Eazy-E’s Son Hints at Using AI to Share His Father’s Unreleased Music
The late rapper’s last album came out in 1996
In the same month as the Beatles turned a decades-old demo into their final song, “Now and Then,” through the use of AI, Eazy-E’s unreleased music might be getting the same treatment.
The N.W.A. founder and hip-hop pioneer’s family was at a ceremony renaming a stretch of Compton’s Auto Drive South to Eazy Street in his honour when his son Lil Eazy hinted at the possibility of touching up his dad’s vaulted songs.
“[Lil Eazy] revealed he’s got big plans for the estate in the future … including some collab with AI,” TMZ reported today. “The AI idea is just one of the visions [Lil Eazy] says he’s floating to honour his famous father’s legacy … AI tools could prove useful in completing some of the unreleased tracks.”
As documented in the group’s biopic Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. were plotting a return and had gotten in the studio together shortly before Eazy’s death.
The last time Eazy himself shared original music was in 1996 — a year after he died of an AIDs-related illness — when his now-defunct label Ruthless Records posthumously released Str8 off Tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton on his behalf.
