East Coast hip-hop
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East Coast hip-hop is a regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. Hip-hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the Bronx borough of New Yor
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Wiz Khalifa performing in Toronto in 2012.
West Coast hip-hop
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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
East Coast hip-hop
…East Coast hip-hop was more popular throughout the late 1980s, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton (released in early 1989) presented the toughened sound of West Coast hip-hop, which was accompanied by gritty, street-level subject matter. Later in 1992, Dr. Dre's G-funk record The Chronic would introduce West Coast hip-hop…
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Bay Area rapper Too Short
Long Beach-based rapper Snoop Dogg
Compton rapper and producer Dr. Dre