Everyone who is familiar with hip-hop is aware that once in awhile, artists occasionally play the role of ghostwriters, no fault to them at all. In the case of N.W.A., two of the group's most famous ...

Eminem and N.W.A (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella) face some tough competition for spots in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Eminem and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A have been ruffling ...

While Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella all lived to produce and promote a $29 million movie about their little rap group, N.W.A, we lost that group's founding strongman, Eazy-E, in March 1996 ...

Late N.W.A frontman and Ruthless Records head Eric “Eazy-E” Wright may be known as a godfather of gangsta rap, but he was also a compassionate man, as depicted in the biopic Straight Outta Compton ...

One of N.W.A.'s founding fathers has conflicting feelings about the biopic Straight Outta Compton. MC Ren (played by Aldis Hodge in the hit film) is treated as a side character, with Compton focusing ...

For Eazy-E, the concept of gangster rap was fully formed in his mind. By 1986 the genre, which nobody then called “gangster rap” (“reality rap,” please) had begun to sprout in LA by way of Ice-T’s “6 ...

Just days after Ice Cube announced that an N.W.A reunion (well, most of a reunion) would land at the BET Experience festival, one member of the group is lambasting the major, soon-to-be-released ...

As the story goes, Eazy E became a rapper by accident. In 1987, the man then known as Eric Wright hired his future N.W.A bandmate Ice Cube to write a song called “Boyz-n-the-Hood” for another group ...

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