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#40: Coming Straight Outta High School: Eazy E and The Bishop
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Eazy E and The Bishop at the first NWA show in Richmond, CA circa 1988
Here is an NWA story that you can only get from the Bishop Chronicles. It's about the unlikely friendship between a gangsta rapper and suburban Black kid in need of a career path. Eazy E basically gave me the shot at being a journalist long before The Source, XXL or Vibe Magazine existed.
L-R Eazy, Ren, Dr. Dre, Arabian Prince, lower front JT my friend and The Bishop
Possibly the first article on Eazy E ever done. Written by a kid obsessed with rap.
As a weekend binge drinking teen, on his way to failing out of Oceana High School in Pacifica, CA- only one man, my counselor Mr. King saw my potential as a writer. Mr. King basically forced me into writing for the school newspaper. I told him that while I appreciated his vision, I did not want to be a writer. He insisted. I obliged but only if I didn't have to cover wrestling, swimming or football. He agreed. Boyz in the Hood had just come out. It was not even a hit. But a local DJ had given me a copy soon as it dropped. I called the offices of Ruthless Records and my life, Hip-Hop was never the same. This is the story of how two people who believed in my ability to write, changed my future forever.
Without Mr. King, my counselor at Oceana High School there is no Bishop Chronicles. He was the first person to see a journalist in me and allow me to write about what I loved, Hip-Hop. I owe everything I have ever written and every speech I have ever given to him and Eazy E.
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