In August 1988, N.W.A. released Straight Outta Compton, and the album promptly soared to number nine on Billboard's Top R&B ...

In related news, a CD/DVD package called “Eternal E: The Best Of Eazy-E – Gangsta Memorial Edition” is slated to drop Aug. 30 as the rapper’s 41st birthday (Sept. 7) comes around.

Vibe magazine places Eazy-E on the cover of their September 2015 digital issue for an article titled Eazy-E: The Ruthless Life Of An American Gangsta.

Eazy-E managed to combine the media-darling, yet vicious Al Capone with angry LA adolescence, urban angst, and the gang aesthetic. The Trilby morphed to the baseball hat and the Cadillac V16 ...

7. Eazy-E Executive of: Ruthless Records Street Cred: Plenty of rappers have said something along the lines of "I Am Not A Rapper, I'm A Hustler Who Can Rap." Eazy lived that mantra.

Singer Eazy-E, whose pioneering "gangsta" rap group N.W.A. brought the rawness of the inner-city to white suburbia, died Sunday of AIDS complications. He was 31.

Eazy-E reportedly passed away in 1995 from complications from AIDS— but not everyone thinks so. Already a legend at the time of his death, the gangsta turned rapper’s iconic status has only ...

“Eazy-E’s first-born son and longtime friend are carrying on the legacy that started it all.” The site also claims that Ruthless Records Inc. was “founded by legendary gangsta rap artist ...

1996: Gangsta rapper and N.W.A member Eazy E dropped his second and final full-length album, Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton. Referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap," Eazy E is ...

And while Eazy is now considered the Godfather of Gangsta Rap, he also played a key role in the career of one of pop music’s biggest names: long before “I Got A Feeling” was a staple of bar ...

Eazy-E / Getty *Gangsta rap pioneer Eazy-E will be posthumously honored with a street named after him in his beloved Compton. AllHipHop.com reports the City of Compton will officially rename Auto ...

Erica Wright, the oldest daughter of Eazy-E, gets into a Chevrolet Impala owned by Robert Rodriguez on Saturday, July 27, 2019 in Toppenish Wright was in Toppenish to see a new gravestone made by ...