With Snoop Dogg on board, this seamlessly funky four minutes set the bar for the next twenty years.
‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ wasn’t just a dancefloor filler, but a prescient education in safe sex and a timely debunking of harmful media censorship.įollowing his formative stint with NWA, Dr Dre slipped into the limelight with his debut solo album ‘The Chronic’, which just so happened to be one of the best rap records of all time. The first ladies of 1990s hip-hop, New York trio Salt, Pepa and DJ Spinderella broke down barriers with their effortlessly fresh tunes and ballsy attitude. Wu-Tang Clan’s late, great ODB shows off one of the most recognisable voices of the 1990s with this filthy and fun guttural groover. Rude and raucous, ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ is one hell of a party tune. ‘CREAM’ – led by Method Man, Raekwon and Inspectah Deck – is a celebration of 1990s hip-hop’s most precious commodity: “dollar dollar bills, y’all”. By the end of the '90s, hip-hop's focus had turned back to the East Coast and to the emerging South.The Wu-Tang Clan are the most innovative, cinematic and outstanding hip-hop crew of all time, and their 1993 debut, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, is often considered the finest rap album ever released. Controversial gangsta star 2Pac joined the label in late 1995 and became a crossover superstar with the Dre duet "California Love," and Coolio had taken a more pop-oriented version of the West Coast sound to the top of the charts earlier in the year with "Gangsta's Paradise." However, West Coast dominance soon crumbled - 2Pac was murdered in 1996, Dre jumped ship, and Death Row CEO Suge Knight was jailed over business practices. The Chronic's gangsta hedonism and production style - whiny synthesizers, rolling P-Funk beats, and deep, slow grooves - provided the blueprint that made Death Row the biggest hip-hop label of the early '90s, scoring hits by Snoop, Warren G., Tha Dogg Pound, and more. Dre discovered Snoop Doggy Dogg, signed to Death Row Records, and at the end of 1992 released The Chronic, the album that defined G-funk and spawned legions of imitators. Upon leaving N.W.A., Ice Cube made solo records which maintained that lyrical tone while employing noisy, Public Enemy-style production his bandmate Dr. However, N.W.A.'s 1989 gangsta-rap landmark Straight Outta Compton set the stage for a more identifiable West Coast style - its sound was hard-hitting and minimalistic, its lyrics alternating between violent hedonism and righteously angry social commentary. In short, West Coast rap became as eclectic and difficult to pigeonhole as East Coast rap. The former produced the landmark proto-gangsta recordings of Ice-T, the hugely influential, Latino-tinged stoner funk of Cypress Hill, and the warped comedy of the Pharcyde the Bay Area countered with the pimp-obsessed rhymes of Too $hort, the P-Funk-inspired, good-humored Digital Underground, and the pop breakthrough of MC Hammer. Up until the mid- to late '80s, West Coast rap mostly imitated East Coast party rap, already considered old-school in its place of origin however, both Los Angeles and the Bay Area soon proved to be fertile pastures. Still, even if Dre's patented G-funk defined the West Coast sound and style for many, California's rap scene was a great deal more diverse. Dre as one of the most influential figures in rap history. West Coast Rap dominated the hip-hop scene for the middle section of the '90s, making gangsta rap into a popular phenomenon and establishing Dr.
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