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Hip hop music and hip hop culture is widely considered to have originated on the East Coast of the United States in New York City. [4] [5] [6] As a result, New York rappers were often perceived as feeling their hip hop scene was superior to other regional hip hop cultures whereas those on the West Coast of the United States had developed an inferiority complex.
As the investigation into the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur ramped up, prosecutors dug into the past and took the grand jury back to some of the most pivotal moments in the East-West Coast rap rivalry.
The book Once Upon a Time in Compton, by Brennan and Ladd with author/screenwriter Lolita Files, about their years in the Compton Gang Unit, the rise of Gangsta rap, gang wars, the L.A. riots, the investigations of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., and the fall of the Compton Police Department, was published on April ...
Dancing is an important aspect of the hip-hop culture. Before hip-hop was popular in Japan, there was soul dancing, which provided a foundation for Japanese acceptance of street dance culture. A big break through time for the dance scene in Japan was after the movies "Flashdance," "Wild Style", and "Beat Street". This was only the beginning of ...
Digital Underground being a West Coast act, the album intentionally featured several East Coast rappers at a time when the East vs. West rivalry was active, in an attempt to both ignore and ridicule it.
West Coast hip-hop is a regional genre of hip-hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.West Coast hip-hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records ...
From his contribution to all-star rap group Golden State Project to his revered solo albums, the Oakland-bred rapper left an unforgettable mark on West Coast hip-hop. He was 54.
West Coast hip hop. California Gangsta rap - from Los Angeles; Chicano rap - from East Los Angeles; Electro hop - from Los Angeles; G-funk - from Pomona, California; Mobb music and hyphy - from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jerkin' - from Los Angeles; Ratchet - from Los Angeles; West Coast trap - from Long Beach, California; Northwest hip hop ...