Our eight-month winter has finally melted away to reveal the first weekend of glorious sunshine of 2006, and everyone's busy watching the World Cup. So busy, in fact, that there is literally no news today.

You know what the biggest thing that's happened recently? Easy-E's son has been arrested for having a gun in his car. That's right – today's top story is that someone related to a rapper who has been dead for 11 years was stopped in his car by some policemen. Yeah, you're welcome.

You know who Easy-E is, though, don't you? He was the high-pitched one in NWA, the rappers who more or less invented gangsta rap with playground favourites such as To Kill A Hooker, Fuck Tha Police and A Bitch Iz A Bitch. NWA also launched the careers of Dr Dre, Ice Cube and – very indirectly – Eric "Lil' Easy-E" Wright Jr, the first born son of dead NWA member Easy-E, who was arrested in Compton for having a gun in his car.

22-year-old Eric Wright Jr, who's just released his first album entitled Prince Of Compton, was pulled over on Compton Boulevard on Saturday night for a traffic violation, and according to Lt. Michael Alerich of the Los Angeles sheriff's department:

"Mr. Wright was in possession of a firearm and he was arrested. Two other guys in the car were also arrested,
one for possession of a firearm and the other for a probation
violation."

What would Easy-E say? Something about fucking a policeman, probably. Next Up, exciting news about the time that a niece of Jeffrey Holland of You Rang M'Lord? and Hi-de-Hi! fame returned a DVD of Three Men And A Little Lady to Blockbusters three days overdue.

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Rapper Easy-E's Son Arrested – Los Angeles Times  

[story by Stuart Heritage]