~ *|* - THE OFFICIAL 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ERIC "EAZY-E" WRIGHT R.I.P. - *|* ~

[dopeman]

Today March 26, 2010 is the 15 Year Anniversary Of Eric Lynn Wright Nickname Eazy-E (September 7, 1963 – March 26, 1995) since "The Godfather Of Gangsta Rap" Passed Away

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Pay your respect to "The Godfather Of Gangsta Rap" in this topic.



We would like all members to participate and tell us how u first started listening to Eazy-E and also what was your reaction when you heard the bad news
that Eazy-E was in the hospital and was diagnosed with AIDS, and soon announced his illness publicly. He died shortly after, on March 26, 1995, at
approximately 6:35 PM (Pacific time). He was 31 years old when he died. We know a topic like this has been done before in the past we wanna
hear your story again.






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[Ray4Eazy]

Wow man its been 15 year and people still worship him like hes a God . i hope and its our duty as loyal fans to keep that legacy. Much has been changed but E's words stayed real. Rest In Peace Eric Wright September 7 1963 - March 26 1995 :'(

[hiphopthug95rip]

R.I.P. Eazy-E
Your memory and legacy lives FOREVER!

Im glad we have a website and forum to help keep his name alive and his memory in our hearts and minds.
this site has been around since 2005 and will continue to grow and help spread knowledge and memories about Eazy-E and his Ruthless Records.
Alot of new and old school fans visit this site and only a few choose to register and join this great community. I feel proud to know that we have such dedicated members and people who are down to do their part in spreading the word !




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[RUTHLESS95]

RIP eazy! I'm drinkin a cold 40 oE right now.
And we ridin till the wheels fall off Ruthless for life.
EAzY-ECpT .!

[Yu-lekz]

RIP EAZY-E

[B.A. *CT*]

RIP, Eazy Muthaphukkin E. I'm gonna cruise and bump Eazy and NWA, right now. Be back in a while.

[EFIL4RENAEB]

Wow 15 Yearz,Remember It Like Yesterday 8th Grade,Got Tha N.W.A. Greatest Hitz Wit Tha Famouz Cover...From Then My Knowledge Of Thiz Lil Dude Wanted To Expand
So I Came Here,I Soaked Up Much Knowledge && Seen Lotz Of Shit Come To Light Good && Bad
Alwayz Known Az Tha Eazy-E Dude Round My Partz,Don't Know A Bigger Fan In My Town STILL.
But Even Though My Heart Belongz To Hip Hop, Eazy Broke Tha Door Into Gangster Rap Foe Me
R.I.P. Eazy-Eric

[Fiyah]

RIP E WE LOVE YOU!

[dopeman]

Julio G

WESTSIDE RADIO...R.I.P. EAZY-E...TODAY MARKS THE 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY...WE HAD SOME GREAT TIMES TOGETHER..I REMEMBER
HELPING HIM MOVE INTO A NEW HOUSE...I SAID WOW THIS IS NICE E...HE SAID DONT WORRY JULIO YOU'LL HAVE ONE TO...HE NEVER
MADE YOU FEEL BENEATH HIM...ILL NEVER FORGET THAT ABOUT YOU ERIC...LOVE YOU ALWAYS...JULIO G


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[EmCee187um]

Rest In Peace Eazy.

15 years.. Soo long ago..
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[Opazo]

Damn, 15 years....
Remember when I was 10 and I got Straight Outta Compton & Eazy-Duz-It for my birthday....thank God I got thoese gifts....who thought that after thoes CDs I would be talkin to MC Ren and the rest of the Ruthless Family....

God bless Eric"EAZY-E"Wright's soul for everything he thought us with his music!

THE LEGACY CONTINUES........

"Like I said before,
See you around buddy boy...........HAHAAAHAAAA"

[EazySteve]

First of all 15 years....feels like 10 years anniversary was just here. I guess that's what happens when you get older.

I first started listening to Eazy-E when I was about 7 or 8. Kids use to play it on their ghetto blasters and boom boxes on the street I grew up on. They played N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew too, but Eazy's raps were the ones that I thought were catchy as a kid. "The suspense was making me sick...she took her panties down and the bitch had a dick!" Nobody Move lol. He is by far my favorite artist of all time. He had an eye for talent on wax or behind the boards. Just an all around good business man and performer. Some question his flow and delivery, but I think it is hard! He was hard when he had to be, and he brought comedy too. Most of you all know what I mean....

I couldn't wait for Str8 Off The Streets of Muthaphukkin Compton volumes 1 and 2 to come out. Actually had one release date set for September of 94. I went to the store with money on hand to get both, but it was pushed back. I kept calling and calling stores to get more info. But it didn't drop... and later was just 1 album, which I'm still very thankful for, but always will be in the back of my mind...what really happened to the rest of the unreleased material?

Then in March of 95 my parents house got repossessed, so we had to move and my mom just gave birth to my sister, which is also 15 now. It was already a pretty tough period in my life at that time and then I got the news on TV that "...rapper has been diagnosed with aids...stay tuned" That was long ass wait for the news to come back on I'll probably ever experience. I was thinking they're are so many rappers out there who the fuck could it be? And damn...The news came on...I was floored. Then a few weeks later he dies? I couldn't believe it...still hard to believe it all for many reasons.

