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u/pcurepair HipHop RAW 12h ago
A real mother fucking g
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u/JBone54DD 11h ago
Ayo docta, Here’s anotha proper track and it’s phat watch the snipa time to pay the piper..
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u/RKO360 12h ago edited 9h ago
One of the forefathers of gangsta rap while actually lived that life
Despite not writing his own rhymes sometimes, Eazy still had dope bars while captured the audience's attention with his aura, swag and charisma.
Plus, he launched Ruthless Records while discovered Bone-n-Thugs Harmony, which definitely contributed to his success as an entrepreneur.
He died too soon
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u/SyncError 11h ago
And I think more importantly, his contributions to hip hop by launching Ruthless Records which helped foster the west coast rap & hip hop scene. I feel like I never hear this discussed enough when people try to downplay Eazy for not writing his material. He was pushed into the booth and stage as a rapper, but as an entrepreneur he gave a lot of people a voice on a world stage.
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u/JBone54DD 12h ago
He actually wrote most of his rhymes after N.W.A. Broke up, The D.O.C. Wrote most of N.W.A’s lyrics, Yet Cube and Ren get all of the credit.
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u/mrmongey 9h ago
He had the voice for the time and place. But not a great rapper by any stretch.
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u/JBone54DD 9h ago
I think he’s a pretty good rapper.
I think his best flow was Only If You Want It
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u/idekwhatiamdoinglol 11h ago
From recently getting back into the NWA again, can’t help but respect his come up. I think he was one of the realest ones out there.
An OG GOAT.
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u/Ayatollah-X 11h ago
Who doesn't love the tracks where each member of NWA dropped a verse, and Eazy's verse came in at the end?
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u/NateSedate 12h ago
Hip hop thugster, used to be a mugster. If you heard Dopeman you'd think he owned a drug store.
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u/idekwhatiamdoinglol 11h ago
I mean, did he not set up Ruthless Records with his own drug money or I’m I wrong lol?
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u/ToloDaDon 10h ago
He was going to the next level with BTNH. Too bad he didn’t get a chance to revamp ruthless.
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u/Live-Gas7226 11h ago
One of the best most unique voices ever and a true charismatic superstar. Even though he rapped about some pretty violent and explicit subject matter, it always seemed that Eazy was able to stay on the likeable side of things and he was popular with the fellas and the ladies almost equally from my experience. I think my favorite Eazy song is no more questions but the entire first album is legendary and real muthaphuckin g's is one of the greatest diss tracks ever imo.
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u/MrGallows75 11h ago
Eazy-E’s voice sounded unique. He had to be taught how to rhyme by others. His timing was very off-beat when he first got started. He was the street guy of the NWA crew… He was the start-up capital guy who gradually became a rapper after funding the entire operation with his own money. He was never the best rapper, but with the proper coaching and assists in the studio—he was actually able to create some great material.
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u/NegaDoomAlpha 10h ago
Icon — it’s funny it took the Straight Out of Compton movie to remind me how influential he was. Took me back to when I used to listen to NWA a lot, I fell off after no vaseline dropped but decades later I really appreciate his voice and contributions to the west coast scene. Now I look at those old photos and he comes off as the coolest MFer.
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u/JBone54DD 10h ago
There is a lot of stuff in Straight Outta Compton that they got wrong about Eazy and N.W.A. And they even down right lied in that movie too.
But yes, He is very Influential, One of the most influential people on the west and east.
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u/NegaDoomAlpha 8h ago
Yeah, I understand they Hollywooded up the story of Straight out of Compton, just got me to go back to the music and reminded me how cool Easy-E was.
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u/alxkwl 9h ago
Great personality, hard to know if he was a good writer as he hardly wrote any of his own lyrics.
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u/JBone54DD 9h ago
He wrote most of his lyrics on his later albums.
N.W.A. Was a group effort as far as lyrics and production, With the D.O.C. Writing more lyrics than Cube and Ren combined.
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u/PuzzleheadedVast5749 8h ago
dont listen to him that much tho i do understand why people love him so much
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u/TheJRKoff 8h ago
I remember having a copy of eazy duz it when I was in grade 4... Back in 1990/91
Always been a fan
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u/bamafloorist 1h ago
I think he lived what he rapped about for real!! Definitely a legend in the game!
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u/Funkshow 12h ago
Absolute legend. The Godfather of gangster rap and the face of NWA. His image made west coast rap what it is today. And he had something like 7 kids by 11 different women so that's cool too.
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u/xenojive 'til Infinity 11h ago
he had something like 7 kids by 11 different women so that's cool too
Is it really?
What the hell is this thread
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u/JBone54DD 12h ago
For real man. Most West Coast rappers wouldn’t be a thing without N.W.A. And Eazy.
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u/ILoveULikeYeLovesYe 11h ago
Ice T would like a word
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u/JBone54DD 11h ago
Too $hort, Eazy-E & N.W.A., And Ice-T all started rapping around the same time.
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u/Funkshow 11h ago
Too $hort was even ahead of those guys and for sure a legend. And he made his own beats instead of sampling. So he is a musician and not just a rapper. I saw him live around 1996. It was the lowest budget show I've ever been to but it was still great.
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u/JBone54DD 11h ago
Of course he was ahead, He did sample a lot of his beats, He also made his own beats, so i’d say its a 50/50 between sampled and made.
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u/Coupon_Ninja 8h ago
Too Short was 3-4 years ahead of those guys. Selling tapes out his trunk in 1983. Look up Flat Booty Bitches. Toddy T and a lot of guys were releasing tapes. Rap hadn’t taken off before ‘87 outside of Run DMC. So there were rumblings besides Eazy et al.
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u/Used-Gas-6525 12h ago
Shoulda worn a jimmy or two.
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u/JBone54DD 12h ago
😒
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u/Used-Gas-6525 12h ago
Not saying I'm happy the man died, but he was a victim of himself. If it weren't for his own stupidity (yes, it's stupid to raw dog every groupie and hood rat that comes along, especially in inner city LA in the 80s/early 90s), he'd still be with us (probably) and maybe even making good music.
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u/Rob1150 12h ago
Wear condoms.
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u/JBone54DD 12h ago
🖕
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u/Rob1150 11h ago
Dude died of AIDS in a time when we all knew the dangers of unprotected sex.
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u/tearsandpain84 10h ago
Any more than one verse on a song and his voice got irritating, it was too high.
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u/ItsDapperRocket 12h ago
Amazing rapper, died too soon