50 years of hip-hop history: Los Angeles : NPR
There may be no better case for the power of hip-hop's geographic diversity than Los Angeles, whose sprawl of distinct creative microclimates is a genre unto itself.
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There may be no better case for the power of hip-hop's geographic diversity than Los Angeles, whose sprawl of distinct creative microclimates is a genre unto itself.
Hip-hop pioneers Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, E-40 and Too Short have nothing left to prove. In Los Angeles, Ice Cube sparked the rise of gangsta rap as part of N.W.A in the late '80s, before Snoop Dogg brok...
Cali rap OGs Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Too Short and E-40 on middle age, the best advice they ever received and the pleasures of staying off the 405.
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