Midwest hip hop is hip hop music performed by artists from the Midwestern United States. In contrast with its East Coast, West Coast and Southern counterparts, Midwest hip hop has very few constants. Its first dose of national popularity in the mid-90s was associated with fast-paced styles of rappers such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (Cleveland), Twista (Chicago), Tech N9ne (Kansas City, Missouri), Freddie Gibbs (Gary, Indiana) and Gerald Walker (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), as well as for darker horrorcore style represented mostly in Detroit by rappers such as Insane Clown Posse, Eminem and Twiztid.
