Life, Death of Eazy-E Provide A New Perspective (E.1999 Eternal Era Article)
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LIFE, DEATH OF EAZY-E PROVIDE A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Published: Aug 18, 1995, 12:00 a.m. MDT
By Deseret News, Neil Strauss, New York Times News Service
One of the most interesting rap releases of the year, "E. 1999 Eternal," the first full album by the Cleveland quartet Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, is a free-flowing fusion of sweet soul singing and hard gangsta rapping.
Released last week, the album is important for another reason. Its executive producer was Eazy-E (Eric Wright), the rapper who died of AIDS in March. It is the first release on his record label, Ruthless, since his death.Layzie Bones, a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, said by telephone from his home in Cleveland that Eazy-E was the first of the band's friends to die of AIDS.
"That was the first time that we ever ran across anything like that," Layzie Bones said. "The way he died just set us straight on a lot of things and got our gang tighter together. It makes you think about whether some things are really worth it, and what we've really got in the world."
Though Eazy-E doesn't appear in the album's lyrics, the band has recorded a single, "In Memory of E," which will be on the B-side of a forthcoming single.
Eazy-E was best known as a member of N.W.A, the influential gangsta-rap band from which the top-selling rappers Ice Cube and Dr. Dre also emerged. "N.W.A affected everybody my age that I knew," Layzie Bones said. "They came on hard, they put on attitude and they made everybody feel what the ghetto was like."
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony left Cleveland for Los Angeles in 1993 with the sole goal of finding a recording contract, preferably with Eazy-E. "We were calling his office every day trying to get plugged in," Layzie Bones said. "Basically we moved there just to get closer to him."
Though the band had to travel back to Cleveland to finally corral Eazy-E backstage at a concert, its persistence paid off. The group's first EP, "Creepin' On Ah Come," sold some 4 million copies.
Layzie Bones predicts even better things for the new album. "It's going to do eight million, I'm thinking," he said, speaking before the album had even been released. "It's something different that's going to turn around everybody."
Layzie Bones wasn't just boasting. "E. 1999 Eternal" entered the Billboard charts last week at No. 1.
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Considering the author was calling him Lazy Bones, they probably weren't a fan/wasn't fully listening during the interview.
Lay probably said "we're doing a song in memory of E" in reference to Crossroads but they thought he was saying that was the name of the song
Easy bro. Its Crossroads, it was released as a single after E.1999 Eternal was released. They later added it on another CD that included the Crossroads song. Thats why we got different E.1999 Eternal albums
There's some problems here though. Crossroads wasn't even created until 1996. We have footage in studio of Bone literally recording their verses (Flesh too) to Crossroads in 1996. It's on RUclips and was on MTV etc. This article is from August 1995 only 1 month after E.1999 Eternal came out (29 years ago today actually!) and Layzie Bones (lol) said there is already a tribute song. There's no way Crossroads existed yet. The music video didn't even come out until April 23 1996 after the song we all know and love was done a little before that.
The kicker I explain in another comment on this video is Bobby Jones explained in his BtH interview that Crossroads went through a few iterations and originally the concept was to World So Cruel's beat from Flesh's album. So could that be what this article refers to? Coincidentally (or not) the angel reaper guy in the Crossroads video also appears in fleshs World So Cruel music video (again, reported to be the OG Crossroads Eazy tribute beat). Fascinating stuff right!
Dope!🔥🔥 Great find!!
The big question here is the fact that Bobby Jones told us in his episode on BtH that Crossroads was originally a concept created with the World So Cruel best from Flesh's THUGS album. Could this random interview from a non-fan in the industry at the time be evidence that the Eazy tribute song that eventually became Crossroads the world all knows, was recorded and exists someplace before it was remixed and recreated with DJ Uneek? After all, Tha Crossroads is technically "DJ Uneek's Mo Thug Remix" and it is extremely clear it's not a remix of Crossroad. The songs share no qualities. Fascinating article and "what ifs" that might still exist somewhere out there
Regardless of song titles Crossroads didn't exist yet in August 95 but an Eazy tribute did. Regardless of song title or if Lay just said a phrase and the interviewer misunderstood it as the song title, the question remains... what tribute song to eazy existed in August 95?
@@bonethugsi wouldnt go as far to say The Crossroads isnt a remix or Crossroad. They share the same concept and Bone has said countless times it is exactly that. The question is indeed what song are they referring to they had in August 95. It makes me wonder if he was saying they have one when in actuality they were going to have one and yet to do it……very interesting because Uneek released footage of them writing The Crossroads and that was like 1/6/96.
How random! Deseret (pronounced DeZeret) News is a local news outlet here in Utah. Used to be a newspaper, not sure if it is anymore. It's also owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church. Odd that they have articles on Bone but as a member of the faith here in Utah, I love it!
Great article 🔥 but that’s a good point. Either that song from WW3 even if it was or wasn’t digitally remastered you can tell it wasn’t recorded around that time era 95-96
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Sounds like just the OG crossroads like I don’t think that was the literal title
Bro the article came out in '95 clearly they talkin bout "tha crossroads"
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