manager, fella -- fuckin' MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella" and "It's a case of divide and conquer, 'cause you let a Jew break up my crew",[3] and, finally, he claims that this alliance has reduced Eazy's credibility: "house nigga gotta run and hide, yellin' Compton but you moved to Riverside".
[3] Heller is not simply dissed as being a bad manager; he is given an antisemitic death-threat: "Get rid of that Devil real simple / Put a bullet in his temple / 'Cause you can't be the Nigga 4 Life crew / With a white Jew telling you what to do / Pulling wools with your scams / Now I gotta play Silence of the Lambs.
"[6] Politically, Ice Cube also references Eazy's appearance at a lunch benefiting the Republican Senatorial inner circle, hosted by then-President George H. W. Bush, repeatedly saying, "I never have dinner with the President."
In 1992, the implied death threat against Heller led Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to observe, "We're not asking Ice Cube to mask the reality of the streets.
By all means flag the social problems, but don't exploit them by turning a professional spat between a former manager and an artist into a racial dispute."
In 2006 Jerry Heller's book Ruthless: A Memoir, written with Gil Reavill, was published by Simon & Schuster/Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
[8][9] In it, Heller mentioned the song "No Vaseline" and wrote that he did not believe that Ice Cube was genuinely antisemitic, but that he had exploited prejudices in the African-American community to further his career.