East Coast hip hop

Tupac Shakur was an actor, poet, and American rapper but almost 21 years later, is murder remains unsolved. More than 211,000 murders committed since 1980 remain unsolved (New York Times, 2015). After much research on multiple suspects, events leading up the murder, and the crime scene only four people are suspected to be the killer. Beginning with Tupac’s gang activity, there are many events that led up to his murder. For example, Tupac was highly associated with gang members. Tupac, a Bloods

Tupac Shakur is a person who isn’t just a Hip hop musician, he’s a legend who changed the world. Tupac Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 East Harlem, New York City, NY, In 1984, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. His family moved again in 1988 to Oakland, California. His first breakthrough in music came in 1991 as a member of the group Digital Underground which was a month after his mother was acquitted of more than 150 charges of “Conspiracy

became the first rap song to enter the Billboard and the East Coast started the mania. In the mid-1980s, the whole phenomenon went westwards to California and that’s where whole new subgenre was born, Gangsta rap. The subgenre became one of the most defining features of the West Coast movement of HipHop

As a kid, I can vividly remember sitting in the back of my family’s mini-van, singing along to, and loving all the early 2000’s radio hits. I’ve always had a love for music, and an appreciation for the different creative ways instruments and lyrics came together. Once I got my first iPod, I pretty much just listened to whatever my older brother was in to, and at the time, this was rock. He introduced me to all the 70’s and 80’s classics I would need to know, and I began to enjoy this genre. As I

Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. In 1986 rap music finally reached the top of the music charts and was show on MTV for the first time featuring Run-DMC. Continuing to change in the 90's in the east coast came the more harsh and raw of the rap music scene like Wu-Tang Clan and Notorious Big. As for rap music on the East coast rap music was mellower. When these rappers first started rapping the music videos were

Sean Puffy Combs Biography Sean "Puffy" Combs has established himself as one of the biggest names in hip-hop (Heal). Combs a Harlem native whose father was killed when he was only 3 years old, rose from the mean streets to the top of the music business (AP wire, March 18). "It is true that he started from scratch, and I don't think that because he was arrested, people will stop buying his albums (AP wire, March 18). Before pursuing his career as a vocalist, Combs was a business-minded Howard

Hip hop has become an important figure to mainly the African Americans turning into African American “English” relating to the culture because of the singing culture/tradition. Many agree that people do look for ways to find accustoms towards the culture or tradition. “Rap is the verbal-musical element of hip-hop which society mostly associates.” (Stewart) Many songs relate through some sort of expression, describing the way the hardships of people may have gone through, such as mother or father

the bad man. And tupac kept playing to the gallery. In june 1996 he released a diss track “ Hit’ Em Up “, aimed at Biggie Smalls and his label boss at Bad Boy records, Sean “Puffy” combs ratcheting up the tension between East and West coast rap, in what was fast becoming hip hops most famous and ugliest beef. Within three months, tupac was

Nearly 30 years ago, five individuals formed the controversial, highly opinionated hip-hop group, N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes). Like the vast majority of collaborative success stories, N.W.A was not without its share of inner and outer strife – courtesy of hot button issues, including money, police brutality and discrimination, and other personal struggles. Nevertheless, the former Compton-based rappers rose above the disarray, having absolutely no idea they’d be completely altering the trajectory

with young people relating to their problems, this one reached out to older people as well. I remember one evening, when my mother was driving me and my brother to acrobatics practice, this song came up on the radio. She is not a big fan of rap/ hip hop music actually she despises for the most part. Nonetheless, once the song came to an end, she said this was the best rap song she ever heard and, wanted me to put it on her CD that she listens to while driving. This makes me think. If my mother who