Eazy E vs Daz radio argument is top 5 of all time

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Hate to say this because I'm a big fan of Eazy but Real Compton City G's held no weight when it came out. I hung with a lot of hiphop heads and everybody I knew didn't even know the Eazy song existed until I played it for them

Dre Day was getting play on MTV every single day... no exaggeration at all. Everyday that video came on MTV

We're talking back when MTV was MTV. Today it would be like if you was Trending on Twitter everyday... that's the only way I could explain how hot the joint was back then

I look at the Eazy E diss the same way as the Canibus diss to LL. People want to say that LL made the better diss because "Cool James", but the reality is that Canibus was stating cold hard facts. The same way Eazy was saying cold hard facts on that track. He even hired AJ Johnson to do

 

[filial_piety]

You cats are looking at things from an internet era perspective. 2-3 years wasn't a long time in the 90's, sometimes it took 5-6 months for people to even respond to disses, IE NWA vs Ice Cube.

Nobody said the song was gonna end Death Row, I said it put Dre on hiatus. And it did. The whole song was about how Dre is a fake gangster and how Death Row is pimping him....in the end he leaves Death Row, makes it a point to distance himself from all that gangster shyt, and admits he got jerked by Suge. Then his album flopped. Literally the only thing that saved him was his affiliation with Death Row when that song dropped. After he left Death Row he was directionless until he found Em.

Lastly I'm at "that song was old by 1995". It's a timeless record, one of the main complaints people had for the "Straight Outta Compton" movie was it's exclusion, and that was 20+ years after it came out.

Fred.

@ internet perspective.

my dude...I was in Jr High and High School when the two albums came out...and I can't remember anyone talking about RMGs in1995 lol...by 1995 Snoop was one foot out the door of deathrow, let alone worrying about Eric Wright


That's like saying that people were talking about NWA in 1995 (even though their last album came out in 1991)....at that time, their albums were just considered "old" by HH standards....no one hated on them...they just weren't considered hot albums at the moment

In 1995 the storyline in HH revolved around the East Coast vs West Coast drama with BadBoy n Deathrow. And no...."diss records" usually happened in a matter of a day or two back then. If someone nice was ranked on by another rapper...he was in studio the next day creating a diss record back then and it floated on mixtapes...and/or he was on the radio freestyling a diss live on the air with Stretch, Kayslay or Funk master flex...or whatever DJ back then in your city.

And no, it didn't put Dre on Hiatus...lol How do you figure that? In 1993 Deathrow was putting out major hits with a crazy line up and a ton of anticipated artists. The only damage to Dre's career at that time was due to the politics WITHIN deathrow with Dre and Suge. NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT EAZY E that year before he suddenly died.

The only headline Eazy E made in 1995 was the rumor of NWA getting back together for another album...that's it. No ONE talked about RMGs lol

And yeah it was "old" in 1995 LOL...how old were you then???

I can tell you for a fact....that RMGs got no airplay in 1995...no one was listening to it let alone talking about it. Yes it's a hot song...but the airplay or watercooler talk that you think it got 3 years after the fact is dead wrong imo.

It was basically a footnote in 1993...outside of heavy HH heads, it wasn't a mainstream song at all....let ALONE 3 years later.

Like someone else said, RMGs had no impact on Dre's career...nada...ziltch.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

It's really sad eazy e had to go

He was about to take over the industry beginning with the NWA reunion and bone thugs.

Imagine if Ruthless actually taken off with Eazy's direction.

The company would have been still holding it down and Bone would have stuck together instead of breaking up, reunion album, breaking up, reunion album.

 

[tuckgod]

Lazy Bone thought he was kicking some intellectual street knowledge

Then Daz told that nikka to get the fukk off the cooler

"I'm a gangsta. Whatever to Tru. I don't know what Tru is.

Keep that shyt in Cleveland, cuz. This Long Beach. "




Breh, how have I never even known that this took place

 

[1-8-7-Skillz]

Whoa whoa whoa. Compton was the shyt.

To each his own, but when this dropped and I listened thru it I was fukkin heated. When they announced Dre would actually be droppin another album I was like:

"This is really happening"

I was like: "Its Dre, that shyt gotta be another masterpiece/instant classic or else he wouldnt put it out."


Then i saw the tracklist and I was like: Many new cats on there but it was the same with Hittman etc. on 2001. Dre knows talent so they gonna be dope."

Looked up that Justus dude afterwards and shyt was

I was still extremely hyped like: Dre gonna deliver, he'll get something amazing out of his cast.


Then the fukkin album dropped.

I listened thru it, track for track.

