^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1994".^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1993".^ "Eazy-E Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)".^ "Eazy-E Chart History ( Billboard 200)".^ "Eazy-E lashes back at rapper critics".^ "Recording Industry Association of America".The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). ^ Brackett, Nathan Hoard, Christian David, eds.The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). (Incidentally, this EP was his first release under a Relativity Records distribution deal whereby Eazy's Ruthless owned the master recordings.) The lead single, " Real Muthaphuckkin G's"-which, alike "Any Last Werdz", carried a music video-became Eazy's most successful single. On this EP, shots at Dre are absent from only three tracks: "Gimmie That Nutt", " Any Last Werdz", and "Boyz N Tha Hood (G-Mix)". Yet to exploit Dre's spotlight and his May 1993 single " Fuck wit Dre Day", which mainly disses him, Eazy changed plans. To follow up his 1988 album Eazy-Duz-It, Eazy had planned another LP, in fact a double, Temporary Insanity. In 1994, it was certified double-platinum, over 2 million copies sold. Eazy's most successful EP or LP, it sold 110,600 copies in its first week, and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 as well as at number 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Dre's debut solo album The Chronic, which, massively popular that year, repeatedly attacks Eazy. It was released in October 1993, largely to answer Dr. Even if you didn’t, a true Eazy-E fan could probably homebrew a better “greatest hits” for you than this.It's On ( D̵r̵.̵ ̵D̵r̵e̵) 187 um Killa is the second and final EP released by rapper Eazy-E during his lifetime. Don’t misinterpret the low scores here – it’s not because the songs that are included are whack, it’s just because if you bought “Eternal E” or “Eazy-Duz-It” the first time around (or even the re-issue of the latter) it’s ultimately a waste of your money. More obscure songs like this would have enhanced this album, which ultimately despite being newly digitally re-mastered and improved with a couple more tracks still has the same problem it did in 1995: it’s just not comprehensive enough. The problem ultimately is that hardcore Eazy-E fans probably have all of the albums these tracks are culled from, with the possible exception of “Eazy Street” from the “Return of Superfly” soundtrack. And it’s really confusing that they couldn’t drop the three songs from “5150” on this album, since all of them just appeared on the re-released “Eazy-Duz-It.” What’s the logic? What about “Fuck the Police” or “Benedict Arnold”? I cram to understand them not being on this release. inclusions and two (albiet hilarious) songs are ones that Eazy-E SUNG on: “Automobile” and “I’d Rather Fuck You.” If you have to give a little time on the mic to Dre, Ren or Cube it’s STILL worth it to use more of his material with the group to better diversify this alleged “greatest hits” CD. In fact, SEVEN of the original 14 tracks on this album are FROM “Eazy-Duz-It.” Even though we can arguably all agree it was his greatest triumph as a solo artist, the move smacks as a lack of creativity on their part especially given there are only three N.W.A.
It’s one of his best songs and it’s hard to argue with the choice, but there are some others that certainly could have been dropped to make room for it. Dre diss song “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” from the “187 It’s On” EP. Instead, the other bonus track that was added is E’s signature Dr. This is corrected to a small degree on the re-issued version by including “Ole School Shit,” but the much better single that was actually released “Just Tah Let U Know” is not on the album. At the time of his death E had been working on a new album entitled “Str8 off Tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton” but none of the tracks from it were included on this “Best Of” release arguably because nobody would buy the release of the (reportedly unfinished) album if they did. This time though they’ve re-mastered and dropped “Eternal E,” a compilation album of E’s work that appeared late in 1995 after his untimely demise in March of that year.
Obviously both labels were happy with the sales of this release, because they decided to dip into the vault again and re-issue another Eazy-E album. (3.) Eazy-E’s legacy to hip-hop was preserved for a new generation. (2.) The re-release included bonus tracks from his “5150” EP. (1.) The album was re-mastered for highest quality digital audio. At the time I applauded this move for three significant reasons: A few months ago, Ruthless Records and Priority re-issued the seminal gangsta rap classic “ Eazy-Duz-It” by Eazy-E.