Rap war Shots ring out in South Central Los Angeles. A man screams in horror. This man has been shot in a heated gang war. This is everyday life for gang members. Gang members are used to cold blooded murder and most attend at least 5 funerals a week. Similar situations occur in Harlem, New York and in other places around the country. Why is this happening? Many people think that rap music is making kids more violent. They think that rap music is just a glorification of violence. All rap music is doing is to show how horrible and inhuman life is in the ghettos across the country. This is what's really happening out there. It's not fake. Right now, there is a major conflict between West Coast and East Coast rappers. East and West are fighting in a vicious battle that leaves hundreds of poor, helpless people dead in the street. There's no reason for this to be going on. Back in the early '90's, when rap was beginning to become popular, the East/West war wasn't quite there yet but it was slowly becoming more and more obvious that there was a conflict between rappers. Part of the reason that the war started was that West Coast rap dominated and nobody questioned their supremecy. Ice Cube, Ice T, and Eazy E were the rappers of the moment. The war slowly worsened when East Coast rappers began to get more publicity. West Coast rappers were upset that they weren't 100% in the spotlight so they started to make fun of East rappers in their music proclaiming that East Coast rap was fake and couldn't top West Coast. Then, East Coast rappers fired back obscenities at West Coast rappers and it kept up like that until someone decided that the other coast had gone too far. In 1993, Sean Combs started Bad Boy Entertainment in New York and for the first time ever, East Coast sales surpassed West Coast rap sales. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere came the peak of the West/East feud. Smaller gangs in cities took the example of the "big playaz" and followed what they said. Before, local gangs killed for affiliation whether you were a Blood or a Crip. Now, gangs were killing for West and East. In some cities it was so bad that you could be killed for living on the wrong side of the neighborhood.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that gang members are used to cold blooded murder and attend at least 5 funerals a week. many people think rap music is making kids.
- Opines that rap music is just a glorification ofviolence. it shows how horrible and inhumanlife is in the ghettos across the country.
- Explains that the east/west war started when west coast rap dominated and nobodyquestioned their supremacy. the war worsened when east coast rappers began to dominate.
- Explains that west coast rappers were upset that they weren't 100%in the spotlight so they started to make fun of east coast rap in theirmusic.
- Explains that east coast sales surpassed west coast rap sales for the first time, and the peak of the west/east feud.
- Analyzes the feud between west coast death row records and east coast bad boy entertainment. tupac shakur had a personal problem with east rap mogul the notorious b.i.g.
- Explains that tupac amaru shakur's murder remains unsolved and will probably never be solved.
- Opines that tupac's entourage thought the only way to make things better was to kill an east rapper.
- Opines that in 1998, the feud is somewhat better. no limit records is doing fine and remarkably without retaliation.
- Opines that rap is a way of expressing how life is on the streets.
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