“It will cause many people or kids who may have just casually glossed over information about HIV to really look closer,” Bishop Carl Bean, executive director of the Minority AIDS Project, said of the singer’s condition.Īt a Hollywood news conference, Ron Sweeney, the rapper’s friend and attorney, said the singer, whose real name is Eric Wright, learned 2 1/2 weeks ago that he has AIDS. Health experts and AIDS activists said his declaration forces the public face of AIDS into another community, just as the AIDS death of tennis star Arthur Ashe, the HIV diagnosis of Magic Johnson and the AIDS diagnosis of diving great Greg Louganis have touched the world of sports. Rap artist Eazy-E, a major figure in the commercial development of “gangsta” rap, has AIDS, his record company announced Thursday.Įazy-E, co-founder of the Compton rap group N.W.A., is one of the first major music performers to announce he has the disease.
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