Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29 1979 in Los Angeles, California), known by his stage name The Game, is an American rapper signed to Geffen Records. The Game rose to fame in 2005 following the success of his debut album, "The Documentary" and his two Grammy nominations. Since then, The Game is considered to be a driving force in bringing back the West Coast hip hop scene and competing with many of his East Coast counterparts.

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., better known professionally as Snoop Dogg and previously Snoop Doggy Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. His catch phrase is widely known as "fo' shizzle, ma nizzle", meaning, "for sure, my nigga".

André Romell Young, better known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, actor and record executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records. Young is a significant figure in the development of rap music. He was a founding member of the influential rap group N.W.A., …

O'Shea Jackson (born June 15 1969) is an American rapper, actor and film director. He is better known as Ice Cube. Regarded as one of the greatest hip hop artists, he began his career as a founding member of the famously controversial rap group N.W.A., and later launched a successful solo career in music and cinema. In 1992 he married Kim Jackson, with whom he has four children. Later in 1992, he converted to Islam.

Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, rock musician, author, and actor. He was instrumental in creating gangsta rap and rapcore. Much of his music is politically oriented, like that of Public Enemy, although this has declined with time. Since 2000, he has played the role of Det. Fin Tutuola on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". As of 2007, Marrow resides in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Nathaniel Dawayne Hale (born August 19 1969), commonly known by stage name Nate Dogg, is an American hip hop artist born in Long Beach, California. He is known for his melodic flow, and is one of the few hip-hop artists who primarily sings his rhymes instead of simply rapping them. He began singing as a child in the New Hope Trinity Baptist Church choir in Clarksdale, Mississippi where his father (Daniel Lee Hale) was pastor.

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16 1971 - September 13 1996), also known by his stage names: 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rap music, movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the best selling hip-hop artist, with over seventy-five million albums sold worldwide including over fifty million in the United States alone.

Ras Kass (born John Austin, on September 26, 1975 in Watts, California) is an American rapper.

Warren Griffin III (born November 10, 1970 in Long Beach, California) better known as Warren G, is an American West Coast rapper and hip hop producer. His biggest hit was the single "Regulate" with Nate Dogg released in 1994. The single was a g-funk track like most of Warren G's productions. He is the step-brother of successful record producer Dr. Dre.

David Martin Blake (born January 18, 1970), better known as by his stage name DJ Quik, or as of 2007 simply Quik, is a West Coast rapper and record producer from Compton, California.

Eric Lynn Wright (September 7 1963-March 26 1995), better known by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper, producer, and record executive from Compton, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was a Kelly Park Compton Crip from the early teenage years until his death, mentioned in the song 'Any Last Werdz?'. He was the son of Richard and Kathie Wright.

Dedrick Rolison (born August 9, 1971) is an American gangsta rapper and actor best known by his stage name Mack 10. Born in the city of Inglewood, California, he is of African American,Puerto Rican and Mexican American descent. He was a member of the hardcore rap trio known as the Westside Connection, along with Ice Cube and WC, and was consequently involved in Ice Cube's feud with Cypress Hill. He has sold 2.4 million albums as solo artist and label owner.

Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28 1966) in South Central Los Angeles, known by stage name Too $hort, is a rapper who started his career as a youth at the age of 17 in Oakland, California. Through his music, Too $hort has cultivated a persona of a no-nonsense pimp, and is widely credited for popularizing pimp culture in hip hop, along with Ice T.

Earl Stevens (born November 15, 1967 Vallejo, California) best known by his stage name E-40 is a Bay Area rapper. His nicknames include Charlie Hustle, E-Bonics, 40 Fonzarelli, The Ambassador of the Bay, The Ballatician, 40 Belafonte, E-Pheezy, Fortywater, E-4-0, and Earl Poppin' His Collar.

William Joseph Crawford (born on January 28, 1984), better known by his stage name Ya Boy, is an American rapper from the Fillmore District of San Francisco, California. He graduated from El Camino High School in 2001. Shortly afer, he started rapping in the year 2002, with his song "16's With Me" being the first to hit it big locally. It was produced by South San Francisco producer Big D and sampled the Imperial March from "Star Wars".

Daz Dillinger (born Delmar Arnaud on May 25 1973 in Long Beach, California), is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his work with Death Row Records at the height of West Coast rap's popularity.

Andre Hicks, better known by his stage name, Mac Dre, was a San Francisco Bay Area-based gangsta rapper from Vallejo, California. He is considered one of the innovators of the hyphy music movement. During his career in the rap world, he worked with artists like Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre's step brother Warren G, Kokane, Mistah F.A.B., MC Hammer, Mac Mall, San Quinn, E-40, Too $hort, Yukmouth, Andre Nickatina, Ray Luv, and Keak Da Sneak.

Spice 1 (born Robert L. Green, Jr. in Corsicana, Texas), is a West Coast rapper raised in Hayward, California. He was first discovered by rapper Too $hort. His first album, Let It Be Known, was not well-known or widely released, and included seven old-school style tracks. His second album, widely considered as his debut, was a very vivid and fatalistic Gangsta rap album, and his angry, edgy, …

Lorenzo Jerald Patterson (born June 14,1969 in Compton, California) better know by his stage name MC Ren is a rapper and hip-hop producer.

