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Who was the first big West Coast rapper to make gangster rap?
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Although N.W.A. (and by extension Ice Cube and Dr. Dre) is rightly credited for bringing gangster rap to the forefront of West Coast hip-hop and American culture at large after their controversial debut Straight Outta Compton, they weren’t the first California rappers to make now-classic gangster rap tracks. That’s because L.A. rapper Ice-T beat them by two years with the landmark song “6 In The Mornin’.”
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Who was the first big West Coast rapper to make gangster rap?
- Ice Cube
- Ice-T
- Dr. Dre
- The D.O.C.
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