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The Electro-hop movement on the West Coast started around 1984 and ended around late 86, early 87.

Lonzo Williams was one of the early DJS on the west coast and many consider him the godfather of the west coast hip-hop who contributed to helping into ushering the electro-hop scene on the west coast. His Eve After Dark nightclub was important to the future of west coast hip-hop and was pivtal in creating the careers of Dr Dre and DJ Yella along with a lot of other west coast hip-hop talent getting noticed. The nightclub is also famous for being the place where Eazy E met experienced rock manager Jerry Heller who was interested in the underground electro-hop movement who in that period managed World Class Wreckin Cru, Egyptian Lover and a few others. The meeting of Jerry Heller and Eazy E which led to their partnership and the formation of Ruthless Records and the rise of gangsta rap.

The acts who represented electro-hop on the West Coast were artists such as Egyptian Lover, LA Dream Team, World Class Wreckin Cru, The Unknown DJ and even some early of Ice-T's records before he fully glorified gangsta rap the hip-hop genre that would become the main trademark of the West Coast that would help to overthrow the East Coast in popularity. Early Ice Cube records when he was in the group C.I.A. who get the attention of Dr Dre and would perform dirty raps together at organised parties. Other artists who represented the electro-hop scene such as Chris "The Glove" Taylor and Uncle Jamms Army

All artists typically blended a fusion of electronic music popularised by electronic pioneers Kraftwerk as well as using elements of the electro scene that was dominated by their East Coast counterparts using some elements of old-school hip-hop typically party-jam based lyrics along with some love-ballad influenced sounds with more emphasis on a heavy bass sound than their East Coast and Southern counterparts particularly used by the more popular electro-hop acts of that 1984-1986 period World Class Wreckin Cru.

The World Class Wreckin Cru's most well-known and best selling song Turn Off The Lights was a slow-moving electro ballad that would do reasonably well on the mainstream charts and helped electro-hop gain some if brief but moderate mainstream success. This was produced by Dre and Yella before they left the World Class Wreckin Cru over money disputes.

By the late 1980s the electro-hop movement seemed to fade into eternal darkness as a new hard-hitting, street-based, gun-touting, profanity-filled, controversial new hip-hop genre was stirring on the West Coast which was gangsta rap pioneered by Ice-T and popularised by controversial and amazingly influential gangsta rap group NWA. Although artists such as Arabian Prince who at one time was a founding member of the NWA and Lonzo Williams the founder of the World Class Wreckin Cru released a solo album Phases In Life after Dr Dre and DJ Yella left the World Class Wreckin Cru to join NWA were still bringing out electro-hop music. The Unknown DJ like Dr Dre and Yella would embrace the gangsta rap genre producing for gangsta rap artists such as Comptons Most Wanted, The D.O.C, JJ Fad, Above The Law and would reinvent hip-hop and change the landscape of hip-hop forever.