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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through...
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Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through the chaos of late 1980s Los Angeles: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave 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, and Ice Cube. Dre soon joined forces with Suge Knight to create the combustible Death Row Records, which in turn transformed Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur into superstars.
Ben Westhoff explores 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 a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. 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 and Biggie Smalls - were murdered, leaving the surviving artists to forge peace before the genre annihilated itself.
Featuring extensive investigative reporting, interviews with the principal players, and dozens of never-before-told stories, Original Gangstas is a groundbreaking addition to the history of popular music.
Author: Ben Westhoff
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316344852
About the Author
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Guardian, Vice, Pitchfork, and the Wall Street Journal. He spent three years as the Music Editor at L.A. Weekly, and is the author of Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth, Fentanyl, Inc: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, and Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, which Rolling Stone called "packed with lively reporting and colorful social history." He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and two children.
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