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Hip hop music and hip hop culture is widely considered to have originated on the East Coast of the United States in New York City. [4] [5] [6] As a result, New York rappers were often perceived as feeling their hip hop scene was superior to other regional hip hop cultures whereas those on the West Coast of the United States had developed an inferiority complex.
Pages in category "East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This category is for hip hop artists whose origins stem from the Western United States. This includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming
As the investigation into the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur ramped up, prosecutors dug into the past and took the grand jury back to some of the most pivotal moments in the East-West Coast rap rivalry.
This category is for hip hop artists whose origins stem from the Northeastern United States. This includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont
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 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 ...
East Coast hip-hop was the dominant form of rap music during the Golden Era of hip-hop. [3] Many knowledgeable hip-hop fans and critics are particularly favorable towards East Coast hip-hop of the early-mid 1990s, viewing it as a time of creative growth and influential recordings, and describing it as "The East Coast Renaissance".