Word: wright
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Crimson President Andrew L. Wright '96 spoke onNational Public Radio and CBS' "This Morning"yesterday morning. Other students appeared inmedia sources ranging from the Associated Pressnews wire to local radio stations...
DIED. ERIC WRIGHT, 31, rapper; of complications from AIDS; in Los Angeles. His steely, insistent tenor made "Eazy-E" one of the instantly identifiable elements of N.W.A., the rap group that took the genre to the harsher heights of "gangsta rap," with profane language and violent imagery that kept the music off radio stations and marching out of stores. Following N.W.A.'s dissolution, Wright began a second career as solo artist, producer--and a truly offbeat dabbler in Republican politics...
...Wright, a poet from the bad neighborhoods of Compton, was a prophet. In 1989, the group N.W.A., which he co-founded, produced one of the most important songs of the past decade, "Fuck tha Police," Police officers around the country objected strongly to the song; an FBI official sent N.W.A. a threatening letter...
...song was no love ballad. Its images were graphic, and many of the lyrics on the album, "Straight Outta Compton," were downright misogynist. But Wright was dead on in describing the rage minorities feel, often justifiably, towards law enforcement. After the Los Angeles riots bore out his point, Wright told the L.A. Times: "We were criticized a lot when we first released that song, but I guess now after what happened...people might look differently on the situation...
Many Easterners, particularly white ones, look at Wright as a symptom of an ugly, ultimately passing phase in American culture. In point of fact, Eazy-E was a thoughtful entrepreneur who helped start the careers of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube (although he exchanged angry words at times with both former N.W.A. members...