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It launched the legendary careers of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and the late Eazy-E.
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright was a well-known Compton drug dealer who wanted to break into the rap game.
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More sobering, though, is Eazy-E pointing a handgun down right at your face, ready to finish you off.
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The two lobbed disses at each other until just before Eazy-E died of complications from AIDS in 1995.
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright used profits from selling crack to start the group.
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He died from complications from AIDS back in 1995 but his son, Eric "Lil Eazy E" Wright, is carrying on the tradition.
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Dr. Dre split with Eazy two years later over money issues.
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"Lil Eazy-E" grew up in the same Compton house as his father, joined the same Crips gang and even makes gangster rap like his father did.
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright, cofounder of the seminal rap group N.
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W.A released Straight Outta Compton on Eazy's Ruthless Records.
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You know, as an example, there's a very prominent racehorse from several years back named Easy Goer, spelled E-A-S-Y, as you might imagine, and you wouldn't want to allow the name Eazy, spelled E-A-Z-Y.
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