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===EP highlights=== The ''100 Miles'' EP previewed N.W.A's evolving sound, spare on ''Straight Outta Compton'',<ref>Steve Huey, [https://www.allmusic.com/album/straight-outta-compton-mw0000653426 "N.W.A: ''Straight Outta Compton''"], ''AllMusic.com'', Netaktion LLC, visited 1 May 2020.</ref> and now more layered, as in the "100 Miles" track.<ref name="allmusic-review2" /> This song's idea was from a film among Eazy's favorites, director [[Walter Hill]]'s 1979 gangster film ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''.<ref>Jerry Heller w/ Gil Reavill, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&q=%22N.W.A+and+the+Posse%22 Ruthless: A Memoir]'' (New York: [[Simon Spotlight Entertainment]], 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=jsn3pM18uJcC&dq="100+Miles+and+Runnin'+"&pg=PA183 p. 183].</ref> On the other hand, the track "Just Don't Bite It", says [[AllMusic]], "is an alarming porno rap that at the time of its release was as explicit as anything out there, including [[2 Live Crew]]."<ref name="allmusic-review2" /> From the ''100 Miles'' EP, three songs— "100 Miles and Runnin{{'-}}", "Just Don't Bite It", and "Real Niggaz"—would be collected on ''[[Greatest Hits (N.W.A)|N.W.A's Greatest Hits]]''. "Real Niggaz" appears, too, on N.W.A's second and final official, studio album, ''[[Efil4zaggin]]'', the backwards spelling of ''Niggaz4Life''. On it, "She Swallowed It" as well as "Findum, Fuckum & Flee"—ahead of dozens of other rap songs in later years—sample "Just Don't Bite It", as does the [[Punk (music)|punk]] [[ska]] band [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]]'s song "Let's Go Get Stoned".{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} Arriving in 2003, a [[remastered]] edition of ''Efil4zaggin'' fully appends the ''100 Miles'' EP.
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