Eric "Eazy-E"
Wright got the whole U.S.A plus the rest of the world to wake up
when it came to the blacks situration in the American comunity in
the middle of the 80's. Under his alias, Eazy-E, he started a
record comapny, -Ruthless Records-, with help from money that he
had collected on the streets, and created the gangsta-rap, a part
of hip hop that had millions of head lines all over the world. 31
years old, he died, only 2 months after that he fund out that he
had AIDS.
He was born in Compton in a middle-class
family in 1963, he became a criminal in the teenages, the life as
a gangsta didn't have the plans for the future that Eazy-E were
dreaming of, so after he compleated school, he started in the
music industry.
He was born in Compton in a middle-class
family in 1963, he became a criminal in the teenages, the life as
a gangsta didn't have the plans for the future that Eazy-E were
dreaming of, so after comleated the school, he started in the
music buisnes. Together with Ice-Cube, Dr.Dre, MC Ren and DJ
Yella, he putted together one of the most controversial rap group
ever, N.W.A (Niggaz With Attitudes) in 1986. When their "Boyz
n' the Hood" started to conquer the lists in USA, they
putted Compton and Los Angeles on the rap-map. With fat bases and
heavy funk, Boyz n' the Hood soon became the national-anthem of
hip hop. Everybody that were living in the so called "projects"
(the slum) suddenly had something that wertr their own, a song
with lyrics that showed the hard reallity that got the "white
America" to tripp.
That was just the begining. With N.W.A,
Ruhtless Records got a dream start and 1989 the album Straight
outta Compton, that was a real classic were out. The fans
cellebrated. With soungs like Fuck the Police and Gangsta,
Gangsta they made the FBI and the LAPD fear and the politicans
started to show interests in hip-hop but not in a positive way.
The gangsta rap also splitted into two camps betwen those who
thought N.W.A just described things as they were and those who
thought that hip-hop had a responsibilty to take and don't
encurige and glorify that violence that was about to strangle the
Latin Americans and the black people.
In the middle of that Eazy saw how his
life work was falling apart. Ice-Cube left first, then to be
followed by Dr.Dre that started Deth Row Records together with
Suge Knight, with artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound
among others. It was hard for Eazy-E when Dr. Dre left Ruthless
Records. It was the end of N.W.A when Dre left, with out him,
they didn't have any one to create the beats. Plus that the old
members started to sue each other, and if that wasn't enough,
they came out with solo albums were they didn't back for anything
just to diss eachother, Eazy-E eaven publiced pictures of Dr. Dre
in eye-liner and lipstick on his second solo album, It's on (Dr.Dre)
187um Killa 1993. Eaven dogh it wasn't eazy, Eazy-E continiude on
his way, hard-headed he stuck to his visions and his gangsta
mentality. In 1994, he got into contact with the group Bone Thugs
n' Harmony" from Cleveland. Eazy-E sure could find talents,
and Ruhthless once again had a group that could sell millions of
records.
Just then, fate stroke with all it's
power. Eazy-E's self buring lifestyle demanded it's tribute. A
cold showed up to be a inflamation of the lungs, may seems like a
piece of cake, but not in this case. AIDS the doctors confirmed
and two months later he was dead. After 11 523 days on the earth,
Eric Wright died the 26th Mars 1995, in a hospital bed, with only
his family at his side.
He might be gone, but not forgotten...Rest
In Peace, E!
