While the Straight Outta Compton biopic depicted Eazy-E as going through financial troubles, he died very wealthy… according to his son. In an interview with Vlad TV, Lil Eazy-E…
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Stevie Williams’ Asphalt Yacht Club teams up with photographer Mike Miller for a collaborative capsule of pieces, featuring an iconic photo of the late Eazy-E. The drop consists of…
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The D.O.C. is a gangster rap legend, who has worked extensively with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A., contributing to The Chronic, N.W.A., Eazy-E and Ruthless Records. In a new…
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Eazy-E protege B.G. Knocc Out recently pointed out a few inaccuracies with the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton. Specifically, the West Coast rap vet didn’t like how Eazy was…
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The consensus is: the Straight Outta Compton movie was awesome. However, not everyone agrees it was very accurate… especially those who were present at the time period in the…
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Kendrick Lamar pens a letter paying tribute to the late Eazy-E in the forthcoming October “Nowstalgia” issue of Paper. The magazine asked three rap icons to pay tribute to…
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Former Ruthless Records signee B.G. Knocc Out has stories for days, when it comes to his days around Eazy-E. Recently, during an interview with Vlad TV, the rap vet…
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While Death Row Records and Suge Knight intimated many within the industry in its heyday, one of the label’s most notable beefs came at the hands of Eazy-E. With…
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The Straight Outta Compton movie has sparked N.W.A. mania as of late. Recently, a piece of the group’s history surfaced. Back in 1991, when Dre left Ruthless Records and…
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Eazy-E died in 1995, due to complications stemming from AIDS. However, there’s been theories that point to the rap icon actually being killed via injection of the virus… which…
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Ruthless Records’ Founder Jerry Heller Talks “Straight Outta Compton” Movie
04/01/2015 Staff
When Eazy-E launched Ruthless Records and the career of N.W.A. in the late 1980s, he did it with the help of manager Jerry Heller. 20 years after Eazy’s untimely…
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Eazy-E passed away 20 years ago today, so the team at HipHopDX spoke to a number of industry vets to recall their memories of the late rap legend. In this…
