Part 2

RP: How instrumental was Jerry in the success of the group? People construed the relationship as you getting fucked by Jerry.

Eazy-E: If Jerry was fucking me out of money, do ya think he’d still be here? Goddamn. And if I allowed Jerry to get money or steal money, it’s kind of crazy. They talked all kind of shit about “Jerry did this, Jerry did that.” Why aren’t they suing Jerry if this is the person who did it? Why don’t they sue me? It’s my company. They just want an excuse. The white shit. The stupid shit. They told me, “You should have a Black manager.” Somebody that was a bodyguard all of a sudden wanted to be my manager? No way I can see some other person’s bodyguard turning around trying to be my manager. I had a publicist who pulled me to the side and said, “Come on, let’s go make this deal over here. You get Jerry and all those dudes. We should do some shit on our own.” She was trying to use me so I could cut her in on a deal and go talk to an A&R person. When I’m up here, I don’t fuck with A&R people. I go to the head person of that company and do my deal. Not with no A&R person. So my publicist found somebody else that was in my group, which was NWA, talked to him and said the same shit to him. All of a sudden he gone, she his manager now and she helps run his company. That was my publicist.

RP: What’s your relationship now with Ice Cube?

Eazy-E: I seen him the other day. He cool to me. I like him. I like his shit and everything else. I like him. I never had shit against him.

RP: Was there ever a period after you broke up when you were serious enemies?

Eazy-E: We were never serious enemies. I mean, I see him, talk to him, we talk and shit. So, it was never…people around you blow up shit and make up shit. We did this little cameo in a movie, CB4. Everybody’s in the cameo; so I go down there and do my part. I stayed for a while, and then Ice Cube pulled in and everybody got up and started looking like “Uh-oh.” I hopped out my car and went over to him and we shook hands. Everybody was like fucked-up in the head ‘cause we didn’t have no confrontation. People are just stupid and fucked-up.

RP: I guess it’s because the disses you all did of each other separately made people perceive you as enemies. Did Ice Cube have any kind of response for the disses that y’all put up?

Eazy-E: Yeah, he did. He did his song [“No Vaseline”].

RP: There was never any kind of any confrontation as a result of any of that shit, was there?

Eazy-E: Nah.

RP: You said in our prior interview that the perfect rap group was the original NWA. What were the elements that made it perfect?

Eazy-E: Just us. Me. Ice Cube. Ren. Dre. D.O.C. And Yella. The perfect elements. That was the secret sauce. There was an answer to the biggest bomb in the world.

RP: What were the early days like?

Eazy-E: They were cool. Real cool.

RP: Do you miss it?

Eazy-E: Do I miss it? Hell yeah, I miss it. Now it’s only me, Ren and Yella.

RP: So Dre’s not part of NWA anymore?

Eazy-E: I’m just sayin’ that’s who was around. That’s who be together. We see more of each other.

RP: The group NWA is still you, Ren, Dre, Yella?

Eazy-E: There ain’t no group. The group is Ice Cube, me, Yella, Ren and Dre. That’s the group. This shit is all right, but that was the group. I’m not sayin’ the thrill is gone, but the shit isn’t the same.

RP: I don’t think most people would believe that you would sit here and say this.

Eazy-E: I know, but fuck ‘em. I don’t care what they think. I’m just being me. I don’t say too much shit to anybody. I really don’t say too much in interviews. But for this one, I’m gonna talk. This one especially.

RP: I was reading in Black Enterprise where Louil Silas [of Silas records, then MCA] said that the job of Black record company executives is “to take it to the next level.” Do you agree?

Eazy-E: Yeah. Just imagine, like rap, most rap-when you say “rap,” it’s Black anyway. So they get somebody that knows rap to get in there, he finds some hits, they make all the money and give him a little somethin’ ‘cause he’s a Black record company representative, but he’s the A&R guy. They just make money off him. If Black rappers moved over, put their money together, got a Black record company, Black distribution, Black everything, it would fuck everybody up, ‘cause they gonna wanna know where the fuck they gonna make money from now. They can make money off Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Crowes, all that…Vanilla Ice. That would fuck everybody up. Hammer, Boyz 2 Men, BBD, Kris Kross, all right here at this Black company. All these white companies would be folding scared. Japanese wonderin’ what the fuck is goin’ on. Where’s money gonna come from now? Everybody is at this Black-owned, Black-run record company.

RP: Do you see something like that ever happening?

Eazy-E: I was sitting down talkin’ to Michael Bivens, and he said, “Damn, that shit would be powerful.” I’m quite sure everybody else could see shit.

RP: Do you see anybody walkin’ in that direction?

Eazy-E: Niggas have so much power and don’t even know it, and they get intimidated by the man. He tell’em, “You can’t do this,” and they think “Maybe I can’t.” There’s very few niggas that go “Yes, I can” and do it.