"The steady stream of cars, some of them blasting the booming bass guitar and screaching adolescent voices that made him famous, kept rolling slowly down Harvard Boulevard near the First African Methodist Episcopal Church during a funeral for rapper and AIDS casualty Eazy-E." |
"A mix of more than 3,000 fans, mothers with their children, longtime friends, casual associates, gang members sporting their colours and record industry insiders watched as church officials and family members wheeled in a gold coffin layered with white roses and lilacs. The enterance line swirled nearly around the corner as security officials pushed back more than a thousand onlookers." |
Wright, a co-founder of the influential Compton rap group N.W.A., died of Aids on March 26. In the late 1980's N.W.A. won acclain for painting rap's most evocative and fierce portraits of life in Los Angeles at street level. Of the five former members of the once world famous N.W.A., only DJ Yella was present as a pallbearer in the servivces |
Name: Eric "Eazy-E" Wright Group: N.W.A. aka Niggaz With Attitude Members: DJ yella aka Antoine Carraby Dr Dre aka Andre Young Ice Cube aka O'Shea Jackson MC Ren aka Lorenzo Patterson Eazy-E aka Eric Wright DOB: September 7 1963 Compton Los Angeles DOD: 26 March 1995 at LA's Cedars-Sinai hospital Family: Wife Tomika, 7 kids by 6 mothers |
"Just remember: it's YOUR time and YOUR real Life." |
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