Editing East Coast hip-hop (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:WEHO2022-6 (52122368631).jpg|thumb|left|Lil Kim's fourth studio album ''[[The Naked Truth (Lil' Kim album)|The Naked Truth]]'' is the only album by a female rapper to have received five mics from ''[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]'' for its outstanding lyrical performance. Lil Kim performs at a [[pride parade]] in Los Angeles in 2022 above.]]
East Coast hip-hop was the dominant form of rap music during the Golden Era of hip-hop.<ref name="Adaso"/> Many knowledgeable hip-hop fans and critics are particularly favorable towards East Coast hip-hop of the early-mid 1990s, viewing it as a time of creative growth and influential recordings, and describing it as "The East Coast Renaissance". Music writer May Blaize of MVRemix Urban comments on the nostalgia felt among hip-hop fans for records released during this time:
{{blockquote|''It was claimed as the East Coast Renaissance. Wu-Tang brought the ruckus with ''[[Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)|36 Chambers]]''. The world was ours when Nas released ''[[Illmatic]]''. [[Big L]], (The MVP) came out with ''[[Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous]]''. Temperatures rose in clubs when Mobb Deep came out with ''[[The Infamous]]'' and Brooklyn's finest Jay-Z released ''[[Reasonable Doubt (album)|Reasonable Doubt]]''. . . And who can forget the powerful uplifting anthem that would brand New York's concrete "Bucktown" ([[Smif-n-Wessun]]'s hit single'')? . . .Ahh, it was a beautiful time in hip-hop history that many of us wish we could return to.<ref>Blaize, May. [http://www.mvremix.com/urban/interviews/smif_n_wessun.shtml THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE ALBUM]. MVRemix Urban. Retrieved on 2013-04-10.</ref>|sign=|source=}}

David Drake of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' writes of hip-hop during 1994 and its contributions, stating: "The beats were hot, the rhymes were hot – it really was an amazing time for hip-hop and music in general. This was the critical point for the East Coast, a time when rappers from the New York area were releasing bucketloads of thrilling work – [[Digable Planets]], [[Gang Starr]], [[Pete Rock]], [[Jeru tha Damaja|Jeru]], [[O.C. (rapper)|O.C.]], [[Organized Konfusion]] – I mean, this was a year of serious music."<ref name="Stylus">Gloden, Gabe. [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/i-love-1994.htm I Love 1994] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621102707/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/i-love-1994.htm |date=June 21, 2015 }}. ''[[Stylus Magazine]]''. July 21, 2004. Retrieved on June 21, 2015.</ref>

East Coast hip-hop has also produced a multitude of acclaimed female rappers, including [[Salt (rapper)|Salt]] and [[Pepa (rapper)|Pepa]], [[The Real Roxanne]], [[Monie Love]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Lil Kim]], [[Lauryn Hill]], [[Digable Planets|Ladybug Mecca]], [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]], [[Charli Baltimore]], [[Eve (rapper)|Eve]], [[Missy Elliott]], [[Angie Martinez]], [[Remy Ma]], [[Lil Mama]], [[Nicki Minaj]], [[Cardi B]], [[Rapsody]], [[Young M.A]], [[Armani Caesar]], [[Ice Spice]], and [[Coi Leray]].