A biography for Eazy-Ehasn’t been written yet.
“We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.”
“What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.”
“I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.”
“Cussing ain't for everybody.”
“What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.”
“If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.”
“Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.”
“The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.”
“I bet there ain't anybody in South Africa wearing a button saying 'Free Compton' or 'California.' They don't give a damn about us, so why should we give a damn about them?”
“I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.”
“I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.”
“People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.”
“I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.”
“Compton is my city.”
“I put Compton on the map.”
“The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.”
“I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.”
“I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.”
“Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.”
“I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.”