West Coast hip-hop

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West Coast hip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop
Cultural origins	Mid-1980s, California, United States, Primarily Compton and Los Angeles California
Typical instruments	Prominent Bass - rapping - drum machine - Sampler - synthesizer
Derivative forms	Hyphy
Subgenres
Underground hip hop - Electro hop - Gangsta rap - G-funk - Chicano rap (complete list)

West Coast hip hop is a style of hip hop music that originated in California in the early 1980s. ^{[citation needed]} It has since grown into a sub-genre of hip hop and has developed several creative centers.

Notable West Coast Artists

Dr.Dre, Eazy-E, The Game, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Kurupt, N.W.A., DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg

Notable West Coast Rap Albums

Dr.Dre- The Chronic ,N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton ,Eazy-E- Eazy Duz It ,Snoop Dogg- Doggystyle ,The Game- The Documentary ,Dr.Dre- Chronic 2001.

Gangsta Rap Controversy

The controversial 1988 album Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A prompted a letter from the FBI in 1989.^[1]

References

^ Boucher, Geoff (2008-08-16). "Rapper Ice Cube talks about the 20th anniversary of N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton"". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-08-24.

Hip-hop

Culture

History

Subgenres

General	Alternative Hipster hop Boom bap Bounce British Road rap Chipmunk soul Chopped and screwed Chopper Cloud rap Comedy Crunk Crunkcore East Coast Freestyle rap Hyphy Jerkin' Instrumental Latin Chicano rap Lofi Lowend Miami bass Mumble rap Nerdcore Chap hop Political Conscious Progressive rap Religious Christian Jewish Snap music Southern Turntablism Underground
Hardcore	Dirty rap Gangsta rap Mafioso rap G-funk Horrorcore Memphis rap
Trap music	Afro trap Drill Brooklyn drill Jersey drill Sample drill UK drill Latin trap Phonk Plugg Rage Tread UK trap

Fusion genres

General	Country rap Electro Emo rap Hip-hop soul Hip house Industrial Jazz rap New jack swing Pop rap Psychedelic rap Punk rap Ragga Rap opera Rap rock Trip hop
Rap metal	Trap metal Nu metal
Regional	Afroswing Bongo Flava Boomba music Cumbia rap Genge Hip-hop galsen Hipco Hiplife Igbo rap Kwaito Low bap Motswako Nā mele paleoleo Nuyorican rap Romani hip-hop Songo-salsa Scam rap Stronda Urban Pasifika Vigilante rap Zenji flava

Derivatives

Electronic	Breakbeat Baltimore club Florida breaks Ghetto house Ghettotech Glitch hop Grime Illbient Freestyle Wonky
Other	Funk carioca Reggaeton Alternative reggaeton

Regional scenes

African	Algerian Angolan Beninese Botswana Gambian Ghanaian Ivorian Kenyan Malawian Mauritian Moroccan Namibian Nigerian Port Harcourt Nigerien Senegalese South African Tanzanian Togolese Zambian Zimbabwean
Asian	Armenian Azerbaijani Bangladeshi Burmese Chinese Indian Desi Indonesian Japanese Korean Malaysian Mongolian Nepalese Pakistani Philippine Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thai
European	Albanian Austrian Belgian Bosnian and Herzegovinian British Celtic Scottish Bulgarian Croatian Czech Dutch Finnish French German Greek Portuguese Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Macedonian Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Romanian Romani Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Ukrainian
Middle Eastern	Arabic Egyptian Iranian Israeli Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Arabian Tunisian Turkish Yemeni
North American	United States: East Coast Baltimore New Jersey New York City Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Midwestern Chicago Detroit Minneapolis/St. Paul Milwaukee Omaha Southern Atlanta Memphis Miami West Coast Northwest Alaska Asian American Latin Native American Outside the US: Canadian Cuban Dominican Haitian Mexican Salvadoran
Oceanian	Australian New Zealand Samoan
South American	Brazilian Brasília Chilean Colombian

Notable West Coast Artists

Notable West Coast Rap Albums

Gangsta Rap Controversy

See also

References