Boyz N The Hood - also the name of an Eazy-E track from 1987 - had another significant if unanticipated legacy: the creative stylisation of film titles. Gridlock'd, Menace II Society and the N.W.A ...

To promote N.W.A.’s initial releases, Eazy-E formed his own independent label, Ruthless Records. “Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were hawked out of trunks to local DJ’s and ...