Eazy-E
Eazy-E is known as the West Coast rapper and label co-founder. He was the leader of the group N.W.A. known for albums like “Straight Outta Compton”. Eazy-E was born on September 7, 1963 in Compton, California. Eazy - E’s real name is Eric Lynn Wright. He dropped out of high school and worked as a drug dealer.
He started Ruthless Records with Jerry Heller. He also teamed up with O’Shea, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre to start making songs. The controversial act is known for it’s violent and prejudice words toward women, dropped albums like “Straight Outta Compton” with Eazy releasing work as a solo artist. After another, Ruthless Group opted not to record a song by Jackson and Young, and Wright joined with the two men to record “Boyz-n-the-Hood” as Niggaz with Attitude …show more content…
joining the act, the group released debut album, N.W.A. and the posse in 1987, dropping its next album, “Straight Outta Compton,” the following year. The disc earned double -platinum sales also contained the track “F--- the Police,” spurring the FBI to send a cautionary letter to the company.
”Eazy-Duz - it”, the same year, was in fact another collaboration effort between various members of N.W.A. with Eazy serving as the main performer. After Ice Cube left the group in 1989, N.W.A. released “Ep 100 Miles” and “Running” in 1990 and the full - length Eff,”14 Zaggin” the following year, which hit no 1 on the Billboard charts seen as a major influence on the Gangsta.
Rap themes that would later dominate commercial hip-hop,the group became known for extremely violent and misogynistic lyrical content with much of its sales fueled by adolescent male suburbanites. N.W.A. broke up in the early ,with Eazy and Dr. Dre embroiled disputes that also saw the two attacking and lampooning early other in their respective work,Eazy, a consummate on how rap controverse could be used to spur album sales , continued