"New York, New York" is a single from West Coast

West Coast hip hop

West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originates in the westernmost region of the United States, as opposed to East Coast hip hop, based originally in New York alone...

 hip hop duo Tha Dogg Pound

Tha Dogg Pound

Tha Dogg Pound is a rap group made up of Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success. The group made their 1992 rap debut on Dr. Dre's The Chronic, on various songs. They also appeared on Snoop Dogg's debut album...

's first album, Dogg Food

Dogg Food

Dogg Food is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Tha Dogg Pound. Its controversial lyrics were the subject of shareholder protest...

. It features Kurupt

Kurupt

Ricardo Emmanuel Brown , better known by his stage name Kurupt, also known as Kurupt Tha Kingpin, Kurupt Young Gotti or Young Gotstra is an American rapper and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records...

 rapping the verses, with Daz Dillinger

Daz Dillinger

Delmar Drew Arnaud , better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his membership in the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, with Kurupt, and his work with Death Row Records.-The Chronic, Tha Dogg Pound and Dogg Food:Daz began his career on Death Row...

 with a few quick verses in the video and Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

 in the chorus. It was thought to be a diss song thrown at the East Coast hip hop

East Coast hip hop

East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City, USA during the 1970s. Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the East Coast...

 scene during the rivalry between the East and West

East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry

The East Coast–West Coast Hip Hop Rivalry was a feud in the 1990s between artists and fans of the Eastcoast and Westcoast hip-hop scenes. Seeming focal points of the feud were East Coast-based rapper The Notorious B.I.G...

.

In the video Tha Dogg Pound members are rapping around the Skyscrapers in New York. DJ Pooh

DJ Pooh

DJ Pooh is an American record producer, rapper, screenwriter and film director.-Biography:...

 produced the song and it never charted. In response to this song East Coast duos Capone-N-Noreaga

Capone-N-Noreaga

Capone-N-Noreaga was an American hip hop duo that consisted of Capone and Noreaga.-History:In 1996 the duo signed with Penalty Records; it also appeared in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype column...

 and Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep is an American hip hop duo from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, U.S., that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The duo is "one of the most critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast hip-hop groups." The group is best known for its dark, hardcore delivery, as exemplified by the single "Shook Ones...

 collaborated with Tragedy Khadafi

Tragedy Khadafi

Percy Chapman IV, known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi, and formerly known as Intelligent Hoodlum, is an American rapper and producer who hails from the Queensbridge housing projects in Queens, New York, which has spawned other hip hop artists such as Nas, Cormega, Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga,...

 to release a respone song named "L.A., L.A", dissing Dogg Pound members. This song also uses a sample of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Saddler better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing....

's song with the same title.

Music video

The 3 day music video shoot was produced out of Truth and Soul's Tribeca studio. Day 1 was scheduled and shot at night in busy Times Square, NYC. Low-Riders were trucked in to drive down 7th Avenue while crowds circled a large camera crane on the center divider. Day 2 scheduled to shoot Red Hook, Brooklyn in the morning and a Large Tribeca party venue in afternoon. Day two was cancelled after a drive-by assassination attempt on Snoop Dogg and his entourage failed. The Fruits of Islam provided general security, shielded Snoop Dogg with their own bodies until Snoop could be placed safely in a waiting vehicle and whisked away to avoid a repeated attempt. Day 3 was scheduled and shot at Broadway Stages, but without Snoop Dogg to perform his scenes the shooting schedule had to be greatly modified. The remainder of the 3rd day was used to shoot green screen effects later to be used in the morphing of Doberman Pinschers and the NYC skyline.