Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

When legendary rapper Eazy-E—best known for his work with seminal West Coast gangsta rap group N.W.A.—died at age 30 in 1995, the genre lost one of its key figures. His legacy lives on via popular ...

While Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella all lived to produce and promote a $29 million movie about their little rap group, N.W.A, we lost that group's founding strongman, Eazy-E, in March 1996 ...

As the story goes, Eazy E became a rapper by accident. In 1987, the man then known as Eric Wright hired his future N.W.A bandmate Ice Cube to write a song called “Boyz-n-the-Hood” for another group ...

Eazy E s vision pointed all eyes to Compton. As a result, everybody benefitted. One of the biggest beneficiaries was Eazy s friend and peer, MC Eiht. Compton s Most Wanted remains a group with a 20 ...