{"id":103561,"date":"2016-03-26T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=103561"},"modified":"2016-03-26T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:30:34","slug":"dig-of-the-day-eazy-e-only-if-you-want-it-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-eazy-e-only-if-you-want-it-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Eazy-E &#8211; Only If You Want It (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8YtdvDez8X4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>21 years ago today, <strong>Ruthless Records<\/strong> founder and Compton Hip-Hop legend <strong>Eazy-E<\/strong>  passed away. Here&#8217;s the uncensored version of his 1992 classic which was released on <em>Only If You Want It<\/em> CD and 12&#8243; single b\/w <em>Neighborhood Sniper<\/em>. He poured his heart into this one, no denyin&#8217; it.<\/p>\n<p>Many times he&#8217;s  referred to as The Godfather of Gangsta Rap. He released two albums while alive and numerous singles and of course,  he was a member of the legendary groundbreakin&#8217; group <strong>N.W.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Naughty By Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RIP <strong>Eazy<\/strong> (September 7, 1964 \u2013 March 26, 1995)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"103562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-eazy-e-only-if-you-want-it-1992\/eazy-e-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?fit=620%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,413\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eazy-e\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?fit=620%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"eazy-e\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/eazy-e.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 years ago today, Ruthless Records founder and Compton Hip-Hop legend Eazy-E passed away. Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-qWl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}