Eazy's Argumentative Essay

“Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.”-Eazy-E. Eazy-E did bad but he turned his life around and made something of it. Eazy wasn't all bad like his image portrayed to be. We all do what we have to do to survive no matter what it takes. I mean yeah he did bad things. But he was just doing what he had to do to survive in an extremely tough neighborhood he grew up in. “...tough area of South Central Los Angeles---Eazy-E dropped out of school in the tenth grade and began his own record
(“The Famous…”1) In the streets if you weren’t an athlete, playa, thug, gangsta, or a dope man you were a victim. So eazy made the only choice he could make to be a gangsta, since he was only 5’3” too small to be an athlete. He had no choice otherwise he would have been a victim in the streets. Eventually he quit selling drugs and all the gang activity because his cousin was killed. he started doing what he truly loved rapping, Eazy realized how dangerous what he was doing and how easy he could be killed. “Heller claims that he invested the first $250,000, and would eventually put up to $1,000,000 into the company.” (“Childhood”1) Eazy took what bad he did and turned it into good in a way. He allegedly used $250,000 he made from selling drugs to put into the company. He started recording in the mid-1980’s. At this time his friend heller got an idea of forming a business. They both invested money to create Ruthless Records. Both men decided that Eric would be the owner and Heller would be the manager of the company. Eric would get eighty percent of the company and Heller would get twenty percent of the