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MC Eiht

Person · male · United States · Compton · born 1971 · recording since 1993

American rapper

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Also known as MC 8 · MC Eight · MCエイト

Debut: 1993
Recording span: 32 years
Release groups: 50
Timeline events: 26
Wiki language versions: 31

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Timeline

26 events▣ Album 24◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1

1970s
1. 22 May 1971 · Birth
  Born 1971-05-22
  source: wikidata
1990s
1. 29 November 1993 · Debut release
  Debut release: The Murda Show
  First documented EP in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 19 July 1994 · Album
  Album: We Come Strapped
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 24 July 1995 · Album
  Album: Death Threatz
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 11 November 1997 · Album
  Album: Last Man Standing
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 8 June 1999 · Album
  Album: Section 8
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 20 June 2000 · Album
  Album: In My Neighborhood
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 8 May 2001 · Album
  Album: Tha8t’z Gangsta
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 2 July 2002 · Album
  Album: Underground Hero
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 2 June 2003 · Album
  Album: Hood Arrest
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 20 May 2004 · Album
  Album: Smoke In Tha City
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
6. 24 June 2004 · Album
  Album: The Pioneers
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 28 September 2004 · Album
  Album: Veterans Day
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 24 January 2006 · Album
  Album: The New Season
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 21 February 2006 · Album
  Album: Keep It Gangsta
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
10. 4 April 2006 · Album
  Album: Affiliated
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
11. 15 August 2006 · Album
  Album: Compton’s OG
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
12. 6 February 2007 · Album
  Album: Representin’
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 17 August 2012 · Album
  Album: Allstarz & Strapz, Volume 3
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
2. 19 May 2015 · Album
  Album: The New Season & Keep It Gangsta (Deluxe Edition)
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 30 June 2017 · Album
  Album: Which Way Iz West
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 4 October 2019 · Album
  Album: Gangsta Bizness
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 27 December 2019 · Album
  Album: Official
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. 8 September 2020 · Album
  Album: Lessons
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 29 April 2022 · Album
  Album: Revolution in Progress
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 5 May 2023 · Album
  Album: Lessons 2
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography1,226 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374974417

Biography

Aaron Bernard Tyler (born May 22, 1971), better known by his stage name MC Eiht, is an American rapper and actor. Many of his songs are based on his life in Compton, California. His stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's name. He chose Eiht for its links to "hood culture", including Olde English 800 (8 Ball) and .38 caliber firearms. He is the de facto leader of West Coast hip-hop group Compton's Most Wanted, which also included fellow Compton-based rappers Boom Bam, The Unknown DJ, Tha Chill, DJ Slip, DJ Mike T, and Ant Capone. He is also known for his role as A-Wax in the teen crime drama film Menace II Society (1993), as well as voicing the character Ryder in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004). He is also the co-host of the podcast Gangster Chronicles.

