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
Oakland rapper MC Hammer
Bay Area rapper Too Short
Long Beach-based rapper Snoop Dogg
Compton rapper and producer Dr. Dre
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
West Coast hip-hop
…West Coast hip-hop Stylistic origins East Coast hip-hop old-school hip-hop gangsta rap funk soul psychedelic funk Cultural origins Late 1970s, Los Angeles & Bay Area, California, U.S.A. Typical instruments…
RZA, producer and member of the Wu-Tang Clan
Nas's 1994 debut album Illmatic was critically acclaimed.
Wiz Khalifa performing in Toronto in 2012.