The last time I saw someone wear a Jheri curl with a straight face was in the summer of 2015. ... Eazy-E and Ice Cube both sported the curl. And this freed other young black men to follow suit.

Eric “Eazy-E” Wright came from Compton, stood 5-foot-2 and had a Jheri curl. The Dominguez High dropout was a hustler who believed half of what he saw, some of what he heard.

Looking the part required three hours of makeup each day -— including a wig that mimicked Eazy’s Jheri-curl ’do. It all paid off when Eazy’s pals saw him. Says Mitchell: ...

Though Eazy's image preserves, his signature locs and jheri curl tucked under a Raiders snapback, in hipster t-shirts and that tattoo on Game's forearm, it's his music that we could use more of.