Biography

Tyler was born in Compton, California, and 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. The movie spurred him into a solo career, although his next two albums We Come StrappedWe Come Strapped19 July 1994 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks1Niggaz That Kill (endolude)2:322Def Wish III (intro)0:583Def Wish III4:234Take 2 With Me4:445All for the Money4:086Compton Cyco3:037Niggaz Make the Hood Go Round4:108Nuthin’ but High (endolude)3:279We Come Strapped4:0910Can I Still Kill It3:4011Goin’ Out Like Geez4:3912Nuthin’ but the Gangsta5:1413Hard Times4:0914Compton Bomb5:12152 tha Westside (endolude)3:33 and Death ThreatzDeath Threatz24 July 1995 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Def Wish IV (Tap That Azz)5:342Ain’t Nuthin’ to It5:133Killin Nigguz5:264Run 4 Your Life4:385Endoness4:416Thuggin It Up4:067Love 4 tha Hood4:548Fuc Em All4:329Late Night Hype Part 24:3510Set Trippin5:1211Collect My Stripez4:3412Fuc Your Hood4:5213You Can’t See Me4:2114Drugs & Killin4:2215Killin Season4:58 would be accredited as MC Eiht featuring Compton's Most Wanted. These albums were considered his best and took place during the most tense years of the 'beef' between Eiht and DJ Quik, Eiht's childhood friends Boom Bam and Tha Chill of N.O.T.R were heavily involved with both albums and the Quik beef, there are several explicit remarks towards Quik made on these albums by E, Bam and Chill. E was also associated with the West 159th Street Tragniew Park Compton Crips.
He states that he didn't 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 Potatoe Salad? as well as providing the voice for Lance 'Ryder' Wilson in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. His music has also been included in the Grand Theft Auto series, both alone and with Compton's Most Wanted.
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 with and releasing the album Section 8Section 88 June 1999 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Intro0:532Living 'n tha Streetz4:443My Life4:554Murder at Night4:235Caution4:426The Getaway (skit)0:267Automatic4:168Strawberriez-N-Cream5:209Flatline4:3310Dayz of '894:4911Tha Hood Still Got Me Under4:4112Me & My Bitch4:2113III: Tha Hood Way4:2714Thicker Than Water4:2215The Nail Shop (Luther's outro)2:43 on Priority/EMI in 1999.
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. In 2010, Eiht appears on the remix to Dam Funk's "Hood Pass Intact". 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.
In October 2012, MC Eiht was featured on the song "m.A.A.d city" by Kendrick Lamar, from his major label debut Good Kid, m.A.A.d City. Eiht released the Keep It Hood EP, through BLUESTAMP Music Group on January 4, 2013. The album features cuts from DJ Premier and production from Brenk Sinatra. In 2013, he plans to release a collaboration album with DJ Premier.
In the summer of 2014, MC Eiht released a single with the Outlawz, Tupac Shakur's old group, titled "Shut ’Em Down", which made references to old Outlawz members Tupac and Kadafi. The song is a part of Eiht's upcoming "Which Way Iz West LP" and is MC Eiht's first LP in eight years.

Feud with DJ Quik

MC Eiht and his group CMW got involved in a long tumultuous rivalry with fellow Compton DJ/rapper DJ Quik that lasted for several years. The feud traces back to a track on DJ Quik's debut mixtape The Red Tape, where Quik indirectly dissed both Compton's Most Wanted and N.W.A. During that time, Quik was a member of the Tree Top Piru Bloods and Eiht was a member of the 159th St. Tragniew Park Compton Crips. On the track "Duck Sick" from CMW's debut album It's a Compton Thang, they criticized and questioned Quik's street credibility. They hit Quik again in 1991 on their second effort Straight Checkn 'Em. Quik didn't respond to CMW's disses on his debut album Quik is the Name, but he responded to Eiht on the title track to his sophomore effort Way 2 Fonky & "Tha Last Word". CMW responded months later with a music video for "Def Wish II" which featured a DJ Quik lookalike having a surreal nightmare of CMW chasing & ambushing him leading to him getting killed & with "Def Wish III" leading to the peak of their rivalry. Quik then responded to it with "Street Level Entrance" & "Let You Have It", mentioning the "Def Wish II" music video, while facing label problems and other music projects. However, on the soundtrack to the 1994 short film Murder Was The Case, on the track "Dollaz + Sense", Quik ruthlessly verbally attacks Eiht, calling him a movie script killer (in reference to Eiht's appearance in the critically acclaimed 1993 film Menace II Society), a coward, and more. Quik fanned the flames even more by performing the song at the 1995 Source Awards in New York City. The feud stayed quiet until April 1996, where Eiht responded to Quik on his second solo album Death ThreatzDeath Threatz24 July 1995 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Def Wish IV (Tap That Azz)5:342Ain’t Nuthin’ to It5:133Killin Nigguz5:264Run 4 Your Life4:385Endoness4:416Thuggin It Up4:067Love 4 tha Hood4:548Fuc Em All4:329Late Night Hype Part 24:3510Set Trippin5:1211Collect My Stripez4:3412Fuc Your Hood4:5213You Can’t See Me4:2114Drugs & Killin4:2215Killin Season4:58 which featured the track Def Wish IV (Tap That Azz) exposing the backstory of how both artists met in person, & "Killin' Nigguz" which were the last diss tracks of their feud. The feud between Quik and Eiht slowly died down in 1997 following the deaths of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., but the feud didn't actually end until the summer of 1998, where Snoop Dogg, Daz Dillinger, and other West Coast rappers helped Eiht and Quik squash the beef. MC Eiht and DJ Quik appeared in an interview on July 21, 1999 on BET Tonight. Since then, Quik and Eiht collaborated on various songs. Even though the rivalry was not on the level of the Nas-Jay Z rivalry or the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry since it was not covered by the media, it has been hailed by most hip hop fans and critics that it stands out as one of the longest active hip hop rivalries of all time (from 1992 to 1998).

