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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hip-hop originated in 1970s New York City, but by the '80s and '90s, multiple rappers, including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, emerged on the West Coast.. A rivalry soon emerged between Suge's Death Row ...