The group's next record, released in 1991, became the first hard-core rap album to top the charts.
It was Wright's whiny wail on N.W.A.'s best-known and probably most condemned song, F_- Tha Police, a scorching tirade against the Los Angeles Police Department that prompted protest from law enforcement officials nationwide. Served with a cacophony of samples and noise, the album forever changed the direction of rap music and sold millions of copies despite receiving virtually no airplay.
Their album Straight Outta Compton not only put West Coast rap on the map, but served as a not-too-subtle introduction to what would become known as "gangsta rap." It is a stark, profane, uncensored dispatch from L.A.'s mean streets, where Wright was born and raised. Dre and Ice Cube, as well as DJ Yella and MC Ren. Wright first came to prominence in the late 1980s as a founding member of N.W.A., the seminal hard-core Compton, Calif., rap group that included Dr. I've learned in the last week that this thing is real and it doesn't discriminate. I'm not looking to blame anyone but myself. Like the others before me, I would like to turn my problem into 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. In a statement reportedly written by Wright, and read by his attorney Ron Sweeney on March 16, the rapper said, "I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn what's real when it comes to AIDS. William Young.īoth his wife, Tomika, and his 1-year-old son have so far tested negative for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He "must have contracted AIDS through heterosexual contact," said his physician, Dr. He said he did not have homosexual relations or use intravenous drugs. Wright, who fathered seven children by six women, said he became infected through unprotected and promiscuous sex. "He sent out a message that hopefully will make people aware, and he told people they need to be more responsible." It's a shame this kind of blitz has to happen to get people's attention, but I'm pleased by the way he handled this by bringing it out into the open," he said. "Nothing like this has ever happened in rap before. That has to be a wake-up call to a lot of people," said Adario Strange, a senior editor of The Source, a monthly hip-hop music and culture magazine. "If rap is the CNN of the streets, you've just had one of its prime anchormen stricken with this disease. Yet opinions are mixed on what long-term effect, if any, Wright's death will have both on the rap community and on those actions that may put its members and fans at risk.
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