MC Eiht
Birth name Aaron Tyler
Also known as MC 8, Eiht
Born (1967-05-22) May 22, 1967 (age 45)
Origin Compton, California, U.S.
Genres Gangsta rap
Occupations Rapper
Years active 1987–present
Labels Hi Power (2006-Present)
Orpheus (1990-2005)
Epic (1990-1996)
Hoo Bangin' (1998-2000)
Real Talk (2003-Present)
Doggystyle (2006-present)
Year Round (2011-present)
Eiht Hype (1992-Present)
Associated acts Compton's Most Wanted, Spice 1, The Warzone, Brotha Lynch Hung, Boom Bam, Tha Chill, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Mack 10, TQ, Tha Dogg Pound, WC, Jayo Felony, Xzibit, Scarface

Aaron Tyler (born on May 22, 1967 in Compton, California), better known by his stage name MC Eiht, is an American rapper. His stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's name. He chose Eiht for its links to "hood culture", including 8Ball and .38 caliber firearms.[1] He is a member of the rap group Compton's Most Wanted.

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Music career [link]

Tyler grew to fame on the West Coast as one of two MCs in the four-man crew, Compton's Most Wanted. After enjoying increasing success with the group, which peaked with 1992's Music to Driveby, Eiht took a role in the hit movie Menace II Society as well as a high-profile spot on the soundtrack. The song, "Streiht Up Menace," which chronicles the unfortunate downturn of the film's protagonist within the pathological conditions of American inner city life, is considered by many critics to be Eiht's magnum opus.[2] The movie spurred him into a solo career, although his next two albums We Come Strapped and Death Threatz would be accredited as MC Eiht featuring Compton's Most Wanted. He was also part of the Tragniew Park Compton Crips.

He states that he did not wish to star in comedy films in order to maintain his public image. He later only appeared in the low-budget movies "Reasons," "Thicker Than Water" and "Who Made the Potato Salad?" as well as providing the voice for Lance 'Ryder' Wilson in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.[3]

He put out Last Man Standing, the first album accredited only to MC Eiht, then broke from the label for Big Beat/Atlantic. Eiht never ended up putting out an album on the label, instead eventually signing to and releasing the album Section 8 on Priority in 1999.[4] Eiht would hop between record labels and one-off releases in the next years, moving between independent labels Half-Ounce, D3 Entertainment, and Lookin' Up Entertainment from 2001 to 2003. He would put out records with Spice 1 and Brotha Lynch Hung in 2004 and 2006 on Real Talk Ent., releasing another solo album between them on West Inc./Native Records. His inability to settle at a label contributed to his joining The Warzone, a trio put together by Snoop Dogg and consisting of Goldie Loc, Kam and MC Eiht himself. In 2006, Eiht and the group appeared on the single "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)" on Snoop Dogg's album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. MC Eiht also appeared with Young Maylay in Blaq Poet's new street single, Ain't Nuttin' Changed (Remix).

In June 2011, MC Eiht released his single "Fine By Me" accompanied by a music video directed by Director Hugo V. under his new label Year Round/Blue Stamp Records. Year Round Records is owned by New York based hip hop artist DJ Premier.

Discography [link]

Main article: MC Eiht discography

Solo Albums [link]

Collaboration Albums [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Thug Radio.
  2. ^ Blue Stamp Music. "MC Eiht Facebook Page". Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/MC-Eiht/12747462012. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
  3. ^ MC Eiht biography. Accessed 2007-10-22.
  4. ^ thaformula.com Accessed 2007-10-21.
  5. ^ "MC Eiht Details "Which Way Is West" Album With DJ Premier". May 18, 2010. https://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.11275/title.mc-eiht-details-which-way-is-west-album-with-dj-premier. Retrieved May 19, 2010. 

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MC Eiht
Studio albums
Collaborations
Related articles
Compton's Most Wanted
Albums
Other albums
Singles
  • "It's a Compton Thang"
  • "Growin' Up In tha Hood"
  • "Def Wish"
  • "Hood Took Me Under"
  • "Def Wish II"
  • "This Is Compton 2000"
  • "Music to Gang Bang"

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Hard Times (disambiguation)

Hard Times is an 1854 novel by Charles Dickens.

Hard Times may also refer to:

Film and television

  • Hard Times (1915 film), a silent British film directed by Thomas Bentley based on Dickens' novel
  • Hard Times (1975 film), an American drama starring Charles Bronson
  • A popular professional wrestling promo cut by Dusty Rhodes in October 1985 during his feud with Ric Flair
  • Hard Times (1988 film) (Tempos difíceis), a 1988 Portuguese film directed by João Botelho
  • Hard Times (British TV series), a 1977 series based on Dickens's novel
  • Hard Times (Canadian TV series), a 1975 documentary series
  • "Hard Times", an episode of the 2000-01 Canadian TV documentary series Canada: A People's History

    • Music

  • Hard Times (Laughing Hyenas album), 1995
  • Hard Times (Peter Skellern album), 1975
  • "Hard Times" (Patrick Wolf song)
  • "Hard Times" (James Taylor song), 1981
  • "Hard Times" (Run–D.M.C. song), 1984
  • "Hard Times" (Lacy J. Dalton song)
  • "Hard Times" (Plan B song)
  • Hard Times (musical), a 2012 off-Broadway production by Larry Kirwin using songs by Stephen Foster
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    Hard Times (1975 film)

    Hard Times is a 1975 film starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a drifter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches. The movie was Walter Hill's directorial debut.

