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Original gangstas the untold story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the birth of West Coast rap

"A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur,"--Amazon.com.

Main Author: Westhoff, Ben (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Gangsta rap (Music) > History and criticism.
Rap (Music) > History and criticism.
Rap (Music) > California > History and criticism.
Hip-hop.
Rap musicians > United States.
Rap musicians > California.
Summary: "A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur,"--Amazon.com.
Physical Description: viii, 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and index.
ISBN: 9780316383899
0316383899
Author Notes: 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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