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The rappers are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"). This list only includes artists that have a Wikipedia page. The list refers to rappers of a specific subgenre, not all hip-hop artists.
West Coast hip-hop groups (1 C, 47 P) O. Rappers from Oregon (19 P) S. Hip-hop musicians from San Francisco (1 C, 18 P) W. Rappers from Washington (state) (1 C, 15 P)
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 ...
The L.A. producer's moment in hip-hop has been a lifetime in the making. He explains how his grind in the world of West Coast rap prepared him for the runaway success of Kendrick Lamar's smash ...
Rappers from California; West Coast hip-hop; References This page was last edited on 7 January 2025, at 18:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The L.A. Dream Team was a hip hop group based in Los Angeles, California, active 1985–1989, 1993, and 1996. The group was founded by Chris "Snake Puppy" Wilson and Rudy Pardee in 1985. They are known for being one of the early hip hop acts on the West Coast and one of the pioneers of the West Coast hip hop scene.
This is a list of notable West Coast hip hop music record labels. Rappers Rapp Records founded by Duffy Hooks III & Jerry Hooks Sr. in 1981. Ruthless Records founded by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller in 1986; Sick Wid It Records founded by E-40 in 1989; Lench Mob Records founded by Ice Cube in 1990; Death Row Records founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight ...
G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap [5]) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily influenced by the synthesizer -heavy 1970s funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), often incorporated through samples or re-recordings. [ 4 ]