“Eazy-Duz-It” has a humorously catchy beginning. A little preachy, but I got and appreciated the message. His implication was that good music is a better high. He was using a drug dealer metaphor while consistently discouraging the use of real drugs. Even at 13, I understood Ice’s play on words. “I’m Your Pusher” in a previous essay about Kanye, I was hyped off a Curtis Mayfield sample and with this song, I was even more hyped by another Mayfield sample. Nevertheless, I still believe this is the best song on the album. What I would later learn was that I was developing an appreciation for Ice Cube (before he was clubbin’). I did know that “Boyz-N-The-Hood” was the best display of lyrics on the album. “Boyz-N-The-Hood”: in ’88, I didn’t know what a ghostwriter was. That day in Professional’s Record Shop, I already knew who Ice T was. Was just to play records, what more could you ask?
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I also knew Ice T from his cameo in the Breakin ‘ movie and could even recite: I heard Rhyme Pays and was familiar with “ 6 in the Mornin'”. I was not quite sure which of the jheri-curled dudes he was, but I did know who NWA was. I have the Dopeman album with all those cats bunched up in a corner in an alley so I approached Eazy-Duz-It with some familiarity.
A pace-keeper almost blends with a previous release.Īfter tallying the scores, the album with the highest overall score is the one we probably should have purchased first. Game-Changer or Pace-Keeper: Do you remember where you were when you first heard …? that’s the sign of a game-changer.I could play Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em aloud in my car but would keep my enjoyment of Dana Dane with Fame private because it did not age as well. How did it age / does it still sound fresh? Some albums, cassettes, or CDs in my music collection are best consumed with headphones while a few others are worthy of the window-down-radio-aloud treatment.
And most importantly, Darlene was (is) sho’nuff beautiful. Let’s acknowledge that many were moved by Ice T’s Power album cover. The dilemma I faced over thirty years ago is the focal point of today’s nostalgic essay – whose album should I purchase Eazy E or Ice T? The album, Str8 off Tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton, was released a year later, framing an iconic career as a trailblazer for West Coast hip-hop.September 13, 1988, a handful of days before my 14th birthday and while I had a few ends in my pocket, I only had enough money to make one purchase. While recording his follow-up LP in 1995, Eazy-E passed away suddenly from AIDS-induced pneumonia, a month following his diagnosis. Dre): 187um Killa, a virulent G-funk retaliation, peaking with the explosive “Real Muthaphuckkin G's” aimed at Dre. The feud would reach its apogee on Eazy-E’s 1993 EP, It's On (Dr. Capitalizing on the controversy, Eazy-E released his debut album, the seminal Eazy-Duz-It, remixing the hardcore, wry storytelling of “Boyz-N-The-Hood” and producing hulking narrative bangers like “Nobody Move.” Ushering in gangsta-funk in 1991 with the burnished reality rap spectacle Efil4zaggin, that album would be N.W.A.’s last, due to a falling-out between Eazy E and Dr. The ungovernable, funk-injected recital of street life, which culminated with the anti-police anthem “F**k tha Police,” thrust the group’s charismatic figurehead to the forefront of rap. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella to form N.W.A., which erupted into mainstream America with gangsta rap’s definitive album Straight Outta Compton in 1988. Debuting his distinctive high-pitched timbre in 1987 with the stentorian, day-in-the-life anthem “Boyz-n-the-Hood,” he joined with Dr. Born Eric Wright in 1964 in Compton, California, Eazy-E founded Ruthless Records in 1986 with capital earned from drug dealing. A pioneer of gangsta rap and founder of the infamous West Coast group N.W.A., Eazy-E’s entrepreneurial guile and radical rhymes redefined the extremities of hip-hop in the late 1980s.