In Brief

By JONATHAN GOLD

Oct. 31, 1993 12 AM PT

* * Eazy-E, “It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa,” Ruthless/Relativity. Eazy-E, founder of N.W.A. and corporate sponsor of the Compton gangsta rap sound, may be able neither to rhyme as well as former N.W.A. member Ice Cube, nor mold a beat as persuasively as former N.W.A. member Dr. Dre, nor rap with the easy grace of Dre associate Snoop Doggy Dogg. Eazy-E, though, seemed to have been a more “authentic” hoodlum than any of the aforementioned, and he devotes most of his weak-beat solo EP to proving this fact at tedious length.

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Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold was the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2007 and was a finalist again in 2011. A Los Angeles native, he began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986, wrote about death metal and gangsta rap for Rolling Stone and Spin among other places, and was delighted that he managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos. Gold died July 21, 2018.

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