6/21/2023 0 Comments Eazy e album ruthless“Radio,” a hilarious tribute to seminal Los Angeles rap station KDAY, and the Bootsy Collins-inspired “We Want Eazy” showed promise, but the album is a difficult listen - not for the sharp Stax and P-Funk-styled production (by bandmates Dr. Swept along by N.W.A’s ascent, Eazy-E released his first solo album, Eazy-Duz-It, in 1988, just before the arrival of Straight Outta Compton. The over-tweaked bass and hyperactive bells of the single helped establish a distinctive West Coast sound. While Cube’s lyrics vividly captured the daily, often deadly, motions and rhythms of the inner city in a way that flattered ghetto youth and intrigued suburban thrill-seekers, Eazy’s deadpan sing-song evinced a super-masculine stoic cool. But at Ice Cube’s coaxing and coaching, as part of the N.W.A posse, Eazy cut “Boyz-n-the-Hood” and “8 Ball” (both included on N.W.A and the Posse) in 1987 and became a contender on the live side of the microphone. When Wright decided to move from drug-selling to the relatively legitimate world of record-making, he never planned to rap, simply to bankroll and promote. But it is also fascinating how much of the persona of Eazy-E - ruthless gangsta, unrepentant misogynist, unscrupulous entrepreneur, airhead Republican and hardcore rapper - was improvised. You can read either the effects of a decade of callous social policies or the bankrupt morality of an entire generation into the story of young Compton hustler Eric Wright’s rise to become one of America’s most controversial stars.
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