The group disbanded after releasing two more albums before disbanding shortly after Eazy released Dr.

The group released their highly influential debut album Straight Outta Compton in 1988. Dre, Ice Cube, Arabian Prince, DJ Yella and MC Ren. Wright was born in Compton, California and after dropping out of high school founded Ruthless Records and later formed NWA with Dr. WEtv has ordered The Mysterious Death of Eazy-E and the four-part. Many, including his daughter, have questioned his diagnosis and rapid deterioration. EXCLUSIVE: The controversial death Eazy-E, frontman of groundbreaking rap group NWA, is to be explored in a new docuseries. One month after his diagnosis on March 26, 1995, the rapper died from complications from the infection. On March 17, 1995, the NWA frontman Eazy-E, born Eric Lynn Wright, 30, announced to the world he had AIDS.

The as-yet titled documentary will place the life and career of the rising rap star under the microscope while examining his unresolved disputes, hostile adversaries and the people who would profit over Eazy’s untimely death. Teaming with Eazy-E’s daughter, Ebie Wright, his long-time girlfriend Tracy Jernagin and DJ Skee’s 1212 Media Group, the project will explore alternative theories surrounding the death of the seminal musician 23 years after his passing. Gellert, Lauren Lazin and David Stefanou.Global indie content studio Critical Content is producing a documentary about Eazy-E, the former NWA frontman and the “Godfather of Gangsta Rap”. Unravelling this story through tracking down eyewitnesses to Eazy-E’s last days, revealing unseen footage and testing long-held theories around his untimely death.Ĭritical Content, which produces BET’s Copwatch and A&E’s The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, produces and the series is exec produced by Ebie, Tracy Jernagin, DJ Skee, Thao Dipolito, John Halterman, Tom Forman, Jon Beyer, Jeff Dawson, Lauren P. The series, which launches on August 12 at 10pm, will feature never-before-seen footage and interviews and will follow Eazy-E’s daughter, Ebie on a personal journey to examine the unexplained circumstances surrounding her father’s death 26 years ago.Įbie teams up with her mother, Eazy’s ex, Tracy, as well as hip-hop journalist, Jasmine Simpkins, to seek the truth.

There were also suggestions that Eazy-E, who also ran Ruthless Records and signed artists such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, had a hit out on him by white supremacists, while he was also thought to be under FBI watch, in part due to the Compton rapper’s songs such as Fuck the Police. Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson & Mona Scott-Young To Produce 'Hip Hop Homicides' For WEtv, Van Lathan To Host

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