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ORIGINAL GANGSTAS is the definitive history of West Coast hip-hop (the real story behind the events in the hit movie Straight Outta Compton), revealing how a cohort of then-unknown rappers, including Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, grappled with with crime, drugs, gangs, bad cops, and racial tension to create the defining music movement of a generation.
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Original Gangstas, Ben Westhoff
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Original Gangstas
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ben Westhoff
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 422
- ISBN10
- 0316383899
- ISBN13
- 9780316383899
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Music Theme, Music, True Crime
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- ORIGINAL GANGSTAS is the definitive history of West Coast hip-hop (the real story behind the events in the hit movie Straight Outta Compton), revealing how a cohort of then-unknown rappers, including Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, grappled with with crime, drugs, gangs, bad cops, and racial tension to create the defining music movement of a generation.