It’s a trip because our style was new when we did it. It was something that if it would have stayed reality rap, the music would probably have a little bit more substance than it has now. So I think it’s just, we helped coin-not the phrase, the phrase was coined by the media-we called it reality rap when it first came out the media took it and started calling it gangsta rap, that was a little more sensationalized than reality rap.

We go right up there with…but, you have to add people in the mix like Ice-T, people like KRS-One who did “Criminal Minded,” which to me was a gangsta record, groups like Public Enemy, even though they weren’t doing gangster rap, they were definitely standing up for themselves in a way that music hadn’t done in a while. I think we did it the best and we were fearless. And to me, it sparked a whole revolution of shows like The Osbournes, South Park and people like Eminem, Marilyn Manson and even The Sopranos. If they were a bad boy, they didn’t have to try to be a good boy. For artists, if they were raw, they could be raw. We actually sprang true freedom in entertainment.

With Eazy-E and N.W.A, we made it easy for artists to be themselves and still be just as famous as the squeaky clean artists who were kind of hiding behind a reality curtain. It was a part of entertainment that was kind of taboo and only comedians would tap into it, like Redd Foxx, more or less Richard Pryor, would kind of tap into these zones, but it was still considered blue entertainment back in the day. I think we opened up entertainment and artists to all spectrums. He knew what good music was, compared to stuff that wasn’t going to sell. His mentality, he was really smart and knew how to promote and sell, that was his thing. Ice Cube discussed his memories of Eazy-E with Billboard and XXL.

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