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- West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre 's Death Row Records, Ice Cube 's Lench Mob Records, the continued success of Eazy-E 's Ruthless Records, Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, and others.
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Aug 11, 2023 · Born in the Bronx, New York, hip-hop soon found some of its most influential rappers in Los Angeles. On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, we take a look at how the West Coast helped make hip-hop one of the most dominant cultural forces in the world.
History. Bay Area Hip-Hop. Early years. Late 1980s and 1990s. 2000s and 2010s. Subgenres. Hyphy style. Mobb music. Impact. See also. References. West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.
Aug 11, 2023 · On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, we take a look at how the West Coast helped make hip-hop one of the most dominant cultural forces in the world.
Aug 14, 2023 · 21:54. How West Coast Hip Hop Got Its Sound. U nlike its New York origin story, no one can really say exactly when hip-hop hit the West Coast. But when it did, Alonzo Williams was...
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Aug 9, 2023 · The emergence of hip-hop out of the West Coast provoked a seismic shift within mainstream music as artists spoke about life in the streets of South Central Los Angeles – from gang life to the everyday struggle of being Black in America.
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Hip-Hop Became More Than Just An East & West Coast Thing The debut albums that moved rap music in 1994 were geographically varied, which was important for a music scene that was still, from a national perspective, largely tied to the media centers at the coasts.
Talmage Garn. In the grand symphony of music, some rhythms lay the beat, and society follows. One such beat, a pulsating rhythm, is Westcoast hip-hop. The West Coast invented and added to several hip-hop subgenres in the past four decades. And each subgenre painted a vivid sonic portrait of a time, a place, and a people.
