Artist: Eazy E
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Life After Death
Year: 2007
Tracks: 34
Featuring Eazy E-(Advance)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Eternal E: Best of
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphu**in Compton
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Eazy-Duz-It
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Its On 187Killa
Year:
Tracks: 8
Whether as a member of N.W.A., a solo playact, or a label head, Eazy-E was one of the nearly controversial figures in gangsta rap. While his technical skills as a rapper were ne'er the greatest, his distinctive delivery (invariably described as a high-pitched whine), over-the-top lyrics, and undeniable personal magnetism made him a star. Following N.W.A.'s breakup, E's street believability took a major drubbing, though his recordings continued to sell well when they appeared; unluckily, he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1995, and died not long later.
Eric "Eazy-E" Wright was born September 7, 1964, in Compton, CA, a rocky role of the Los Angeles underground surface area that N.W.A. would later make infamous. A high schoolhouse dropout, Wright sour to do drugs dealing to accompaniment himself, and eventually secondhand the earnings to start his own rap label, Ruthless Records, with partner and music-business old hand Jerry Heller. E discovered a major playing talent in the D.O.C., and recruited Ice Cube and Dr. Dre to write songs for his unchanging of artists. When their composition "Boyz-N-the Hood" was rejected by Ruthless signee HBO, Cube, Dre, and E formed the low reading of N.W.A. to record it themselves. Their low gear album, N.W.A. and the Posse, was released in 1987 and largely unheeded; later a few tweaks of the lineup and the rough-edged subject matter, 1988's Straight Outta Compton made N.W.A. into superstars. E seized the opportunity to exit a solo project afterward in the year, highborn Eazy-Duz-It, which would be the just uncut record album he would discharge; it would sell well o'er two-million copies.
Later on Ice Cube's bitter exit from N.W.A. toward the goal of 1989 (precipitated in role by Heller's stage business manoeuvre), Eazy-E took over his non inconsiderable share of the rapping and songwriting duties, becoming the group's prevailing voice on 1991's Efil4zaggin. His taste for cartoon-ish raunch began to undermine the claims of realistic inner city coverage that the radical had exploited to defend themselves. Disputes between the members lED to N.W.A.'s breakup that summer, and a courtroom conflict 'tween Ruthless and Dre's new label Death Row presently followed, with Eazy alleging that Death Row head Suge Knight had coerced Ruthless into cathartic Dre from his foreshorten. The event was eventually thrown out, but a acrimonious feud between Dre and Eazy raged for the next several age; Dre's originative solo debut The Chronic made unmerciful merriment of Eazy. E's 1992 solo EP 5150 Home 4 tha Sick sold well, simply did little to scatter his increasingly cartoon-ish image; he plant more success running the Ruthless label, with a roster that included Above the Law, N.W.A. bandmate MC Ren, the peaked received all-female radical H.W.A. (Hoez With Attitude), and, finally, the remunerative Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Eazy addressed his feud with Dre on the 1993 EP It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, which splendidly included an actual photograph of Dre wear constitution and sequins during his World Class Wreckin' Cru days. Still, spare for dissing Dre, Eazy didn't appear to experience much to say, and despite healthy record book gross sales, his artistic credibleness was declining at an alarming rate. Eazy didn't help matters much when, in early 1993, he spoke out in supporting of Theodore Briseno, the only LAPD officer involved in the Rodney King whipping to carry displeasure; later in the twelvemonth, he paid 2,five hundred dollars to attend a Republican fundraiser, which his detractors saw as a further betrayal of his roots.
In early 1995, Eazy entered the infirmary with respiratory difficulties, believing he had developed asthma attack. The diagnosing was far more than serious: he had contracted AIDS. Eazy proclaimed his plight to the populace shortly thereafter, winning esteem for his straightforward attitude. Sadly, simply a few weeks later, on March 26, 1995, the disease claimed his life. The book he had been working on, Str8 Off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton, was released posthumously (in unfinished form) later on in the twelvemonth. In 2002, on the seventh anniversary of his death, some previously unreleased material from the Ruthless vaults was released as the EP Impact of a Legend, which was accompanied by a DVD.
