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Eazy-E's debut album, Eazy-Duz-It, was released in 1988, and featured twelve tracks. It was labeled as West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap and, later, as golden age hip hop . It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States and reached number forty-one on the Billboard 200 .
The remix version, which was released on Eazy-E's 1988 debut album Eazy-Duz-It, contains a prologue that has Eazy-E describing playing "Gangsta Gangsta", a track from N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, then announcing he will be playing his own song, which is in fact the rest of the song "Boyz-n-the-Hood", and the song continues.
Eazy-E: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tha Dogg Pound: Another diss track from Eazy-E in response to comments made about him from Dre's debut The Chronic. This song also had several shots thrown at Snoop Dogg calling him broke, a fake gangsta, and that he gets no love from Long Beach.
The song prompted the FBI to write to N.W.A.'s record company about the lyrics, expressing disapproval and arguing that the song misrepresented police. [7] [8] [9]In his autobiography Ruthless, the band's manager Jerry Heller wrote that the letter was actually a rogue action by a "single pissed-off bureaucrat with a bully pulpit" named Milt Ahlerich, who was falsely purporting to represent the ...
Eazy-Duz-It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200 and became Eazy's most successful album, selling 2.5 million albums in the US by 1994. [1] In 1992 it was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. The album's first single, " Eazy-er Said Than Dunn ", would go on to peak at number 84 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs .
Eazy-E’s daughter, Erica, worked with headstone designer Tim Morris to update her father’s grave, and the family hosted a public unveiling on Sept. 7, 2019, at the Rose Hill cemetery in ...
Even Eazy-E's longtime friend MC Ren voiced his dislike for Eazy-E in 1994, calling Eazy-E a "big-head" and "wannabe mega-star", and even suggesting that N.W.A should reunite without Eazy-E. [32] MC Ren later said that the only relationship he had with Eazy-E was through Ruthless Records, where he released the platinum-selling EP Kizz My Black ...
Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American gangsta rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987. [3] [4] Released by his label, Ruthless Records, on August 8, 1988, [1] the album was produced by N.W.A members Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince, with lyrics written by N.W.A members Ice Cube and MC Ren [5] along with ...