I first came to know and love Eazy-E via a primitive form of file sharing involving a repurposed Bon Jovi cassette. I was just a kid, fifth grade, I believe. I used to wow my classmates at recess with my renditions of Eazy's raps. Back in those days, Eazy sounded something like this:
A half-dozen years later a dude comes up to me and says, he says, "I want to ride with you to our (baseball) games so we can bump some Eazy." "OK," I says. So the whole summer, fifty some odd games, we drive all over the Willamette Valley listening to things that sound kinda more like this:
It was the post game times that were the best though. It was these times when we would, dirty hippies that we were, get high. Getting high, listening to music that glorified violence, throwing empty beer bottles at roadsigns, these were the times when the magic happened.
But, no, really, Eazy wasn't just about sex and violence and 8-ball. Even at the tender age of ten I could recognize that Eazy was one funny son of a bitch. Didn't take himself too seriously, as those who often take themselves much too seriously say. Anyways, here are a couple that I find riotously funny:
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Haha....that first one takes me back, way back. My only excuses, really, is that (1) I was really young - like 13 and (2) that bass kicked ass.
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I forgot to mention, all that driving around we did, listening to Eazy-E, that was in My 1981 (fresh) El Camino. Whew, glad I caught than one in time...
Yeah, chucky, no excuses are required, but yours are acceptable. I still unabashedly get down to Boyz-n-the Hood (whatever my version of getting down is). I spent a good two years of my life with that album as my raison d'etre. It was the high school years when my appreciation for Eazy sank down to the level of ironic. I'm happy to say that I've come full-circle again to the point of genuine appreciation, albeit for somewhat different reasons than I had in my youth.
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"40 ounce in my lap and it's freezing my balls" - I have no idea why, but that elicited a spontaneous gut laugh. Thanks for throwing this up - I'd never heard it. I think I was just a little too young and culturally sheltered to catch the early/mid 90's West Coast rap wave...I don't think I'd heard a single track from _The Chronic_ until I was in college. Extra silly points since I was born in south-central LA.
That and I wasn't really sure what day it is. Now I know. One of these days I'll figure out how to sleep like a human.
For some reason this came up when I did a Google image search for "40 ounce"
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Hmm... I could have sworn I left a comment here already... anyways, what I said was (sorta):
Someday, my dear Smooth, the world is going to twist your arm really hard and force you to begin sleeping "like a human" and you are going to hate them for it.
Surprisingly enough, that is the exact image I see in my head when I hear someone mention "40 ounce." Fucking uncanny!
That 8-ball track has a vintage of something like 1988, making you what? Something like four years old? You were probably listening, just too young to remember clearly... I was more than twice your age... The world was my oyster... Ellipsis...
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Quite sagely of you, bx, and I don't doubt it's veracity. I'm nearing hour 44 of uninterrupted consciousness, however, so I find my own ability to evaluate much of anything dubious at best.
According to allmusic.com "8 Ball" first appeared in 1995. Wouldn't be the first time that site was woefully mistaken, however. In '88 I would have indeed been a ripe old 4 and change. I led a pleasantly sheltered early childhood, however - wasn't really allowed to listen to much other than Miles Davis and my _Little Mermaid_ soundtrack cassette.
Come to think of it, I'm probably still just as naive as I was in the days of tooling around on my Snoopy tricycle - I do believe I asked fellow Mogger Terry Staunton what an '8 ball' is a mere 3 months ago
So much for my 'tough chick' image.
(Google image search yields yet another amusing result, this time for the query "tough chick")
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Ah, I was much older when I learned that definition of 8-ball, it was, however, equally as influential...
I have gotten to the bottom of the allmusic/8 ball S.N.A.F.U.. The song, although performed by Mr. Eric "Eazy-E" Wright, it was initially released on NWA's "And the Posse" album (Eazy -E being a founding member of NWA along with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, et al). The version in the video I posted is from NWA's "Straight Outta Compton," which gets my vote for the more worthwhile album.
Although more about rocks than 8 balls, another song that appears on both the aforementioned NWA albums is Dopeman, a song that allmusic.com describes as "brutally honest," but Brand X prefers to describe as "com-fucking-pletely fucking bad-fucking-ass, fucking."
