Treach had some kind words to share for the late Eazy-E on the 29th anniversary of the N.W.A legend’s passing.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (March 26), the Naughty By Nature rapper paid homage with a black and white photo of Eazy.
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“Rest in GANGSTERS PARADISE O.G,” Treach wrote. “You Kicked opened Doors for the Culture like no other, Its was Great knowing you Homie!!”
The Compton native died from AIDS-induced pneumonia at 30 years old on March 26, 1995 – making next year the 30th anniversary of his passing.
While it’s been a bit since any unreleased Eazy-E music has surfaced, DJ Yella is not against using AI technology being used to bring his voice to new N.W.A. music — and in fact, something may already be in the works.
TMZ caught up with Yella at Eazy’s street sign unveiling in November, where the city of Compton officially changed the name of Auto Drive South’s 100 block to Eazy Street. When discussing the possibility of new music, he echoed Lil Eazy-E’s conversation from the same event that artificial intelligence may help bring more N.W.A. tracks to the masses.
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“Is there any more music left from N.W.A? I don’t think so, because I had all the masters,” he began. “I was the last person with Eazy’s last album… All the stuff I had in my hand. I didn’t think nothing about it. We had a bunch of instrumentals, but nothing with tracks, with words.”
When asked about the prospect of using AI, he replied: “I think somebody’s working on something like that with Eazy’s voice. I haven’t heard it yet, but they said it worked great. I’m like, ‘I gotta hear it to believe it.’”
He went on: “I don’t think you gonna recreate it, you just gonna duplicate. That’s all it is. You ain’t recreating the original. But it’s different, I guess it’s the new thing. You know, ‘technology.’ It would be different, keep that name going. Keep that Compton thing going. Yeah, it’s cool to me.”
When talking to TMZ at the same event, Lil Eazy (real name Eric Darnell Wright Jr.) revealed that AI could be instrumental in helping with the release of the music.
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“We’ll see,” he said when asked about the prospect. “We’ll see how that’s coming, you know what I mean? There is, y’know, some hidden tracks out there, so we’ll see how that goes.”
The N.W.A frontman’s estate released Eazy’s only posthumous album, Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton, in January 1996, and an EP in 2002 titled Impact of a Legend.
