Don't need to watch. I listened to them a ton when they were out in the 90s so I know the story, son.
Man. I think that first album is imprinted on my DNA I listened to it so much. I broke about five copies due to overuse! Only Paid in Full had a bigger effect on me as far as rap goes. I may be getting old, but that was an awesome era to grow up in for music.
Do you know I smoked out with Dre and DJ Pooh? We watched "The Wash" together before it came out in theaters.
Nah it was nothing like that. I used to own a print and graphics place and some dude would go there to get printing done. He would rant about how he used to roll in Compton with Dre and Pooh. We would always laugh at him saying he's full of shit. Anyway, come to find out, he lived in the house behind my house and we would shoot the shit over the wall. He would hook me up with herb and we would just do family guy shit. I would talk to him on how I found this underground rap group that sounded great. He told me he would hook me up with DJ Pooh to listen to the group. I laughed at him again. One day I was in the back yard and he yelled me to come over. I was a bit stoned and lazy and said "I'm too tired". He said "fucking get your ass over right now!" So I walked over. He let me in and we walked upstairs and when I walked into the room, there was fucking Dre sitting on the couch. I was like wtf?!?! He introduced me to Pooh and Dre and Dre asked if I wanted a hit of his joint. I was a bit nervous but sat my ass down. On the screen was "The wash" and I asked what movie was that. Pooh said it was his new movie. It had the numbers on the bottom for the time lapse, so I knew it wasn't out in theaters yet. I asked if it was like Friday and Dre said "Fuck Friday!" I was like wha?!?! And they gave me this story on how Ice Cube fucked pooh and sold out to Hollywood. I guess Pooh came up with the idea and helped Cube write it, then cube cut him out.
Anyway, I got hooked up with Pooh and he said he would try to work on getting my friend's group with a deal. At the time, I was interning with MCA records who was trying to land Dre. I had all the ducks in order, having pooh and Dre produce an album that these guys would spit on. I was gonna get a $100k finder's fee for finding them. The group backed out and I lost credibility with Pooh and MCA. That ended any connects I tried so hard working for. Pooh wouldn't answer my calls anymore and the A&R rep I worked for moved to Gasoline Alley. That's the business I guess
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/13/straight-outta-compton-film-ice-cube http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/14-things-we-learned-about-straight-outta-compton-20150813
See, the thing is when I was growing up, I was staunchly in the camp of Eazy-E and his side of how all the shit went down. Now that he's dead, it sounds like they will kind of make Jerry Heller the fall guy as an evil hollywood jew. Just a skewed version of how it really went down, son.
Eazy-E’s Son Claims His Father Was Injected With AIDS by Suge Knight Post navigation < > interview resurfaces online of Knight joking about the murder Since the release of Straight Outta Compton, rumours surrounding Eazy-E’s death have started to surface again. In 1995 The N.W.A. rapper died of complications due to AIDS, which had until now been generally accepted that had been sexually transmitted to him. However, in a recent Instagram post Eazy-E’s son Yung Eazy has come out claiming that his father was murdered by Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records by injecting Eazy with the virus. As insane as the theory sounds, he supports his claim by posting a video of Suge Knight on Kimmel in 2003 joking about murdering people by exactly doing exactly that: “They got this new thing out…They get blood from somebody with AIDS and then they shoot you with it. That’s a slow death. An Eazy-E thing.” http://indie88.com/eazy-es-son-claims-his-father-was-injected-with-aids-by-suge-knight/
This has been said for years. I could see this as true. Many say he was responsible for Pac & Biggie.
