No One Said It Would Be Eazy

By: Sheena Lester

Part 3

 

RP: What do you think makes up a real nigga?

Eazy-E: It’s bein’ real nigga from the heart and not just on the outside. You can’t be coated. You can’t just be that nigga on the outside and not have it from the heart.

 

RP: Do you think that most of the brothers in this business are real niggas?

Eazy-E: Nope. Some of ‘em is fuckin’ candy-coated niggas. I hate fuckin’ Oreos with my fuckin’ milk.

 

RP: So you think that most of them are fakin’ and shakin’?

Eazy-E: I know a lot of ‘em that’s real and a lot of ‘em that’s fake. They know who they are, and they know we know who they are. They copycat wannabes. Among us, I know who the very few niggas are too. When I say us, I mean NWA. Reason why I say that, because your real homeboy don’t never turn his back on you and don’t never stab you in the back. Should I say more? No. Not on that subject. When they read this they will understand and they will know who the fuck I’m talkin’ about. Niggas let the outside mufuckas get in and take it all. Niggas need to think. All they gotta do is sit down together in one room, and we fight or we talk. If we fight, we end up killin’ ourselves’ cause the door is locked and you can’t get out. But we can sit down and come to some kind of agreement before we kill each other.

 

RP: Did you all ever try that?

Eazy-E:  Nah. I see this happenin’. Whatever we do, we don’t need no lawyers, no shit. Just our word. Just our word. We sit down, we could create the biggest bomb ever. They can’t see that, but I can see. Reason why I see that? ‘Cause I’m on the moon and I’m lookin’ down. They can’t see me ‘cause they don’t have a telescope.

 

RP: You see yourself as a visionary?

Eazy-E: Yeah. It can happen. Never say can’t. If it happens, that would be the biggest shit in Hip-Hop. I see it. If niggas get off they high horse and come down to earth, they can see this. It would blow up. I’m tryin’ to make it happen. Businesswise, it’s the smartest thing to do for all of us.

 

RP: What about personally?

Eazy-E: Personally it is too. ‘cause we was all one. A family.

 

RP: Have you changed your outlook on business since the early days?

Eazy-E: I’ve changed a lot. In the beginning if one of my buddies was there and I did some shit for him, and he turned around and he did some shit for me, it was cool. It got to a point where everybody was like that. We need money. Here it comes along, give ‘em money when they don’t even supposed to get the money. Give ‘em extra money when they don’t even know it. Just give’em money. I didn’t have to. I was too nice to everybody and overpaid everybody. I made them happy. I’d do a deal, and I make money off a deal and I say, “Okay, Dre, here goes $75,000,” and he goes “What?” and I say, “Just for bein’ here. ‘Cause you down, you my buddy.” But we gotta go back to work, and we work and work and work. That extra money I just gave him from pocket, he took advantage of shit like that. I gave him extra money. He went to jail, and the person he was working for , I called him and said, “You know Dre’s in jail.” This was Lonzo from the World Class Wreckin’ Cru. I said, “Dre’s in jail. Give me some money to get him out.” He tells me, “I got $25.” I go, “what?” “That’s all I got that’s all could do.” I go, “Fuck you!” So I go bail him out of jail with my money, which I didn’t have to do. My money. But he can’t see it. Nobody else was gonna do shit for him. Like me and Dre was down for years. Twelve, 11years. I moved to Westlake Village. When I moved, Dre moved. I got Dre a House around the corner from me.

 

RP: You bought him a house?

Eazy-E: Yeah.  Got him a house, and we worked everything out. I moved from Westlake Village to Calabasas-Dre moved to where I moved. You might as well say when I moved, Dre moved. I moved again, he moved again. People got between that. But you have all this other stuff you created-millions and millions of records… Why go over there and try to make a home there, and you with this crook there and you know he’s a crook, you know?

 

RP: So he left what you consider “family” to go deal with what you consider “a crook”?

 

Eazy-E: He left everything behind. Money that he created between me and whatever, then tried to destroy what’s mine and go over here to a place you tryin’ to build. This crook is laughing at you ‘cause he’s gonna make whatever off you anyway. Why take your 75 or 50 percent that you getting’ and go over here and make 25 percent? It’s crazy.

 

RP: He left a 50 percent situation at Ruthless for a 25 percent situation?

Eazy-E: Whatever you wanna call it, it don’t make no sense.

 

RP: What’s your relationship with Dre now?

Eazy-E: He cool to me. I mean, I see him, I talk to him, but I feel like, you gonna be down, be down. If you gonna be homeboys for so many years, why let some mufucka that been your so-called friend turn you against me? You been down since day one.

 

RP: Is that what happened with Cube too?

Eazy-E: Somewhat. But Dre was more, higher. Head of everything we was doin’ down there. Head of production of everything we was doin’. Turned his back on certain groups. Jimmy Z. Me. Ren. Above The Law. Shit that made money to go make nothin’ and to put out one song in a whole fuckin’ year, which was “Deep Cover.” You the hottest producer in Hip-Hop, and all you did in a whole year was “Deep Cover”? Somethin’ wrong.

 

RP: When did he leave Ruthless?

Eazy-E: About a year ago. Somebody over here that wasn’t makin’ nothin’a t this company was promisin’ him all kind of shit. First they tried to get to me, but I couldn’t see it. I could not see it.

 

RP: Do you think people mistake kindness for weakness

Eazy-E: Yeah, when you’re too kind to mufuckas. But in the beginning, I wasn’t kind. This other shit that I was doin’ wasn’t kind at all, you know. I got a lot of groups ‘cause I watched them get fucked by tge people that had them before I had them. Like J.J. Fad. Ice Cube was with somebody else. Dre and them, they was in another group. They was getting’ fucked by everybody around them. I had a little money, Dre ahd an idea, and we ran with it. Shit happened. He made more money than he would possibly, a billion times more money than he was getting’ from the person he was with first. We been down together from day one, you gonna be down forever. Somebody sees that they can make something off you, and they just barely know you, take you over here and give you all these promises, and then shit happening. Something wrong.