Hello everyone it's a music music in the shopper Nate Sloan here and I want to

remind y'all that we have a book and you can buy it right now. It's not officially

out until December 13th but get it now they'll send it to your door somehow. I

don't understand how publishing works. What I do understand is that it's really

fun. It goes from Andre Benjamin to Zed and it breaks down 20 amazing

songs from the last 20 years. We had a blast writing it and I hope you dig it. Go

to switch on pop.com slash book to check it out. All right on to the show.

Welcome to switched on pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm music

ologist Nate Sloan. So growing up as a kid in the 90s the story of 1990s hip

hop East Coast first West Coast battles the big E versus two-pock this was

constantly in the news but honestly I was young I didn't really know the real

story or understand the context or even the music at the time and relearning

this history and music is something that I've always wanted to do. The podcast

Sloburn tells the untold background on essential political and cultural

stories and this season they're tackling East Coast versus West Coast hip hop

a 90s musical divide that is embedded in the era and what we want to know is

what distinguishes these coastal sounds and what does it mean? Joining us from

Sloburn season three is host Joel Anderson and producer Christopher Johnson.

Welcome thanks for having us. Yeah okay to start us off who are the players in

this feud? I think for us the much of the conflict between these two people and

these two different regional rap scenes starts in 1994 when two-pock is shot at

in New York recording studio. Two-pock believed that the notorious biogin I'm

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