A Compton voice that scored Menace II Society and a Buffalo voice that rebuilt East Coast street rap in the 2010s on one record: MC Eiht's new single "Everyday" featuring Conway The Machine is the first look at his upcoming album The Story Of My Life, arriving later this month. The pairing makes sense on paper and more sense on wax – both rappers deal in unhurried, low-temperature menace, narration over performance, and "Everyday" plays like a conversation between two writers who never needed to raise their voices to hold a room. Eiht's track record carries the weight here. He broke through with Compton's Most Wanted's Music To Driveby, released just months after the LA Riots and long since canonized as a gangsta rap landmark, then went on a solo run that put We Come Strapped and Death Threatz high on the charts – per the label, Gold plaque included. Add "Growin' Up In The Hood" from Boyz N The Hood and his turn as A-Wax in Menace II Society with "Streiht Up Menace" on the soundtrack, and you have one of the few West Coast catalogs where the film work and the records reinforce each other instead of competing. The Story Of My Life reads like a deliberate bridge-building exercise: Conway, Pete Rock and Dave East from the East, DJ Muggs, B-Real, Jay Worthy and Glasses Malone from the West, Brotha Lynch Hung from Sacramento's darkest corner, and fellow Compton's Most Wanted member Tha Chill closing the family circle. No producer credit is listed for "Everyday" – so the write-up stays lean here. For anyone who followed Eiht from the Driveby era or came in through Conway's run, this is the rare legacy-artist single that doesn't trade on nostalgia. It just sounds like two professionals doing what they do every day. Gyeah.
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