there's unity just on a smaller scale, we've see a lot of artists working together and networking out there in 08. no where near where we were in the 90's though. on a bigger scale E40 can hardly push units himself anymore, why you think he's been expanding his portfolio to shit other than rap. keak got his 15 minutes nation wide exposure from tell me when to go and how many units did he sell of defied or all n da doe? rappers can co sign all they want and put people on outside their own camp, but it does no good when you can't even move 30K on a major in your first week. from a business stand point in the bay area, where everything is done independently, and in this economy with sales as low as they are there's nothing to gain out of putting people on as fucked up as that sounds its the truth. people are greedy right now (im not sayin everyone but in general). thats why the only ones getting it right now are the grinders who are pushing it out on the streets and in the hoods, going back to the old school out the trunk shit. and puttin they people on startin they own shit just as an example livewire gang, ptb, 4 the strees town thizzness shit on an independent level beeda, j stalin, and g-stack are puttin the whole town on, if thats not unity i dont know what is. but to bring the bay back we need that on a bigger scale for sure, the whole bay needs to do it like that.
one thing we don't have right now that we did in the 90's is compilations. in the 90's everyone was networking putting everyone else on putting out slappers left and right. now everyone is about self and puts out mixtapes (compilations of themselves). imagine if E40 presents dropped a bay bridges compilation with major distribution a few months after my ghetto report card, hyphy movement was in full effect that could have sparked something big. but now hyphy is dead, everyone missed the ship, and has to start from square 1 again.
