The little green post-it notes were a way to keep track of who was who - Eazy-E was kinda, um, “not tall in stature”, and as it so happens there is actually a pygmy nuthatch (I love the universe), and MC Ren kinda needed to be an actual wren (props to Mark Matcho). And if some studio-gangsta criticized this method, E would pop a cap in. If Eazy wanted to screw in a lightbulb, he could just wrap his dick around it and let the world turn around his balls. This owl was kind enough to model my gold dookie rope, and I ended up with a sketch that looked like this: To hear him tell it on his records, Eazy E was a ghetto-blasting geyser spewing bullets and semen in every direction. I keep several branches in my studio, so I took a few snaps to get some ideas about what the birds might be sitting on… (Why did they burn all the sports logos off the hats?) The start of most any piece begins with the gathering of reference, so I was looking at things like this.

(Though as usual, the entire time I’m painting it the little voice of doubt on my shoulder was going “Just ’cause you like it doesn’t mean anybody else will.” Which is why I listen to a lot of music and podcasts while I paint - to drown that evil little bastard out.) If you like my work, please donate, thank you so much 1.4: Chin beard added New glasses added 1.3: Hands fixed 1.2: Glasses. There were other ideas but in a “survival of the fittest” concept contest, this one put the others down hard. Eazy-E's head were made by Dav1d for GTA San Andreas. (Nuthatches With Attitude).” I love playing with the visual equivalent of a mash-up song - and here I could combine two things I totally dig: the incredible, influential work of John James Audubon (naturalist, painter, and bird nut after my own heart) and the incredible, influential California hip hop group N.W.A. Style was everything, and when lowered cars were banned in California in. Lowrider culture reaches back to 1930s Los Angeles, where it became popular for style-conscious Latino-Americans to load their cars with sandbags to bring it closer to the road. Eazy-E Hey Yo doctor, heres another proper track And its phat, watch the sniper, time to pay the piper And let that real shit provoke, see yous a wannabe loc And youll get smoked and I hope that your fans understand When you talk about spraying me, the same records that you makin is paying me Motherfuck Dre Motherfuck Snoop Motherfuck. Sometimes the thing that makes one idea stick out from a sea of possibilities is if it can make me laugh. Eazy E & the No Money No Talk are definitely the stand-outs now. What I think is actually the more interesting question is “How do you choose which idea to pursue?” Because there are lots of ideas floating around out there, and when you cast your net you’re likely to pull up some good stuff and some things that are just sad and need to be thrown back. It’s possible that everyone who creates for a living gets asked the question “Where do you get your ideas from?” whether you’re making movies, writing songs, painting pictures or creatings gastronomical delights.

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