VIP Records, which played a pivotal role in launching Snoop Dogg's hip-hop career, is taking steps to become a West Coast hip ...

Roccett: My name is Roccett. I’m from the West Coast…Carson, California. I do Hip-Hop, I’m a rapper and I get it all the way in. Green Up Entertainment is the label that me and my mana ...

SMITH: You were born in California, you grew up there ... Um, but he still gets a rap from the East Coast that he's, you know, West Coast, white, too cool, too sophisticated?

Suge Knight may be known for his role in building the West Coast rap scene, but those days seem like a lifetime ago. During a ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first ...