It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to ...

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

Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 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.

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 ...

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 animosity reached a boiling point in the 90s when rapper 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. feuded, ultimately ending in both men's unsolved murders. Rogan remarked on how bizarre he found the ...

In truth, even as metal fans in the UK were largely preoccupied with their own Thrashers vs Poseurs civil war, hip hop was already winning hearts and minds in the continent to the left. Public Enemy ...

’90s West Coast Hip-Hop On the other side of the country, West Coast rap was also gathering steam thanks to its deep funk heritage. Early ’90s L.A.-area group Above the Law moved from boom bap ...

The International Longshoremen's Association reached an agreement Wednesday on a new master labor contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, averting a Jan. 15 strike at U.S. east coast ...

3. Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg’s smooth flow and laid-back persona made him the face of West Coast Hip Hop in the ’90s.

Before the east and west coast rap beef of the 1990s boiled over with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG, legendary producer Quincy Jones called a secret meeting at which he appealed ...