He dropped out of school in the 10th grade, although he later received a high school equivalency diploma. Wright was born in Compton, in South-Central Los Angeles, and regularly told interviewers that N.W.A.'s tales of gang violence and drug dealing were in part autobiographical. The album sold more than two million copies, and its subject matter established the pattern for virtually all the gangster rap to follow. The song became notorious after the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote to N.W.A.'s label, Ruthless Records, protesting that it could incite violence against law enforcement personnel. The album's raps about gunplay, drug dealing, raw sex, gang solidarity and police harassment in a Los Angeles suburb included one song that is a fantasy of violent revenge against racist police officers. (which stands for Niggaz Wit' Attitude), Eazy-E was the executive producer of the definitive gangster rap album, "Straight Outta Compton," released in 1988. William Young.Īs a founding member of the rap group N.W.A. The cause was complications from AIDS, said his doctor, Dr. Eric Wright, who as the rapper Eazy-E helped turn gangster rap into a commercial bonanza, died on Sunday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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