Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic gave a considerable amount of attention to the album's production, saying that "Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, was praised by several critics. The album's production, almost solely done by Dr. Marcus Reeves, author of Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power (2009) ISBN 9780865479975, described MC Ren's writing style as "elaborate storytelling and acrobatic verbiage", while the D.O.C.'s included "syllabically punchy boasts" and Ice Cube wrote, "masterfully insightful first-person narratives." Ice Cube's writing was often inspired by comedians like Richard Pryor and Rudy Ray Moore. His second and last solo album, Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton (1996), was not released until roughly a year after his death.Įazy-Duz-It was recorded at Audio Achievements in Torrance, California in 1988. The 25th anniversary (2013) contains two bonus tracks, a 12 remixes of "We Want Eazy" and a 12 remixes of "Still Talkin'".Įazy-Duz-It is the only full-length solo album Eazy-E released in his lifetime for the remaining seven years of his life, he would continue recording with N.W.A until their break up in 1991, release two solo EPs and continue running his label Ruthless. The remastered version contains tracks from the extended play (EP), 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992). Three singles were released from the album, each charting in the US.
The album charted on two different charts and went 2× Platinum in the United States despite very little promotion by radio and television. It was released on November 23, 1988, by Ruthless Records and Priority Records. After releasing several popular EPs, Eazy-E suddenly discovered, much to his horror, that he was dying of AIDS he died in March 1995, only a month after first being diagnosed with the disease.Eazy-Duz-It is the debut studio album by American rapper Eazy-E. Eazy-E also continued running Ruthless Records, producing new artists, and making frequent guest appearances on other rappers' albums. Most of his solo raps covered the same group as N.W.A., though a prominent feud with Dr. split up in 1991, Eazy-E went on to a high-profile full-time solo career, though he had actually released his solo debut, Eazy-Duz-It, in 1988, while still in N.W.A. Eazy-E was an instrumental member of the group, his high-pitched whiny voice becoming a trademark of the group, now considered the progenitors of the "gangsta rap" genre.
(MC Ren joined in 1987.) Over the next few years NWA became the most notorious group in rap, penning vulgar rhymes which celebrated urban violence, denigrated women and advocated killing police officers. In 1986 Eazy-E, as he called himself, began a rap career by forming Niggaz Wit Attitudes (known as N.W.A.) with Dre, Cube, DJ Yella, the Arabian Prince, and the D.O.C. In the mid-'80s Wright founded a rap record company, Ruthless Records, with profits from his drug dealing, recruiting emerging rap talents such as Dr. gangsta rapper/producer Eazy-E grew up on the rough streets of Los Angeles, where he dealt drugs for a living after dropping out of high school. Real Name Eric Lynn Wright Profile Born: September 7, 1963, Compton, Los Angeles, CAīorn Eric Wright in Compton, Calif.
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