Many of us know someone who has been diagnosed with HIV. Some of us have watched loved ones pass on. If you haven’t known anyone personally, you’ve known of celebrities. AIDS is a disease that doesn’t discriminate according to wealth, fame or status. Eazy-E Eazy-E was one of the bad boys of NWA, blowing up alongside Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to become the greatest great rap act from the West Coast. In March 1995, the “Godfather of Gangsta Rap” announced that he was dying from AIDS. He said in his statement, “Before Tomika (his wife at the time), I had other women. I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.” He died weeks after making his announcement. Willi Smith