I'm just very thankful we have sites like these, and the priceless, music, talk, mixes, pictures, etc. that we all gained from it. I'll never forget it

Yella - "taken from us too g damn soon" R.I.P. Eazy-E 11523

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[Watts]

So when I die niggaz bury me
Make sure my shit reads Eazy-Muthaphukkin-E
And it's a fact to be exact my tombstone should read:
He Put Compton On That Map
And thats how a nigga feel
When I'm givin' up Tha Muthaphukkin Real

[Bricc City Boy]

R.I.P Eazy E. You will be forever missed.!!!!!! (a pic i just did for Eazy)

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To the casual rap fan, Alan Grunblatt is merely the President of E1 Music (f.k.a. Koch Records), but his roots in the independent hip-hop scene run much deeper. For nearly five years, he worked side-by-side with gangsta rap pioneer Eric “Eazy-E” Wright and his business partner Jerry Heller at Ruthless Records. The West Coast-based label paved the way for countless hip-hop execs, ranging from Diddy and Jay-Z to Master P and Birdman, to make millions as self-made entrepreneurs.

With today (March 26) marking the 15th anniversary of Eazy’s passing, XXLMag.com caught up with Grunblatt to share some of his fond memories of the fallen rap legend as a businessman, artist and friend.

XXLMag.com: It’s been 15 years since Eazy’s been gone. What do you think about his legacy today?

Alan Grunblatt: To me, it’s more than a legacy because he was my friend, you know? He was like the coolest, greatest guy… I dealt with a lot of people in my time. Eric’s one of my old time favorites. In fact, in one of my two offices I have a gold record from the EP we did together, 187 Um Killa… I just think about him all the time.

XXLMag.com: How long ago did you guys meet?

Alan Grunblatt: It was more than meet… I pretty much ran Ruthless Records for five years, because in the transition of when he got sick and before [the label] went to Sony, I was basically running Relativity and we had Ruthless Records. So basically, I would say really from ’93 to ’97 I pretty much ran it. [Eazy’s wife] Tamika Wright was around, [his business partner] Jerry Heller was around but there was just so much drama going on… But I remember the first time that I met Eric, he introduced me to the guys in Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and the tragedy is, he wasn’t there for the E. 1999 Eternal album, which was at the time the biggest rap records ever.

XXLMag.com: Yeah, Bone Thugs went on to sell over five million copies of that album and it’s a shame Eazy wasn’t able to witness that. But that success came after a lot of people doubted them, right?

Alan Grunblatt: I’ll never forget, we had a meeting with MTV after we released Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and it was doing great but MTV [execs] said we’ll never play a video by a group called “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.” Then, a year a later—almost to the day—we set up a meeting with Eric and MTV and they aired the video for “Thuggish Ruggish Bone.” So it was pretty amazing.

XXLMag.com: You can’t deny good music, right?

Alan Grunblatt: You can’t deny a hit record [Laughs]. You could deny good music all day long but a hit record you gotta play it and I’ll never forget we never got played in New York for Bone. They said, “Oh, Bone is not New York,” and then when we put out “Crossroads” it’s the No. 1 single in New York without one station playing it and then the stations [finally] aired it and it was kinda ironic.

XXLMag.com: Eazy was one of the first artists to run his own label; do you feel people today are still following the blueprint he laid down?

Alan Grunblatt: Yeah, absolutely. He made hundreds or millions of dollars. Him and Master P really did it. They really created the blueprint. P, who I also worked with, was more business oriented than Eric. Eric relied a lot on Jerry. Eric was more about keeping himself hot, keeping himself relevant. Once we had him on Arsenio Hall and he went on the show in a bathrobe, it was pretty funny. [Click here to watch].

XXLMag.com: Eazy’s image was so intertwined with gangsta rap but working with him for so long, I’m sure you got to see many different sides of him. Any fond memories you wish to share?

Alan Grunblatt: My wife is a very straight, Jewish lady and sometimes he would call my house and she would say, “Honey, Eazy’s on the phone.” Eric would get a kick out of that, you know? And then once when we did the EP I told Eazy, I said, “Eazy, it’s 40 minutes, man. Why don’t we just make it an album? You can make an extra two bucks on records.” He didn’t want to do that to his fans. He said, “Alan, I came from nothin’, if I go back to nothing I don’t care.”

XXLMag.com: That seems to contradict a lot of the stuff Dr. Dre was saying about Eazy being money hungry during their beef.

Alan Grunblatt: The whole thing with like, Ruthless and Death Row… It was ironic because I ended up doing a lot of business with Suge [years later] but the last record that Eric was going to deliver to me and that I saw the album artwork and everything for was a record called “Death Row Killaz.” I was like, “Eric, we really going to put this record out?” He says, “Alan, you bet.” For me, it’s more than just a he did this; he did this really as a record guy…

The funny thing is when we did the Ruthless deal we started with Above the Law. Then, when we were gonna go with his EP, the back of it is a picture of Dre in a dress. At the time Sony owned Relativity and Sony was not going to let us release this record and Jerry Heller said, “Well, the deal’s done.” So we ended up releasing the record because Jerry figured Suge’s not a suing kinda guy and we put it out, which was pretty crazy.

