What is behind the West/East Coast rap rivalry?

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i've read allusions to this rivalry but never an explanation for it.
media hokum? rival record companies? inferority complexes?

not being a connoissuer of hip-hip or rap, would someone mind enlightening me?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 30 May 2003 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I went up to 88 miles an hour, but I thought the flux capacitor was on the fritz. Guess not.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 May 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one guy stole the other guy's girlfriend

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 30 May 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

SUGE KNIGHT and the LIBERAL MEDIA

― truant (truant), Friday, 30 May 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

'LAbyrinth' by Randall Sullivan has it all in there if you're really interested. It's hugely enlightening and lovingly penned.

If someone fancies popping up to tell me why that book is in fact ill-informed shit, feel free o'course...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 May 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Through the annals of human history, we see that one party cannot feel superior until they make another feel inferior. Look at football games, college rivalries, world nations, etc. Here's another nail in the coffin.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

self-centered fear

― dan (dan), Friday, 30 May 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

West/East Coast rivalry.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 30 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

we're all in the same gang

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they've made a Behind The Music about that particular Behind The Music by now.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 31 May 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I vaguely remember a bunch of drive bys and people dying, then everyone saying it was all made up by the media.

― David Allen, Saturday, 31 May 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't know much 'bout it, but I know when Ice Cube left NWA and got the Bomb Squad (Public Enemy production team) to produce his first record, that probably stirred things up a bit.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

nope

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

2Pac = Beatrice, Biggie = Benedick.

Obviously, in this equation Dre is Hero and Puffy is Claudio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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The Man.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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