Friend 4 life Part 2
Felicia ”The Poetess” Morris
RP: Did Eazy have a will?
Yella: Actually, he made it the day before his
surgery. There was a slim chance of surviving the surgery and another slim
chance of surviving the recovery, so that’s why he had to make a will. And he
also got married that night too. But then the next day during surgery, I guess
he was too weak to finish, so they had to close him back up. That’s when he was
put on the machine. He never got off the machine. What makes me mad is I didn’t
get to see him again. I didn’t even know he was in a coma for about five or six
days. No one told me. I hate it, because they was keeping people from seeing
him. The thing to me is, if I’m dying
in my bed, I wanna see somebody. You see friends, that will help you inside.
You might pull out of it. But if you’re sitting there and nobody is there, you
think everybody abandoned you. So you think, “fuck it” and just die. That’s
what he did. He just gave up. The press conference was on a Thursday, I seen
him that Thursday. Cube came that night, but he didn’t get to see him. Dre came
the next morning and seen him. And I think after that Friday, nobody else was
seeing him. They kept everybody away. Friends. His children didn’t even get to
see him.
RP: Didn’t they take his cellular phone away?
Yella: His pager and all that was off. They cut
them off when he was in the hospital. Big Man, his real buddy, before he came
to the hospital, Eric was just not eating. He was depressed. When Big Man and
the twins [Eazy’s longtime friends/bodyguards Jacob and John Tovio] came, they
lifted his spirits up. They went out and got him food. He started eating then.
After that, they was cut off. They couldn’t come back no more. Then Eric went
back into the same shell.
RP: Julio G was saying that they talked to Eazy
almost every day while he was in the hospital, and he was like, “Come up here,
I’m bored.”
Yella: Yeah, he wanted people just to be around
him. See, Big Man didn’t want to tell me he was in the hospital like that. Eric
told him not to tell nobody, so Big Man kept the promise. He never told me. If
I knew, I would’ve went to him. I thought he was just in there for bronchitis
and, you know, bam, he’d be out. But I never knew he hadn’t walked in a month.
He was always in bed. He was with oxygen mask too. One hundred percent oxygen.
I never knew that until the day of the press conference. If I had known that, I
would have been to see him. It’s like, if somebody keeps your friends away from
you, you will lie down and die. You’ll say, “Forget it.”
RP: Whose decision was it to keep people away?
Yella: I’m not going to say.
RP: So what is the future for you and Eazy’s
final album?
Yella: I’m going to do my own album and dedicate
it to him. I’m the only one that can finish his album, ‘cause I’m the only one
that knows where everything is. I’ll finish the album and the compilation that
we did together. His cover for the album is finished. It’s like a collage,
little bitty parts of everything. But now we gotta add a couple little more
things, because this happened.
RP: Eazy had been working on that double album
for six years?
Yella: He had enough for an album. He didn’t
want to put it out. He wanted a double album. Plus, he didn’t know what he
really wanted to do. Temporary Insanity was the original name. But the
name of the album is now Str8 off the Muthaphukkkin’ Streetz of
Compton, Vol. 1 & 2. I don’t know if it’s going to be a double album or
not. But there’s a few songs that I did that he didn’t put words to. And one of
them I did off a Zapp track. I think I’m going to have some other people rap on
it, talking about him. Dedicate it to him. I got to go on now. I know that’s
what he wants.
RP: So is this the album that has Guns N’ Roses
and Roger Troutman tracks?
Yella: We did a track with Guns N’ Roses, but
the words never got on it. Roger did a track. I think Eric did the vocals on
that. I did six or seven songs, and a few other people did songs. It was going
to be an NWA song with Ren and Eazy. It’s not finished though. That was the
last thing he done. Ren had a verse on it, Eric had a verse, then there’s a
verse missing, so I might try to get Cube or somebody to finish it up. ‘Cause
that would be the last song he ever did. We did that one back in January.
RP: One of
Eazy’s biggest wishes was to have that NWA reunion with Dre and Cube,
right?
Yella: We tried it, but you know…Eric told me
he talked to Dre. He was just starting to talk to Dre. He talked to Cube in New
York. He hung out with him at a club because he told me when he got back. And
we were going to do a album, but I don’t know if everybody was going to be on
it, so it’s kind of hard to say. We were going to try to do one.
RP: What bothers you the most about some of the
perceptions that people had about Eazy?
Yella: His image was one thing, but personally
he was one of the coolest persons you want to know. Because he was a person
that didn’t say no. He would never say, “Nah, man.” He would just say, “I’ll
call you you back.’ He did a lot for a lot of people. A lot of these rappers on
his label and all that, he did a lot for them. Everybody knows that too. Deep down
inside, he was a nice person. It’s a trip. One day he’s here and the next…It’s
funny because people talk about him and don’t know him. Once you get to know
him, you be changing your remarks for days. What messed this whole situation up
is nurses in the hospital running their goddamn mouths, which I would sue the
hospital for. See, he would’ve never came out with this. But it was out three
weeks before the press conference. It was all in the streets. People was
calling me from Atlanta, New York, Chicago, before the press conference. They was
like, “We heard.” I was like, “Man, he got bronchitis. Leave me alone.”