Discography & profile

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Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	31	91th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	50	94.3th
Studio albums	24	97.3th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	26	95.9th
Recording span (years)	32	70th
Genres	5	88.3th

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Discography (50 release groups · 24 studio albums)

Albums · 24

We Come Strapped
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 58:01
1Niggaz That Kill (endolude)2:32
2Def Wish III (intro)0:58
3Def Wish III4:23
4Take 2 With Me4:44
5All for the Money4:08
6Compton Cyco3:03
7Niggaz Make the Hood Go Round4:10
8Nuthin’ but High (endolude)3:27
9We Come Strapped4:09
10Can I Still Kill It3:40
11Goin’ Out Like Geez4:39
12Nuthin’ but the Gangsta5:14
13Hard Times4:09
14Compton Bomb5:12
152 tha Westside (endolude)3:33
Death Threatz
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:11:58
1Def Wish IV (Tap That Azz)5:34
2Ain’t Nuthin’ to It5:13
3Killin Nigguz5:26
4Run 4 Your Life4:38
5Endoness4:41
6Thuggin It Up4:06
7Love 4 tha Hood4:54
8Fuc Em All4:32
9Late Night Hype Part 24:35
10Set Trippin5:12
11Collect My Stripez4:34
12Fuc Your Hood4:52
13You Can’t See Me4:21
14Drugs & Killin4:22
15Killin Season4:58
Last Man Standing
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:17:36
IUnder Attack4:04
IIKind of Pimpish4:38
IIIMe & My Bitch5:01
IVCan I Get Mine3:04
VCompton 4 Death4:42
VITha Business4:47
VIIAny Meanz4:34
VIIITough Guyz4:09
IXGot Cha Humpin’4:12
XHit the Floor4:32
XIWho’s tha Man4:21
XIITha Way We Run It3:52
XIIIAnything U Want4:05
XIVHangin’4:18
XVWhen All Hell Breaks Loose3:50
XVIHubtouchablez4:50
XVIIOn Top of All That3:57
XVIIIReturn Fire4:40
Section 8
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 59:35
1Intro0:53
2Living 'n tha Streetz4:44
3My Life4:55
4Murder at Night4:23
5Caution4:42
6The Getaway (skit)0:26
7Automatic4:16
8Strawberriez-N-Cream5:20
9Flatline4:33
10Dayz of '894:49
11Tha Hood Still Got Me Under4:41
12Me & My Bitch4:21
13III: Tha Hood Way4:27
14Thicker Than Water4:22
15The Nail Shop (Luther's outro)2:43
In My Neighborhood
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 47:37
1Intro2:09
2Git Money3:32
3Tha Hood Is Mine3:54
4From Yo Hood 2 My Hood3:45
5Till I Die4:42
6Hold Up4:28
7So Ruff3:52
8All Around the Hood4:00
9Must Be Murder4:57
10Lunatic3:53
11Hood Ratz4:00
12Once Upon a Time n' the Ghetto4:25
Tha8t’z Gangsta
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:03:37
1Holla4:44
2Rule #14:19
3Why U Hott?4:22
4Hustle Man4:39
5Bacdafuconup3:22
6Like This Like That4:38
7Can I?3:50
8We Get It3:59
9Gangsta4:36
10Look Up4:36
11What We About3:48
12Everybody Move3:48
13All Day Everyday4:18
14Drama4:12
152 Freak E4:26
Underground Hero
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 47:57
1Bomb Eiht0:58
2Bang2:51
3Get Yours3:32
4Hungry0:10
5Uh-Huh3:55
6First Time Actor0:19
7Hustle3:23
8Graduation Day0:12
9Hipnotize3:31
10In My Town4:34
11Fire Alarm0:37
12Never Take It Easy3:37
13Keep It Movin3:31
14Territory3:53
15Shoe Caper0:23
16Rah Rah N*****3:56
17Leave Me Alone3:32
18Black Music Dept0:23
19What You Wish For4:40
Hood Arrest
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 47:15
1Intro0:29
2Bring Back the Funk4:13
3Dead Money4:29
4I’m a G4:35
5New Sh… True Sh…4:18
6Hustle 4 Doe3:55
7Nothing to Loose4:21
8Struggle4:14
9Welcome Back to the Ghetto4:20
