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Los Angeles and its region has a unique music culture that i am trying to describe, although the description is not that thorough or extensive, i make an attempt to cover every characteristic of it.
hip-hop
Hip hop is a general, broad term that encompasses many sub-groups of music, dance, graffiti, clothing and style.
LA hip hop is quite well-known thanks to artists like 2pac, Dr. ...
There was a significant event in the early 90’s that affected the development of rap in LA. On the 29th April, 1992 a riot broke out in LA after the verdict in the trial of the LAPD officers accused of beating Rodney King. ...
The riots effected LA’s hip hop. ... G-funk is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990’s. ... Getting started as a background vocalist and dancer in LA hip hop group Digital Underground, he did not appear to be a definitive rapper of the 90’s. ...
Hip hop culture consist more than only rap music. ... The Bloods are outnumbered about seven to one by the Crips in the LA area. ... They may rap in either English or Spanish, and the music often demonstrates the influence of percolating Latin rhythms. ... It was an instant success on the LA club scene. ...
ska, punk, reggae
Ska was a Jamaican dance music that swept out of Jamaica in the early 1960s to the UK and to the world. In the UK, ska was also known as ’blue beat’ music. ... Ska music was created in a poor community in a third world country by embracing American musical influences and local folk forms. ... The second wave of ska, called 2tone, combined the punk rock music energy of the late 1970’s England with the rhytm of Jamaican ska. ... In the US the ska scene was underground, but it developed Post-2Tone, the third wave of ska. The first American ska band, the Toasters was formed in NY, but ska scene grew big on the West Coast. ... Save Ferris failed playing ska-punk music, now Monique Powell’s band can be best described as alternative popsters. ... Their music still has ska influences but they are succesful in mixing the sounds of Jamaican reggae, dancehall, ska, 80’s pop, a bit of hip hop, punk and new wave. ...
311, originally from Nebraska, moved to Los Angeles in 1991 where they fit in the forming ska scene. ... Their music has special atmosphere, they often use Spanish words and expressions in their lyrics that are about drug, protesting for legalization of weed, love, sex, crime, politics and cholo lifestyle. After Brad’s death the band collapsed, they gave out a posthumus album in 1996, then the rest of the members started Long Beach Dub All Stars, that makes a quite similar music to Sublime. Perhaps thanks to the death of Brad, Sublime became a cult band on underground level, and their music is spreading all over the world. ... The punk scene was doing well in the 90’s and it gave birth to rockstars such as The Offspring, Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Green Day, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Vandals. ... Their latest album did not make platinum, but they do not have to worry as they have proved that they have place in the music industry.
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