Part 5
RP: How important do you think public perception is?
Eazy-E:
It’s real important. You got people like Ice Cube and whoever else that’s left,
and he’s tellin’ people, “He’s fuckin’ you, he’s doin that.” Tellin’ other
people shit and makin’ other people think, I don’t wanna take my shit over
there and fuck with them. This makes my shit looked fucked up by what they
said. If I’ve been fuckin’ everybody, why aren’t they suin’ me? That’s all I
wanna know. All the shit they say is bullshit and they know it. But they can’t
let their buddies know that they was wrong.
RP:
Does this shit bother you?
Eazy-E:
No. I’m gonna overlook that shit. I’m gonna go about my business and do what I
gotta do and take care of my shit. My business, my mother, my family. If you
gonna dis me, I’m gonna dis you. Fuck it, let’s dis each other. Let’s make that
money. Okay, we’re dissing each other now, like LL and Kool Moe Dee. Fuck doing
that on record, let’s dis onstage! I’m talkin’ about next week, not yesterday.
RP:
One perception of you is that you hate women.
Eazy-E:
Oh yeah. I hate women. I love women. If it wasn’t for women, half of us
couldn’t be sane. Niggas would go crazy without women. It’s just those bitches.
A woman is what a bitch used to be until she got fucked-up in her head, like
these other fucked-up guys. Once they got their heads back, they would come
back. I love women.
RP:
It upsets me to see all these sisters selling themselves short. To advertise
their shit for “500 funky dollars” [referring to a pool party competition].
Eazy-E:
The pool party? Don’t look at’ em like they crazy. It’s fucked ‘cause they got
up there and shook their ass and everything for $500, but they workin’.
RP:
Are those the women you call bitches and ho’s?
Eazy-E:
Whether they bitches or ho’s, you gonna work and you gotta get paid. They might
be bitches and ho’s. I say bitches are women who wanna get your mind, destroy
you, get your money, and then go off and fuck with him and her and him. She’s a
bitch. Niggas can be bitches too. It’s not just that girl who stuck her ass out
and was a tramp, bitch and all that. If her head is fucked-up like these people
around here, out to get to take, then she’s a bitch.
RP:
Where does the ho’ element fall in?
Eazy-E:
A ho’ is a girl who’s a prostitute. She’s working. I don’t knock her. She workin’.
Makin’ money. Paying her rent or get her dope or whatever. The ho’ is workin’.
[But] a man needs a woman or he’d be crazy. We gotta keep growing. Adam and Eve
were here first. Shit, I don’t know If they were here. Everything’s fucked-up.
Blue is black. Black is blue.
RP:
What were you like as a kid?
Eazy-E:
I had everything I could possibly have up until a certain point. And if there
was something I wanted, I said, “I want that.” My mother and father weren’t in
a position where they could say “Here, go get it,” but I had everything I wanted.
They wanted me to try to get to the shit on my own. I said “I’m gonna get it,”
and I got it. They taught me to go out there and get what I want. And I will
never forget that about them.
RP:
Do they ever express concern about your music?
Eazy-E:
They was just always happy for me, just seein’ that I was doin’ somethin’,
whether I was cussin’ or not on records, as long as I was doin’ somethin’ to be
positive instead of bein’ out on the streets. Somebody killed my cousin, and me
and him used to be together every day. I just happened to go off and do some
business with my mother that night, and I wasn’t there. I figure I was there, I’d
probably be dead right along with him.
RP:
Is that when you got out of that particular business?
Eazy-E:
I stuck in it for a while. Then I realized this shit ain’t happenin’. I was
gonna end up like half of my friends who are dead or in jail. So I took what
little that I had that I was savin’ up. My friends looked at me like I was
fuckin’ crazy and said, “That music shit ain’t gonna happen.” But we put
something together. We did it. By ourselves. I showed everyone I could do this on
my own with my own money, and the shit happened. And my friends that told
me, “No, you can’t do this”? I’m helpin’ one friend right now who told me that,
but him bein’ my friend, I’m helpin’ him. I got other mufuckas out there that was
with me who turned they backs on me. If one of their houses was repossessed and
they come to me and ask for money, what do you think I’m gonna do?
RP:
I think you gonna give it to them.
Eazy-E:
No. I’m not giving them shit. [Laughs] I’m gonna buy that house. You out, mufucka.
I’m gonna buy his house, not give it back to him, but give it to my friend who didn’t
turn his back on me. He was still there, my man Pat. You print that so he knows
what I’m talking about. Big Daddy Pat, as he calls himself. He never turned his
back on me like Dre and D.O.C.
RP:
I thought D.O.C. and you was still cool.
Eazy-E:
I would say hell no. They all cool, they just fucked-up right now. It’s somebody
else that’s fucked-up their head, that’s controlling them. If it was them, they
would be back. They’d be like, “This isn’t home. I’m miserable. I’m just runnin’
in the same spot.”
RP:
If could replay everything that’s happened in your life and career, would you change
anything?
Eazy-E:
I would change all the fucked-up shit that’s goin on between us as a family [N.W.A.],
and I would put that shit back how it was. We was happy. Not greedy. Not on ego
trips, and not greedy.
RP:
You always treated everybody associated with you a hundred percent fairly?
Eazy-E:
One hundred percent fair and square-damn right. I’ll put their fuckin contracts
in your magazine.
RP:
Last question: What for you, as Eric Wright the businessman, Eric the brotha, and
Eazy-E the artist, would be the ultimate?
Eazy-E:
To move my mother and father next door to me. To meet that right woman who would
be perfect for me-not perfect, but without too many flaws. For everyone that’s around
me to have a different outlook on me-to forget about all this fucked-up shit they
heard or made up about me. And for everybody to be back together and everything.
A family again.