how the west was won ?

[CORREA]

since ya like everything 90s here how ya talk bout how the west took over in the 90s

key rappers
key albums
key moments
your opinions

[Chef_YRD]

Idk about mainstream attention but culture defining albums would be
 
Ice-T - power
King T - act a fool
NWA- straight outta Compton
Dj quik- quik is the name
E-40 - in a major way
Too short - life is too short
Dr dre- the chronic
Snoop dogg- doggystyle
Dj quik- safe & sound
 
That's all early stuff tho I didn't even crack after 95 there's too much happening in the west at that time you had Gfunk,mobb music,hyphy,thizz,what the dudes from sac town with the ultra violent horror core sound (brotha lynch,c-bo,young dre d) the political gangsta rap (ice cube,NWA,2pac) even the lyrical underground rap (pharcyde,lateryx,hieroglyphics)

[CORREA]

Idk about mainstream attention but culture defining albums would be
 
Ice-T - power
King T - act a fool
NWA- straight outta Compton
Dj quik- quik is the name
E-40 - in a major way
Too short - life is too short
Dr dre- the chronic
Snoop dogg- doggystyle
Dj quik- safe & sound
 
That's all early stuff tho I didn't even crack after 95 there's too much happening in the west at that time you had Gfunk,mobb music,hyphy,thizz,what the dudes from sac town with the ultra violent horror core sound (brotha lynch,c-bo,young dre d) the political gangsta rap (ice cube,NWA,2pac) even the lyrical underground rap (pharcyde,lateryx,hieroglyphics)

mainstream was a different thing back then u might as well call them the most popular

[Sccit]

NWA.....thats all

[Bandida]

From my recollection the west didn't win in the nineties...
The nineties was a poignant time for the east coast west coast beef....
You had just as many big names making top 40 clean versions of gangsta rap in new York as you did in Cali....

RnB drove gangsta rap into the commercially appealing genre it became through collaborations with key female n less often male rnb features...

Gimmicky or ringtone rappers like outhere brothers and others were easier to market to white kids and then the controversial issues relayed in gangsta rap became prominent features in all hip hop n rnb.....

NWA is reffered to as a pinnacle in west coast gangsta rap but they were still pretty underground, as in, they never made the radio over here....

Clean versions of snoop n Dr dre n notorious n mase n puff daddy n tupac is what got gangsta rap the recognition it acquired, and the ploy to create dissent amongst east coast n west coast labels is probably one of the most destructive albeit profitable advertising campaigns played out in music industry history....

Maybe even bigger than Motown...

The media drove it, seeing the money to be made and the rappers being subjected to disses were mere puppets being exploited by record company execs to boost sales....

My view is based on what was big in the 90s in Australia, although I know depending on where you come from, what was marketed to you would be different....