Eazy-E, whose real name was Eric Wright, was born in Compton. He died in 1995 at age 30 after he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. (Al Pereira / Getty Images) Soon, you can be cruising down Eazy Street in ...

Last week, Kanye West dropped the proverbial “lyric heard the world” on his new single “Eazy” with The Game. In the midst of a diatribe about his divorce, therapy, and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s new ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Eazy-E released his second solo EP, It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa. Released one year after his first EP and a long five years after his debut album, Eazy-Duz-It, this ...

Our December issue is our all-LS issue and I was using one of my "tools" (aka Instagram) to look for lowriders with LS motors in them. In came a DM from Keo Sanh showing me a badass 1964 rag with an ...

Back in 1978, Wallace Pardo Jr. found himself at his first car show. It was held at the Rivergate Casino (now currently Harrah's), and it was there he encountered something he had never seen before: ...

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has dropped a new song with his old collaborator the Game. “Eazy,” which samples Eazy-E’s “Eazy Duz It,” features Kanye rapping about about his divorce ...

Alonzo Williams, left, and Eric Darnell Wright Jr., the son of the late rapper Eazy-E who goes by Lil Eazy-E, celebrate the renaming of Towne Center Drive in Compton as "Eazy Street" on Wednesday.

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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we felt we had to hide from others. My parents were children of the ’60s who prided themselves on being ...

Compton, home of legendary rapper Eazy-E, is set to pay homage to its native son by renaming the 100 block of Auto Drive South, Eazy Street. Born and raised in Compton, Eazy-E, whose real name is Eric ...

Eazy-E’s widow and son are reportedly locked in a legal battle over the ownership of Ruthless Records. The late rapper's label was founded in 1987 and released classic albums such as N.W.A’s Straight ...

Kendrick Lamar praised the fearlessness of N.W.A‘s Eazy-E and the new kind of truth-telling he brought to hip-hop in a tribute that kicks off Paper magazine’s three-part series celebrating late rap ...