East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry Puns

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Compared to the variety of styles and depth of lyrics coming out of the East Coast hip-hop scene in the '90s, West Coast rap at that time was less meaningful and musical.

The West Coast was by and large making gangsta rap, while the East had some thugging shit alongside peaceful musicians, jazz-infused production, and an overall wider versatility. Gangsta rap and G-funk are repetitive to the point of being borderline stupid, compared to richer metaphors in the East.

If the historic rivalry was merely Biggie vs. Tupac, it's a closer call. Tupac was lyrical and poetic and prolific, but concision can be a virtue and The Notorious BIG probably has a higher percentage of great songs in his library.

Music is art and lyrics are poetry, so let's define a work's quality by things like complexity of musicianship and deftness of rhetorical devices. By these standards, Biggie and De La Soul and the rest of the East were superior to Tupac and NWA and the rest of the West.

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I think the music video for these two songs is on YouTube somewhere, and posted maybe 8 years ago. I think I remember that the first song was a music video about East Coast rich people with the 3 male singers being dressed in New England sweaters, throwing lawn parties, and generally making fun of West Coast rich people. Then there was a response music video about West Coast rich making fun of East Coast rich.

I know this question will piss off a lot of people, so allow me to explain:

I know labels don't define music. I'm aware that the immense diversity of any artistic expression will always resist boxes and boundaries. That being said, I do think it's interesting to analyse the clustering we, as humans, perform on music.

I've also searched this question online and come to no satisfactory answers. Of course we can talk about the origins of hip-hop and the East vs West thing, but I'm talking about the stylistical and musical differences that mark them as separate subgenres regardless of where the artists are based.

As a follow up discussion, I also wonder the same about Southern hip-hop and Midwest hip-hop; to what extent has geography influeced hip-hop and to what extent it hasn't? How do these "subgenres" (if we can call them that) intersect with other hip-hop subgenres to form distinct sounds (for instance East Coast and jazz rap)

It doesn't have to be hip hop - can be anything, within reason.

Pozlilo mi je vec od tugovanja i likovanja na hredditu vezano za izbore pa me zanima ukoliko slusate ili ste slusali hip-hop koji coast preferirate west ili east i zasto?

I personally like east coast hip hop more, and almost all my friends

Kinda interrested in what u guys r listening since i see mostly east coast tracks getting posted

The famous "East - West" beef in hip hop seems, to me, to be a very lopsided contest. Both sides have strengths, but in the end the East vastly outstrips the West.

The West can be credited for bringing hip hop to white people, and therefore mainstream America. The importance of N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton" cannot be overstated. Without the breakout of the late 80's, early 90's we most likely wouldn't see the rise of hip hop when it happened. Besides that, the Chronic, Doggystyle, and Tupac's career gave solid credit to the West. So, so far we can give the West:

• Bringing hip hop to a large audience

• Making breakthrough albums in "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle"

• Tupac Shakur's career in general.

However, when we look to the West we also see a lack of raw talent and lyricism that made East coast hip hop so rich. Apart from Shakur, the rap is generally funk based and of simple vocabulary. This list of rappers by vocabulary is glaring: the West coast has no representation in the top 10 and 2 in the top 20. With Tupac again being the exception, all of the above albums say nothing about hood life other than to glorify it. While this was great at the time to at least expose what was going on, it can't compare to the extrapolation that the East made by talking about how that life impacts a person.

We've looked at the West, how about the East?

In 1993 Wu-Tang Clan released "Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers" and changed hip hop forever. The production and lyricism on the album surpassed that of anything before, with songs that not only spoke about the life of the streets but talked about how that impacted a person. The kid based flavor was also new, as the inclusion of ninja movies and comic books proved to be revolutionary. But it wouldn't stop there, in 1995 RZA (the head of Wu-Tang) would produce two albums that would be released as individual albums by Raekwon and GZA but involved the full Clan in both. The result was "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…" and "Liquid Swords" which are both commonly regarded as two of the greatest rap albums of all time. "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…" introduced the mafioso style of rap that Jay-Z would later emulate in "Reasonable Doubt" and gave a much needed insight into why someone chooses the criminal life, on top of describing it. GZA's "Liquid Swords" completed it nicely by further describing the crime life, but giving a darker description of how the criminal life impacts a pers

I'm talking about the differences in Hip-Hop depending on their locations, from California to Norway.

There's an obvious difference between West Coast and East Coast. California's scene has more psychedelic production, lyrical content focusing on police violence, gang rivalry and drug use, a focus on live instruments etc, while New York is more experimental, violent lyrical content, a focus on sampling and business.

But what about other areas like the Midwest, London UK, Paris and further? What about these locations influences their sound? What shapes UK Grime, or Slav Rap?

Hi. Does anybody know very thorough tutorials or courses that contain certain tutorials on very detailed constructing west coast and east coast Hip Hop styles. I mean really from scratch sculpting sounds, EQ, compressors, achieving the characteristic sound, layering sounds, no picking ready kicks, snares etc. I want to learn the creation and sound design from the bottom. I don't care if it's paid courses or free and what DAW is used. I need directions, pretty please, because it's very hard to find for me. Names of authors and titles will be enough. Thank you.

Hello everyone! I am on the prowl for some new artists to listen to. I love my west coast groups like Hieroglyphics, People Under the Stairs, Souls of Mischief, Pharcyde-

I love this style of jazzy, funky, lyrical hip hop. Can anyone recommend similar artists from the west I should check out?

Thanks I’m advance!