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"He had a lot of love. Whatever you had to bring to the table, he respected it and he supported it. To me, he was straight up like 6 o'clock with everybody. He ain't never pulled no punches." |
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"I never call him Eazy. Eric, he was never a rapper. Never. Dre convinced him to rap it ("Boyz-N-The Hood"), and then that little voice, that unique voice he got took over. That's what started it." |
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"I talked him into doing a rhyme, the song was "Boyz-N-The Hood". I talked him into doing it. He was like, 'I ain't never rapped before, I can't do this.' I eventually talked him into doing it. He put on some dark glasses, and we cut the lights down and the whole shit. The next day we had a hit record. |
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"Eazy stayed around the corner from me. He was like my older brother's homie. He knew I rhymed. We started kickin' it. He start pickin' me up. I start going to his house, in his garage we started makin' little mix tapes. I was rappin' on it. I was gonna go to the Army. He said, 'Man, I'm a take you to this concert, this Biz Markie concert.' So we went to the concert and I was like damn, seein' all these girls. I was like man, I ain't going to the Army, I'm a make records. We start don' that, just street tapes. "He already had "Boyz-N-The Hood" out on the streets and we just hooked up like that." |
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"I think it hit harder than Magic Johnson and all the other people who we know that's Black and that got AIDS. I hope people just know that it's real. It's still hard to believe. It's hard to believe from seeing him in that club to one month later, he's dying and dead from AIDS." |
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"He has helped a lot of people, he has touched a lot of people, whether you liked him or disliked him. But he touched millions of people. I must say, it is 31 short years. He had a full life, he probably did more things than people did in a whole lifetime, 80 years or somethin'. He did a lot. I must say he had fun." |
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"EAZY-E wasn't a bad person because he died of AIDS. We have to get that out of the formula. We're talking about something that's bigger than all of us. No one is going to come up with a quick answer in the next three or four years. I don't care what mighty voice you have---it had better be the voice of God." Rap Sheet July 1995 |
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"When I first heard it, I didn't believe it 'cause you have the rumors and everything. I got to hear it from the horses mouth. I didn't believe it until I went to the hospital and saw him. And it hit me pretty pretty hard.......I grew up with Eric and it was like your brother passing away. We was close like that. The time we were apart can't even touch the time we spent together. We were apart and mad at each other about 2 years and we grew up together. That can't compare to the time that we spent together and all the good times that we had. So it was rough." |
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"Me and Eric sat down a long time ago. My beef with him was over years ago. I had no problem puttin' the group back together and doin' the record. I had no problem with it and he knew it. We talked about doin' the record, doing the N.W.A. record. That's all our conversations were about when we saw each other, puttin' that record back together, me comin' on his radio show, pretty much baggin' on people in the club. I congratulated him on Bone Thugs 'N' Harmony. He was tellin' me what he had in the chamber. We was just shootin' it, shootin' it like old times. For the first time we just felt totally comfortable in each other's presence. It wasn't no thoughts about what happened in the past. People in the club was trippin' on us hangin' together, just laughin and kickin' it. |
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"He was always the guy who could get out of anything. Fix the problem. Move forward. We lost a very special person in Eric Wright. His vision and fortitude were astounding to witness. He has achieved a place in American culture which will always be remembered. We will miss him." |
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"He changed the music industry. As long as this thing lasts, it's definitely because of Eazy-E that we made ripples in the industry. Till this day, you got singers trying to be hard as us. That's Eazy-E." |