Hip Hop Blood Sport

The history of hip hop is replete with controversy. Fueled by money, fierce rivalries have been waged publicly by some of the most champion dulcet artists in the last 25 years. Unlike other music genres, hip hop feuds have resulted in the destruction of artists marking it a blood sport of sorts.

The origins of hip hop rivalry in general can be found in the nature of rappers themselves as they tend to effect the utmost to prime each other. Rappers are like boxers in their persistence to convert the top guy. Early in the 1990â s Puffy Combs created Bad Boy records which met with extended success as it became the darling of the hip hop industry. Based on the east coast, Wick Boy featured local artists bringing them national exposure.

In the meantime a movement was current on the west coast. Rappers comparable N.W.A and Ice Dice innovated a virgin hardcore style of bebop deemed â gangsta rap.â The release of the â The Chronicâ by Dr. Dre established west seaside music squarely on the hip hop scene. Artist liking Snoop Dog and Warren G, bracelets gleaming and chains hanging arrived hungry for the spotlight. These two commercial forces eventually collided with rappers hurling insults and threats at one another on file after record. Rappers like Mobb Deep, Jay-Z and Nas all participated. The tension culminated as two titans of hip hop, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, went to hostility in what would come to be the most notorious of hip hop rivalries.

Biggie was Bad Boyâ s most successful rapper. Highly talented Biggie commanded respect in the hip hop production for his rhyming skills. His counterpart on the west coast, Tupac was respected as hearty for his aggressive yet poetic rhymes reflecting on the harsh realities of life. After joining forces with the notorious DeathRow register executive Suge Knight, Tupac began attacking Puffy Combs and Biggie labeling them soft. What ensued was a tit for tat series of verbal insults and accusations that ended with the death of both Tupac and Biggie within a six month span. This rivalry created so still attention that both DeathRow records and Poor Boy records benefited greatly wound up increased case sales. The lesson was hip hop controversy sells. On account of then there have been lousy with attempts by artist to replicate the Tupac vs. Biggie scenario.

50 Cent, the top guy in the rap pastime today, has been involved in a few rivalries as well. He was in a beef with west coast rapper The Game over charges of disrespect. In the midst of this battle a shootout occurred between the respective factions. It was ended in a public cattle call where bother rappers stood in sync shaking hands. As a determination they garnered worldwide publicity which translated into successful textbook sales for both artists.

50 cent as well instigated a beef with another excessive artist of our contemporary generation, Kanye West. He boldly stated that he would outsell West or retire from rap. Much attention was attracted and both albums were hits. There have been latest rivalries involving some of the top hip hop artist including Jay-Z, Nas and LL Cool J.

Rivalry creates drama and interrogation which translates to sales. Artists nowadays have continued to mold the media by creating drama with other artists however carry learned when to pull back without drawing blood. The commercial consummation of these controversial rappers proves definitively that these tactics are a winning formula which means for the consuming common a continuation of rap rivalries on demand.

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