Is it safe to say Dr Dre’s The Chronic is responsible for hip hop going mainstream?

[The God Poster]

good point, “you can’t touch this” utilized the synth sound that became synonymous with g-funk before Dre did

although an argument can be made it was more of a pop/dance record than hip-hop due to its content

What type of content makes it hip hop?

 

[BK The Great]

I think Snoop did more as far as mainstream Gangsta rap goes.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

he made gangsta rap the standard for lyrical content/style but he didn't make rap overall mainstream:




NME MAGAZINE FRONT COVER 1988 Public Enemy NME Cover - Mini Poster - Stick It On Your Wall

^^that was in the 80s

 

[Premeditated]

west coast hip hop made hip hop go international.

Run DMC wasn't selling like them

 

[African Peasant]

The Westcoast made Hip-Hop REALLY mainstream.

It gave Hip-Hop its first superstars: Hammer and Snoop.

For the better or worse, it took the commercialization of Hip-Hop to its apex.

 

[get these nets]

1986

 

[IllmaticDelta]

west coast hip hop made hip hop go international.

Run DMC wasn't selling like them

Rap has been international since Rappers Delight

 

[Dynamite James]

The New York bias showing up in this thread

 

[IllmaticDelta]

west coast hip hop made hip hop go international.

west coast changed the type of content one would say on record and shifted the overall hiphop content/sonics

Run DMC wasn't selling like them

RUN DMC are/is the first true mega group of hiphop ON RECORD and was able to pull in the white rock crowd

 

[Premeditated]

Rap has been international since Rappers Delight

west coast changed the type of content one would say on record and shifted the overall hiphop content/sonics



RUN DMC are/is the first true mega group of hiphop ON RECORD and was able to pull in the white rock crowd

negro, please

westcoast>

"rappers delight" weren't no Brits rapping along too those dr seuss flows

WALK DMC were national

 

[Infamous45]

Run dmc put hip hop on the map

 

[IllmaticDelta]

negro, please

westcoast>

"rappers delight" weren't no Brits rapping along too those dr seuss flows

WALK DMC were national

dude: Rapper Delight is/was the atom bomb of global rap

 

[Sbp]

Run Dmc and the Fat Boys

 

[Premeditated]

why can't this @IllmaticDelta nikka just go away

 

[IllmaticDelta]

why can't this @IllmaticDelta nikka just go away