# Real Muthaphuckkin G's
**Real Muthaphuckkin G's** (also known as "Real Compton City G's") is a 1993 diss track by Eazy-E and the lead single of his EP *It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa*, released on [Ruthless Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/ruthless-records).[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik43LN0l_g4) • [2](https://en.alegsaonline.com/art/81478) Written by Gangsta Dresta and [B.G. Knocc Out](https://www.edgepedia.org/b-g-knocc-out) and produced by Rhythum D, it was Eazy-E's answer to [Dr. Dre](https://www.edgepedia.org/dr-dre) and Snoop Dogg after Dre mocked him on records and videos from *The Chronic* era.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) The song debuted on the US Hot 100 on November 13, 1993, and peaked at No. 42, making it Eazy-E's highest-charting solo hit.[10](https://www.musicvf.com/song.php?id=13397&title=Real+Muthaphuckkin+G%27s+by+Eazy-E)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | Single August 26, 1993; lead single of the EP *It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa* (October 1993, Ruthless Records)[3](https://songsense.io/eazy-e/real-muthaphuckkin-gs) • [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik43LN0l_g4) |
| Producer | Rhythum D, who had recently left Death Row for Ruthless[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) |
| Length | 5:33 (track 2 on the EP)[5](https://www.allmusic.com/song/real-muthaphuckkin-gs-mt0004707384) |
| Main targets | Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Death Row Records, including CEO Suge Knight[6](https://hip-hop-music.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Muthaphuckkin_G%27s) |
## Background: the beef with Dr. Dre
The song grew out of the split of N.W.A and Dr. Dre's departure from Ruthless Records. Dre left the label over low or non-payment for his production work, including N.W.A's *Straight Outta Compton*, and joined [Suge Knight](https://www.edgepedia.org/suge-knight)'s Death Row Records, where *The Chronic* (released December 1992) made him the leading figure of G-funk.[7](https://udspace.udel.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3f2bfcc9-98ca-4040-a8a6-97a69f4a2cd7/content) • [4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) Dre answered with "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", whose video caricatured Eazy-E as a jheri-curled "Sleazy-E" panhandling by a freeway; the clip ran almost hourly on MTV through much of 1993.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/)
Eazy-E still held contractual leverage: Dre's Ruthless contract left Eazy profiting from Dre's earnings through Death Row, a point the song turns into its best-known line, "'Dre Day' only meant Eazy's payday."[8](https://bvmtv.com/shop/eazy-e-real-muthaphuckkin-gs) • [4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/)
## Writing and production
Eazy-E met Gangsta Dresta at Audio Achievements studio in [Torrance, California](https://www.edgepedia.org/torrance-california), and shared stories about his history with Dr. Dre; Dresta wrote the lyrics from those accounts, and the next day brought his younger brother B.G. Knocc Out, who improvised his verse on the spot.[3](https://songsense.io/eazy-e/real-muthaphuckkin-gs) The beat came from Rhythum D, a producer who had recently moved from Death Row to Ruthless in search of a bigger production role; he described the track as a deliberate "sinister parody of Dre's sound," with bass lines that seemed to be clowning Dre.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) The song samples Eazy-E's own 1988 track "Eazy-Duz-It," a self-referential use of source material.[9](https://files.core.ac.uk/download/151560941.pdf)
## Content of the attack
The record is a direct, personal attack aimed at rival artists, a classic example of the hip-hop diss track.[2](https://en.alegsaonline.com/art/81478) Its central move is to attack the image Dre was selling on *The Chronic*: Eazy unearthed old photographs of Dre from his [World Class Wreckin' Cru](https://www.edgepedia.org/world-class-wreckin-cru) days, when he performed in sequined, androgynous styling, and used them in both the lyrics and the music video.[3](https://songsense.io/eazy-e/real-muthaphuckkin-gs) • [4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) The song also mocks [Snoop Dogg](https://www.edgepedia.org/snoop-dogg) as an "anorexic rapper" and taunts Dre over his continued financial ties to Ruthless.[7](https://udspace.udel.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3f2bfcc9-98ca-4040-a8a6-97a69f4a2cd7/content) • [4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) It closes with a jab at Death Row's CEO Suge Knight, widely known for strongarm tactics in the music business.[8](https://bvmtv.com/shop/eazy-e-real-muthaphuckkin-gs)
