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Encyclopedia > East Coast rap

In the early 1990s, two styles of hip hop were popular. West Coast hip-hop was focused in Los Angeles, while East Coast hip-hop was based out of New York City. During the 80s, New York was the center of hip hop, which had achieved only limited mainstream success. Artists like Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J and Slick Rick were the closest thing to superstars that hip hop had yet produced, and all were firmly rooted on the East Coast. Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... In the 1980s, hip hop music began to break into the mainstream of the United States. ... Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Kurtis Blow, (born Curtis Walker on August 9, 1959), is one of the most influential early rappers and hip hops first mainstream star. ... LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968) is an American hip hop artist better known by his stage name, LL Cool J (an abbreviation of Ladies Love Cool James). He is best known for romantic ballads like I Need Love as well as hardcore rap like I... Pimpin aint easy. ...


In the late 1980s, a group called Public Enemy became one of the premiere acts in hip hop, both among aficianados and mainstream listeners. Their politically aware lyrics and militant activism served as the blue print for the Native Tongues Posse, which arose as a form of alternative rap with artists like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, are a seminal hip hop group known for their politically charged lyrics and their interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... The Native Tongues Posse is a group of late 1980s and early 1990s black nationalist hip hop artists known for their positive Afrocentric lyrics and jazzy beats. ... Alternative hip hop (Bohemian hip hop) is a style of hip hop distinguished by socio-political lyrics, sparse beats that sample few and/or unusual sources (see jazz rap) and uniquely positive rhymes. ... Album cover of 3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul is a massively influential alternative hip hop group, best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap subgenre. ... Album cover of The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest is an influential rap group of the 1990s, originally formed in Queens, New York City in 1988. ...


Though East Coast hip hop was dominant through the 1980s, N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton put West Coast hip-hop on the map, and marked the first challenge to East Coast's dominance. The rivalry, fanned in part by the music media, culminated in the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in the mid-1990s. Meanwhile Puff Daddy's pop-friendly Bad Boy Records dominated the East Coast to the detriment of its critical success. A new breed of hard-edged East Coast rappers soon emerged, and began topping the charts again by the end of the decade. These included Nas, Jay-Z and the Wu-Tang Clan. This page is about the rap group; NWA can also mean Northwest Airlines or National Wrestling Alliance. ... Straight Outta Compton is the 1989 (see 1989 in music) breakthrough album by N.W.A., released on Priority Records. ... Years after his death, Tupac Shakur is still considered one of the most influential rap artists of all time. ... Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in the 1975 comedy, Lets Do it Again), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game). ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969 aka P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Puffy Combs) is an American record producer and CEO and founder of Bad Boy Entertainment, one of the driving forces in hip hop in the mid to late 1990s. ... Bad Boy Records is an East Coast hip hop record label founded by producer and rapper Sean P. Diddy Combs in 1992 after his power climb from a no-pay internship to A&R executive at Uptown Records was terminated by the then CEO Andre Harrell. ... Nas or NAS can refer to multiple things: Nas (b. ... Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... The Wu-Tang Clan is a pioneering hardcore rap group, originally from Staten Island, New York, USA (Staten Island is referred to as Shaolin in their lyrics). ...

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East Coast Rap - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music (241 words)
Since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, for a time all rap music was 'East Coast rap.' By 1979, hip-hop parties were being exposed to communities outside the South Bronx--where the music had all started--and this eventually led to the art form being recorded and released on vinyl.
Run DMC was the first rap group to legitimize the genre by gaining acceptance from mainstream media.
East Coast rap was individualized as a genre after artists from other parts of the United States (chiefly the West Coast) emerged with different styles of hip-hop.
Gangsta rap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1793 words)
Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop music which involves a lyrical focus on the lifestyles of inner-city thugs, criminals and gangsters.
However, gangsta rap is by far the most commercially successful strand of hip hop and achieved considerable chart dominance during the later two-thirds of the 1990s, during which time many gangsta rap artists moved towards a more pop-friendly mainstream sound.
Gangsta rap is usually credited as being an originally West Coast phenomenon, due to the influence of Ice-T and N.W.A, though Schoolly D, BDP and Kool G Rap are East Coast rappers.
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