Compton, California, is set to honor Eazy E with the renaming of a street. The late West Coast rap legend, one of LA's pioneering rappers and founding member of the controversial gangsta rap group NWA will have the city's Auto Plaza Drive South officially renamed “Eazy Street.”
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00:00 Compton prepares to honor the late Eric Wright with the street named after the rap legend.
00:05 Wright was popularly known as Eazy-E of legendary rap group N.W.A.
00:10 The street naming will happen on November 22nd at the back of Crystal Hotel in which the namesake will be named Eazy Street.
00:18 The honorable event was spearheaded by Alonzo Williams who played a pivotal role in bringing N.W.A. to public attention.
00:25 Controversy surrounds Eazy-E's death with Williams expressing skepticism about the official AIDS diagnosis adding another layer to the legacy of this Compton icon.
00:35 The 1980s AIDS/HIV outbreak was tagged as the gay plague.
00:40 For this reason, the rapper's legacy and reputation was shunned by hip-hop in death.
00:45 Eazy-E's legacy for years has been shunned due to his AIDS diagnosis and one person that defended him was his daughter Eby Wright.
00:53 In 2021, Eby called out rap legend Ice Cube for not speaking on her father for a documentary at the time.
01:00 One other rapper that was honored posthumously was Nipsey Hussle.
01:04 Nipsey received multiple plaques from the RIAA for his 2018 album Victory Lap and also songs such as Double Up, Dedication, Blue Laces 2 and others for Going Platinum.
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