This will rank up there with the greatest unsolved mysteries in music. How did Eazy-E get the HIV virus and die from AIDS? Lots of fingers point to Suge Knight. There’s Knight’s ominous guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where Knight says,
“If you shoot somebody you go to jail forever … So they got this new thing out … they get blood from somebody with AIDs and then they shoot you with it. So that’s a slow death, an Eazy-E thing, ya know what I’m saying?”
*shudders*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4NOeuz6u90
Nervous laughter from Jimmy Kimmel.”Way to lighten the mood,” Kimmel responds. It’s the way you laugh when faced with a sociopath.
Former N.W.A. manager, Jerry Heller, also supports the theory. When he interviewed with Murder Master Music Show, he said,
“If he was murdered, if he was injected, why haven’t they solved that?”
Heller was close to that circle of people back then, so his words carry weight.
Now, ex-Ruthless Records rapper, Frost, gives a really detailed account on Eazy-E’s death. This came out during an interview for a documentary on Latino rappers, For The Record: The Story of Latinos in Hip Hop.
“I’ma tell you what happened with Eazy getting AIDS and I believe this to the day and I believe this to this day. I don’t care if you guys got it on film. You can tell the world. They gave him tainted needles with acupuncture. Needles that tainted him, they gave it to him.”
Frost then goes on to sort of name names.
“What happened was is that someone, I won’t say the name, but people know the name. I don’t wanna say that name ’cause it’s the devil’s name, but another person in Rap, if you know your history of rap, calls him the devil. If you know the history of rap, West Coast rap, you know who I’m saying. I was told even in my last conversation from Eazy not to even talk to that man. Not only that, but I think that they really had a stronghold of giving him tainted needles with the AIDS virus in him through acupuncture.”
Crap, even I’m scared to write anyone’s name now.
“How else could somebody die that fast of AIDS? Have you even heard of somebody dying in 2 weeks of AIDS, bro? C’mon man, it’s just unheard of, bro.”
Frost says that Eazy needed acupuncture from an earlier quadrunner accident. He also asks why no girl that Eazy’s been with has ever had AIDS.
Life works out really strange. Eazy dies from AIDS while Dre makes a billion and Ice Cube makes millions starring in kid-friendly movies. We should thank the stars Dre and Cube never beefed with Suge Knight. Where would we be without Beats headphones and Ride Along?
He was GAY.