2.  Not lyrical technique, rather good times
 Will Smith, LL Cool J, Tribe Called Quest
 Always urban, never violent

3.  Late 80’s, early 90s
 Ice T, Beastie Boys, NWA,
 Violence, profanities, sex, drugs Gangsta
 FBI involvement NWA, Fab Five

4.  A way of life Dress, language, ideas
 Affected everyone, not just gangstas
 Lyrics became real life actions

6.  Born Andre Young
 NWA (Eazy-E, Ice-Cube, Mc Ren, DJ Yella)
 Producer Aftermath Entertainment
 Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, Nas

7. the action, position, or relation of a rival or
rivals; competition

8.  Yankees vs. Red Sox
 Duke vs. North Carolina
 Ali vs. Frazier
 Federer vs. Nadal

10.  No such thing as a playing field or court
 Always game time
 Career: Make or break
 Improves quality of music
 Drawbacks outweigh benefits

11.  Producers:
 Suge Knight and Sean “Diddy” Combs
 Legends:
 Tupac and Biggie
 Present Greats:
 Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z

13.  Stay out of the hostilities, nonsense
 Black on black crime
 Keep it real, positive, and fresh
 Don’t discriminate

14.  “Cacaphony of small talent rappers, claimin a coast
over instrumentals, ain't got no real street
credentials”- KRS-One
 “While childish MC's battle over coastal fronts
I come with no fronts and smash in monkey fronts”
- RBX

15.  Born Marion Knight Jr
 Co-founder of Death Row Records (1991)
 Hometown: Compton, California
 Members of Death Row:
 Tupac Shakur
 Dr. Dre
 Snoop Dogg
 Producer, not a rapper
Death Row Diss

16. East Coast West Coast
• Credited with starting • Changed the sound
the music revolution of hip-hop
that was hip hop • Made music more
• Hip-Hop started in the universal
streets of NY • Once N.W.A. came
• First record companies on the scene, LA
and rappers came to became new hot spot
East Coast to perform for West Coast rappers

17.  Born as Sean Combs
 New York
 Originally started at Uptown Records
 Started his own company- Bad Boy Records
 Signed the likes of
 Notorious B.I.G.
 Craig Mack
 Faith Evans
 Rapper
 Known as Diddy, Puffy, Puff Daddy

18.  Never wanted to feud
 His rappers = “Be above it”
 Saw it all coming, but still had to produce
music
 Since has collaborated with all artists
 Death Row Diss (1:05)
 RIP Biggie

19.  Born Lesane Parish Crooks
 Born in East Harlem NY
 Grew up in Marin City California
 Started rapping (officially) in 1988
 Signed with Death Row Records
 Shot in November of 1994 – accused Notorius
B.I.G. and Sean “P-Diddy” Combs of being
involved in shooting
 Started rapping against East Coast and Bad Boy
Records
 Murdered in September 1996 at age 25

20.  Biggest Contribution to rivalry, release of song
“Hit Em Up”
 This was a response to Biggie Small’s song
which was released months after 2Pac was shot
in Biggie’s recording studio “Who Shot Ya”
 Hit em up

21.  Born- 1972, New York, New York
 Died- 1997, Los Angeles, California
 Signed to Bad Boy Records 1992
 Before rapping Drug Dealer
 At Quad Studios when Tupac was shot but
innocent
 Also known as Biggie and Biggie Smalls

22.  “Who Shot Ya”= B side to “Big Poppa”
 Originally supposed to be on Mary J Blige’s album
My Life
 Admittedly, it was a bad time to be released
 Tried to listen to Puffy, but it was more than that
 Hardly affected by Pac’s death

23.  Born Calvin Cordozar Bradus Jr.
 Born in Long Beach California
 Began rapping in 1992
 Signed with Death Row Records in 1993

24.  Came out with “New York, New York” to call
out the famous home of Bad Boy Records
 Still rapping today
 Has since denounced the coastal feud between
East and West and has since collaborated with
other artists who are outside of the West Coast
 Performed at 2005 VMA’s with Sean Combs
 Snoop-Biggie Tribute

25.  Born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn, New York
 Started rapping in 1996 when he founded Roc-
A-Fella Records
 Associated with
 Notorious B.I.G.
 Kanye West
 Beyonce

26.  Relationship with the Feud
 Associated with Biggie
 Mentioned in west coast songs
 Two “diss” songs= “Brooklyn’s Finest” and “22 2’s”
 Barely classify
 Now associates himself with both coasts
 Does a Biggie and Tupac tribute at each live
concert