10Make Some Dough4:16
11It’s Your Life4:25
12We Gots to Work3:40
Smoke In Tha City
2004 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:17:51
1Stand Up5:19
2Do Compton4:04
3I’m That3:59
4My Nine Mil4:40
5Everyday4:11
6Get at Me4:26
7She Likes Gurlz3:59
8Don’t Play3:48
9Whateva You Do3:39
108 Seconds4:21
11Don’t Move4:03
12Some Don’t Make It3:59
13Killin’ Folks3:49
14U Owe Me3:41
15They Hatin’3:58
16That’s My Shit4:30
17We Don’t Like You2:45
18U Got Me Fuck’d Up4:11
19When I Go4:29
The Pioneers
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:02:13
1Break Deez Mu'Faccaz0:10
2The Murder Show Pt. 23:55
3So Damn Crazy4:08
4Come On Niggaz0:16
5We Run the Block4:42
6That's It3:45
7Can't Stop Us3:45
8That's the Way Life Goes4:35
9East Bay Gangsta3:24
10All I Came 2 Do3:35
11'Bout That Time4:08
12Do Better5:03
13Been a Long Time4:30
14West Coast Party4:04
15Keepin' Me High4:18
16I Ain't Scared3:18
17The Mack4:37
Veterans Day
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 52:24
1Vets Day (intro)1:33
2Streets Don’t Love U4:23
3It’s Alright4:11
4Pink Is 4 Honeys0:33
5U Know Why3:48
6Gangsta Smash3:39
7Wrong Attire0:47
8Living Like G’staz4:36
9Some of These Thugs4:14
10We Heated1:33
11Somebody3:45
12We Made It ’044:18
13Bac in Town3:26
14Wavin the Pistol4:23
15Get Yo Grind On (Garage mix)3:33
16Nobody Beat Us3:42
The New Season
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:01:40
1The New Season, Part 11:38
2Neighborhood Boyz4:50
3That’s All U Can Do3:53
4Agent Double 0 Duece 4 Blocc & CPT (Rest in Piss 2006)5:00
5Sticky Sheets3:56
6You Don’t Know, Who I Know4:43
7Dreams3:53
8When You Hear the Shots4:45
9Buy Another Gun5:33
10Split Ya Head0:40
11Westside Ridin’3:49
12War Outside4:30
13California Bangers4:19
14Round Here7:26
15The New Season, Part 22:45
Keep It Gangsta
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 42:39
1Spit at Em0:29
2No One Else4:15
3Raw Wit It4:23
4The Bossilini1:16
5187 Hemp3:05
6I'm Original3:31
7No Chit Chat4:34
8Let It Blow3:58
9They Just Don't Know3:41
10The Warning0:22
11Revenge4:00
12Ohh Shit4:16
13Less Than Nuthin0:42
14That's the Way Life Goes4:07
Affiliated
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:00:00
1CPT MF'z5:01
2Which Way Iz Up4:50
3Say Nuthin'4:17
4What the Fuc U Want Me to Do3:53
5The Ghetto4:45
6G'sta Melody4:52
7Just Lean4:18
8CPT'z Bac3:59
9Where U From4:30
10Gangsta Minded4:20
11Respect It3:42
12N My Neighborhood4:00
13Pipe Down3:28
14Smoke Dis4:05
Compton’s OG
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 59:08
1Intro0:46
2Robbery4:04
3Get With Me3:44
4Classic3:43
5Want 2 Ride3:44
6Mashing3:00
7So Hood3:55
8Here She Comes3:12
9She’s So Freaky3:36
10Skit0:42
11Underground3:27
12Fake Niggaz3:45
13Where You From4:55
14Can’t Hang With Us3:47
15Murder4:08
16Skit 20:43
17Music 2 Gangbang3:27
18Hi Power Mega Mixx4:30
Representin’
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 52:06
1This Is Compton4:15
2Some May Know4:37
3Get Money4:28
4What You Like It Like4:32
5One Hundred Percent2:43
6Then U Gone3:55
7All Around the Hood3:55
8Them Nigz3:51
9So Don’t Go There4:13
10Representin’2:30
11Like Me4:08
12Slang My Keys4:23
13Livin Like Gangstaz4:36
Allstarz & Strapz, Volume 3
2012 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 57:11
1I Need That2:38
2Picture Me3:22
3You Don't Know Me4:20
4We On3:17
5Need Air3:38
6Give That Up4:45
7Head Tight4:53
8Hold 12:59
9Let Me Get 2 It2:41
10One Ref4:04
11Real Niaz5:02