    Plot

    Chaney (Charles Bronson), a mysterious, down-on-his luck drifter during the Great Depression, arrives in town in the boxcar of a freight train. He comes upon a bare-knuckled street fight run by gamblers. After the bout, he approaches one of the fight's organizers, the fast-talking "Speed" (James Coburn), and asks Speed to set up a fight. Betting his few dollars on himself, Chaney wins with a single punch.

    Speed wants to become Chaney's manager. They travel to New Orleans, where Speed intends to enter Chaney against local fighters at long odds. Chaney takes a cheap sleeping room. At a diner, he meets Lucy Simpson (Jill Ireland), a lonely woman whose husband is in prison. They begin an uneasy affair.

    Chaney cautions Speed that he wants to make a little money to "fill a few in-betweens," and then move on. Speed recruits a cutman, the medical school dropout Poe (Strother Martin). An opium addict ("a dyed in the wool hophead") Poe is relieved when Chaney accepts him.

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    Hard Times (1915 film)

    Hard Times is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Bransby Williams, Leon M. Lion and Dorothy Bellew. It is based on the 1854 novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

    Cast

  • Bransby Williams as Gradgrind
  • Leon M. Lion as Tom Gradgrind
  • Dorothy Bellew as Louisa
  • Madge Tree as Rachael
  • Mr. Forrest as Stephen Blackpool
  • F. Lymons as Josiah Bounderby
  • Will Corrie as Sleary
  • Clara Cooper as Cissie Jupe
  • J. Wynn Slater as James Harthouse

    • Bibliography

  • Giddings, Robert & Sheen, Erica. From Page To Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel . Manchester University Press, 5 May 2000
  • Mee, John. The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    • External links

  • Hard Times at the Internet Movie Database


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    Podcasts:

    MC Eiht

    ALBUMS

    Representin’

    Released 2007

    Underground Hero

    Released 2007

    The New Season

    Released 2006

    Keep It Gangsta

    Released 2006

    Compton’s OG

    Released 2006

    Affiliated

    Released 2006

    Veterans Day

    Released 2004

    The Pioneers

    Released 2004

    Hood Arrest

    Released 2003

    Tha8t’z Gangsta

    Released 2001

    In My Neighborhood

    Released 2000

    Section 8

    Released 1999

    Last Man Standing

    Released 1997

    Death Threatz

    Released 1996

    We Come Strapped

    Released 1994
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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    So Ruff

    by: MC Eiht

    Geah
    Geah
    Geah
    Hoo-bang, nigga
    Some of that futuristic shit
    For that ass
    Keepin it thuggish, though
    Check it out
    [ verse 1 ]
    The concrete streets bring heat, it's so rough
    Niggas test everyday, calling your bluff
    Eiht had enough, I'm smoking my fluff
    Spitting game, letting you know my turf is tough
    My theme is I push music to driveby
    I slide through, scoop up four and ride high
    Strap under the seat my hood technique
    As I destroy your block like _dante's peak_
    Feel me, partly a killer, clocker for fun
    On my turf puttin in work since day one
    Y'all ain't heard enough about a nigga singin the blues
    Niggas bendin in two's while y'all watch the news
    John walsh, wash me up, you're crazy
    Havin my face captured 180
    Can't go there, ain't havin that, man, fuck
    The strap turned me corrupt, so prepare to duck
    [ chorus ]
    Sometimes in the hood it's so rough
    That makes niggas from the hood stay tough
    Slings packs, pack straps, quarters and halfs
    16, double the stash, you do the math(2x)
    [ verse 2 ]
    I guess my mind's on the track, gotta get me a stack
    And in fact, homebody, you know what gun I pack
    Keeps y'all enemies close that stay cheatin
    When they ask make fast and start heatin
    Niggas ain't fuckin around - dodge mine
    Drop yours, bitch, and lay that ass down
    Keep your face to the ground, don't even look
    No positive I'd and all the money was took
    Shook the hell up out the spot and kept away from snitches
    Took a trip across town just to floss my riches
    Bitches turn into niggas and start yappin
    One more hit on your house where y'all nappin
    Dumpin one, catch you in the midnight, the late night hour
    The hollow point shower
    The sweet success thatt you taste has got sour
    Straight, eiht regulate my thug power
    [ chorus ]
    [ verse 3 ]
    My niggas disappoint me thinkin y'all can fade it
    Still player-hated, wishin y'all made it
    Stay down, hoo-bangin niggas takin over
    G's in lows puttin holes up in a rover
    Told ya, stop tryin to walk in our shoes
    Real thugs hail from the west, first rule
    In fact, we the first bloods and crips
    First niggas to drive by sendin tricks on trips
    First niggas to hit yo town and set up shop
    Bring the prices down low, y'all pick the rest to cop
    Copy cats, now y'all dippin lows with heats
    Pepetratin fresh coast, tryin to roll our streets
    Hate your sight, catch you on a red-eye flight
    Commence the sweatin the groove just for spite
    Lucky though, I give you a pass and let you go
    I'ma catch you on the road at another rap show
    [ chorus ]
    Geah
    Hoo-bang, nigga
    That makes niggas from the turf stay tough
    Geah
    Westside, you know
    Sometimes in the hood it's so rough
    Geah, you know what we do




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