“Menace II Society” director Allen Hughes says that Eazy-E was originally supposed to play O-Dog. The role was eventually re-cast because he was too controlling.
“We wrote that role for Eazy-E. Eazy-E was my first real O.G. mentor in the business, right [around] the summer when Dre left [N.W.A] in ’91. That’s a long story,” he said on The Breakfast Club.
“I learned everything from Eazy, but one of the things with him and Jerry [Heller] is they always try to keep you in a box and control you. And they were trying to control us in the script and I just had to move on, and it was for peanuts.”
Eazy-E was a member of gangsta rap group N.W.A and founder and CEO of Ruthless Records, He sadly passed away in 1995 after battling AIDS.
He continued: “I adore Eazy. He was so giving and so down-to-earth. By the way, great with his fans, too. Very patient with his fans. But I see why Cube left, I see why Dre left. There was a whole thing there.”