12Start Sum Chit2:33
13Stand Up2:28
14Succ Me3:04
15Where We Go (DJPremier Mix)3:36
16Who Run The Blocc3:51
The New Season & Keep It Gangsta (Deluxe Edition)
2015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 31 tracks · 1:52:06
1I Ain’t Scared3:18
2The New Season, Pt. 11:38
3Neighborhood Boyz4:50
4That’s All U Can Do3:53
5Rest in Piss (Agent Double o Deuce 4 Blocc)5:00
6Sticky Sheets3:56
7You Don’t Know, Who I Know4:43
8Dreams3:53
9When You Hear the Shots4:45
10Buy Another Gun5:33
11Split Ya Head0:40
12Westside Ridin’3:49
13War Outside4:30
14California Bangers4:19
15Round Here7:26
16The New Season, Pt. 22:45
17Spit at Em’0:29
18No One Else4:15
19Raw Wit It4:23
20The Bossilini1:16
21187 Hemp2:55
22I’m Original3:31
23No Chit Chat4:34
24Let It Blow3:57
25They Just Don’t Know3:41
26The Warning0:28
27Revenge4:03
28Ohh Sh#t4:16
29Less Than Nothin0:42
30Been a Long Time4:30
31So Damn Crazy4:08
Which Way Iz West
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 56:30
1Shut Em Down3:50
2Represent Like This3:24
3Compton Zoo2:45
4Heart Cold3:05
5Pass Me By3:40
6Runn the Blocc4:13
7Gangsta Gangsta6:13
8Got That3:41
9Medicate2:44
10Born to Hustle3:46
11Sittin' Around Smokin'3:23
12As I Proceed3:18
13Last Ones Left4:46
144 Tha OG'z3:38
15You Nia'z4:04
Gangsta Bizness
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 57:21
1Intro1:02
2Heat2:46
3Classic Shit2:37
4Hub City4:10
5Raw3:39
6I Swear3:39
7Smash2:24
8Run Everythang3:08
9Give Me Sum Azz3:19
10Real Niaz Know3:43
11Fucc Em3:00
12No Reason4:19
13On Me3:58
14Wet5:43
15Everything Wanted3:25
16No Politics2:50
17Latenite Hype 53:39
Official
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 27 tracks · 1:45:37
Disc 114 tracks · 56:43
1Once Upon a Time4:02
2Bring Em' All4:20
3Profile3:58
4Bacc in the Day4:22
5How You Do That4:13
6Neighborhood Feelin'3:31
7Compton4:24
8You the One3:24
9Good Day3:58
10Bluestamp Anthem4:15
11Up That4:07
12Hustle3:50
13Notorious4:20
14Tru Story3:59
Disc 213 tracks · 48:54
15How We Do4:38
16Mission Complete4:19
17Shoot Em' Up5:11
18Sirens3:26
19Intermission3:55
20Bang on Em'2:12
21Why3:39
22Long Time Comin'3:44
23Victim Pt.24:03
24Neighborhood Reup3:26
25My Thang3:02
263Eihty3:30
27Official3:49
Lessons
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:18:14
1Get Money Man4:00
2That's Perfect4:06
3Honcho3:55
4Bluue Wave4:44
5Can't Nobody4:10
6U Kno3:40
7Ambition4:30
8Lessons3:37
9U Not Me3:44
10That 833:34
11Courted In4:03
12Things We Go Thru3:46
13Past Mistakes3:03
14I Got U3:38
15Whut U Really On3:46
16On The Real Tho3:29
17Stand Up4:18
18Neighborhood Looks3:46
19Magic4:15
20We Got4:10
Revolution in Progress
2022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 27:44
1Nia's Struggle3:10
2Paper Stacc2:47
3That's Factual3:16
4Rise Up3:02
5That Life3:13
6Revolutionary2:49
7Double That2:53
8Oh No3:36
9Bang2:58
Lessons 2
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Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:20:43
Disc 113 tracks · 38:49
1Tha Paper2:30
2Bodega Money2:49
3What U Wanna Do3:06
4Client2:30
5Handle That2:52
6The Score3:05
7Life Lessons3:02
8Slow3:24
9No Authority3:04
10Hip Hop2:43
11Westside Gunnz3:27
12Ficcion3:12
13LA Times3:05
Disc 213 tracks · 41:54
1Another Day3:13
2We Up Now3:26
3What I Am3:10
4Another Sacrifice3:10
5What U Use 24:17
6Cloudless3:12
7Without Words3:07
8Deeper3:03
9Sumtimes3:18
10DoWhatULike3:12
11Long Road2:56
12Finish It2:50
13Realistic3:00

