![]() I just feel I’ve got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what’s real when it comes to AIDS. “I’m not saying this because I’m looking for a soft cushion wherever I’m heading. He dropped out of high school and worked as a drug dealer for a time, using his income to co-found a label, Ruthless Records, with music industry insider Jerry Heller. “I’m not religious, but wrong or right, that’s me,” said Wright, 30 at the time. Rapper Eazy-E was born Eric Wright on September 7, 1963, in Compton, California, a city in Los Angeles County. Maybe success was too good to me.”īut it was what he said after that, that really had an effect on generations to come. At his funeral, more than 3,000 people attempted to get a glimpse of the Godfather of Gangsta Rap. I have seven children by six different mothers. But in his statement, he indicated that he had had a number of sexual partners. ![]() Wright–a self-described ex-gang member and former drug dealer–did not say how he contracted the AIDS virus. MUST READ: How Ice Cube Went From Gangsta Rap To Family Man While HIV/AIDS was still relatively taboo in the Black community, instead of quietly going away, Eazy made the decision to courageously make the announcement to share with the world in hopes of helping others to know the truth. AIDS would be the disease the eventually took his life only a few weeks after making the announcement. announced that he had AIDS and was in dire condition. In 1995, rap artist Eazy-E, a major figure in the commercial development of “gangsta” rap and co-founder of the group N.W.
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