East Coast hip hop
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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.
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.
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.
- 3rd Bass
- 50 Cent
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Antoinette
- Audio Two
- Bahamadia
- Beanie Sigel
- Beastie Boys
- Big Daddy Kane
- Big Pun
- Biz Markie
- Black Star
- Boogie Down Productions
- Busta Rhymes
- Cam'ron
- Canibus
- Cold Crush Brothers
- Craig G
- Davy DMX
- De La Soul
- Diplomats
- DJ Hollywood
- DJ Polo
- DMX
- Donald D
- EPMD
- Eric B. & Rakim
- Eve
- Fabolous
- Fat Boys
- Fat Joe
- The Fugees
- Foxy Brown
- Gang Starr
- Ghostface Killah
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
- G-Unit
- GZA
- Hurby Luv Bug
- Hurricane G
- Jadakiss
- Ja Rule
- Jay-Z
- Jim Jones
- Juelz Santana
- The Jungle Brothers
- Kanye West
- Kid Capri
- Kool G Rap
- Kool Herc
- Kool Moe Dee
- KRS-One
- Kurtis Blow
- Leaders of the New School
- Lil Kim
- LL Cool J
- Llyod Banks
- Lost Boyz
- L.O.X.
- Luv Bug Starski
- Lord Tariq
- Main Source
- Marley Marl
- Mase
- MC Shan
- Memphis Bleek
- Method Man
- Mobb Deep
- Mos Def
- Nas
- Naughty by Nature
- Noreaga
- Notorious B.I.G.
- Ol' Dirty Bastard
- P. Diddy
- Princess Superstar
- Public Enemy
- Queen Latifah
- Raekwon the Chef
- Rammelzee
- The Real Roxanne
- Redman
- Remy Martin
- Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic 3
- The Roots
- Roxanne Shante
- Run-D.M.C.
- RZA
- Salt-N-Pepa
- Schoolly D
- Sheek Louch
- Slick Rick
- Soulsonic Force
- Steady B
- Styles P
- Sugarhill Gang
- Talib Kweli
- T La Rock
- Tony Yayo
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Ultramagnetic MC's
- Whodini
- Will Smith
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Wyclef Jean
- Terror Squad
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