By the end I was:

 

[Bugsmoran]

I look at the Eazy E diss the same way as the Canibus diss to LL. People want to say that LL made the better diss because "Cool James", but the reality is that Canibus was stating cold hard facts. The same way Eazy was saying cold hard facts on that track. He even hired AJ Johnson to do

it don't matter how true the stuff Eazy was sayin on the song was

The Truth is Dr Dre and Snoop murked Eazy E with a video

Don't get me wrong Dre Day was a classic diss record that got at Eazy, Tim Dog, Luke and Ice Cube... but the video took it to another level and the fact it was getting played on MTV everyday

The video hurt Eazy much more than the song

 

[filial_piety]

Hate to say this because I'm a big fan of Eazy but Real Compton City G's held no weight when it came out. I hung with a lot of hiphop heads and everybody I knew didn't even know the Eazy song existed until I played it for them

Dre Day was getting play on MTV every single day... no exaggeration at all. Everyday that video came on MTV

We're talking back when MTV was MTV. Today it would be like if you was Trending on Twitter everyday... that's the only way I could explain how hot the joint was back then

All true...just thinking back to it....Dre Day was on all day every day like you said....same with that Deep Cover song and Nothin but a G thang...those songs were 24/7 on MTV back then...around the clock on every video show.

I defintely think MTV launched Dre and Snoop's success in the early 90s.

Eazy E and RMFGs got absolutely no air play on MTV tho. I can tell you that I never saw that video once on MTV.

Back then I think I might have seen it on BET Rap City (Joe Claire and Big lez) but it was extremely rare to see.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Imagine if Ruthless actually taken off with Eazy's direction.

The company would have been still holding it down and Bone would have stuck together instead of breaking up, reunion album, breaking up, reunion album.

It's unfortunate, because after pac death, eazy could have slid right in with the 3rd nwa album, Dre and eazy could have pushed suge out the way, snoop cones aboard and he smashes again, dre, eazy, snoop, etc play a huge role in the firm album, later connect with nas, jay, etc. They find eminem, he brings nwa to an entirely new level of popularity , chronic 2001 is crazier with eazy and Mc Ren versus, imagine the eminem and eazy e collabos, then the eazy e and 50 cent collabos. Bone thugs and eminem collabos, bone thugs and 50 cent colllabos. Eazy likely would have gotten to the point where he pushes jimmy iovine out the way and runs interscope. Eazy would have found game, eazy would have found kendrick, Dogg pound would have had another classic sophomore album. Crazy and sad eazy left, west coast, needed a guy with his ceo mind to take west coast rap into the new millennium. Dre can be too easily manipulated.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

I also would have loved to see where the penthouse players clique was going.

 

[Bugsmoran]

All true...just thinking back to it....Dre Day was on all day every day like you said....same with that Deep Cover song and Nothin but a G thang...those songs were 24/7 on MTV back then...around the clock on every video show.

I defintely think MTV launched Dre and Snoop's success in the early 90s.

Eazy E and RMFGs got absolutely no air play on MTV tho. I can tell you that I never saw that video once on MTV.

Back then I think I might have seen it on BET Rap City (Joe Claire and Big lez) but it was extremely rare to see.

C/S

And I was a Eazy E stan back then

Only reason I heard RMFG's is because I bought every tape Eazy put out back then

Just don't like how people revisit history when it comes to RMFG's

Same thing with Common - B!tch In You... great diss record but the average hiphop head didn't know the song existed back when it came out

 

[filial_piety]

C/S

And I was a Eazy E stan back then

Only reason I heard RMFG's is because I bought every tape Eazy put out back then

Just don't like how people revisit history when it comes to RMFG's

Same thing with Common - B!tch In You... great diss record but the average hiphop head didn't know the song existed back when it came out

Same here... I was an Eazy fan since he came out....but just thinking back to it, the way rap music networked. If you weren't from around that rappers hood...or if they didn't have any circulation on TV or the radio...you just did not hear about it. There was no alternative/independent media like that....


As a matter of fact...the ONLY time I really saw Eazy E on TV back around 1994,1995 was on the For the Love of Money video with Bone Thugs...and even then I was sort of shocked to see him still rappin because I hadnt really heard anything from him outside of RMFGs a few years before then and RMFGs was more of an underground song with a mainstream WC HH sound to it....it definitely was not a known diss track tho imo.

 

[drugxglory]

eazy "talk like you got some sense. now speak"


daz "you dont talk to doc, the doc dont know you"




eazy "you ready to do this"

doc "do what"

that part got me dyiin

 

[mobbinfms]

I'm shocked nobody brought up Dre's Keep Their Heads Ringing in 95.

That song was everywhere in 95.

I don't believe that Dre was ever on hiatus as a result of the Eazy record, but if you believe there was a hiatus, it was over when Heads Ringing dropped.

 

[Bugsmoran]

I also would have loved to see where the penthouse players clique was going.

I gave that PPC album a lot of play

Them n!ggaz looked like they was 40 years old back in 92

 

[QU Hectic]

Eazy's record wasn't hot tho so it didn't matter

Dre Day was hot! I'm talking radio play and video play in heavy rotation

The only reason for RCCG'z not being heavy cause the Chronic had everyones attention and at that time Dre could'nt do no wrong. People wrote Eazy off cause of the success of The Chronic