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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 ...
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.
Eric Lynn Wright (September 7, 1964 [1] – March 26, 1995), known professionally by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap". [3]
The feud between Combs and Knight was at the heart of the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry of the mid-Nineties. They were at that point each the respective heads of the most influential rap ...
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He felt his group gained important exposure to promote their “unorthodox” West Coast rap style. “The network really stepped up. We needed that,” said E-40, who also made a few appearances ...
This is a list of notable West Coast hip hop music record labels. Rappers Rapp Records founded by Duffy Hooks III & Jerry Hooks Sr. in 1981. Ruthless Records founded by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller in 1986; Sick Wid It Records founded by E-40 in 1989; Lench Mob Records founded by Ice Cube in 1990; Death Row Records founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight ...