Given the struggles you’ve outlined, it's a miracle that you are where you are today.
You were in the biggest group in the world, then eventually things changed and you hit your self-described rock bottom. You were immortalized in Straight Outta Compton and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before the pandemic hit, you were literally traveling the entire world playing shows. You’ve had your share of extreme highs and lows. I tell people all the time, how many groups break up when they're number one? I don't think it's ever happened. And this is the part-you break up at number one, but the group is not mad at each other!? So evidently, there's some outside influences. What would you hypothesize the outside influences could’ve been? Someone telling another member that they could be way more successful if they went solo? It wasn't the group mad at each other, pointing fingers.Īlways the outsiders looking in, what can they get? That's what happened to us. I'm quite sure it had to be stuff like that. (L-R) Rappers DJ Yella, MC-Ren, Eazy-E and Dr.
(Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images Dre of the rap group NWA pose for a portrait in 1991. So by default, you were then with Eazy-E and working on Ruthless Records and that became your immediate future. Then, the world tragically loses Eazy in 1995 due to AIDS-related pneumonia. You had inadvertently chosen your path, now you were alone and the other guys had moved on. I remember when they buried him and they put the dirt on top of him and then everybody left, I said, "I'm done with music." The music just went out of my body.
I’m gonna do the adult films all the way, 100%. That's when I started putting my name and face, using my likeness and everything.īut a year later, somebody wanted a solo album and for me to finish Eazy's album and the greatest hits. But that was it for music. If I listened to music, it was old stuff that's already been out from the early 90s and 80s. I jumped into the movies like a producer making songs and albums. I didn't think of it as girls and thrills. I didn't even have time to think about that. Never sat there like, "Oh, I should have went with him." Not one bit.
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