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Thirteen years ago today, the founder of N.W.A Eazy-E passed away due to complications from the AIDS virus. Eazy will always be remembered for his music alongside Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, but many people overlook his keen business sense. Before there were hip hop moguls like Suge Knight, P. Diddy, Jay-Z, there was Eazy-E. Eazy was a marketing mastermind and played a huge role in creating the image of N.W.A. that would eventually spawn a bloodline of hip hop royalty that still exists today.
Here are a few words from Eazy as he lay on his death bed in 1995:

"There were great rewards for me personally like fancy cars, gorgeous women and good livin'. Like real non-stop excitement. I'm not religious but wrong or right, that's me. I'm not saying this because I'm looking for a soft cushion wherever I'm heading, I just feel that I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS. Like something good that will reach out to all my homeboys and their kin because I want to save their asses before it's too late. I'm not looking to blame anyone except myself. I've learned in the last week that this thing is real and it doesn't discriminate. It affects everyone."