Eazy-E, the Compton drug dealer who built gangsta rap, was dead 10 days after telling the world he had AIDS. His son says somebody put it in him.
He sold drugs before he ever rapped.
He took up to $250,000 of street money and started his own label, Ruthless Records.
That label gave the world N.W.A. Then Dr. Dre. Then Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
Then Dre wanted out.
The man who came to pry him loose was Suge Knight.
Dre left, built Death Row with Suge, and the war started.
February 1995. Eazy walks into Cedars-Sinai coughing. He thinks it's asthma.
The answer comes back: AIDS. Already advanced.
March 16, he goes public.
Days later he marries his girlfriend in his hospital room.
March 26, he's gone.
He left behind a pile of kids by different women.
His family says not one of those women, and not one of those kids, ever turned up with HIV.
Eight years later Suge Knight sat on late-night TV and joked about shooting people up with AIDS-infected blood.
A slow death, he said.
Then he gave it a name. "An Eazy-E death."
In the video below, Eazy-E's son Lil Eazy says what his family has believed for decades. His father didn't just die. He was gotten rid of.
Doctors say catching HIV from a single needle is a long shot.
Nobody has ever been charged.
Suge is serving 28 years for a different killing.
The death certificate says AIDS.
His kids still say murder.
Did Eazy-E die from the life he lived, or did somebody make sure he stopped living it?
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