DJ Yella will not be towards utilizing AI know-how getting used to convey the late Eazy-E‘s voice to new N.W.A. music — and in fact, something may already be in the works.
TMZ caught up with Yella at Eazy’s avenue signal unveiling final week, the place town of Compton formally modified the title of Auto Drive South’s 100 block to Eazy Street. When discussing the opportunity of new music, he echoed Lil Eazy-E’s dialog from the identical occasion that synthetic intelligence might assist convey extra N.W.A. tracks to the plenty.
“Is there anymore music left from N.W.A? I don’t think so, because I had all the masters,” he started. “I was the last person with Eazy’s last album… All the stuff I had in my hand. I didn’t think nothing about it. We had a bunch of instrumentals, but nothing with tracks, with words.”
When requested concerning the prospect of utilizing AI, he replied: “I think somebody’s working on something like that with Eazy’s voice. I haven’t heard it yet, but they said it worked great. I’m like, ‘I gotta hear it to believe it.’”
He went on: “I don’t think you gonna recreate it, you just gonna duplicate. That’s all it is. You ain’t recreating the original. But it’s different, I guess it’s the new thing. You know, ‘technology.’ It would be different, keep that name going. Keep that Compton thing going. Yeah, it’s cool to me.”
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When speaking to TMZ on the identical occasion, Lil Eazy (actual title Eric Darnell Wright Jr.) revealed that AI may very well be instrumental in serving to with the discharge of the music.
“We’ll see,” he stated when requested concerning the prospect. “We’ll see how that’s coming, you know what I mean? There is, y’know, some hidden tracks out there, so we’ll see how that goes.”
Earlier this yr, Rock The Bells caught up with Arnold “Bigg A” White at a listening occasion for Daz Dillinger and Lil Eazy-E’s joint album, The Legacy. According to him, Eazy had collaborations within the stash with Slash of Guns N’ Roses.
“There is unreleased music still out there,” Bigg A confirmed. “We know for a fact that he had two or three or four reels in his car when he went to the hospital. Those reels came up missing.
“He had songs with Slash from Guns n’ Roses — he had songs with Guns n’ Roses on those reels. Those reels have been found ’cause they wound up in Canada. That’s a whole other story, but what happened to them [since], I don’t know.”
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He continued: “I don’t know if the estate got them, but there is unreleased music, and Yella has some, I know for a fact that there is some unreleased acapella vocals, that he was working on some records with a couple of producers I worked with and last I heard was that they were up in Dre’s studio.”
Eazy-E (actual title Eric Lynn Wright) handed away aged 30 on March 26, 1995 from issues associated to AIDS-induced pneumonia.
The N.W.A frontman’s property launched Eazy’s solely posthumous album, Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton, in January 1996, and several other years later an EP in 2002 titled Impact of a Legend.
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