Career start

Eric " Eazy-E " Wright was born in September 7, 1964 in a place called "Compton". Compton is a rough part of Los Angeles metro area. A high-school dropout, Eric turned to drug dealing to support himself, and used the money to start his own rap label "Ruthless Records", with partner and music bussiness veteran Jerry Heller discovered a major performing talent in The D.O.C and recruited Ice Cube and Dr.Dre to write songs for his stable of artists. When their first song "Boyz-N-the-Hood" was rejected by Ruthless Records.  Then Ice Cube, Dre and eazy-e formed their own band called "N.W.A". Their first album was called "N.W.A and the posse", was released in 1987 , but was largely ignored. 1988`s  Straight Outta Compton made N.W.A into superstars.









Sources: allmusic.com