Robbed hit of the week 3/4/19 - Eazy-E's "Real Muthaphuckkin' G's"...

"Real Muthaphuckkin' G's" - Eazy-E
from the EP It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the late rapper Eazy-E, who had been a solo act who had started up his own label Ruthless Records in the mid-1980s, putting out his first (and only) full-length debut album Eazy-Duz-It in 1988. The lead single from the set, "We Want Eazy", climbed to #43 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine, while the "B-Side", "Eazy-er Said Than Done", made it to #84 on the same list.  This was a month before the release of Straight Outta Compton, the seminal album from the group he joined with Dr Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren, N.W.A. That group far outshone anything he had done up to that point, but their light did not shine for very long. After Ice Cube left after that album, turmoil between Dre and Eazy fumed during the recording of N.W.A.'s last set efil4zaggiN, with Dre heading to Death Row Records with manager Suge Knight and Eazy-E left on his own again. In 1992, he released an EP, 5150: Home 4 Tha Sick, which made the top half of Billboard's albums chart, but neither radio nor fans took to any single from the set. The following year, after being "dissed" on Dre's debut album The Chronic, Eazy-E responded with a second EP, It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa. The lead single from the set, "Real Muthaphuckkin' G's", was a hit on Dre's "Dre Day", which was the opening volley of this musical "beef". And instead of Snoop, Eazy-E brought backup in brothers Dresta and B.G. Knockout to give the 411 about how Dre was just an actor and never ran in the gangs he identifies with...

While "Real Muthaphuckkin' G's" became Eazy's first R&B top-40 hit at #31, the single stopped only a couple of notches short of that level on the American pop Hot 100 in January of 1994. The EP, however, made good bank, peaking at #5 on the albums sales chart and going double-platinum.

Eazy-E contributed a track to the third Beverly Hills Cop film, and he almost made the pop-40 as a guest on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Foe Tha Love Of $" at the beginning of 1995, but before the time came to complete another album, he died from complications from AIDS in March of that year. All sorts of theories abound to how he got the disease, whether drugs, women, or even a murderous plot from Suge Knight have been offered. After his death, a posthumous album Str8 Off The Streets of Muthaphukkin Compton was released, which went to #3 on the albums chart (#1 on the R&B-only list). Lead single "Just Tah Let You Know" got to #30 on the R&B chart and again just missed the pop top-40 at #45.

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And here's the "director's cut" of the music video...