More like because their members couldnt stop doing dumb shyt, their music fell off, and Tomica Wright didnt know how to run a label
If Eazy never died they woulda been bigger than Snoop to this day, he wouldve made sure
shhieet, the industry was shakey towards eazy himself.
hell, they dont even like to mention ruthless. they darn near wrote that label out the history books.
Not really. I remember when Tha Crossroads came out and that single blew the fukk up. Bigger than California Love, and Killing Me Softly (those songs being the most requested on the radio). There was a lot of anticipation for their next album and they followed it up with an album that had some weak singles. "Look Into My Eyes" was boring and "If I Could Teach the World" just sounded like a watered down attempt at making another Crossroads-type of song. I was a big fan of them at the time and was like "wtf is this bullshyt" when I heard the first two singles.
Also, how can you claim they were trying to influence black youth in a positive way when they were still making songs about killing cops, murder, and beefing with other rap groups in light of the eastcoast/westcoast beef?
The reason they didn't continue their winning streak:
1. Weak lead off singles for the Art of War
2. Disappointing follow up to E.1999
3. Ruthless Records had lost Eazy-E and was being ran by someone who knew little-to-nothing about the music industry.
4. Then Bizzy, their most recognizable and distinct member was in constant conflict with them which eventually led them to breaking up. Bizzy wasn't even in the music videos for their album.
those art of war singles were big. "if i could teach the world" was HUGE actually.
"look into my eyes" isnt boring. but it does sound dreary on video, and it doesnt help that it was a summer video. but when you put that chit in a system??
its a whole nother story. and its a great diss record on top of everything.
naturally, anybody is gonna have a dropoff in quality trying to follow-up an album like e.99 eternal. everybody had dropoffs following up albums like that.
Thats the thing tho....Whodini was well acknowledged in the 90's. Nas had two singles "one love" and "If I Ruled The World" which were whodini throwbacks. 2pac had joints redoing thier music. Video Music Box is still on till this day which means that Whodini have been getting a check since 1985 because Five Minutes Of Funk is still their theme music. Till this day i wasnt feeling how Jim Jones acknowledged Eazy E but didnt acknowledge whodini who did the original beat fo Boyz In The Hood when he used that beat for Certified Gangsters. Whodini were as big in the mid 80's as Run DMC so by the 90's they were still very popular. Remember what Day Day was singing in that scene in Next Friday when he was tied up in the Mexicans house?
well jones remade the "boyz n the hood" song. not neccessarily the beat. but i hear you. and to make you feel worse, jones did it again on the following album when he remade "homies & thugs"(scarface/2pac/master p) and didnt acknowledge the original whodini sample that it was derived from.
but yea, whodini is probably the most sampled & rehashed rap group ever. kids just dont know.
anyway tho, bone always gave props to whodini. they even remade "friends" on art of war. but thats bone's influence that youve been hearing all over the airwaves since the late '90s tho. not whodini's. same way whodini had more influence on acts like bone than the fearless four, fantasy three, etc had in the '90s. and then max b came along and now theres acts that were moreso influenced by him.(dudes like wiz will shoutout both max and bone).
Mid 80's this hook was real popular amongst the kids in my neck of the woods....It became so popular that there were different variations like the most popular..."She's a ho..she's a ho..she fukked Rambo, Commando and Gi Joe" The popularity obviously spread across the country because Eazy E jacked that beat from the very popular Whodini for his first single. Whats funny is as the decades have set in that beat is now more familiarized with Eazy then Whodini. In all honesty Eazy E is more popular with this generation then Whodini is so I can understand why this is so. But lets not disregard the fact that one of Eazy's biggest songs is a Whodini jack clearly shows his acknowledgement so who is to say that didnt help Eazy in getting behind what he saw in Bone Thugs H Harmony? Whodini was platinum in the 80's maybe he saw Bone as a 90's version of Whodini. Now that I think of it Bone Thugs are the 90's version of Whodini.
nwa used to make their own versions of alot of east coast records.
and like you said, that song was huge so.....
ice cube went back & remade the entire song with master p years later.
