[With a highly-anticipated N.W.A. biopic in the works, music icon Eazy-E's son Lil Eazy-E reflects on his father's legacy with SOHH and explains why the late musician deserves more credit.]
It’s a lot of people that think what I’m doing is to make my own legacy. That’s not what I’m doing. When I started making music, my father had passed away. I’ve been in the game for about 10, 11 years now. When I was fresh out of high school in 2002, the 2Pac and Biggie names were out but there was a lot of due justice that wasn’t given for pops. Just look how long it’s taken for the N.W.A. movie to be made.
There were people who came into the game like Game but I was one of the first individuals that was early on representing for him. Game had the tattoo of Eazy and I was representing for him but between us, there wasn’t really anyone else who was doing anything to preserve pops’ name.
That’s what my journey in music has stemmed from. I got a legacy that I’m keeping alive. I hope they’re going to do right with the N.W.A. movie. It’s cool that they give the accolades to Tupac and Biggie but let’s give credit to who started it. Let everyone know we could speak like that.
I’m just being me. If you go back in time to California to when my father was born and raised, going back to the hood, and you asked those individuals who was running things and doing things and they would all tell you Eazy-E’s son. Little Eric. The same stuff he lived, I lived.
I can’t set the tone to what my father did with the music. He was a genius. You cannot set the tone to the individual groups he put out with N.W.A. and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. All I’m doing is being his son and reminding everyone who started all this sh*t.
RIP to Eazy-E
I dunno what more Lil’ E wants. The ONLY reason I can think of as to why 2Pac & BIG get more “mention” than Eazy is because they were actual rappers (writing, recording, performing). It’s well documented that Eazy was not a rapper, but more of a business man/street nigga who didn’t write rhymes & was heavily coached in the booth. I think Eazy gets his just due for what he brought to the game. We all respect the fact he created the launching pad for some of the best talent in the genre.
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Unfortunately, Lil’ E can’t comprehend that in the last few years of his
father’s life, Eazy-E was seen as joke and a money grubbing scheister.
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg really did a number on Eazy-E with “Dre Day”
(though Eazy-E came back lovely with “Real Compton City G’s”) and Ice
Cube with “No Vaseline.” Eazy-E wasn’t putting out the hits and his
sound was archaic for the 90’s, plus he still was sporting that Compton
Jheri gangsta look. His name only got back into the limelight with Bone
Thugs N Harmony. Compared to 2Pac and Biggie, were not the rappers
that they were. Yeah, he opened the door for rappers to make hardcore
politically incorrect provocative music about being drug dealers, gang
members, criminals, having promiscuous sex, drinking alcohol and smoking
weed. But Eazy-E didn’t have much substance then those topics. 2Pac
and Biggie, did have songs aside from all that, such as “Juicy” &
“Dear Mama.” I think what really eats Lil’ E is that his dad was not as
popular as those two are, and while he is riding his father’s casket
into the rap game, it is still not enough for him to blow up and make it
big. Lil’ E needs hop off his dead daddy’s tip, grow up, and try to
develop some skills. Eazy-E was a very smart man, I don’t think he
would have approve of the man his son grew up to be, because even Eazy
knew that being a gangsta was not the highest thing that a black man can
aspire to.
Eazy’s son is doing what a good son would do which is keep his father’s legacy strong. I’m pretty sure had his father lived he would try to separate his path from his father’s but his dad is dead and of he tried to act as if he isn’t his son then his father legacy would slowly diminish.
FACTS! very well said.