LOS ANGELES — Hip-hop pioneers Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, E-40 and Too Short have nothing left to prove.
In Los Angeles, Ice Cube sparked the rise of gangsta rap as part of N.W.A in the late '80s, before Snoop Dogg broke out of Long Beach to introduce G-Funk to the masses through his landmark 1993 album "Doggystyle."
With colorful lingo and slick-talking raps, E-40 and Too Short have steered the sound of the Bay Area since first emerging in the 1980s.
