Let's talk about how Eminem revived West Coast hip-hop post-Tupac

[DrunkerThanAMotherfucker]

Eminem revitalized West-Coast hip-hop post-Tupac. Period. It follows a simple chain of events.


Tupac dies. Death Row falls apart. Dr. Dre's Aftermath label is shaping up to be a bust. Snoop Dogg's career is facing downward, and the focus of hip-hop shifts back the East Coast.

Dre signs Eminem in 1998 and suddenly his career is back on track. SSLP drops to widespread commercial success. Building off the fresh buzz of his latest recruit, Dre releases 2001, helping to bring west-coast hip hop back to the forefront of rap and keep alive the careers of Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg among others.

Dre then went on to sign Game and Kendrick, two of the biggest west-coast hip hop artists of the last decade.


Boom.

 

[Taadow]

False.

Eminem doesn't even do "West Coast" hip-hop.

 

[DrunkerThanAMotherfucker]

False.

Eminem doesn't even do "West Coast" hip-hop.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

After Pac died, Cube was still poppin, Mac 10 and the West Side Connection. Then Dre dropped Chronic 2001..

nikka you buggin. Em was reppin Detroit.

 

[DrunkerThanAMotherfucker]

After Pac died, Cube was still poppin, Mac 10 and the West Side Connection. Then Dre dropped Chronic 2001..

nikka you buggin. Em was reppin Detroit.

Without Eminem to help propel Dre up when Aftermath was looking to end up in the , 2001 wouldn't have had the buzz it did.


I thought this fact.

 

[Taadow]

Without Eminem to help propel Dre up when Aftermath was looking to end up in the , 2001 wouldn't have had the buzz it did.


I thought this fact.

He's tellin' you right...Hoo' Bangin' and assorted camps were keepin' the West Coast afloat post-Pac. Aftermath and it's buzz set the West that we knew and love back, because that kept Dre from making "West Coast" music.

 

[DrunkerThanAMotherfucker]

He's tellin' you right...Hoo' Bangin' and assorted camps were keepin' the West Coast afloat post-Pac. Aftermath and it's buzz set the West that we knew and love back, because that kept Dre from making "West Coast" music.

Regionally, yes, and I would never doubt that for a second. Even during the times when west-coast hip hop fell off the national radar, the local scene has always thrived in those conditions.

It's crazy how the hip hop scene on the west always stayed together over the years.


But in terms of the popularity of west-coast hip hop nationally post-Tupac, Eminem's early success on Aftermath went a long way towards helping Dr. Dre out.

 

[observe]

False.

Eminem doesn't even do "West Coast" hip-hop.

After Pac died, Cube was still poppin, Mac 10 and the West Side Connection. Then Dre dropped Chronic 2001..

nikka you buggin. Em was reppin Detroit.

This

 

[RajWatts]

False. Snoop & Dre reuniting in '98 (before Eminem came out) was huge for the West. Snoop came out with B Please, Xzibit was buzzin crazy after that, then the stage was set for 2001.

Eminem definitely was a piece of the puzzle but u reachin breh

 

[mortuus est]

i think the op is about dre and aftermath falling off after the album dropped and then dre discovering shady and him helping dre make 2001 and shyt after that thus allowing

Dre then went on to sign Game and Kendrick, two of the biggest west-coast hip hop artists of the last decade.

its not really about other west coast peeps putting in work

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

all these songs dropped before eminem

 

[SunZoo]

i didn't even read the thread, i just assume that you're saying that em indirectly helped the west coast by giving dre that snoop dogg/marquee artist type momentum that he had lost in the previous era, if that's what you getting at cool, but you can't give him the lions share of the credit.

 

[JuvenileHell]

OP is DumberThanAMotherfukker

 

[Taadow]

Regionally, yes, and I would never doubt that for a second. Even during the times when west-coast hip hop fell off the national radar, the local scene has always thrived in those conditions.

It's crazy how the hip hop scene on the west always stayed together over the years.


But in terms of the popularity of west-coast hip hop nationally post-Tupac, Eminem's early success on Aftermath went a long way towards helping Dr. Dre out.

Dr. Dre really didn't need any help, though. Anything he dropped would have been "popular". It would've been nice if it was some West Coast ish...

Not to diss Em, but if Dre didn't say eff it and let Shady Records dictate Aftermath's direction, there might've been more product we're still waiting for like Not These Ni--as Again, Thy Kingdom Come, The Hittmanic Verses, the untitled Mr. Malik album, and the one-word album whose name I dare not type...

 

[OaklandCertified]

I get what the OP is trying to say but