N.W.A

The N.W.A was a group formed by the rappers Eazy-E,Dr. Dre, The Arabian Prince, and Ice Cube.

DR. Dre

Dr. Dre's group before N.W.A

• He began his career being a member of World Class Wreckin Crew
• He later left that group for the N.W.A

Early life

• Dre was born in Compton, California
• His date of birth was February 18th 1965
• He began going to school because of gang violence
• He left his school to transfer to another due to failing grades.

Time with N.W.A

• He first started in N.W.A when Ice Cube recruited him in.
• The groups very first album was "Straight outta Compton"
• After the leaving of Ice Cube Dre had to write out the rest of their songs
• After a dispute with Eazy E dre left the group at the height of it's popularity in 1991

Fuck the Police

• This song in the album got them a lot of listeners
• The reason being is because it's not like anybody to speak out against the police
• This did get them a warning letter from the FBI

Ice Cube

Early life of Ice Cube

• born 1969, June 15th in south central area.
• In his early life he developed interest for hip hop
• He began writing rap in George Washington Preparatory school

N.W.A and Ice Cube

• Ice cube was the only member of the N.W.A that wasn't born in Compton
• He wrote the lyrics for Straight Outta Compton
• After a while he and the manager Jerry Heller had a fall out
• In which this made Ice Cube make a lawsuit and made him left the N.W.A

Eazy-E

Early life of Eazy E

• He was born September 7th 1964
• He dropped out of school at tenth grade
• He still received a GED

Crimes of Wright

• To support himself he sold drugs
• His friend witnessed him selling drugs but never cocaine
• People labeled him as a thug

The street name of thug gave him some sense of protection because people didn't want to mess with you.

He earned around $250,000 dollars for selling drugs.

Wright and Heller invested most of the money that was earned from the drugs into the N.W.A

The formation of N.W.A

N.W.A start up

• It came up through the signees of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube
• It gained it's publicity with the song "Boyz in Da Hood"

Eazy Duz It

• The debut album of the N.W.A was Eazy Duz it
• It was released September 16th, 1988

The Album Eazy Duz it sold over 2.5million copies

The end of the N.W.A

The N.W.A started to end after Heller became the manager of the team, Dre says he played divide and conquer

Eazy E wasn't going to let the N.W.A end. The reason why it didn't end was because Eazy had to give up Dre

A man named Knight had to come up with something to make Eazy E cough him up so at first he said Eazy had kidnapped him and put him in a van.

Finally Eazy gave him up because Knight threatened his family by sending him a not saying "I know where your mama lives"

The Feud

Eazy E continued to make more music but this time he was calling out Dr. Dre in his songs. First things were remarks that were calling Dre a homosexual because of the way he dressed. This was released in the song called "Real Motherphuckin G's"

Eazy-E had a son and a daughter. After the split up of the N.W.A some FBI investigations came under it because of possible money extortions.

The Death of Eazy E

Eazy-E died of an AIDS related death and died at the age of 30. After eight months of his death his last album was released. It was called Str8 off Tha Streetz of Muthaphuckin Compton.