However, the talented gangster-turned-rapper didn't enjoy the limelight for very long. 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 '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. helped to solidify the gangsta rap subgenre that so gruesomely detailed the violent life of those living in inner-city Los Angeles. rose to prominence as a more aggressive, provocative alternative to popular rappers of the genre's pop infancy. The reason he gets a page, despite being a real person, is that, unlike his other band members, Eazy-E intended for his rap persona to be outlandish and funny, and not to be taken seriously.

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. Eric Wright (1963 - 1995), known as Eazy-E, was a rapper from Compton, California, who formed the legendary group, Nz with Attitude.Hes a Rodney King-hating gangsta.

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