EP · 6

EP release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
1993	The Murda ShowSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 5 tracks · 23:25 1The Murda Show (extended street remix)6:08 2The Murda Show (street remix)4:35 3The Murda Show (radio version)4:21 4The Murda Show (radio remix)4:35 5Smooth Ass Getaway3:46	29 November 1993
1994	All For The MoneySearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks · 16:16 1All For The Money (Radio Edit)4:04 2All For The Money (1/2 Oz. Remix)4:04 3All For The Money (Instrumental)4:04 4All For The Money (A Cappella)4:04	1994
2005	Life I ChoseSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks A1Life I Chose (Clean) A2Life I Chose (Dirty) A3Life I Chose (Instrumental) B1Life I Chose (Drive By Remix) B2Life I Chose (Drive By Remix Instrumental) B3Life I Chose (A Cappella)	2005
2012	Unknown Release EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:01:17 1Track 18:24 2Track 1 (Martin Gruen remix)7:14 3Track 1 (Diana Milles remix)6:19 4Track 1 (Schniner remix)7:14 5Track 27:30 6Track 2 (Felix Lorusso remix)6:24 7Track 2 (Squad remix)11:22 8Track 2 (George Paar remix)6:50	20 February 2012
2013	Keep It Hood EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 22:21 1Where U Goin 23:42 2The Reign3:38 3Bigg2:43 48112:37 5Blue Stamp3:45 6Let's Do This2:27 7Make Me Some Mo3:29	4 January 2013
2025	Hit the Floor (Remixes)Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks · 26:34 1Hit the Floor (Daz remix radio edit)4:22 2Hit the Floor (Easy Mo Bee radio edit)4:12 3Hit the Floor (Daz remix)4:49 4Hit the Floor (Easy Mo Bee remix)4:12 5Hit the Floor (Daz instrumental)4:49 6Hit the Floor (Easy Mo Bee instrumental)4:10	11 January 2025

