Friend 4 life Part 2

Felicia ”The Poetess” Morris

RP: Did Eazy have a will?

Yella: Actually, he made it the day before his surgery. There was a slim chance of surviving the surgery and another slim chance of surviving the recovery, so that’s why he had to make a will. And he also got married that night too. But then the next day during surgery, I guess he was too weak to finish, so they had to close him back up. That’s when he was put on the machine. He never got off the machine. What makes me mad is I didn’t get to see him again. I didn’t even know he was in a coma for about five or six days. No one told me. I hate it, because they was keeping people from seeing him. The thing to me is, if I’m dying in my bed, I wanna see somebody. You see friends, that will help you inside. You might pull out of it. But if you’re sitting there and nobody is there, you think everybody abandoned you. So you think, “fuck it” and just die. That’s what he did. He just gave up. The press conference was on a Thursday, I seen him that Thursday. Cube came that night, but he didn’t get to see him. Dre came the next morning and seen him. And I think after that Friday, nobody else was seeing him. They kept everybody away. Friends. His children didn’t even get to see him.

RP: Didn’t they take his cellular phone away?

Yella: His pager and all that was off. They cut them off when he was in the hospital. Big Man, his real buddy, before he came to the hospital, Eric was just not eating. He was depressed. When Big Man and the twins [Eazy’s longtime friends/bodyguards Jacob and John Tovio] came, they lifted his spirits up. They went out and got him food. He started eating then. After that, they was cut off. They couldn’t come back no more. Then Eric went back into the same shell.

RP: Julio G was saying that they talked to Eazy almost every day while he was in the hospital, and he was like, “Come up here, I’m bored.”

Yella: Yeah, he wanted people just to be around him. See, Big Man didn’t want to tell me he was in the hospital like that. Eric told him not to tell nobody, so Big Man kept the promise. He never told me. If I knew, I would’ve went to him. I thought he was just in there for bronchitis and, you know, bam, he’d be out. But I never knew he hadn’t walked in a month. He was always in bed. He was with oxygen mask too. One hundred percent oxygen. I never knew that until the day of the press conference. If I had known that, I would have been to see him. It’s like, if somebody keeps your friends away from you, you will lie down and die. You’ll say, “Forget it.”

RP: Whose decision was it to keep people away?

Yella: I’m not going to say.

RP: So what is the future for you and Eazy’s final album?

Yella: I’m going to do my own album and dedicate it to him. I’m the only one that can finish his album, ‘cause I’m the only one that knows where everything is. I’ll finish the album and the compilation that we did together. His cover for the album is finished. It’s like a collage, little bitty parts of everything. But now we gotta add a couple little more things, because this happened.

RP: Eazy had been working on that double album for six years?

Yella: He had enough for an album. He didn’t want to put it out. He wanted a double album. Plus, he didn’t know what he really wanted to do. Temporary Insanity was the original name. But the name of the album is now Str8 off the Muthaphukkkin’ Streetz of Compton, Vol. 1 & 2. I don’t know if it’s going to be a double album or not. But there’s a few songs that I did that he didn’t put words to. And one of them I did off a Zapp track. I think I’m going to have some other people rap on it, talking about him. Dedicate it to him. I got to go on now. I know that’s what he wants.

RP: So is this the album that has Guns N’ Roses and Roger Troutman tracks?

Yella: We did a track with Guns N’ Roses, but the words never got on it. Roger did a track. I think Eric did the vocals on that. I did six or seven songs, and a few other people did songs. It was going to be an NWA song with Ren and Eazy. It’s not finished though. That was the last thing he done. Ren had a verse on it, Eric had a verse, then there’s a verse missing, so I might try to get Cube or somebody to finish it up. ‘Cause that would be the last song he ever did. We did that one back in January.

RP: One of Eazy’s biggest wishes was to have that NWA reunion with Dre and Cube, right?

Yella: We tried it, but you know…Eric told me he talked to Dre. He was just starting to talk to Dre. He talked to Cube in New York. He hung out with him at a club because he told me when he got back. And we were going to do a album, but I don’t know if everybody was going to be on it, so it’s kind of hard to say. We were going to try to do one.

RP: What bothers you the most about some of the perceptions that people had about Eazy?

Yella: His image was one thing, but personally he was one of the coolest persons you want to know. Because he was a person that didn’t say no. He would never say, “Nah, man.” He would just say, “I’ll call you you back.’ He did a lot for a lot of people. A lot of these rappers on his label and all that, he did a lot for them. Everybody knows that too. Deep down inside, he was a nice person. It’s a trip. One day he’s here and the next…It’s funny because people talk about him and don’t know him. Once you get to know him, you be changing your remarks for days. What messed this whole situation up is nurses in the hospital running their goddamn mouths, which I would sue the hospital for. See, he would’ve never came out with this. But it was out three weeks before the press conference. It was all in the streets. People was calling me from Atlanta, New York, Chicago, before the press conference. They was like, “We heard.” I was like, “Man, he got bronchitis. Leave me alone.”