There was just that period later on that had a lot of drama. I don’t think he ever faded from consciousness, at least not when he was alive. It wasn’t just, “You work for me, and I’m this icon.” He was personally interested in people.Ī: You worked with him at a time when he was in high-demand, and when he had faded a bit as well from the public consciousness. He would ask different stuff, and be curious on a personal level. Some artists, they will only talk about themselves or things pertaining to their career. But he was very approachable – somebody you could talk to. PP: You can’t in a way, because this is our lives. That was real cool, too.Ī: I know he was also a friend of yours. He actually brought over other people that weren’t on his label that he wanted me to do press for. I represented some of his groups like Above The Law, Kokane and the I was also working for him at the time he went into the hospital, too. PP: After that, I started working for his label for a while. It was a huge, big deal what was going down.Ī: He responded to that, and you began work directly with him? Oprah Winfrey even held up the front cover of our article on her show, and she talked about the article.
Dre, they show both of their articles that reference our story. In fact, when you watch the VH1 Behind the Music episode on Dr. Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter each came out stories on what we had exposed in our article. Marsh is really brilliant, and the impact of the article was that it send shockwaves throughout the industry. I also wrote about it on a journalistic level, and I co-wrote a lengthy story on it with Dave Marsh, which was published as the cover story of The Village Voice in New York. I did so much research on the letter, and who was behind it. That’s how I first got involved as a publicist regarding that. How it got started initially was that there was an FBI letter that had surfaced, regarding “Straight Outta Compton.” I was asked to get involved and get to the bottom of it, and to get the word out to the press on it. Phyllis Pollack: I don’t remember the first time. Eric Wright is dearly missed.Ī:What was it like the first time you met Eric? That being said, read what a true industry insider can tell us about Eazy from many standpoints in our next part in the Eazy E tribute series. Throughout her career and today, Phyllis Pollack’s Def Press has been publicizing news and information about The Geto Boys, NWA, and Compton’s Most Wanted, among many others. She’s even the one who wrote the liner notes in the re-released Straight Outta Compton and albums.Īs somebody who worked for Eric “Eazy E” Wright, Phyllis told us a lot of things that few know: Eazy’s private charities, his NWA reunion plans, and the often simplified battle to get NWA heard in the late 1980’s. Phyllis worked as a publicist for various NWA and Eazy E albums over the ten year career.
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