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In the early 1990s, two styles of hip hop were popular. West Coast hip-hop was focused in Los Angeles, while East Coast hip-hop was based out of New York City. During the 80s, New York was the center of hip hop, which had achieved only limited mainstream success. Artists like Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J and Slick Rick were the closest thing to superstars that hip hop had yet produced, and all were firmly rooted on the East Coast.In the late 1980s, a group called Public Enemy became one of the premiere acts in hip hop, both among aficianados and mainstream listeners. Their politically aware lyrics and militant activism served as the blue print for the Native Tongues Posse, which arose as a form of alternative rap with artists like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.
Though East Coast hip hop was dominant through the 1980s, N.W.A.'s Straight Outta ComptonStraight Outta Compton is the 1989 (see 1989 in music) breakthrough album by N. released on Priority Records. The album was a surprise hit, as most music executives at the time viewed hip hop as a passing fad, and did not expect a hardcore gangsta rap alb put West Coast hip-hop on the map, and marked the first challenge to East Coast's dominance. The rivalry, fanned in part by the music media, culminated in the murders of Tupac ShakurFor other people named Tupac, see Tupac (disambiguation). Tupac Amaru Shakur ( June 16, 1971 September 13, 1996) was an influential, best-selling rap artist. Some of his aliases include 2Pac Pac and Makaveli . The names 'Tupac Amaru' and 'Shakur' mean Shi and Notorious B.I.G. in the mid- 1990s. Meanwhile Puff Daddy's pop-friendly Bad Boy RecordsBad Boy Records is an East Coast hip hop record label founded by producer and rapper Sean " P. Diddy" Combs in 1992. Arista Records bought a 50% stake in 1996. It has artists such as the late but great Notorious B. Craig Mack, Faith Evans, Mase, 112, Carl dominated the East Coast to the detriment of its critical success. A new breed of hard-edged East Coast rappers soon emerged, and began topping the charts again by the end of the decade. These included NasNAS can refer to one of the following: Nas (b. Nasir Jones), American hip-hop MC/ rapper. The New American Standard Bible, an English translation of the Bible. The Non Access Stratum, a functional layer in UMTS protocol stack. Network Attached Storage., Jay-ZJay-Z (aka the Jigga HO and Hova born Shawn Carter December 4, 1969) is an American rapper, originally from the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised by a single mother and, as a young man, began hustling on the streets of New York. He brief and the Wu-Tang ClanThe Wu-Tang Clan is a pioneering hardcore rap group, originally from Staten Island, New York (Staten Island is referred to as "Shaolin" in their lyrics). There are nine original members of the Wu-Tang Clan. All of the nine members have released solo album.
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