Editing East Coast hip-hop (section)

===1973–1986: Emergence===
{{Main|Roots of hip hop|Old-school hip-hop|New-school hip-hop}}
{{see also|The Bridge Wars}}
East Coast hip-hop is occasionally referred to as New York rap due to its origins and development at block parties thrown in New York City during the 1970s.<ref name="Adaso">Adaso, Henry. [http://rap.about.com/od/genresstyles/p/EastCoastRap.htm What Is East Coast Hip-Hop] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224014423/http://rap.about.com/od/genresstyles/p/EastCoastRap.htm |date=December 24, 2016 }}. [[About.com]]. Retrieved on March 1, 2009.</ref> According to [[AllMusic]], "At the dawn of the hip-hop era, all rap was East Coast rap."<ref name="Allmusic">[{{AllMusic|class=style|id=east-coast-rap-ma0000002563|pure_url=yes}} Genre: East Coast Rap]. [[AllMusic]]. Retrieved on March 1, 2009.</ref> Leading up to hip-hop, there were spoken-word artists such as [[the Last Poets]] who released [[The Last Poets (album)|their debut album]] in 1970, and [[Gil Scott-Heron]], who gained a wide audience with his 1971 track "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]". These artists combined spoken word and music to create a kind of "proto-rap" vibe.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/06/jalal-mansur-nuriddin-last-poets-obituary-grandfather-of-rap  "Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the 'grandfather of rap'", ''The Guardian'', 6 June 2018]. Retrieved December 7, 2018.</ref> Following this, early artists of hip-hop such as [[DJ Kool Herc]], [[Grandmaster Flash]], [[Afrika Bambaataa]], [[the Sugarhill Gang]], [[Kurtis Blow]], [[Jam Master Jay]] and [[Run-DMC]], pioneered East Coast hip-hop during hip-hop's earlier years in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="Allmusic"/>