While Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella all lived to produce and promote a $29 million movie about their little rap group, N.W.A, we lost that group's founding strongman, Eazy-E, in March 1996 ...

Eric “Eazy-E” Wright passed away 12 years ago after succumbing to the AIDS virus. His legacy and influence, however, is still felt today. As one of the founding members of N.W.A, Eazy was one of the ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Sep. 4, 1996: While the hip-hop world was still mourning the loss of N.W.A founder Eazy-E in 1995, his Cleveland protégés, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, ...

Eazy E s vision pointed all eyes to Compton. As a result, everybody benefitted. One of the biggest beneficiaries was Eazy s friend and peer, MC Eiht. Compton s Most Wanted remains a group with a 20 ...

Eazy-E was one of the biggest rappers in American music history, but he also left a personal legacy in his children. Often referred to as the “Godfather of Gangsta Rap,” Eazy-E, born Eric Lynn Wright, ...