West coast rapper

West Coast hip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop, R&B, soul, funk
Cultural origins	mid-1970s in Los Angeles
Typical instruments	Prominent bass, drum machine, rapping, sampler, synthesizer
Subgenres
Gangsta rap, political hip-hop (complete list)
Fusion genres
Bay Area Hyphy L.A. G-funk
Regional scenes
Seattle metropolitan area - Portland metropolitan area - Cascadia - Sacramento metropolitan area - San Francisco metropolitan area - Bakersfield Metropolitan Area- Fresno metropolitan area - Los Angeles metropolitan area - San Diego metropolitan area - Las Vegas metropolitan area - San-San megalopolis
Local scenes
Seattle - Portland - Cascadia - Sacramento - - Oakland - Emeryville - Berkeley - Richmond - San Pablo - Vallejo - Bakersfield - Fresno - Escondido - Los Angeles - Inglewood - Hawthorne - Compton - Long Beach - San Diego - Las Vegas - Phoenix - San-San megalopolis
Other topics
East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry - Golden age hip hop - Hip hop - List of West Coast hip hop artists - List of West Coast hip hop record labels

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West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States. The gangsta rap subgenre of West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records.

Some believe that the four elements of hip-hop culture, B-boying, DJing, graffiti art, and MCing, existed on the East and West Coasts of the United States simultaneously during the mid-seventies. This theory runs in opposition to the more generally accepted belief that the fundamental elements of hip hop were born and cultivated exclusively on the East Coast, in New York City in particular, in the earliest stages of the culture. Although it is agreed that hip hop was given its name in New York, some say a culture that closely mirrored the East Coast hip hop culture had emerged in the West, existing from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area during the same period. The culture is widely believed to have been a mutual creation which evolved from interaction between people who identified with elements from their respective coasts.

A number of events laid the foundations for West Coast hip hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Eazy-E, Ice T, and Too Short. According to geniusrap.com, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts Riots of 1965." In 1967, Bud Schulberg founded a creative space entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a place for them to express themselves freely. Out of this background the Watts Prophets formed, a spoken-word and musical collective, whose members had moved to the West Coast from southern states such as Texas and Louisiana. However Black expression in Los Angeles was muted after the release of the Watts' Prophet 1971 record Rappin' Black in a White World until the emergence of hip-hop in the 1980s.

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