![]() ![]() The origins of West Coast Hip-Hop trace back to the late 1970s in Los Angeles when Alonzo Williams, a young disc jockey from Compton, California formed a partnership with another DJ named Rodger Clayton from Los Angeles, California who created a promotion company called Unique Dreams that would hire Williams to DJ at local events. According to, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts riots of 1965." In 1967, Bud Schulberg founded a creative space entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a place for them to express themselves freely one group to emerge from the workshop was the Watts Prophets. Several events laid the foundations for West Coast Hip-Hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Mellow Man Ace, Eazy-E, Ice-T, Kid Frost and Too Short. ![]()
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