Game Says West Coast Hip-Hop Will Rise Again

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In the book of hip-hop history, West Coast music is credited for introducing gangster rap to the mainstream. While that credit can never be repealed, these days, the region has yet to produce a solid group of emcee's obtaining a level of notoriety set by predecessors like N.W.A., Tupac Shakur, or Snoop Dogg, but according to rapper Game, the West Coast will rise again.

"Right now it ain't our time," Game told The BoomBox. "Everything is fluorescent. You ever seen that crayon box with all the wild colors, like neon green? That's what hip-hop is right now." According to the Compton native, the shift in hip-hop continues towards pop, a trend that the West Coast has yet to bow down to. "Everybody's having fun and if you notice [on] the West Coast our style of music is gangster rap. We don't have no pop artists or mainstream artists outside of me, Dre and Snoop. Maybe we'll come back and make a surge, or maybe we'll have to change our styles to cater to the new hip-hop. But right now the South is running s---, the East is on a slide like us, but I think hip-hop just has its spurts. It will come back to us, go back to New York and Philly -- just right now the ATL [and] Miami is winning and I'm with 'em. I wanna see everybody win."

Source: http://www.theboombox.com/2011/02/16/game-says-west-coast-hip-hop-will-rise-again/

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