Efil4zaggin was hyped enough to get N.W.A onto the cover Time magazine, and listening to it now, a few things were obvious to me. First off, lyrically, Ice Cube was the backbone of N.W.A. Dre was never a writer, and Eazy was nothing more than a money man, and though Ren had skills, his were more based on the old school and very formulaic even through the new prism of gangsta rap. Without Cube, the album lacked lyrically a lot of times. The second problem was it being victim to Eazy-E's desire to put himself over so much as a modern day Dolemite. The skits on this album were terrible, shit that vaudeville comediens wouldn't use for a double album.
The one positive though is you can hear Dre find that g-funk sound on this record that he exploited fully on The Chronic. If there was an instrumental version of Efil4zaggin, sans the stupid skits, I'd be all over that shit.
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