Eazy N Daz
Biography
Eazy,
Lil Eazy E was born Eric Darnell Wright in Compton, California on April 23, 1984, and is the son of popular rapper Eazy-E. Wright was mostly raised by his grandmother, however on the weekends he would see his father. He was 10 when his father succumbed to HIV/AIDS. In 2003 he entered the rap scene with his mixtapes and songs he would write. He would later be signed to Virgin Records.
On September 13, 2012, it was reported that Lil Eazy-E was reportedly in contract negotiations with Death Row Records. Previously signed to Virgin Records in the mid-2000s, the new deal with Hoopla Worldwide would controversially be distributed through Death Row Records. Due to the story that was taken out of context, the artist backed off from the deal and stated he is and always will be “Ruthless Records For Life”.
In 2015, he would become the president of Rich & Ruthless Records and would later create Rich & Ruthless Cannabis. On May 17, 2021, he would release his song “It Ain’t Over.”
Daz,
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz and commonly Daz), is an American rapper and record producer. In the 1990s at Death Row Records, aided the catapult of West Coast rap and gangsta rap into the mainstream. He is one half of the rap duo tha Dogg Pound, along with Kurupt.
Daz learned production from Dr. Dre in working on Dre’s debut solo album, The Chronic, in 1992. Daz did more on Snoop Dogg’s debut solo album Doggystyle in 1993, and secured his production standing on 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me in 1996. Since leaving Death Row around 2000 Daz would produce for artists like Kurupt, Soopafly, and B-Legit. In 2000, Daz’s second solo album, R.A.W., was released by his own label, D.P.G. Recordz. In the following years, Daz has continued to focus on his own, indie releases and sales.
In 2001, while Death Row still owned the duo’s original name, Daz and Kurupt reappeared, if under the name D.P.G., with a second album, Dillinger & Young Gotti, which received mixed reviews. But Kurupt soon signed with Death Row again, prompting Daz to repeatedly smear him in songs and interviews.
While feuding with Kurupt from 2002 to 2005—as in Daz’s songs “Catch U in the Club” and “U Ain’t Shit”, plus his skit “A Message to Ricardo Brown”, drawing Kurupt’s response “No Vaseline Part 2″—Daz released a few solo albums, if one with a makeshift group, DPGC, including Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, and Bad Azz.
In 2005, Snoop hosted a West Coast unity event, where Daz and Kurupt reconciled. While gaining rights to their original name, Tha Dogg Pound, Kurupt left Death Row again, and Daz closed his brief time at Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings. Over the years since then, Tha Dogg Pound has released a few more albums.
In 2020 Daz united with Queens MC Capone one half of Capone-N-Norega for a collaborative album entitled “Guidelines” under Empire Distribution.
