Next up was “Ruthless Villian” which introduced the world to one of my favorite m.c.’s – M.C. Dre took a piece of The Bomb Squad’s production and he being a dj, also adding live instrumentation (shout out to Stan The Guitar Man) and killed it!!! First time to me, hip hop production was about the audio engineering as well. A day in the life of a gangbanger on wax, like the earlier “Six in the morning” by Ice T and “P.S.K.” by Schoolly D, but the production was stellar. A funky interpolation of The Temptations “Ball Of Confusion” soon follows. I picked up the Eazy E joint and I notice that there was an extra song that was not on the vinyl so that was a bonus for me! Came home and popped side A of the tape in my Walkman…A female voice comes on “He was once a thug from around the way – Eazy”! And then you hear Eazy interrupt and kick a then unkown Michelle’ out the vocal booth and command Dr. I stroll into the legendary Peaches record store and go straight to the cassettes. He had saw the record at The Wiz, I told him to go buy it asap! Summer rolls around and just like all things hip hop at that time, music drops with no promo. Anyway, listening to the radio – I heard a screeching synth line that I never heard before followed by a menacing voice(O’Shea Jackson aka Ice Cube) speaking on the perils of the dope game, which I knew about well (That’s another story) but what was crazy about the song was the last guy to rap. I know about is National Wrestling Alliance” bein smart… He said I had to peep them because they were hard as hell! “Yeah Right” I replied, because nothing could touch Public Enemy. Criminal asked if I had heard of a group called N.W.A. , they got more hip hop than D.C., major but more so independent! My folks D.J. I thought I was a bad azz by mentioning Boogie Down Productions “Criminal Minded” to the crew but they shot me down and one up’ed me by telling me about “By Any Means Neccesary” album which I hadn’t even heard about!! It dawned on me that down in the N.O. We would asked each other about different hip hop groups had we heard of, as well as albums that were out at the time.
While I got adjusted to the new surroundings and friends – the music, especially hip hop was different. I had just moved to New Orleans at the beginning of 88 to stay with pops (moms couldn’t handle me!!) from D.C. This was the first single released off the album of the same name. back at cha on a special day for my man Eazy-E! Today is a treat for me, Ill be speaking on a cas-single(cassette single) from Eazy E called “Eazy Duz It”. Maryland rapper Logic also sampled the song's intro in the creation of the instrumental for the song "Under Pressure". The intro has been cut short and looped to create the instrumental of Logic's famous song.What up ya’ll, it’s the Good Dr. Also the song's line was sampled by both Memphis duo Three 6 Mafia DJ Paul and Juicy J in "Ridin' Spinners", and Memphis rapper Yo Gotti on his song "Thug From Around The Way". Slim Thug sampled the line ".thug from around the way." to make the song "Thug" from his Boss of All Bosses album. Dre with co-production by DJ Yella, with Eazy-E's production debut. There is a remix version of Compton's N The House that appears on N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton album, but the original can only be found on the cassette single and has never been released elsewhere. The b-side of the cassette single also contained the original version of the song Compton's N The House which only appears on the cassette single version, the vinyl single has a radio edit of Eazy-Duz-It instead of Compton's N The House. It features the song "Radio" as a b-side. It was released as a lead single from the album of the same name. "Eazy-Duz-It" is a song by West Coast rapper Eazy-E. West Coast hip hop, Golden age hip hop, Comedy hip hop, Hardcore hip hopĪndre Young, Antoine Carraby, Eric Wright Single by Eazy-E from the album " Eazy-Duz-It"