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.

Snoop Dogg recently saluted the East Coast for having the biggest impact on hip-hop. On Tuesday (May 2), Snoop Dogg joined Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim on ESPN's First Take and during a rapid ...

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 ...

Some hip-hop fans complain about the relative lack of East Coast-based hip-hop superstars these days. The charts are dominated by rappers who hail from virtually everywhere else in the continental ...

Our 100 Best East Coast Hip-Hop Songs list touches on all that and much more. We convened a group of RS staffers and critics to compile the list. We focused on impact, relevance, originality, and ...

’90s hip-hop was filled with some of the most iconic East and West Coast founding fathers like Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre. Trevor Anderson: ...

Not only is Illmatic the greatest ’90s East Coast hip-hop album–it could very well be the greatest hip-hop album of all time. Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, ...

The East Coast of the United States is the birthplace of hip hop. The likes of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow,and Run-DMC defined the genre in the early years, paving ...