Single · 16

Single release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
1994	Geez Make The Hood Go RoundSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 5 tracks · 20:21 1Geez Make the Hood Go Round (Hood remix)4:25 2Geez Make the Hood Go Round4:09 3Geez Make the Hood Go Round (159th St. remix)3:49 4Geez Make the Hood Go Round (a cappella)3:35 5Geez Make the Hood Go Round (Hood remix instrumental)4:23	19 July 1994
1996	You Can't See MeSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 28:01 1You Can’t See Me4:02 2You Can’t See Me (instrumental)4:01 3You Can’t See Me (Slip remix)4:12 4You Can’t See Me (Slip remix instrumental)4:15 5You Can’t See Me (Spinna remix)4:08 6You Can’t See Me (Spinna remix instrumental)4:08 7You Can’t See Me (a cappella)3:15	1996
1996	Thuggin It UpSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 5 tracks · 19:33 1Thuggin It Up (Spinna remix)4:03 2Thuggin It Up (Spinna instrumental)4:00 3Thuggin It Up (Spinna a cappella)3:38 4Thuggin It Up (remix - Squeaky clean)3:57 5Thuggin It Up (remix instrumental)3:55	9 April 1996
2015	Hood Livin'Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 4:01 1Hood Livin'4:01	20 April 2015
2015	Hood Livin (Chopped & Screwed)Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 4:46 1Hood Livin (Chopped & Screwed)4:46	12 May 2015
2016	Any Means / SupplySearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 6:00 1Any Means3:14 2Supply2:46	8 April 2016
2016	Still ConnectedSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:22 1Still Connected2:22	June 2016
2016	Runn the Blocc (DJ Premier remix)Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 4:13 1Runn the Blocc (DJ Premier remix)4:13	11 October 2016
2017	Represent Like ThisSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 6:47 1Represent Like This3:23 2Represent Like This (Clean)3:24	28 April 2017
2018	Life I Chose / Legacy FlagSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks · 10:28 A1Life I Chose (Ray West remix)3:13 A2Life I Chose (OG Crucial edit)2:20 B1Legacy Flag (Crucial remix)2:20 B2Legacy Flag (OG Ray West)2:35	2018
2018	ToySearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:51 1Toy2:51	15 February 2018
2018	My WestSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:32 1My West3:32	8 May 2018
2019	RAWSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:39 1RAW3:39	9 June 2019
2019	How U Do ThatSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 4:13 1How U Do That4:13	9 August 2019
2021	Keep the Hood TightSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:49 1Keep the Hood Tight3:49	1 January 2021
2022	Street LifeSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:42 1Street Life2:42	22 March 2022

Album · 4

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1999	Remixes N'B-SidesSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:07:21 1Intro1:14 2Rhymes Too Funky4:59 3We Made It6:17 4Growin Up In The Hood (remix)5:34 5Def Wish II (DJ Premier remix)4:10 6Compton's Lynchin (remix)4:46 7The Hood Took Me Under (remix)3:44 8Streiht Up Menace (remix)4:36 9Geez Make The Hood Go Round4:20 10All For The Money (remix)4:03 11Westsiders5:19 12Sly, Slick And Wicked4:57 13Thuggin It Up (remix)3:56 14The Brew Took Me Unda0:59 15Summertime4:02 16Throw Your Hands In The Air4:25	Remix	1999
2009	MC EihtSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 21 tracks · 52:03 1Typical Bitch3:09 2MC Eiht Speaks 10:16 3Authentic Ft. Boom Bam3:05 4Def Wish V Pt. 13:08 5Def Wish V Pt. 2 Ft. 2Face & Diamond Rich4:29 6We Aint Scared Ft. 2Face & Big Prodeje5:12 7Speaks On New CMW Album With The Game1:42 8Black Superman Freestyle1:31 9Look At Who's Bangin Now1:26 10Classic Ft. 2Face & Diamond Rich3:02 11MC Eiht Speaks 20:38 12Keep It Pushin Ft. Techniec3:34 13The Wash Freestyle2:03 14Put Hands On You Ft. Goldie Locc3:32 15Goldigger Ft. 2Face & Boom Bam3:51 16Compton's Most Wanted Ft. Tieko2:54 17MC Eiht Speaks 30:57 18Got Love For The West2:55 19Quick Money Ft. Kam2:25 20Show You How2:03 21Outro0:11	Compilation	2009
2010	The Best of MC EihtSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:19:41 1All for the Money4:05 2Straight Up Menace4:34 3You Can't See Me4:20 4Compton 4 Death4:40 5The Murder Show, Pt. 23:54 6Growin Up in the Hood4:11 7Thuggin' It Up4:05 8187 Hemp2:53 9Buy Another Gun5:33 10Anything U Want4:03 11Late Night Hype, Pt. 24:33 12Niggaz That Kill2:30 13That's the Way Life Goes4:35 14Nothin' but the Gangsta5:12 15Tha Business4:43 16Ain't Nuthin' to It3:15 17You Don't Know, Who I Know4:42 18No One Else4:14 19Can I Still Kill It3:39	Compilation	21 September 2010
2011	Keep It Gangsta / The PioneersSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 32 tracks · 1:49:29 1Spit at Em’0:29 2No One Else4:15 3Raw Wit It4:23 4The Bossilini1:16 5187 Hemp2:55 6I’m Original3:31 7No Chit Chat4:34 8Let It Blow3:57 9They Just Don’t Know3:41 10The Warning0:28 11Revenge4:03 12Ohh Sh#T4:16 13Less Than Nothing0:42 14That’z Gangsta4:03 15You Don’t Know, Who I Know4:43 16Break Deez Mu’f#@ccaz0:10 17The Murder Show Pt. 23:55 18So Damn Crazy4:08 19Come on Ni@@az0:16 20We Run the Block4:42 21That’s It3:45 22Can’t Stop Us3:45 23That’s the Way Life Goes4:35 24East Bay Gangsta3:24 25All I Came 2 Do3:35 26Bout That Time4:08 27Do Better5:03 28Been a Long Time4:30 29West Coast Party4:04 30Keepin’ Me High4:18 31I Ain’t Scared3:18 32The Mack4:37	Compilation	22 March 2011

Stats & PK

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MC Eiht metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	31	91th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	50	94.3th
Studio albums	24	97.3th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	26	95.9th
Recording span (years)	32	70th
Genres	5	88.3th

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To
Compton’s Most Wanted(band)	—	present
E.C.M.P.(band)	—	present
1st Generation(band)	—	present
The Hoobang Affilliates(band)	—	present
N.O.T.R.(band)	—	present
Killafornia Organization(band)	—	present
1/2 Oz(band)	—	present
War Zone(band)	2006	2009

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_MC_Eiht.jpg
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/103555b8-ae47-4e99-8fc3-e31bdfd7854e
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/103555b8-ae47-4e99-8fc3-e31bdfd7854e
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531913
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531913
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Eiht
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Eiht

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Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 0, 31 language versions)
Image: Rapkind TV · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q531913 · MusicBrainz: 103555b8-ae47-4e99-8fc3-e31bdfd7854e

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