## Music video
The video was written and directed by Eazy-E's longtime Ruthless film director Marty Thomas and shot in just two days, entirely in [Compton, California](https://www.edgepedia.org/compton-california).[6](https://hip-hop-music.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Muthaphuckkin_G%27s) Dresta and B.G. Knocc Out feature prominently, in a depiction of Compton with low riders, pit bulls, and street menace; the "Sleazy-E" caricature from the "Dre Day" video is chased by what reads as every Crip in Compton, a self-aware reversal of Dre's own mockery.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/)
## Chart performance
The single debuted on the US Hot 100 on November 13, 1993, and peaked at No. 42, making it Eazy-E's highest-charting solo hit.[10](https://www.musicvf.com/song.php?id=13397&title=Real+Muthaphuckkin+G%27s+by+Eazy-E) It reached No. 12 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and No. 2 on [Hot Rap Songs](https://www.edgepedia.org/hot-rap-songs), and was still at No. 9 on the Hot Rap Singles chart in mid-December 1993.[11](https://device.report/m/89fcdb288f2c13834a95e0e79afbde87dbc7973e73506f5b09cda0fea622ca8b.pdf) Eazy-E and his guests performed the song live at 92.3 The Beat Summer Jam in 1994.[8](https://bvmtv.com/shop/eazy-e-real-muthaphuckkin-gs)
## Reception and legacy
Commentators credit it with extending diss technique beyond attacks on a rival's skills toward exposing a rival's past and shattering his image, an approach later visible in the scorched-earth tactics of other artists.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/) Under its alternate title, "Real Compton City G's," it remains a frequent reference point in retrospectives about Eazy-E and mid-1990s West Coast hip-hop.[2](https://en.alegsaonline.com/art/81478) On the review aggregator Album of the Year it holds a user score of 95 based on 125 ratings, the highest-rated track on its parent EP.[12](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/195603-real-muthaphuckkin-gs/)
The song sits within a broader exchange: Dre's "Dre Day" dissed more targets, but "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" put Dre's credibility and character in question, and it anchored an EP whose remaining tracks, including "It's On" and "Down 2 tha Last Roach," extended the same target network.[13](https://dissnation.com/articles/real-muthaphuckkin-gs-context-and-response-order) The EP itself was Eazy-E's last album before his death in 1995.[4](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/)
## References
1. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's (official audio), YouTube, Eazy-E channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik43LN0l_g4)
2. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's, AlegsaOnline](https://en.alegsaonline.com/art/81478)
3. [Meaning of "Real Muthaphuckkin' G's" by Eazy-E, SongSense](https://songsense.io/eazy-e/real-muthaphuckkin-gs)
4. [Last Words: Eazy-E's It's on (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, Pitchfork, Jeff Weiss, November 15, 2013](https://pitchfork.com/features/rolling-on-dubs/9262-eazy-e/)
5. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/song/real-muthaphuckkin-gs-mt0004707384)
6. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's, Hip Hop Wiki (Fandom)](https://hip-hop-music.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Muthaphuckkin_G%27s)
7. [The Review, October 22, 1993, University of Delaware](https://udspace.udel.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3f2bfcc9-98ca-4040-a8a6-97a69f4a2cd7/content)
8. [Eazy-E - Real Muthaphuckkin G's, Bohemia Afterdark](https://bvmtv.com/shop/eazy-e-real-muthaphuckkin-gs)
9. [A Typology of Sampling in Hip-Hop](https://files.core.ac.uk/download/151560941.pdf)
10. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's, Music VF](https://www.musicvf.com/song.php?id=13397&title=Real+Muthaphuckkin+G%27s+by+Eazy-E)
11. [Billboard Hot Rap Singles, week ending December 18, 1993](https://device.report/m/89fcdb288f2c13834a95e0e79afbde87dbc7973e73506f5b09cda0fea622ca8b.pdf)
12. [Real Muthaphuckkin G's song ratings, Album of the Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/195603-real-muthaphuckkin-gs/)
13. [Real Muthaphuckkin' G's: context and response order, DissNation](https://dissnation.com/articles/real-muthaphuckkin-gs-context-and-response-order)
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