Rating:
Genre:
Rap
Release Date: 11/24/1998
At the time of his death,
Eazy-E was completing a comeback album that was intended to restore his street credibility, which had taken a savage beating in the early '90s.
Str8 Off tha Streetz of Muthaphu**in Compton, the album he left unfinished, does show more ambition than his previous
It's On. Collaborating with his former
N.W.A partners
MC Ren and
Yella,
Eazy-E sounds revitalized, but the music treads over familiar
gangsta territory. Although the majority of
Str8 Off tha Streetz is by the book, occasional tracks like the surrealistic
"Tha Mutha******in Real" and the menacing
"Ole School ***t" illustrate
Eazy-E's greater potential.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide