![]() ![]() Dre was emulating Morris Day in a song-and-dance group called World Class Wrecking Cru, and Ice Cube was attending high school in the Valley, Eazy was selling crack cocaine on this very block. He was the founding father of gangsta rap, the man who created N.W.A in his own image. Eazy was a rap legend, and, for my West Coast hip-hop book Original Gangstas I wanted to understand his origins. On a hot day in 2014 I pulled off of the 710 interstate to visit Eazy-E’s house in Compton. ![]() Go paid now before it all goes behind a paywall. The Hip-Hop 25 counts down the 25 greatest rap artists in history, as part of Ben Westhoff’s newsletter Drugs and Hip-Hop. Dre, and Eazy-E in 1987, courtesy of Sir Jinx
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