He was originally going to release the album through Ruthless Records.
The album was released on January 1, 1991 for Ruthless Records and was produced by Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and Jimmy Z. This album is one of the few, if not the only album released by Ruthless Records that is not entirely hip hop based.
When Eazy-E became a famous gangsta rap pioneer with N.W.A and Ruthless Records, Tweedy Bird Loc had started working a project called "Bangin' On Wax".
•
Tweedy released another diss targeted at Ruthless Records and Eazy-E from No Holds Barred entitled "Y'all Can't Fucc With Us".
Columbia Records | Guinness World Records | Atlantic Records | Decca Records | Mercury Records | Warner Bros. Records | Epic Records | RCA Records | Capitol Records | MCA Records | Virgin Records | Arista Records | Island Records | Elektra Records | Universal Records | Stax Records | Geffen Records | A&M Records | Reprise Records | Naxos Records | Polydor Records | Philips Records | London Records | Interscope Records | Rise Records | Liberty Records | Blue Note Records | Roadrunner Records | MGM Records | CBS Records |
Hailing from Los Angeles, California, the group were one of the original Ruthless Records acts signed by Eazy-E, and they sold 400,000 copies of their 1987 single "Supersonic" independently before Eazy and Jerry Heller had managed to secure a major label recording contract.
The single "A.W.O.L." was an attack on Death Row, Suge Knight, Dre and others, with X comparing the dubious business practices there to the days of Ruthless Records, Jerry Heller, and Eazy-E.
They formed Urge Overkill (getting the name from a phrase in the lyrics of the Parliament song "Funkentelechy") in Chicago, with drummer Pat Byrne, and released an EP, Strange, I..., on Ruthless Records.