XXLMag.com: How would you describe Eazy’s relationship with Jerry Heller?

Alan Grunblatt: Jerry sort of gets a lot of negative press but when I was with them, they were like best friends… It was like Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin and Lyor Cohen in the beginning. It was that kinda dynamic and at least for me I wouldn’t see one without the other. That changed later obviously but everything sorta went south with the disease and everything.

XXLMag.com: His death came pretty quick. It was like word broke that he had contracted AIDS and before you know it he was gone.

Alan Grunblatt: It was crazy, he came to New York because we set up press for him and I’ll never forget, one of my guys took him to a party and I think it was the Tunnel and he got bronchitis and never recovered. Three months later he passed; it was the craziest thing.

XXLMag.com: Anything else you want to add about the 15 years since Eazy’s been gone?

Alan Grunblatt: I think about him all the time. When I meet with rappers I always tell them about him and show them my gold record and everything, you know? It’s funny. Certain rappers remind me of him but it’s a rare combination of being an artist and a businessperson. So it’s pretty interesting. —Anslem Samuel

[Ghetto187]

Rest In Peace Eazy-E Thankz For Giving Me Opportunities To Work With Your Family Baby Eazy-E, Lil Eazy-E, & Dirty Red.

[old skool Compton boy]

REST IN PEACE EAZY-E
THE GODFATHER OF GANGSTA RAP
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[Niki-G]

So, I start with my first post here...
Damn 15 years, that is really fucked up :'(

Rest In Peace Eric "EAZY-E" Wright 1963 - 1995
Meet you at the crossroads

[old skool Compton boy]

Originally Posted by N!ko-G

So, I start with my first post here...
Damn 15 years, that is really fucked up :'(

Rest In Peace Eric "EAZY-E" Wright 1963 - 1995
Meet you at the crossroads

dont visit Eazy-ECPT only during the anniversarys
welcome & stay active

[dopeman]

Originally Posted by N!ko-G

So, I start with my first post here...
Damn 15 years, that is really fucked up :'(

Rest In Peace Eric "EAZY-E" Wright 1963 - 1995
Meet you at the crossroads

welcome to the site...we are glad to have u part of the Eazy-ECPT.com Family
Stay Active!
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[Fingangster]

Rest In Peace Eric " Eazy-E " Wright

The reason i started listening to rap & hip-hop was Eazy-E.

Gonna bumb NWA and Eazy-E all day

[AOD]

REST IN PEACE EAZY MUTHAPHUKKIN E!!! It isn't right that you're gone. Doesn't seem like it's real and it's been 15 yrs. I've been a fan of Eazy's since I was a young kid. I used to steal Eazy Duz It & Str8 Outta Compton from my brother's so I could listen to it. I just want to say thanks to Eazy because his music and the music that Ruthless has put out has helped me through life. Whenever things got bad I'd put on my headphones, turn out the lights and press play. It was like my therapy. So I am truly in debt. I wish I could have met Eazy but hey maybe someday I will. We Love You! RIP!!! :'(

[dopeman]

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Silvia Lopez

3.26.95 The day Eric Wright "EAZY E" died. I remember wen I met him, he was in the bak of his van chillin. He came up to "Gulf & Stuff" in cerritos to meet up with Mc Eight & my daughters dad..Mc Chill, Mc Ren came, Cube & Yella too...he was very nice & humble....that's wen CMW was signed! R.I.P. EAZY E!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rico A.K.A Casual_187]

Rest in Peace to the Homie E
15 years gone and never forgotten
Much love to the Godfather of Gangsta rap
who stayed true to the rap game

R.I.P. E

[ogloco]

RIP EAZY always ahead of the game, showed the world that anything is possible if you stick with your goal
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[Jorge_Eazy]

Just put the Eazy Duz It album on. Been quite a while since i listened to an Eazy solo album.

RIP Eazy-E

[thugster 4 lfe]

15 years r.i.p eazy-e

[marcus]

15 years eazy-e you are still remember by your true fans rest in peace we all miss you and you will never be forgotin by your true fans

[dopeman]

JJFAD

Juana Sperling

15 years ago today, the man that shaped and molded my music career and also happened to be the best friend and advisor that anyone could ask for, Died
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Without this man, I would not be who I am today!! Thank you Eazy E for your friendship, your guidance and most of all your love for the FAD!! We miss you more than words can say RIP Eazy E!!!

[dopeman]

On March 26, 1995, the world lost one of the most influential rappers ever who paved the way for countless artists. The entire Dubcnn staff would like to say Rest In Peace to the Godfather of Gangsta Rap, Eric "Eazy-E" Wright. 15 years ago, Eazy lost his battle against AIDS, and to this day he is missed by his friends, family and the entire Hip-Hop community.

Dubcnn celebrates Eazy's life with the timeless classic "Eazy-Duz-It".

[datd00d]

R.I.P. Eazy

[Thizz Da Wiz]

Originally Posted by datd00d

R.I.P. Eazy