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Aug 14, 2023 · This West Coast hip-hop renaissance lasted a few years, giving rise to regional giants like Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Ice-T and Snoop Dogg — “it was the golden age of hip-hop,” Williams says.
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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.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 ...
- Late 1970s, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Aug 11, 2023 · Published August 11, 2023 at 5:00 AM CDT. Print. Listen • 47:33. (Louis Felix/LAist) This conversation, in partnership with LAist, took place before a live audience at the Crawford, LAist’s live event venue in Pasadena, California. The 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Born in the Bronx, New York, hip-hop culture soon found some of its most ...
Aug 9, 2023 · As hip-hop marks its 50th anniversary, ABC News is taking a look back at the history of the genre, including the emergence of West Coast rap in interviews with rappers Too Short, E-40, Jay Rock ...
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Aug 10, 2023 · On this day in 1973, at a party in an apartment in the Bronx, New York, hip-hop was born. Using two turntables and a microphone, Jamaican-born funk and soul DJ Kool Herc mixed two records together ...
May 29, 2019 · The rise of the West Coast is just one slice of the exhibition “Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop,” now at the Annenberg Space for Photography through Aug. 18.
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 ...
