You’ll here everything from saloon-style piano lines, to guitar riffs in the vein of some of the hardest rock, to straight up samplings and beat box works. Instrumentally, the album is wonderfully balanced. Eternal E is a collection of some of the most whimsically amusing songs in rap, and that alone makes it a worthy record. However, each track is a unique expression of Eazy’s ever-creative wordplay. Most songs are based off of Eazy’s favorite subjects: sexual promiscuity, violence/murder, and drugs. The songs to be found here are some of the wittiest lyrically you’ll ever come across in hip-hop. Eazy’s delivery reminds wonderfully varied, and keeps the sounds on Eternal E fresh and funky. His traditionally high-pitched, generally scream-like rapping styles are present on many parts of Eternal E, but the album also features plenty of calm, laidback vocal work from Eazy, further asserting his commanding presence on the mic. There’s no doubt about it he’s a great MC.
Of course, Eazy-E is in no way carried by his supporting cast. What you have here is a fantastic little compilation of some of the late 80s and early 90s greatest hip-hop artists working together to catapult Eazy to legendary status. However, The D.O.C., Naughty By Nature, Zig Zag, CPO Boss Hogg, and Kokane also play important roles on Eternal E. Eazy is mostly aided on the tracks by former NWA partners MC Ren and Dr. It’s a “best of” collection, that features Eazy’s greatest NWA and solo songs. The first posthumous Eazy release, Eternal E, is an excellent example of just how versatile a rapper he could be. This is mostly due to Eazy’s death after a short battle with AIDS on March, 26th 1995. Still, Eazy has become a hip-hop symbol, beloved by millions of fans. How did Eazy stack up as a solo artist when compared to his NWA cohorts? He was roughly in the middle more successful than some, less than others. You could essentially say that Eazy was solely responsible for the genesis of rap music as it is today. The ramifications that NWA caused upon their break-up had an astronomical impact on how they were viewed, and on the course of hip-hop music in general. Hip-hop spread like wild-fire across the U.S., reinventing itself many times over. This eventually trickled down south, and culminated in energetic, club-oriented rap styles. They helped to define West Coast hip-hop, which in-turn, spawned a worthy counterpart in the form of East Coast hip-hop. This, however, proved to be a good thing, as the solo careers of members such as Ice Cube would further the progression of rap music. Eazy’s constantly destructive actions towards his über-influential hip-hop crew NWA led to the group’s eventual disintegration.
“Who is this man, I’d like to shake his hand?” to quote Barry Mann’s “Who Put the Bomp.” The man is Eric Wright, but you most likely know him by his stage name: Eazy-E. Wouldn’t it be nice if your own moral flaws actually worked for your benefit? Vanity earns you a promotion at work, greed obtains a new car for you, gluttony procures you a fantastic physique seems like a ridiculous concept, eh? Well, as contradictory as it may seem, for the hip-hop business, the imperfections of one man would help to influence the genre’s future, and for the better I might add.
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