Kendrick Lamar On Eazy-E’s Legacy: “I Wouldn’t Be Here Today If It Wasn’t For Him”

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Top Dawg Entertainment’s Kendrick Lamar has paid homage to the memory of late hip-hop icon and N.W.A. leader Eazy-E by releasing a tribute essay on him.

In his PAPER Mag write-up, K. Dot noted Eazy’s ability to pen vivid, truth-telling raps.

“What made Eazy special was that he was telling a different type of truth, a truth that wasn’t heard in music yet. Before them, rap was fun — you had your battles and whatnot, but this time around, when it came to what Eazy wanted to do, being a visionary, he had the idea of speaking the honest truth, and I think it really resonated with a lot of people because it was the shock value of, “Okay, these guys are really standing out and focused on telling their reality, no matter how pissed off you get by it.” And it got interest from people. People actually wanted to hear it and wanted to know what was going on.” (PAPER Mag)

Lamar also noted how much of a positive impact Eazy had on his own career.

“I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Eazy and I wouldn’t be able to say the things that I say, talk about my community the way I talk about it, for good or for bad. He’s 100% influenced me in terms of really being not only honest with myself, but honest about where I come from and being proud of where I come from.” (PAPER Mag)

Last month, Eazy’s daughter E.B. Wright reflected on her late father via an Instagram post.

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This past summer, E.B. Wright talked to SOHH about her overall support for the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton.

“We were filming it about a year ago and I spent some time on the set, just getting to know Jason Mitchell, who portrays my dad and he really just did a phenomenal job. I couldn’t be more proud and I don’t think there was anyone that could have played my dad better. The overall film is really good. Dr. Dre and Ice Cube and F. Gary Gary, director, they did a really good job. They were really sensitive with the whole story since my dad isn’t alive. His own personal part of the story, they had to sort of build around that so I’m just proud of it. There’s a lot that I feel was left out of his personal storyline but this movie was about N.W.A. as a collective and their brotherhood and how they started and everything they went through.” (SOHH)

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  1. How wack is Kendrick for Riding the coat tails of legendary west coast rappers and legends in general. this guy has been talking to tupac in his dreams and bringing up easy-e after NWA theatrical Sucess. And he’s corny the only song I know from this guy is swimming pools which was a pop song fuck Kendrick

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