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This did not convince Eazy-E to release Dr. Dre and The D.O.C. from Ruthless, and Suge Knight threatened Eazy-E's family: Suge Knight gave Eazy-E a piece of paper that contained Eazy's mother's address, telling him, "I know where your mama stays." Eazy-E finally signed Dr. Dre and The D.O.C.'s releases, officially ending N.W.A. [29]
According to a 2013 interview with Ice Cube, when Eazy-E was close to death in 1995 from AIDS, Cube went to visit him in the hospital, Dre was walking out and told him that Eazy was unconscious. Cube left the hospital without seeing Eazy and told Dre to call him when he woke up. Dre later called Cube and told him that Eazy had died. [10]
Eazy-E executive produced Bone Thugs' second album, E 1999 Eternal, which was released shortly after his death on March 26, 1995, of HIV/AIDS in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. [16] Their smash 1996 single "Tha Crossroads" was dedicated to Eazy-E and helped push the album to multi-platinum success.
Al Pereira/GettyThe death of the rapper Eazy-E was jolting. The leading member of the pioneering “gangsta rap” group N.W.A. passed away in March 1995 after a devastatingly short battle with ...
Jerry Heller and Eazy E became the subject of diss tracks such as No Vaseline and Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin'). Dr. Dre later recalled: "The split came when Jerry Heller got involved. He played the divide and conquer game. Instead of taking care of everybody, he picked Eazy to handle it.
The late rap icon Eazy-E is getting a street named after him in Compton next week. 'My dad loved where he was from,' daughter Erica Wright says. Eazy-E is getting a Compton street named after him ...
E. 1999 Eternal also introduced Bone's trademark tracks devoted entirely to the use of marijuana. The album name originated from one of the street names of a corner (E. 99th street and St. Clair) that was a familiar hangout to Bone members, as well as Eazy-E's album Eternal E. Naming it after Eazy-E's album was just another way of showing ...
Decades after Eazy-E and N.W.A helped put Compton on the map, the city honors the late rapper by naming a street after him.