Bone Says Eazy-E’s Legacy Stigmatized by HIV
By Lora Neng
WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER
May 17, 2013
Is Eazy-E’s death by HIV a stigma between a respected musician and his rightful legacy? That is what Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony claims. Eazy-E, born Eric Wright, was one of the first members of the Hip-Hop community to publicly disclose that he was HIV positive which then progressed into AIDS and led to his death on March 26, 1995 at the age of 31.
“Some people seem like they are afraid to commemorate him due to how he died,” Bizzy Bone told TMZ. Two other large figures of Hip Hop, Biggie Smalls and Tupac, died around the same time, but “they died being known as gangsta heroes,” Krayzie echoed, while “Eazy died from a disease… so many look at that differently.”
To give their mentor the respect he didn’t get in life, the group members announced they would be performing “Foe Tha Love of $” with Eazy-E’s hologram at the Fall “Rock the Bells” festival, where “we are going to make sure we have the stage full of Eazy love.”
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