Tha Alkaholiks: 25 Years Since Coast II Coast

Gabriel Patterson
6 min readFeb 28, 2020

“Despite the media’s portrayal, we needed Coast II Coast to tell us that the East Coast/West Coast feud wasn’t real . . . ”

The homies and I were already drinking as teens when Tha Alkaholiks came out, so you can’t say that their name influenced us to do bad. Yet when a group of parents protested their name and likeness, these efforts were viewed as disingenuous. It was another dose of…

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Gabriel Patterson

North Denver to Vegas and back. Husband, father, & True Hiphoppa.