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| More on Hip-Hop - Allen Iverson's Hip-Hop - Articles - Biographies - Lyrics - Photos - Screensavers - Tracks to download - Videos - Wallpapers More Articles - AND1 articles - NBA articles - Notic articles - Slam Nation articles - Streetball articles | George discuses the rivalry between the east and west coast of America citing New York's hierarchical notion of musical superiority. This has been evident since its early rejection of the traditional blues music of Southern America (which it saw as to earthy, raw and unsophisticated) in favour of its own aesthetic development of Jazz. New York's claims of ownership over the hip hop genre, stem from the early development of the style, which was concentrated around its inner city districts. This has led to a presumption of superiority, with music from outside of the city seen as just a substandard copy of the original. Early in rap music's history, New York grudgingly accepted Philadelphia's development of the genre, granting them admittance into an East coast alliance, but openly ridiculing anything from outside the North East coast of America. Rolling Stone speculates that the escalation of the so called "Rap War" between the East and West coast was centred around the argument of ownership and superiority in a sub genre of hip hop, the hardcore style of gangsta rap. Hip hop culture has always been based on healthy competition, as rival DJ's, Breakers, MC's and taggers battle for notoriety and territory. The artists at the forefront of this style (now a multimillion dollar industry, since becoming in vogue in the mid to late 1990's) seemed to revel in the violence of their upbringing, many of whom had been raised in the poor drug and crime stricken areas of the inner cities. These street wise rappers overnight became Super Stars, continuing their street rivalry, in their new nation wide neighbourhood of America. Riffs started to appear between the west and the east coast as the competition which had been so instrumental in the music's development reached boiling point. Tu Pac and Biggies Smalls continued a much publicized battle, which saw Tu Pac accuse Biggies Smalls of his 1994 shooting/robbery, and later saw Tu Pac mock Biggies Small in his song "Hit em up", were he claimed to have slept with Faith Evans, Biggies wife. Tu Pac and Biggies Smalls would later both become victims (Both killed in drive by shooting) of the very violence and crime they had made millions of dollars from rapping about. It was perhaps unrealistic to expect these rappers to have overnight escaped from the violence and crime of their roots, just because of their new found success. | |
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