Hip Hop Geography
Friday 18 May 2012
Hi
This week I am going to talk about the east coast west coast feud. Notorious B.I.G with Bad Boy records and Tupac Shakur with Death Row. During the late 1970's hip hop became the main genre in New York City. The most famous rappers came from two different sides the East and the West. The first casualty of this was the shooting and killing of Tupac Shakur. Soon after this Notorious B.I.G brought out a song titled "Who Shot Ya" although he claimed this was recorded before the shooting, he was accused of taunting Tupac's death and was later shot
This week I am going to talk about the east coast west coast feud. Notorious B.I.G with Bad Boy records and Tupac Shakur with Death Row. During the late 1970's hip hop became the main genre in New York City. The most famous rappers came from two different sides the East and the West. The first casualty of this was the shooting and killing of Tupac Shakur. Soon after this Notorious B.I.G brought out a song titled "Who Shot Ya" although he claimed this was recorded before the shooting, he was accused of taunting Tupac's death and was later shot
Friday 11 May 2012
Friday 4 May 2012
Tupac born in 1971 and had sold 75 million albums worldwide by the end of 2007 making him one of the best selling artists in the world at that point. His full name is Tupac Amaru Shakur and was know on stage as 2Pac, Pac and Makaveli. As well as Notorious B.I.G Tupac was also involved in the East coast vs West coast feud and as a result also ended up dying in September in 1996. His labels were Interscope, Death row and Amaru which were the reasons for the feud. Recently they have have managed to make a hologram of tupac that they can use his archives to create live performances with, I will post a video of it next week. My next post will be about the East coast-West coast feud. The below pictures is the hologram of Tupac Shakur.
Monday 30 April 2012
I'm back to share a small bit of Notorious B.I.G's life:
Christopher George Latore Wallace (Notorious B.I.G ) also known as Biggie smalls after staring in "Lets Do It Again". He became a star after releasing his debut album "Ready To Die" in 1994 and brought east coast hip hop back to the mainstream were west coast hip hop was more famous at the time. Due to this there was a big rivalry between the east and west coast which Tupac and Wallace were heavily involved in and both ended up getting murdered because of it. Biggie Smalls was murdered on March 9, 1997, after being ranked by MTV as being in the top three best rappers of all time and selling 17 million units in the U.S.A. Next post I will be talking about the life of the rapper Tupac Shakur.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Hi guys,
I'm here to tell you were hip hop music really started, Hip hop / rap actually started in Scottish churches as a form of worship. Since than it has become international with artists from all different countries bringing in different styles. In my next post I will fill you in on Notorious B.I.G's life.
I'm here to tell you were hip hop music really started, Hip hop / rap actually started in Scottish churches as a form of worship. Since than it has become international with artists from all different countries bringing in different styles. In my next post I will fill you in on Notorious B.I.G's life.
Friday 20 April 2012
Yo,
My name is Stephen and this is my blog on the geography of hip hop. I will be talking about the life of certain deceased hip hop/rap artists such as Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Every week I will update a new interesting fact about its origin. Would you think hip hop was originally created in America ? Keep track to find out its original origin, it might suprise you.
Thank you,
Stephen
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