Those turned on by NWA's radical chic soon found, however, that their "Attitude" was not entirely the kind that comes of an art-school pose.
By the end of 1989 Eazy-E had enjoyed his own million-selling album, Eazy-Duz-It. No wonder their second album, entitled Efil4Zaggin (Niggaz For Life spelt backwards), went straight to No 1 in the American charts in 1991, selling over 6 million copies - mainly to middle-class white teenagers in the US Midwest - of its vicarious rebellion. With tunes like "Fuck Tha Police" they made previously militant rap heroes like Public Enemy seem mere camp pussycats. When Eazy-E's group Niggaz With Attitude - inevitably abbreviated to its initial letters NWA - first emerged in early 1989, they seemed like a breath of fresh air indeed, the five-piece rap group's name seemed a positive irony, one that seemed to speak of defiant underdogs rising and claiming, with a certain sense of humour, their rightful position in society.įrom the ghetto of Compton (their first big-selling album was called Straight Outta Compton, 1989) in south central Los Angeles, NWA took off from the springboard of success provided by such local but safer acts as Tone Loc, virtually creating gangsta rap, and overturning New York's domination of hiphop. By 1994, he'd also become the host of a Los Angeles radio music show on KKBT-FM.Eric Wright (Eazy-E), musician: born 7 September 1963 died Los Angeles 26 March 1995.
Bush (the rapper was invited after his name was reportedly pulled from a list associated with charitable donations) and after speaking up for one of the officers involved in the beating of Rodney King. AIDS-Related DeathĮazy incited controversies of a different sort by attending a 1991 Republican fundraiser that featured President George H.W. In 1992, he released his own solo EP, 5150 Home 4 tha Sick another EP was released the following year. Eazy, a consummate businessman who commented on how rap controversy could be used to spur album sales, continued running Ruthless Records, discovering acts like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Dre embroiled in litigious disputes that also saw the two attacking and lampooning each other in their respective work. broke up in the early 1990s, with Eazy and Dr. Seen as a major influence on the gangsta rap themes that would later dominate commercial hip-hop, the group became known for extremely violent and misogynistic lyrical content, with much of its sales fueled by adolescent male suburbanites.
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