Aaron Tyler (born May 22, 1967 in Compton, California) is an American gangsta rapper better known by his stage name MC Eiht. Eiht grew to fame on the West coast as one of two MCs in the four-man crew, Compton's Most Wanted. After enjoying increasing success with the group, which peaked with 1992's "Music to Driveby", Eiht took a role in the hit movie Menace II Society as well as a high-profile spot on the soundtrack.

King Tee, also spelled King T, (born Roger McBride in Compton, California), is an American West coast rapper from Compton, California.

Glasses Malone or G. Malone for short, (born in 1979) is a West Coast rapper and known Crip from the Watts District of Los Angeles, California. Traditionally associated with The Black Wall Street Records despite the fact that most the artist on the record label were Bloods, Malone signed with Sony Records for 1.7 million dollars in 2005, turning down offers from many labels like, Def Jam Records, Interscope Records, J Records, Black Wall Street Records, …

Guerilla Black (born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois as Charles Tony Williamson) is a West Coast rapper from Compton, California. He released his first album, "Guerilla City" in 2004. Black has been noted (and criticised) for his similar appearance and rapping as The Notorious B.I.G. In August 2006, Black released a new track entitled '400 Shotz The Funeral' the song. It is done in the same style to The Game's 300 Bars and Runnin'.

Mac Mall, (born Jamal Rocker in Vallejo, California) is a West Coast rapper who became known in the mid/late 90's, as one of the local artists bringing the Bay Area on the hip hop map. He collaborated with many other rappers from the West Coast such as Ray Luv, Mac Dre, E-40, Dubee, Young Lay, Big Syke, Killa Tay, Yukmouth,Mc Hammer, and the late 2Pac. He also did collaborations with Bay Area producers such as Rick Rock, Ant Banks, Mike Mosley and Khayree.

Andre Wicker (born April 18, 1971 in Compton, California), known as Gangsta Dresta or simply Dresta, is an African American West Coast rapper best known for collaborating with Eazy-E on the inflammatory hit single "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" from Eazy-E's 1993 EP "It's On (Dr. Dre) 187^um Killa". He was first signed to Toenail Records with his younger brother B.G. Knocc Out, then both went to Ruthless Records with Eazy-E.

"Omar Cruz" (formerly known as Blunts LLA) is a West Coast rapper. Born in Los Angeles by a Colombian father and a Mexican mother, Omar initially used the nickname Blunts and added LLA to stand for "Latin Lyrical Assassin." Currently, he has released two mixtapes entitled "City of Gods" and "Blow", the latter of which caught the attention of Interscope Records, leading to a signing of Cruz's independent label, BYI Entertainment, …

Emcee Lynx is an anarchist hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area in California who has achieved significant popularity and name-recognition in the West Coast hip hop and underground hip hop scenes and among anarchists and other radicals around the world.

Hot Dollar is a West Coast rapper from Compton, California. He is best known for his song " Two Steppin"which samples 2pac's "All Eyez On Me".

Young Maylay, Born Chris Bellard, is an American voice actor and West Coast rapper. He is most recognizable from his performance as Carl "CJ" Johnson in the 2004 video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas". Young Maylay's album "San Andreas: The Original Mixtape", inspired by his role in the game, was released on July 5 2005.

William L. Calhoun, Jr. (born in 1970), better known as WC (pronounced "Dub-C"), is an African American West Coast rapper who was born in Texas, but moved to Los Angeles at an early age. Known for his long braided goatee, sharp lyricism, and c-walking, WC has been a staple in West Coast gangsta rap since the early 1990s.

Coolio (born Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. on August 1, 1963 in Compton, California) is an American rapper and actor perhaps best known for the hit song "Gangsta's Paradise." The album "Gangsta's Paradise" is considered a classic west coast Gangsta Rap album, thanks to songs like "Exercise Yo Game" and "Geto Highlites." Coolio has also made numerous television and film appearances.

Kurupt (born Ricardo Emmanuel Brown on November 23, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American gangsta rapper and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records. He is a member of the rap group Tha Dogg Pound, and is mostly known for his work with Death Row Records. Also known as Young Gotti and The Kingpin, He is one half of Tha Dogg Pound (Daz & Kurupt)

Roscoe (born David Williams in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a West Coast rapper from Hawthorne, California. He is also a younger brother of Tha Dogg Pound member Kurupt young gotti. Roscoe started his career going to the studio with his former Death Row artist Kurupt at the age of 10. A native of Philadelphia, Roscoe flew to California to watch his brother lay down tracks for tha Dogg Pound's debut record.

Eastwood is a West Coast rapper that was born in East L.A. and raised in Inglewood, California (his name is a combination of the two places). After leaving Death Row Records without making a single album in 2004 he joined The Game's Black Wall Street label. Eastwood has appeared in multiple tracks dissing 50 Cent and hip hop group G-Unit with The Game. Eastwood left The Black Wall Street Records in 2006 and signed to Jaded Entertainment.