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No era in hip-hop is more mythologized these days than the 1990s. And no regional sound from "way back when" has become more hyped than the "boom bap" of the East Coast during that period. But 90s ...
According to AllHipHop, four of the genre’s most revered pioneers—Rakim, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, and Kool G Rap—are said to ...
Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ... let’s look back at some of the top 25 hip-hop albums of the '90s era. 1 of ... While there were many debates between East Coast and West Coast rap, ...
Rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. are often attributed to the West Coast vs East Coast beef — a beef that has continued through acts like The Game and 50 Cent, and recently with Ray ...
Diddy and Suge have been feuding since the '90s, when they both launched hip-hop record labels. ... he could have reignited a long-running beef between the East and West Coast hip-hop communities.
The west coast-east coast rivalry goes beyond weather, sports and ’90s hip-hop. The coastal debate takes place in the beer scene, too, where west coast IPAs and east coast IPAs vye for the attention ...
Fat Joe said in a new interview that he was instrumental in ending the brutal East Coast/West Coast beef of the ’90s.. The New York rapper stopped by the Checc’n-In Podcast with Big U and ...
Hip-hop was first created in 1973 in the Bronx, but it wasn't until the '90s that West Coast rappers truly showcased their unique sound on another level. The cool thing about West Coast rap, it's ...
Bringing on the East Coast revival For many, the grimy New York feel of the Clan's 1993 debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is synonymous with '90s hip hop, but at the time of its release, it ...
Hailing from the Bronx, the East Coast hip hop collective’s uptempo headbanger 'Lean Back' was released in the summer of 2004. It went certified gold, becoming a huge club track in the process. It ...
He was an acclaimed rapper from the streets of the Bronx who fired one of the opening shots in the East Coast/West Coast rapper feud of the 90’s. But in 2011 Timothy Blair – the hip hop artist ...
To rappers in the early 90s, hawking malt liquor on TV wasn' ... First up is the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man rapping over a minor-key piano sample atop a classic East Coast boom-bap beat, ...