Problem expresses his admiration for Compton, California rapper Eazy-E, who died 20 years ago last month.
“Eazy-E is the god of West Coast Rap,” Problem says in the episode of Live with Steve Lobel posted today (April 7). “He’s the top business-wise. As far as the music we listen today, it all started from him. He is the reason. He took control of his destiny, independently got out here and sold his movement to the world and shook this mofukka up. We still shaking from it.”
While talking with Hip Hop manager and personality Steve Lobel, the Compton rapper says he wants to watch the upcoming Straight Out Of Compton film.
“I can’t wait to see it,” Problem says. “I just got a chance to meet the person who plays Eazy. I tell him, ‘Man, you got it right here man.’”
Problem says he is disappointed by the court proceedings and alleged hit-and-run charges that have followed Suge Knight.
“I feel like it’s disheartening that he has to go through this,” Problem says. “He’s done so much for West Coast Hip Hop. I like to respect him for what he did for the city and the group of young men that are still able to perform today. Compton business is Compton business.”
Problem says his favorite rapper overall is young Eminem.
“Eminem, the early Eminem, storytelling, delivery, his beat selection and just how real he was,” Problem says. “He gave us his whole story on his album. I felt like I knew him. Plus I was going through some similar stuff at the time I was listening.”
The “Like Whaaat” rapper says going independent was a major boost for his career.
“I love it,” Problem says. “Great choice by me for us to it this way as opposed to the way, the traditional way people think you’re supposed to do it. I was signed to a major label, Universal Republic, and it just wasn’t for me. It wasn’t as prosperous as my family to me. My CEO is like my brother. He cares what’s going on here and you don’t get that at a major.”
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It’s sad that people still want to split Eminem in half and compare his old vs. new stuff; pre-Relapse and post. He is still the same creative, genius, intelligent and talented man.
Agree.But not everybody can be a reasonable man like you.
I would say Eazy E is a God, not the God. Gotta give props to Ice T, Too Short and Capt Rapp to for putting the West Coast on the map up and down Cali.
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Eazy-E was the subject of ghost written raps from Ice Cube. How can people hold him so high, when he wasn’t writing his own shit and then when he went toe to toe with Cube, he got demolished. The nigga was mediocre at best. And how can no one mention Snoop. Snoop is bigger than Pac. Pac didn’t live long enough to be the global icon Snoop has become. #LETSBEREAL
Apparently you dont know your hip hop history Eazy is held so high because without E you wouldnt have the westcoast as we know it, he was the westcoast Russell Simmons he was the Ceo of his own label that resulted in the NWA if there was no Eazy there would be no Snoop.
bullshit. i know hiphop very well. no one compares him to russell. if you wanna say he was a good business man, then so be it. but to act like he was a rap god it total bullshit. and snoop is not a product of eazy-e. eazy-e wouldn’t have a name if it wasn’t for dre and cube. and as far as comparing him to russell, you must be on crack making a statement like that. how many platinum artists has he signed? what businesses did he have outside of music? what positive things has he done for the culture? russell is a first ballot hip hop hall of famer. eazy would be lucky to make it to the hall of fame within two decades. #LETSBEREAL
Your full of shit lol. Pac didn’t live long enough to be a global icon? Pac’s legacy is 10 times bigger compared to Snoop’s lol.
Plus Eazy-E made Dre. He got Dre out of jail and gave him the change.
none of that changes the fact that eazy-e sucked as a rapper. he was a weak rapper and a weak performer. nobody was saying all this shit about eazy when he was alive. just like pac wasnt considered the “greatest” rapper of all time when he was alive. pac was good, but he doesnt compare to snoop. let’s look outside music, how many movies was pac in compared to snoop? how many clothing lines did pac have? how many tv shows did pac have? how many award shows has pac hosted? there is no cpmparison, everybody just needs to stop the pac dick riding contest. pac is arguably a top five at best, a top ten on my list. that nigga aint the goat just cuz he’s dead. even LL Cool J is ahead of pac. we have to learn to give credit where credit is due instead of living in the past. #letsbereal
Dude you just mentioned that being a business man don’t make you a good rapper and now you say 2pac didn’t had clothing lines, movies, tv shows etc lol.
Fact is that 2pac did insane much in just 5 years on this planet earth. He was maybe the first rap artist that tried to do more stuff outside the rap stuff. He was working on movies, a resaurant, he was planning a football league for poor children, he was building society centers and much more. He was ahead of his time and was planning stuff rappers are doing now.
Maybe he wasn’t the best rapper with flow or skill, but Pac was more than that. He was a revolutionairy dude, he was a soldier, an activist, an icon and the dude had so mmuch charisma. He was more than just a rapper.
i agree with everything you just said. and no, that’s not what i was saying. i was just making a point to how much of a global icon snoop is compared to pac. i’m a huge pac fan, i’m more of a pac fan than a snoop fan. but as hip hop fans, we are so stuck in the past, that we don’t give credit where credit is due. snoop earned the right to be ahead of pac. pac still has the realest voice in rap when it comes to an educated voiced opinion. but when niggas been putting out albums consistently since the 90’s and are still relevant. we have to give those guys the credit they deserve. that’s all i’m saying. look at us right now. in 2015 pac is giving us conversation, most of these young rappers are just gimmicks and bullshit. #keeprealhiphopalive
Snoop fell the fuck off. His only classic album is his debut. No way he’s ahead of Pac.
@A you must be a young thug fan. you may or may not agree to how many classic albums snoop has, but you cannot deny the presence he has on the west coast, let alone the nation. snoop is a rapper with a show on ESPN. it gets no bigger than that.
Everybody want to say ice cube wrote his raps lol its funny to me but on the cool ren wrote more raps then cube, Dr dre made beats, yella made beats eazy e did the rapping also put up all the money and had his own label, told them how to dress, brought they clothes shoe, even told them what raps to put out ! Down the line they all start rapping on the same track which they started nwa! But with out eazy they couldn’t even get in the club! If anything they used him because with out his money they wouldn’t be where they at! Dre will tell you they wrote the song basic off his style he was the only gangsta in the group! Eazy started writing his own raps! But on the cool dre and cube wasn’t even from compton only eazy, people didn’t even know ice cube are dre till they got famous in compton!
So god is a drug dealer with aids?
Eazy definitely was a shrewd businessman and he also was very self centered in really didn’t look out for his guys rub them for their publishing and reap the benefits of the NWA name like he built that movement himself Bone Thugs N Harmony, NWA, JJ Fad, Above The Law, Kocaine and The Doc are not benefiting off their publishing because of P E’s trud business tactics along with Jerry Heller so I must admit he was the real gangster of rap I have to agree with that.. That’s the problem with West Coast CEOs they just want to fuck over there artist
I agree with you on some points but please download the spell correct app LMFHO
This shows you that Problem doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about no disrespect to Eazy-E or his contribution to West Coast hip hop but come on problem you can’t be serious my Guy. You couldn’t pay E to write a 16 bar verse lol so thanks to MC Ren, Ice Cube and we can’t forget to mention Dresta Tha Gangsta and BG Knock Out some of Eazy’s writers back in the days. This just goes to show you how disrespectful West Coast Rappers are because by now everyone knows that Ice cube was the one who wrote rollin down the street in my 6 foe the song that kicked down the doors for Eazy E and Ruthless Records. I apologize West Coast but the only thing you’re missing in 2015 is the soft drippin ass Jerry curls because now you’re back to the weenie ass soft music and your go 2 guy is DJ Mustard lol he’s equivalent to Egyptian Lover and the La Dream Team the only difference is this is 2015 lol West Coast hip hop has no substance and fuckin YG is a fuckin Joke lol an X jerk Rapper turned blood. It’s sad that the Rappers we respect we might as well say their history like the dinosaurs and West Coast radio has totally abolished the real talent on the West Coast FUCK THE WEST COAST!! Because CRIPS & BLOODS destroyed our culture East Coast Said It Nigga WHAT??? and Ratchet West Coast music is for the dogs..
Lol lol how did Dj Battle Cat let wack ass DJ Mustard snatch his position like that? Battle Cat is ten times more talented than wack ass DJ Mustard. I know what the problem is West Coast radio is conspiring to destroy the true culture just look who’s running their stations now think about it?
He is the godfather because he was the one put compton on the map ice cube and Dr dre will tell you that! It wasn’t about what you saying he made so much history to the world even tho he didn’t write boys in the hood his voice made it real because he was real he was the one paying for everything they was selling cds out his car! They couldn’t even get in a club without him because gangsta fucked with him! He wrote down the line but at the end of the day I give all them credit, but it was really just him the movie tells you little parts he was the first rapper to go out to the white house the first to have his own label! And so much more, they wrote they raps basic off his style! Just like the song dopeman he was the only dopeman in the group! I can’t believe people being so disrespectful yall have no respect! But this coming from people who don’t know they history! And on the cool in compton eazy was god!