part ways, Eazy-E embarked on a very successful solo career. He started recording songs during the mid-1980s in his parents' garage, thus starting Ruthless Records, which led to the formation of the successful rap group.Īfter inner turmoil saw N.W.A. However, after his cousin was shot and killed, he decided that he could make a better living in the Los Angeles music scene, which was spiking in popularity. Per UPI, born Eric Lynn Wright, Eazy-E touted what was perhaps N.W.A.s most distinctive voice, spiritually and literally, contributing to rap milestones like Fck tha Police, Gangsta Gangsta, and Boyz-n-the-Hood.In his teens and early 20s, Wright was allegedly making as much as 250,000 from dealing drugs on L.A. Per UPI, born Eric Lynn Wright, Eazy-E touted what was perhaps N.W.A.'s most distinctive voice, spiritually and literally, contributing to rap milestones like "F*ck tha Police," "Gangsta Gangsta," and "Boyz-n-the-Hood." In his teens and early 20s, Wright was allegedly making as much as $250,000 from dealing drugs on L.A. The group also helped develop a new kind of storytelling approach to the mainstream canon with cult classic albums like Straight Outta Compton, eventually launching members like Dr. Both Dre and Eazy did however make peace, but later on in 1995 when he died from Pnemonia (The Official Cause of His Death not AIDS), all of N.W.As former members expressed all of their regrets with Eazy. The two kept dissing each other until Eazy passed in 1995.
Since then, a number of conspiracy theories about the specific cause of his death and the. Eazy-E: 'But Dre Day, only meant Eazys pay day'. In the years between, Eazy-E changed the rap world. helped to solidify the gangsta rap subgenre that so gruesomely detailed the violent life of those living in inner-city Los Angeles. For years, it was reported that famed former N.W.A rapper Eazy-E died of complications from AIDS in 1995. Born Eric Lynn Wright in 1964, Eazy-Es story began on the streets of Compton and ended in 1995 in Los Angeles. rose to prominence as a more aggressive, provocative alternative to popular rappers of the genre's pop infancy. Just as the rap genre began earning mainstream acceptance and subsequent radio play thanks to the likes of Run-DMC and the Fresh Prince in the early 1990s, California-based group N.W.A.