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 __**1990s Rap Music**__ Rap music is a form of popular music emphasizing spoken rhymes over heavily recurring backing tracks. Rap is a for of hip hop music. Rap has grown into a very popular for of music around the world. Rap has been around since the 1970s. Some popular Rap artist are 2Pac, Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dog. During the 1990s there was a feud in rap music called the West Coast East Coast Feud. [] []  1990’s Rap Music  What is rap music? Rap music is a form of popular music emphasizing spoken rhymes over heavily recurring backing tracks. Rap is a form of Hip Hop music. Rap has grown into a very popular form of music around the world. Two well known rappers from the 1990s era are Tupac Shakur aka.2Pac and Christopher Wallace aka. Biggie Smalls. Rap music was started from hip hop in the 1970s by disc jockeys and African Americans. Hip Hop comes from African American music. Hip Hop was started in the Bronx in New York. Rapping is also known as MCing or emceeing. In the 1990s rap was split between West Coast and East Coast. The West Coast rap was also known as Gangsta Rap. During the 1990s there was a West Coast/East Coast Rivalry with Death Row Records and Bad Boys Records. During the rivalry both Tupac Shakur from Death Row Records and Christopher Wallace from Bad Boys Records were shot and killed. (Ayazi-hashjin, 1999) Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in June 16, 1971 at East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. His professional entertainment career began in the early 1990s when he showed his rapping skills in a vocal turn in Digital Underground’s “Same Song” from the soundtrack to the film “Nothing”. In late 1993 he formed the group Thug Life with his friends which included his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur. The group released their first and only record album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, 1994. On November 30, 1994 Shakur was shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan by two men in army fatigues. He later accused Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy or P. Diddy, Andre Harrell, and Biggie Smalls of setting him up. The day after he was shot Tupac Shukar was sentenced to one and a half to four and half years in prison for sexual assault charges. After 11 months of his of his sentence he was released from prison due to the help of Suge Knight, The CEO of Death Row Records. Suge Knight paid his bail for exchange that Shakur release three albums for the Death Row label. On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was shot four times. Shakur was taken to the hospital and on September 13, 1996 he died from internal bleeding. The doctors tried to revive him but his mother made the decision to tell the doctors to stop. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m. Because of the feud between him and Biggie Smalls, Biggie Smalls was being accused of Tupac’s murder. (Tupac Shakur, 2009) Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls was born in New York City, New York on May 21, 1972. When he was age 12 he began selling drugs. His mother didn’t not find out about him selling drugs till he was an adult. When he turned seventeen, he dropped out of high school and got involved in crime. In 1989 he was arrested on weapons charges and sentence to five years probation. Then in 19990 he was arrested for a violation of his probation. Then a year later he was arrested in North Carolina for dealing crack cocaine. He spent nine months in prison until he made bail. When Wallace was a teenager he was rapping to entertain people on the streets. When he got out of prison he made a demo tape under the name Biggie Smalls. Sean “Puffy” Combs got a hold of his demo; Sean arranged a meeting with Wallace. Wallace was signed to Uptown Records immediately. Soon after He signed his recording contract, Combs was fired from Uptown and started a new label and Wallace followed and signed to the new label Bad Boys Records. But Combs made him quit after Combs found out that he was selling drugs to support his new born daughter. By the end of 1995 Wallace was the top selling male solo artist and rapper on the U.S. pop and R&B charts. In 1995 he became involved in a feud between East and West Coast hip hop with Tupac Shakur, his former associate. In April 1995 Shakur accused Wallace and Sean Combs of having known that he was going to be robbed which resulted in Shakur being shot and losing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. Wallace denied this accusation even though he was in the same studio at the time. When Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by and died six days later, Wallace was accused of having been involved in Shakur’s murder. On March 9, 1997 at 12:45, a black Chevy impala pulled up alongside Wallace’s truck at a red light. The driver rolled down his window and drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at Wallace’s truck. Four bullets hit Wallace in the chest. His entrouge took him to a hospital but Wallace was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. (The Notrorious B.I.G., 2009)

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