How Brownside and Eazy-E Reinvented Chicano Rap

Eazy-E and Gilbert Izquierdo (AKA "Toker") wanted to form a Mexican version of N.W.A—and they succeeded.

It was October 2018 that Gilbert Izquierdo—the legendary frontman known as “Toker” of the Chicano rap group Brownside—unexpectedly passed away.

The news sent shockwaves across the Chicano rap community, in which Izquierdo was a long-time fixture. But despite releasing a new rap album as recently as 2016, it was his close relationship with the late Eazy-E…