Did you listened to hip-hop in the 90s when the Biggie-Tupac/East-West coast beef was going on?

If so, what artist and/or region did you side with?

I was in NJ so I was an east coast guy, but Tupac was still a favorite. Hit Em Up

I was up north as well (Philly). It was Biggie/coast all day. If you wanted to listen to Tupac, you did so while no one else was around.

Ma$e

I was in California then Oregon, so west coast. Though we had Dre and Snoop and Ice Cube, too, so there was some variety.

Biggie
But loved The Chronic and Doggystyle

I over heard some younger high school kids discussing if they listen to "90's rap"
It's almost like it is a genre of music now. Like 70's rock or 80's music. I find that strange for some reason. I just think of it as rap. The "rap" today is just not good.

I'd say initially, I was all about the west coast sound (Chronic / 2001) are bangers. and Tupac has some great stuff.

As I've expanded my listening, I find myself liking east coast style more (Wutang and their subsequent individual albums, biggie, jay).

I agree Btron. Today's rap is mostly terrible. Kendrick is really on another level from a story telling and word play standpoint, but I've also been listening to some other stuff I would consider 'grimy'. (earl sweatshirt's doris, for example). Schoolboy Q is also pretty good

Biggie for sure. Music and lyrics were better.

Biggie.

Pac had better lyrics and flow imo, although they were both good.

Tupac was very successful with white suburbanites no doubt, but I think a lot of people were put off by his borderline anti-white, black power stuff.

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Tupac was very successful with white suburbanites no doubt, but I think a lot of people were put off by his borderline anti-white, black power stuff.

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BORDERLINE? Ha!

For the mid to late 20's white person crowd(me), it was all about who you began listening to first, IMO.

I have a friend who swears by Pac. We each love both and respect them as 2 of the best ever, but we each have different opinions, and I'm pretty sure it is only because I got into Biggie seriously before I got into Pac, and him vice-versa.

Fun story. What Stage at Bonnaroo plays music in between sets, and people just go lay down in the grass out there because it's the best grass spot on the farm. We were waiting for Arcade Fire a handful of years back and they always play either goofy or coordinated stuff up there during down time.

They play Who Shot Ya? and you hear some clapping and some talk. Then they play Hit Em Up and you hear some clapping and talking. Then they finish with Runnin' and everyone laying in the grass gives a big applause. Random, funny little sequence. An ultimate white person rap opinion bro-down but with a happy ending.

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BORDERLINE? Ha!

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Ha, I know... I figured a Pac disciple would lecture me though if I didn't soften it up a bit.

Nearly 40 years old. Preferred west over east overall, but Biggie over Tupac.

Sugar Hill Gang blows them all away.

Hit Em Up was so ****ing awesome on so many levels.

100 yrs from now it'll still be awesome.

Thats why I ****ed yo b****!!

Grab ya glocks when ya see Tupaaaccc

Pac

im just a know nothing millennial. But I have done my due diligence. 90s and 80s hip hop and rap are mine and most other's preferred styles, the golden age of hip hop.

I love pac. Straight up west coast microphone killer. Few can deliver a rhyme like he could. And his rhyming scheme has been studied by literary scholars. But IMHO, nothing compares to how biggie weaves his rhymes and metaphors, all with that staccato lisp. All you need to hear to know about biggie is the where Brooklyn at freestyle.


Biggie gets my nod. But I have such a high level respect for what they both mean to hip hop.

You're a damn liar if you don't want to jig everytime Hypnotize comes on

It was all a dream......Big for sure.

My older brother was a big 2 Pac fan when he was in high school. He'd pick me up from elementary in his crappy dodge Daytona with a Bass Cannon in the back and we'd park at Sonic, blasting Pac. Picture me Rollin

Tupac did ballet.

Huge fan of both

I'm from the West, so Pac. But I did listen to some Biggie. I like some of his stuff, but IMO he doesn't come close to even sniffing 2Pac's jock.



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All I know is Dorm 11 on the quad in the mid 90's...it was all West Siieeeeeeeeeeed!!!

Pac had far more talent.

Tupac was heavy into drama, art school and backup dancing. So the glee fans are all about him. Biggie was more real imo. Both great rappers but neither could touch Z-Ro on "Look What You Did To Me" or a few of his other early efforts when he was still hungry and trying to make it. I enjoy listening to both biggie and Pac, even though I know Pac's whole shtick was a facade and partly a result of his pent up rage and frustration with being a closet homosexual.

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2Pac

I don't think I was into rap enough to care about the whole east/west thing. If I liked your song then I was going to listen to it no matter where you chose to call home.

Don't care about the east coast - west coast rivalry thing. I think Biggie is the better rapper and Tupac is the better artist.

There was also the intracoast West Coast feud -- Eazy E/Mc Ren/Bone Thugs vs Death Row. Of course Bone Thugs wasn't from Cali but still seemed keen on throwing down with Death Row.

I liked the West coast stuff but when I heard ATLiens that is when things really changed. At that point on and to this day I have only been interested in Southern and Texas rap. Though I do alpreciate Biggie, Wutang, early Jay Z -- just never identified with that sort of message.

Blue star for OutKast.

Southernplayalisticadillacfunkymusic
ATLiens
Stankonia

3 of the greatest hip hop albums of all time

Aquemini > Stankonia.

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Blue star for OutKast.

Southernplayalisticadillacfunkymusic
ATLiens
Stankonia

3 of the greatest hip hop albums of all time

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Aquemini > all of those