Songfacts®:

• My life was never Eazy
  
  "Eazy" finds The Game and Kanye West detailing various challenges they've faced in their respective lives. The two artists titled the song after legendary Compton rapper Eazy-E, with both making a play on his name.
• The Game kicks off the track discussing his violent early years on the Compton streets as a member of the Bloods street gang. He recalls being shot five times by rival Crips members. Now a reformed thug, The Game realizes his gangsta lifestyle exacerbated his hardships.
  
  "Life should be eazy for everybody, we make the choice to complicate it for ourselves and others," The Game said of the track. "Change your perspective and change the world."
• West's verse finds him bemoaning his troubled family life after Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from him in February 2021. Ye unleashes on Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson, who started dating his estranged wife in November 2021.
  
  God saved me from that crash
  Just so I can beat Pete Davidson's ass
  
  The Chicago rapper nearly lost his life in a 2002 car accident after he fell asleep at the wheel. He broke his jaw in three places, but is grateful that God kept him from dying.
• Yeezy also takes aim at Kardashian's parental skills, implying that she pampers their four young children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
  
  Watched four kids for like five hours today
  When you give 'em everything, they only want more
  Boujee and unruly, y'all need to do some chores
  Rich-ass kids, this ain't yo' mama house
  Climb on your brother's shoulders, get that Top Ramen out
  
  Ye won't let his kids become spoiled brats. When they are at his home, he expects them to pitch in with the chores and eat everyday food like ramen noodles.
  
  I got love for the nannies, but real family is better
  The cameras watch the kids, y'all stop takin' the credit
  Noncustodial dad, I bought the house next door
  
  In December 2021, West bought the house across the street from Kim Kardashian's Los Angeles home so he could be near his children. "My solace comes from seeing my kids and getting a solid schedule. That's why I even got the house," West explained to Hollywood Unlocked. "The media flipped into there was something wrong with me getting a house next to my kids."
• West and Game have collaborated several times in the past, starting with "Crack Music" from Yeezy's 2005 album Late Registration. Other hookups between the pair include the Compton rapper's "Wouldn't Get Far," "Jesus Piece" and "Mula."
• The chorus and outro sample American R&B singer Michel'le's intro for Eazy-E's 1988 debut single "Eazy Duz It."
• Kanye West co-produced the song with:
  
  Yeezy's regular co-producer Mike Dean. The pair have worked together since West's debut album, The College Dropout.
  
  Producer Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis. After signing a two-year deal with West's GOOD Music production branch in 2011, Hit-Boy regularly contributed to Yeezy's tracks for a while, including "Niggas in Paris" and "Clique." However, they fell out for several years before reconciling in the early 2020s. This is the first West song he's contributed towards since they buried the hatchet.
  
  Legendary hip-hop producer DJ Premier. His contribution came about after West asked him if he could do a scratch for "Eazy."
  
  Frequent Game collaborator Chris "Big Duke" Malloy. He co-produced nine tracks on Game's 2019 album Born 2 Rap. His other credits include Machine Gun Kelly's "Floor 13."
  
  Wack 100 is also listed as a co-producer.
• The controversial single artwork depicts a skinned monkey against a blood-red background. Originally a picture taken by British photographer Nick Knight in 1997 of an actual deceased primate, it didn't get published until 2013. Knight has collaborated with West on several of his creative endeavors, including videos for "Lost in The World, "Black Skinhead," "Bound 2" and "24."
• The song's stop-motion clay animation video targets Pete Davidson too. We see West putting a bag over a Davidson lookalike before tying him up driving him out to an isolated place. The rapper then buries the Saturday Night Live comedian neck-deep in dirt and plants rose seeds over him. The visual ends with roses growing out of Davidson's skull, which he loads into a pickup truck. It resembles the multiple bouquets of red roses West sent to Kim Kardashian's house on Valentine's Day 2022.
• The video depiction of West kidnapping, burying alive, and decapitating Pete Davidson provoked a backlash. In response to the criticism, West posted on Instagram: "Art is protected as freedom of speech. Art inspires and simplifies the world. Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm, Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended."
• West deleted the controversial claymation video a week after its release. In its place he dropped a CGI animated visual where the two rappers appear as video game-style characters, accompanied by skinned monkeys.
  
  West doesn't let off Davidson lightly. As he raps, "God saved me from that crash. Just so I can beat Pete Davidson's ass," a skinned monkey beats up a figure with the comedian's blurred-out face and a "Skete" hoodie (West refers to Davidson as "Skete").
• The Game included "Eazy" on his 2022 Drillmatic – Mind vs. Heart album.