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Compton honors late N.W.A rapper Eazy-E by naming a street after him

Alonzo Williams, left, puts up the peace symbol as he celebrates alongside Eric Wright Jr. during a ceremony honoring Eazy-E with his own street named Eazy Street; at Auto Drive South on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, in Compton, California.

LOS ANGELES — Eric Darnell Wright Jr. remembers his father driving down Muriel Avenue in Compton for Thanksgiving dinner.

It was there that his now 86-year old grandmother, Katie Wright, would prepare large meals for all her kin, including her son Eric Lynn Wright — better known as the late N.W.A rapper Eazy-E.

“It wasn’t no entertainment,” Eric Darnell Wright, the rapper’s son who goes by Lil Eazy-E, recalled. Only family existed in these moments. “It was just kind of like the hip-hop world was out of it.”

Erica Wright, the artist’s oldest daughter, never really cared for the rapper Eazy-E. “I cared about Eric,” she said of her father.

The siblings said they

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