I wish those were on YouTube, I wouldn’t mind seeing one of those early shows, that would be crazy.
It wasn’t like we threw him up there by himself. Yeah, it was his song and we supported him.
It was just everywhere.įor Eazy to do his first show in public, did people feel him right away? Yeah, clubs and college parties, college campus shit. We just kept working, and soon it was all good. He worked hard at being good because then we had to go and turn him into a performer too. Yeah, once he found out he could do it and knew that he was good since he had a voice and an image, people wanted more. When you said that Eazy took off, was he into being a rapper after that? You said that Dre had to convince him. I paid for the studio time already, so Dre convinced Eazy that he had a good enough voice to do it. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mixtapes. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. “Boyz-n-the-Hood” was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. We did a song in '86 called “Boyz-n-the-Hood” and that song was like his first single and it blew up. Right, but you mentioned that his thing took off first, so what took off? Yeah, he wanted to be a manager and he wanted to run his own label, Ruthless. Eazy got a hold of him and started coming around. So when I was started to hang with Dre and do music, Eazy started coming around and doing these mixtapes. He used to DJ or promote parties or something, he used to throw high school dances. Him and Dre knew each other from high school. But thankfully those issues were settled long ago, and all that remains is the respect.Įazy came out '88, N.W.A came out early '89. Yes, they had their differences over the years, particularly when Cube left N.W.A to pursue a solo career. And since Eazy can't speak for himself-having succumbed to complications from AIDS in 1995-we rang up Ice Cube, who took time out of his busy schedule making movies and records to talk about his old homie. Fadd, it's no overstatement to say that Eazy and N.W.A changed the course of hip-hop and pop culture as a whole.Īs we reach the quarter century anniversary of Eazy's debut album, we decided that someone needed to speak on this momentous occasion. And although Ruthless also pushed poppier acts like J. When Eazy stepped to the mic to "bust that crazy shit" he simply could not be dismissed. His voice was unusually high-pitched for a rapper and his cadences were looser than most, but there was no mistaking the unquenchable menace behind his words. The lyrics to that song-and many other Eazy-E classics-were written by O'Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube.Įarlier this year, some misguided website named Eazy one of the worst rappers ever. Eazy had become a sensation on L.A.'s burgeoning rap scene on the strength of a single called “Boyz-n-the-Hood” that was so raw it became an instant classic despite receiving nearly no radio play. It's been 25 years since Eric " Eazy-E" Wright released his debut album, Eazy-Duz-It, on Ruthless Records, the aptly named independent label that he founded in Los Angeles with Jerry Heller.
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