And I'm pretty sure I know who that is in the picture, and that makes me feel a little sad on the outside.
And hell, while I'm all uploading MP3s, here's the version of "8 ball" from "And the Posse." It is purely academic, as it is an inferior version, and clean, or radio friendly. I'm not sure of the story behind this, but much of the humor is lost in this version.
I actually don't recommend that anyone listen to the 8 Ball mp3 unless they just really have nothing better to do, but the Dopeman, well, you should listen to the Dopeman, especially if you have never heard it before. It features Eazy-E a little bit, but it's mostly Ice Cube (of "Are We There Yet" fame).
Oh, and, uh, both of these songs are the "And the Posse" versions, in case that was unclear.
And Smooth, as your lawyer I recommend that you either get some meth or some sleep, fer fuck's sake! Fuck midterms, they'll be there when you wake up...
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Is it just me or does this (Dopeman, as well as the other two songs you put up originally) seem to have a lot less lame posturing than more recent hip hop? I really hate the word "authenticity" unless it's referring to something you can actually authenticate, and that rarely includes anything involving people. They don't sound more "ghetto" to me or anything...hm. Weird. So instead of saying this sounds "authentic" I'm going to say it sounds "not-douchey-poseur-like-KanyeWest."
I was about to make a comment about how funny it is that Ice Cube is now on a _Law and Order_ spinoff.....
Then I realized I was thinking of Ice-T. However, Vincent D'Onofrio is on a _Law and Order_ spinoff as well, and as luck would have it he just happens to have parked his unique brand of intensity in the thread right above this. Everything's just comin' up Smooth today.
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Shit. I'm getting sloppy in my old age. I was going to say something and it just popped right outta my malformed noggin' in that last comment...
brand X says: ...as your lawyer I recommend that you either get some meth or some sleep, fer fuck’s sake!
Astute and direct lawyering there, bX. Atticus Finch would be proud of your no-nonsense approach to those who keep you on retainer. Although I suppose it's in your best interest: the cashflow dries up fast once they croak. You'd be surprised how little legal representation a lifeless corpse requires. I mean, the whole Anna Nicole Smith debacle was really misleading. All the docile, un-coked up stiffs who never got their day in court should really start up some kind of class action suit. I could be dead wrong on that one, though.
Sweet jesus...I've raised a few eyebrows in my time with the papers I've written and their often silly or irreverent titles and footnoted shout-outs to some of the more obscure figures that have popped up in the research literature for that particular project. I can't even _imagine_ how fucked up and bizaare my papers would be if I was tweaking too.
I wish drugs like meth didn't scare the shit out of me. That would be a fun experiment.
How many hits does it take to form a cogent thesis about why Michel Foucault was the greatest mind of the 20th century and in fact, not a total douche?
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How many hits does it take to form a cogent thesis about why Michel Foucault was the greatest mind of the 20th century and in fact, not a total douche?
Shall we ask Mr. Owl?
I never really dreamed I would have been able to make Atticus Finch proud! Hell, I would have been fine with slightly impressing Oscar Z. Acosta. Then again, I have watched a bunch of Law and Order, so maybe I'm selling myself a little short...
I don't think it's just you on the Dopeman thing. It might have something to do with streamlining the product. You know, something like not bothering to put brakes on the new car design because none of the focus groups cited "the ability to decrease speed and stop" as one of the things they liked most about any of the most popular cars on the market.
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So I was sitting in the living room while my roommate was flipping through the channels this weekend and lo and behold...the genetic legacy of Eazy-E, his daughter Erin, has her own episode of the show, _My Super Sweet 16_, which features the unconscionably lavish parties of overprivileged teenagers across America.
From MTV.com's synopsis: "Pointing to a large poster in her room, Erin proudly shows the lips that she shares with her father....A dozen years later, Erin is confident that her father would want her to have the greatest celebration ever, one more than worthy of _My Super Sweet 16_."
"This has got to be the bombest, flyest, freshest party ever," Erin said.
Oh, and she was a raging bitch to just about everyone. So was her mother.
The full episode is featured here in case, you know, you're in the mood to punch a wall or something
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I will have to pass on watching the episode, but thanks for sharing it. I don't know if it was mentioned on the show, but apparently she is HIV positive, got it from her daddy.