[Ads-l] "East Coast Hip Hop" (Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

East Coast hip hop

1983 The Rocket (Seattle) 1 Nov. 12/5 (Newspapers.com)

South Tacoma is where it's at.  It mixes the East Coast hip hop sound, the Sugarhill - Tommy Boy thing, with the South Coast funk of groups like the Gap Band.

Fred Shapiro

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