THE LIFE OF EAZY E Introduction A member of the hip-hop group N.W.A. and a solo artist, Eric Lynn Wright was best known as Eazy-E. It didn't take long for Eric Wright, better known by his stage name Eazy-E, to become a major player in the music industry, the "gangsta" rap movement, and more. Even though he hadn't been releasing music for long, he became famous in American pop culture due to media attention. In the late '80s, Eazy-E rose to fame as a member of the hit rap group N.W.A.—Niggaz with Attitude. Melody Maker proclaimed Eazy-E N.W.A. was "most notorious hustler" in 1989, and Alan Light of Rolling Stone hailed the group as the hardest of the hard core, the ones who pioneered the savage type of rap known as gangster rap. In 1989, Gregory …show more content…
-. and Eazy-Duz-It (1986–1991). Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube were the initial members of N.W.A., which was also called "the world's most dangerous group." Later, DJ Yella and MC Ren came on board. The N.W.A. and the Posse compilation album, which debuted on November 6, 1987, would later receive a Gold certification in the US. Various acts, including N.W.A. and the Dallas, Texas-based West Coast rap group Fila Fresh Crew, had singles published under the Macola Records label. These singles were included on the CD. Eazy-Duz-It was the 1988 debut album by Eazy-E and it contained twelve tracks. Rappers from the West Coast first called it gangsta rap, and then "golden age" hip hop. Sales in the US exceeded 2.5 million, and it peaked at #41 on the Billboard 200. Many of the tracks on the album were written by MC Ren, Ice Cube, and The D.O.C., and it was produced by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella. Jon Wiederhorn of MTV and Glen Boyd of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer both asserted that Eazy-Duz-It was a prerequisite for N.W.A. most divisive album, Straight Outta Compton. A remix of 8 Ball, originally on N.W.A. and the Posse, was the sole solo by Wright on the album. The CD showcased Wright's compositions and performances; he contributed to four songs and performed on seven of
some kind of connection between both of their deaths? I believe that rap music was never violent until "gangsta" rap came about. What sparked this change and who was behind it? I want to explore "gangsta" rap from the beginning until now. I want to research the major players in the rap game, who they are and what some of their lyrics are saying. Today our society is bursting at the seams with violence. There is fighting in other countries like Kosovo, shootings in schools, and violence on television
ways that African Americans have historically used music to create space to exist in American society— a society that often relegates them to the margins. While research on storytelling’s transformative power looks largely at non-fiction stories or first-person accounts and how they can produce empathy regarding issues of injustice, this paper aims to expand these arguments to include fictional stories as well (Chin and Rudelius-Palmer 2010). Fictional stories build upon this empathy by providing space
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