Eric Wright, better known as "Eazy-E" was born September 7, 1964, in Compton, CA. A high school dropout, Wright turned to drug dealing to support himself, and eventually used the profits to start his own rap label, Ruthless Records. Eazy started his music career with the group N.W.A in 1986. He released his first solo album, "Eazy-Duz-It" in 1989 and saw it go double-platinum. The album included the hit singles "We Want Eazy" and "Boyz-N-The-Hood". This was also a time when N.W.A. began to split up due to creative and personal differences between the members. Eazy continued to churn out the solo albums, with "5150 Home 4 Tha Sick" coming out in 1992 and his rebuke to Dr. Dre, "It's On (Dr. Dre) 187Um Killa" released in 1993. The albums "Str8 Off Tha Streetz Of Muthaphukkin Compton" and "Eternal E" came out in 1995, after Eric passed away. In February of 1995 Eazy-E was adimitted to LA's Cedars-Sinai hospital suffering from what he believed to be bronchitis. Instead, doctors discovered that he was HIV positive and the advanced stages with full blown AIDS. The virus took Eazy-E's life on March 26, 1995.