It was just after midnight on March 9, 1997, when one of the greatest rappers of all time got ready to leave for a party in ...

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 ...

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.

As the heads of two of hip-hop's top record labels in the 1990s, Knight and Combs became embroiled in the genre's infamous East Coast-West Coast feud, which was epitomized by the rivalry between ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant testified that he tried to ambush Marion "Suge" Knight in 2008. Diddy and Suge have been feuding since the '90s, when they both launched hip-hop record labels.

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 ...

The east coast was hip-hop's spiritual home. In 1992, Sean Combs - then known as Puffy and later as P Diddy - launched his Bad Boy record label in New York with artists including Notorious BIG ...

The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most ... this audience still came most alive for Snoop’s ’90s classics, ... Efforts were made to break the East Coast, ...

Hip-hop was born in August of 1973 at a back-to-school party in the Bronx borough of New York City. DJ Kool Herc began ...

What emerges is a rap game that eschews the purist and largely regional divide between 20th-century East and West Coast rap music and disrupts the ... existed on gender and hip-hop since the ’90s.