A Ruthless Life • Eazy-E & Aaliyah

Just A Common Cough

Los Angeles, CA 1995
-Eazy's POV-

I can finally say happy New Year. I couldn't wait for 1995 to get here and now it's finally here. Dominick just turned 2, this double album I'm working on is almost finished, and Bone Thugs is already working on their second album. I'm going to sign more artists to my label too. There's a lot of talent out there that's waiting to be discovered. Big shit is about to pop off in '95. I dont know if my fans are ready but they're about to get ready. Ruthless Records is going to take over.

I'm in the studio today with Ren and Yella.
So far, the N.W.A. reunion is in full effect.
Be on the lookout for our first album since our breakup in either late '95 or early '96. Str8 Off the Streets of Muthaphukkin Compton 1 is almost finished. I just have one more song to record then I can officially start working on Str8 Off the Streets of Muthaphukkin Compton 2.

Yella produced a dope ass beat for this song. It has west coast written all over it and I also told him that I wanted to sample More Bounce to the Ounce by Zapp. Yella is a genius too, I feel bad for giving Dre all the credit in the past. As of now, I have no lyrics to go with this beat but I definitely want it on this album so I'm sure I'll come up with something.

            "This shit is going to be dope E.
You got any lyrics for it?" Ren asked while he listened to the instrumental.

             "Not yet. I dont even know what I want to name it," I replied.

             "You should name it California Love because this beat just screams west coast and Compton. Yella really outdid hisself with this one," he added. 

While I continued to listen to the track, I started to cough.

              "Yo, you aight E?" he asked. The coughs weren't serious, they were just the average common cough. 

"I'm good. I probably just got a mild cold. It aint serious." My coughs then started to get louder and louder. 

"You dont sound good to me, you should go to the doctor." 

"Nah I'm good man."

"I don't know, take you some medicine for it then go get yourself checked out. You've been coughing for weeks now."

              "Man I'm good! I'm just going to pay for the doctor to give me a basic ass check-up, tell me that I have a common cold, then tell me to take some medicine for it. So why should I waste my time? I can just run to the store and get some cough drops for it." 

"E I'm your boy and I care about you. All I'm saying is that this cough aint went away yet and it's been weeks. If you dont want to go get yourself checked out that's fine, you dont have to. But at least get some cough syrup or something for it." 

He got up and stepped outside because his phone began to ring. "Hello?" he asked when he answered the call.

Before I started to write some lyrics that could possibly go with this beat, my coughs started again. They went away for about two minutes then they started up again. 

Yella walked in as soon as he heard my coughs. "Aye E you good?" he asked. 

I nodded my head and said "I'm fine."

I might have to go to the doctor if this cold doesn't go away but I just dont want to. It could also just simply be my bronchitis. Whatever it is, I know it's not serious.