Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te East Coast <unk> West Coast hip hop whakataetae he riri i waenga i nga kaitoi me nga kaiwhaiwhai o te East Coast hip hop me te West Coast hip hop scene i te United States, ina koa mai i te waenganui o nga tau 1990. Ko nga waahi nui o te riri ko te kaiwaiata East Coast The Notorious B.I.G. me tana tapanga New York, Bad Boy Records, me te kaiwaiata West Coast Tupac Shakur me tana tapanga LA-based Death Row Records. I patua rāua e rua i roto i ngā pupuhi taraiwa. Ko Orlando Anderson, e mōhiotia ana ko Ko Baby Lane, kua whakawakia mo te
te kohuru o Shakur, engari i patua ia i te puna o te tau 1998. Ko te tangata e whai mana ana ki te kohuru o The Notorious B.I.G. e noho ana hei tangata kore.