During the early 1980’s the main music of modern-day rock and disco music. It was dominated by Michael Jackson, Madonna, and many other artists but then you go to 1987 when it all started. Eric Wright (Also Known as Eazy-E) from Compton, California dropped out of high school to join his brother in the drug business. He also got rich from it he had no intention of stopping his brother was in the business as well but he was jumped in an alleyway and was beaten to death, So Eazy-E wanted to find a safer business. So he met up with Dr.Dre and Ice Cube to help him make his label “Ruthless Records”.
Eazy has no intention of actually rapping he was going to hire rappers to rap the lyrics that Ice Cube wrote. But the rappers they hired were East-Coast
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Biggie was the king of the east coast and he has a deeper jazzier type of rap. But they started as great friends but, their worlds seemed destined to collide. They were two of the most talented hip-hop rappers in the world. And they both were destined to tell the truth about the tribulations of life on the streets, social injustice, and the racial divide. But the biggest difference between Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls is that they represented different …show more content…
It was his first album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200, and it sold over 5 million copies in just the united states. DMX was also a very hot rapper in 1998 making 2 amazing albums in just a couple of months. But in 2001 Dr. Dre released an album called 2001 also referred to as The Chronic II is the second studio album by Dr. Dre. It was released on November 16, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records as the follow-up to his 1992 debut album, The Chronic. The album was produced mainly by Dr. Dre and Mel-Man, also including Lord Finesse, and other rappers such as Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Eminem, and Nate