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Original Gangstas - Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (Paperback)
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Original Gangstas - Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (Paperback)
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In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and
ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality.
They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity put their
Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton on the map. They gave a voice
to disenfranchised African Americans across the country. And they
quickly redefined pop culture across the world. Their names remain
as popular as ever--Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and
Tupac Shakur. Music journalist Ben Westhoff shows how this group of
artists shifted the balance of hip-hop from New York to Los
Angeles. He shows how N.W.A.'s shocking success lead to rivalries
between members, record labels, and eventually an all-out war
between East Coast and West Coast rappers. In the process, hip-hop
burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change,
and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty
years. At gangsta rap's peak, two of its biggest names--Tupac
Shakur and Biggie Smalls--would be murdered, and the surviving
superstars would have to make peace before their music collapsed in
its own violence. Exhaustively reported and masterfully written,
ORIGINAL GANGSTAS is a monumental work of music history that will
offer news-making stories about a legendary group of artists, some
living, some dead.
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