"Eazy-Duz-It" is a song by American rapper

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. It was released as the lead single from the album of the same name. It features the song "Radio" as a

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. The B-side of the cassette single also contained the original version of the song "Compton's N the House" which only appears on the cassette single version, the vinyl single has a radio edit of "Eazy-Duz-It" instead of "Compton's N the House". There is a remix version of "Compton's N the House" that appears on N.W.A.'s ''Straight Outta Compton'' album, but the original can only be found on the cassette single and has never been released elsewhere. "Eazy-Duz-It" was produced by

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with co-production by

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, with Eazy-E's production debut. The verses describe Eazy's activities and often end with his shooting his enemies dead.

Samples

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sampled the line "...thug from around the way..." to make the song "Thug" from his ''

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'' album. Also, the song's line was sampled by both

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in "Ridin' Spinners", and

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on his song "Thug from Around the Way." The song famously starts out with a female voice (

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) singing a parody of the theme from ''

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'' before getting cut off by Eazy. This part of the song has been sampled several times.

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sampled this introduction in the creation of the instrumental for the song "Under Pressure". The intro has been cut short and looped to create the instrumental. It was also sampled by

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and The Game in their 2022 song " Eazy", and

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, and

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sampled the song's intro in their 2024 song " Like That". The second part of the song's introduction also interpolates the first verse of the 1970 hit " Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" by

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, and later in the song, the 1972 hit "

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" by

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Single track listing

A-side

#"Eazy-Duz-It" – (4:18) #"Ruthless Villain" – (2:57)

B-side

#"Radio" – (5:00) #"Eazy-Duz-It" (radio version) – (3:47)

Cassette single B-side

#"Radio" #"Compton's N the House / 100% Diss (Dedicated to the Wacky Wack Crew)"

References

{{authority control Eazy-E songs 1988 singles Song recordings produced by Dr. Dre Songs written by MC Ren 1988 songs Ruthless Records singles Gangsta rap songs Comedy hip-hop songs