@OnlyInCalifornia 
@Billy Ocean and me tried to tell you about @SirBiatch
And for the record, you're 100% right.
NWA released the Panic Zone single August 13, 1987. That single had the original versions of 8ball (which is an Eazy song about getting drunk, fighting and "fukk the police" which we all know was written by Cube...Cube literally had Eazy say "Ice Cube writes the rhymes that I say"
) and Dopeman - which is pretty fukking self explanatory 
I'm not super familiar with the first PE album...but I'm willing to bet that they didn't have content like that on that album
So the idea that Cube used PE as a precedent for what he did on SOC, is ridiculous.
The BDP influence though
There may be something to that. The P is Free was the B Side to South Bronx in 86 and Criminal Minded dropped early in 87. I have to imagine that NWA heard that album, maybe even before they recorded Dopeman and 8Ball.

@Billy Ocean and me tried to tell you about @SirBiatch

And for the record, you're 100% right.
NWA released the Panic Zone single August 13, 1987. That single had the original versions of 8ball (which is an Eazy song about getting drunk, fighting and "fukk the police" which we all know was written by Cube...Cube literally had Eazy say "Ice Cube writes the rhymes that I say"


I'm not super familiar with the first PE album...but I'm willing to bet that they didn't have content like that on that album

So the idea that Cube used PE as a precedent for what he did on SOC, is ridiculous.
The BDP influence though

There may be something to that. The P is Free was the B Side to South Bronx in 86 and Criminal Minded dropped early in 87. I have to imagine that NWA heard that album, maybe even before they recorded Dopeman and 8Ball.