Hardcore hip hop

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"Hardcore Hip Hop" is also the title of a single by DJ Shadow.
Hardcore hip hop is a form of hip hop music characterized by confrontation and aggression in its subject matter, heavy beats, raw sampling and production, or any combination thereof. The term can refer to similar musical sensibilities that encompass several related genres, including gangsta rap, Mafioso rap, Horrorcore, rapcore, political hip hop, and alternative rap.

The origins of hardcore hip hop began in East Coast hip hop during the 1980s in Philadelphia when artists such as Schoolly D (and later New York City artists such as Boogie Down Productions, Slick Rick, the Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy) began eschewing the popular themes of simple partying and mere braggadocio. Instead, their subject matter and content often reflected the ravages of urban poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, crime, street violence, and gang rivalries.

For much of the early 1990s, with the popularity of artists such as Ice Cube, Ice-T, Da Lench Mob, and Cypress Hill, hardcore hip hop was essentially synonymous with West Coast gangsta rap.

However, artists such as Onyx (Bacdafucup), The Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)), Nas (Illmatic), Black Moon (Enta Da Stage), and Mobb Deep (The Infamous) soon re-invented and revitalized East Coast hardcore. This new brand of hardcore hip hop was characterized by its minimalistic beats, gritty drum sounds that were often sampled from vinyl, occasional urban jazz and horn samples, and haunting string and piano samples. During the late-1990s and onto the 2000s, a commercial variant of hardcore hip hop became integrated into pop culture, and enjoyed great mainstream success with platinum-selling artists such as DMX, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Big L and Big Pun.

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Mafioso rap is a hip hop sub-genre which flourished in the mid-1990s. It is the pseudo-Mafia extension of East Coast hardcore rap.

In contrast to West Coast and many other East Coast gangsta rappers, who tended to depict realistic urban life on the ghetto streets, Mafioso
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For Necro's album called "Death Rap", see Death Rap.


Horrorcore is a subgenre of hip hop music.

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The term horrorcore was coined by Russell Simmons, the man behind The Flatlinerz, who referred to Horrorcore as being "hardcore rap
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Rapcore is a musical genre that fuses the techniques of hip hop, gangsta rap, hard rock, heavy metal, alternative rock, hardcore punk and sometimes funk. The genre, often referred to as rap-metal[1] or rap-rock
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Political hip hop is a subgenre of alternative hip hop. Though mainstream and crossover acceptance has been generally limited to crunk & pop rap, some artists with a socially aware and positive or optimistic tone or a more avantgarde approach have achieved some success.
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Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a genre that is defined in greatly varying ways. All Music Guide defines it as follows:

Alternative Rap refers to hip-hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap,

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East Coast hip hop is a style of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the early-1970s. East Coast hip hop emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States, chiefly West Coast hip hop and the Southern hip hop, emerged
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Schoolly D is the moniker of American rapper Jesse B. Weaver, Jr. (June 22, 1966) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a pioneer of Hardcore rap and the pioneer of Gangsta Rap, being one of the first rappers to embrace an antisocial persona without explicit irony.
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Boogie Down Productions is a hip hop group. It was originally composed of KRS-One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, after the release of BDP's debut album Criminal Minded.
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Richard Walters (born January 14 1965), better known by stage names Slick Rick, MC Ricky D and Rick the Ruler, is a rapper. Originally from South Wimbledon, London, England, he moved with his family to The Bronx in 1975 where he met B-Weezy who taught him how
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Beastie Boys is a hip hop musical group from New York City consisting of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and the official DJ for the group Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz.
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Da Lench Mob were a west coast hip hop group associated with Ice Cube. Consisting of rappers Shorty, T-Bone, Maulkie and former member J-Dee.

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Cypress Hill is a mostly-Latin American hip hop group from South Gate, California, who is quite possibly most well remembered for
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West Coast hip hop, also known as West Coast rap or California hip hop, is a style of hip hop music that originated in California in the early 1980s. It has since grown into a sub-genre of hip hop and has developed several creative centers, most of which are in
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Wu-Tang Clan is a New York-based rap group, consisting of nine American rappers. Among its members are multi-platinum selling solo artists, multi-platinum record producers, Grammy winners, TV and film stars, screenwriters, product spokespersons, business owners and, most recently,
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Illmatic is the debut album by rapper Nas, released on April 19 1994 through Columbia Records. Featuring production from Large Professor (of Main Source), Pete Rock (of Pete Rock & CL Smooth), Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest) and DJ Premier (of Gang Starr), as well as a guest
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Black Moon is an American hardcore hip hop group, consisting of members Buckshot, 5ft and DJ Evil Dee (of Da Beatminerz). The group is most well-known for their debut album Enta Da Stage, and their affiliation with the Boot Camp Clik.
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Mobb Deep are a hip hop duo which consists of rappers Havoc and Prodigy. They are perhaps most famous for their landmark album The Infamous, and for their accompanying hit single, "Shook Ones Pt. II". They are currently signed to G-Unit Records.
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