Eastcoast-Hip-Hop

The East Coast Hip Hop or East Coast Rap is a flow within the hip-hop, which developed in the 1980s on the east coast of the United States. Its beginnings are similar to those of hip-hop as a whole, which developed on the east coast of the USA, especially in New York City by musicians such as Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow established over, LL Cool J, Slick Rick and more artists. Only when the counter flow of the West Coast hip-hop in Los Angeles was built in the later 1980s, in order to distinguish used the term East Coast hip hop, the one from the other coast.

In the late 1980s, Public Enemy became the most famous act of American hip -hop. They fell on through very critical texts and an aggressive style that influenced other bands, especially the artists who joined forces to Native Tongues Posse, including De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Queen Latifah. But the heavy metal band Anthrax has been influenced by Public Enemy, they took the 1987 title I'm the man on. Thus, the crossover genre was born. Also, this led in 1991 to a joint tour and the common inclusion of the Public Enemy song Bring the noise in the crossover style.

East Coast vs.. West Coast

In the early 1990s, the American hip- hop scene was characterized by a strong rivalry between the West Coast and the East Coast. On the West Coast side of the successors of the band NWA, which made ​​them popular with their " Straight Outta Compton " (1988) West Coast Hip- Hop as aggressive gangsta rap were. It was mainly the former NWA members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, influenced the development in the West. The hip-hop war culminated in the murders of both rappers Tupac Shakur (West Coast) and The Notorious BIG ( East Coast). On the east coast of the Wu -Tang Clan emerged and solo artists such as Nas and Jay -Z, who fought against the pop -influenced success of Puff Daddy and Bad Boy Records.

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