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unusual facts about G-Eazy


Runaround Sue

G-Eazy sampled the song in his 2011 album The Endless Summer.


Bitches Ain't Shit

Dr. Dre's verse reminisces about his former N.W.A band-mate Eazy-E (under his real name of "Eric Wright") and his manager Jerry Heller.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

--PLEASE NOTE: If you are going to add to this list make sure that it is an artist who has formed a SIGNIFICANT part of BTNH's career.-->Mo Thugs, Eazy-E, DJ U-Neek, Bone Brothers, Twista

Boss of All Bosses

The second single from the album was "Thug" produced by Mr. Lee, and contains elements of the Eazy-E song "Eazy-Duz-It".

CB4

The movie primarily parodies the rap group N.W.A among other gangsta rap aspects, and contains short segments featuring celebrities and musicians such as Halle Berry, Eazy-E, the Butthole Surfers, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Flavor Flav, and Shaquille O'Neal.

Creepin on ah Come Up

Features on the album include Shatasha Williams (the first Mo Thugs member) and their mentor and executive producer Eazy-E, and these collaborations began a new fad of having sung vocals for chorus' and tight flowing lyrics.

Dresta

At end of the same year, they made three guest appearances in Eazy-E's posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton.

Hold It Now, Hit It

The line "Beer drinking, breath stinking, sniffing glue" was sampled by Eazy-E in his song "Boyz-n-the-Hood".

J. J. Fad

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, the group were one of the original Ruthless Records acts signed by Eazy-E, and they sold 400,000 copies of their 1987 single "Supersonic" independently before Eazy and Jerry Heller had managed to secure a major label recording contract.

Menajahtwa

Two years later on August 23, 1994, Menajahtwa released their first and only album entitled Cha-Licious, which featured production from Eazy-E, DJ Yella, Rhythum D and DJ U-Neek.

Muzical Madness

The album was released on January 1, 1991 for Ruthless Records and was produced by Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and Jimmy Z. This album is one of the few, if not the only album released by Ruthless Records that is not entirely hip hop based.

Panic Zone

This track was also the B-side of a split single release with Eazy-E's Boyz-n-the-Hood, which was released in 1989, following the commercial success of Eazy-E's solo debut Eazy-Duz-It and the group's first album proper, Straight Outta Compton, on which a remix of "Dope Man" was included.

Rapped in Romance

Dre would return the favour to Ice Cube in producing the C.I.A album My Posse and together performed dirty raps together on the underground club scene which helped to get them the attention of Eazy-E.

RBX

The single "A.W.O.L." was an attack on Death Row, Suge Knight, Dre and others, with X comparing the dubious business practices there to the days of Ruthless Records, Jerry Heller, and Eazy-E.

Real Muthaphuckkin G's

The music video for "Real Muthaphukkin G's" was shot in Compton, California and starts with a scene picturing lowriders and then Eazy-E comes to rap his verse, when he says "all of the sudden Dr. Dre is the G thang; but on his old album-covers he was a she-thang", a picture of Dr. Dre from the World Class Wreckin' Cru days shows up on the screen where he is wearing mascara and lipstick.

Tweedy Bird Loc

When Eazy-E became a famous gangsta rap pioneer with N.W.A and Ruthless Records, Tweedy Bird Loc had started working a project called "Bangin' On Wax".

Tweedy released another diss targeted at Ruthless Records and Eazy-E from No Holds Barred entitled "Y'all Can't Fucc With Us".

WBEB

Also in 1980, WDVR changed its call letters to WEAZ, and began using the slogan EAZY 101 with Patrick O'Neal (later Robert Urich) as its spokesperson.

World Class Wreckin' Cru

This period would also create history as Dre and Yella would cross paths with a teenage performing group called C.I.A. (group) (Cru' In Action) starring O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson, Dre’s cousin Tony ‘Sir Jinx’ Wheatob and Darrell ‘K-Dee’ Johnson who caught the attention of regular patron, and local drug dealer Eric ‘Eazy-E’ Wright, who was looking to capitalize on this new fad and turn his business legal.


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