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Most of the younger – and even many of the older – rappers I regularly work with insist that the east coast/west coast schism is a phenomenon of the hip-hop era. They soon learn the error of their beliefs, however, when I take them on a little field trip to Battery Park and give them a history lesson about this memorial – and its rival in San Francisco.