In a couple of weeks, Paper Mag’s Nowstalgia issue will hit the stands. For this special occasion, they asked three huge names in the Rap World to pay tribute to some late rappers. Eminem will do a piece on 2Pac and Swizz Beatz will cover Biggie.
First up is Kendrick Lamar who was assigned with Eazy E. Read an excerpt below and the full piece here.
I remember when I was five or six years old, waking up one morning and seeing this guy bust through the TV screen, rapping over some song called “We Want Eazy” — I think the concept of the video was that he was actually in jail and he had to get to his show and the only way to get to his concert was to film him from jail, and he eventually busted through the jail and came onstage. I remember looking at that video and just feeling like, “Man, this dude feels like an action superhero.” Little did I know, Eazy-E came from my same neighborhood in Compton.