Who is the Westcoast's Biggest Icon of all time?

[Jimmy H.]

What other rapper is that well known?

Tupac? 50 Cent? Eminem? Biggie? Puff Daddy? Will Smith? Jay-Z? Kanye West? LL Cool J?

[Elkoizm]

Haha, The D.O.C.? Give me a break

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

yeah
1.still not everyone knows who snoop is....especially the older people
2.should he be considered a icon even tho he sold out and made muzik for the white people only?

then some would say pac made muzik from the heart and never sold out
so pac might take it cuz pac bein from the eastcoast is better than snoop sellin out

What other rapper is that well known?

Tupac? 50 Cent? Eminem? Biggie? Puff Daddy? Will Smith? Jay-Z? Kanye West? LL Cool J?

[westside159]

of course everybodys gonna say 2 Pac ,  but i say Ice Cube is the biggest Icon dude hands down , Movies and music and directing  nwa , boyz n the hood , amerikka most , death certificate , baber shop fliccs , Friday       movie Franchise    etc etc

[westside159]

CUBE no doubt

[KaiserSoze]

2Pac is one of if not the biggest icon in hip hop history, overall.
 
But if we're talking about west coast icons, then I'ma say Eazy. Any poster on the board who was alive on the west at the time when Eazy was alive will be able to tell you about the respect he had on the coast, in Compton in paricular obviously. Without Eazy, who knows if west coast rap would ever have gotten on the map.

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

so whether
he was a dope rapper
sold any units?
recieved the same reaction vs other rappers?

does that matter?

[Muhfukka]

Haha, The D.O.C.? Give me a break

quik too, in 2010 noone who isnt into old westcoast rap even knows who he is

[Chamillitary Click]

Haha, The D.O.C.? Give me a break

quik too, in 2010 noone who isnt into old westcoast rap even knows who he is

even though that sounds ignorant; it's true, that's what it comes down to.

who is still talked about to this day?

i know Michael Jordan is in Basketball & Babe Ruth is in Baseball & Snoop Dogg is in Hip Hop.

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

but look at how they kept themselves so that you can talk and remember them?
is that iconic?
its jus like is eazy really the godfather of gangsta rap?

[David Mack]

Come on, theres gotta more than 82 members on dis Forum................Keep votin.

[jloco53]

SPID3R Loc fool this nigger is the most eastiest rapper of all time. He put out 3 classic cds and a mixtape a month for 2 straight years. Bangadoshish dvd going at game dissing. cuz cuz said fuck gunit lol. The most eastiest beat up everybody favorite rapper a nd he knows who killed pac. spider loc

[David Mack]

keep votin ya late bloomin Mofos who be livin unda a rock 

[BIGWORM]

and ice t wasnt and isnt a big enough icon...he hasnt or didnt do enough
hes in csi right now clockin in a 9-5....thats not what any icon should be doin...haha

Ice-T because he was the first to do the gangster rap! Secondly Eazy-E for bringing us N.W.A. Ice Cube used to rap like the beastie boys when he first started.

ice-t recognizes SCHOOLY D was the first gangsta rapper

Let me re-phase first WEST-COAST gangsta rapper. Another thing Ice-T brought to the West Coast was the gangsta Image. Alot of you guys on this site are youngsters that started to listen to rap when the chronic 2001 came out. Ask anyone that has been listening to hip hop for over 20 years and they will let you know how influential ICE-T has been on the WEST, EAST COAST and all over the world. Ice Cube used to rap like the beastie boys. Dr.Dre was doing dance music while Ice-T was dropping that gangsta shit. Yeah everyone saying Pac here because they picking there favorite artist. But all and all he wasn't considered an Icon untill he died and to even consider him West-Coast isn't even right because he half of his albums are EAST COAST. I still have 2 Schooly D cassettes  he was alright but it was't nothing like Ice-T busting GANGSTA rap over west coast beats....

[Jimmy H.]

yeah
1.still not everyone knows who snoop is....especially the older people
2.should he be considered a icon even tho he sold out and made muzik for the white people only?

then some would say pac made muzik from the heart and never sold out
so pac might take it cuz pac bein from the eastcoast is better than snoop sellin out

  Who says Snoop makes music only for white people? And plenty of people make music from the heart, what's your point?