Post by trashcanman on Jan 6, 2015 0:45:14 GMT 2
You know how it is, we post all kinds of shit during these little musical show and tell sessions. Punk, metal, hip-hop, girly pop, stone classics, foreign artists, random weirdness; basically anything worth hearing. The other day it kind of struck me that although we've featured a variety of rap acts here and there, we've never really gone the gangsta route. After all, it was Dr. Dre and NWA that really took hip-hop to that next level. But before there was NWA, there was this guy:
Eazy motherfuking E. Well, not really, but the crew that would become the genesis of the gangsta rap movement was originally put together to support a meagerly talented rapper with big time charisma for his 1988 debut, Eazy Does It. Dre produced, Ice Cube wrote, Yella DJed, and MC Ren was the hype man, but Eazy was the man up front before Straight Outta Compton hit.
Eazy owed his career largely to Dre's impeccable tracks and Cube's attitude, and when NWA split up over shitty business decisions it was hard to believe Eazy was going to keep up with their massive solo success. Both were smashing him to pieces on tracks in the their albums and he was looking like a sitting duck with his entire support crew scattered. He had to answer back or be forgotten as a no talent loser who got dissed and couldn't do shit about it. Well, he did something about it.
But first, he fast-tracked the 5150: Home 4 tha Sick EP, just to show he could still put out some quality tunes, bringing in Naughty By Nature to produce. Granted, the commercial lead single Only If you Want It was pretty weak shit, but the B-side to that single was something else entirely. That shit was hardcore. This was something that could stand up to Cube and Dre's output. Neighborhood Sniper is one of the most badass gangsta rap tracks of the 90's and probably the single best song to listen to while playing a multiplayer shooter online.
Eazy motherfuking E. Well, not really, but the crew that would become the genesis of the gangsta rap movement was originally put together to support a meagerly talented rapper with big time charisma for his 1988 debut, Eazy Does It. Dre produced, Ice Cube wrote, Yella DJed, and MC Ren was the hype man, but Eazy was the man up front before Straight Outta Compton hit.
Eazy owed his career largely to Dre's impeccable tracks and Cube's attitude, and when NWA split up over shitty business decisions it was hard to believe Eazy was going to keep up with their massive solo success. Both were smashing him to pieces on tracks in the their albums and he was looking like a sitting duck with his entire support crew scattered. He had to answer back or be forgotten as a no talent loser who got dissed and couldn't do shit about it. Well, he did something about it.
But first, he fast-tracked the 5150: Home 4 tha Sick EP, just to show he could still put out some quality tunes, bringing in Naughty By Nature to produce. Granted, the commercial lead single Only If you Want It was pretty weak shit, but the B-side to that single was something else entirely. That shit was hardcore. This was something that could stand up to Cube and Dre's output. Neighborhood Sniper is one of the most badass gangsta rap tracks of the 90's and probably the single best song to listen to while playing a multiplayer shooter online.
