bringin' bacc da westcoast??

[Contagious Locc]

im always seeing this on this board and i was wondering what exactly do you guys mean when you say this? reason i ask because theres alot of talk about this cat game being the "one" but i beg to differ. my perception of someone bringin bacc da west is someone that's from here and fuccs with our artist, puttin' west coast on the map, not some nigga that just happens be from the west. if that's the case the west coast never fell off because dre been makin' platinum beats for yrs and snoop has been a rap icon. they've been successful and they're from here so how come we're still lookin for a "savior"?

 

[Ry]

I dont think things will ever be like they were. The 3 biggest acts reppin the west recently are; Guerrilla Black, The Game and Houston. Its gonna all be about big name pop acts now. Thats the way the music industry is, they dont want to support someone that is a G. They would rather create the same image in a boardroom and hire an actor to carry it out.

 

[Jake]

Ras Kass will get closer than game ever will,he is the one that should be called the "savior of the westcoast"...he has the talent to get respect on the west and east,doesnt have some bubblegum image so will get the respect from the underground,and with the right production he will get the love from the mainstream he needs,cause thats all you need these days is production,as long as you have a catchy beat and hook you are set,no ones cares about talent anymore...and he has always repped the west regardless,and am sure he will have a lot of westcoast cats on his shit.

but even with all that said,both you guys made good points,this is kind of a stupid argument like locc said to begin with and i dont quite understand what ppl are looking for when they say "bringing the west back" and at the same time,even if we do think we have somebody that could do that,like i think with ras kass,it might not be what the ppl want to hear like playa RY said,so its all pretty much speculation...

all the hype of the game bringing the westcoast back and i havent heard shit from those same ppl after his shit dropped,all i hear when i see the game on TV is g-unit this,and dr. dre that...i dont hear anybody saying shit about the west,cause the truth is the typical mainstream consumer doesnt give a shit where he is from and is not willing to look into more westcoast artists just cause he is from the west...and the fact that there is no westcoast artists on his album just makes it that much harder for ppl to want to get into the west,they dont even have a place to start...lets say he had hypothetically yukmouth or e-40 on his shit,then ppl could research those artists and maybe get into some stuff they might of not if they didnt see them on a game album...but because that isnt the case,all the game's album does is make consumers that much more intrested in g-unit and things like that,and its just going to set those same consumers up for more of the same watered down g-unit album (in this case being the new 50 cent) and they are going to eat it up

 

[southbound]

Ras Kass will get closer than game ever will,he is the one that should be called the "savior of the westcoast"...he has the talent to get respect on the west and east,doesnt have some bubblegum image so will get the respect from the underground,and with the right production he will get the love from the mainstream he needs,cause thats all you need these days is production,as long as you have a catchy beat and hook you are set,no ones cares about talent anymore...and he has always repped the west regardless,and am sure he will have a lot of westcoast cats on his shit.

but even with all that said,both you guys made good points,this is kind of a stupid argument like locc said to begin with and i dont quite understand what ppl are looking for when they say "bringing the west back" and at the same time,even if we do think we have somebody that could do that,like i think with ras kass,it might not be what the ppl want to hear like playa RY said,so its all pretty much speculation...

all the hype of the game bringing the westcoast back and i havent heard shit from those same ppl after his shit dropped,all i hear when i see the game on TV is g-unit this,and dr. dre that...i dont hear anybody saying shit about the west,cause the truth is the typical mainstream consumer doesnt give a shit where he is from and is not willing to look into more westcoast artists just cause he is from the west...and the fact that there is no westcoast artists on his album just makes it that much harder for ppl to want to get into the west,they dont even have a place to start...lets say he had hypothetically yukmouth or e-40 on his shit,then ppl could research those artists and maybe get into some stuff they might of not if they didnt see them on a game album...but because that isnt the case,all the game's album does is make consumers that much more intrested in g-unit and things like that,and its just going to set those same consumers up for more of the same watered down g-unit album (in this case being the new 50 cent) and they are going to eat it up

You hit the nail right on the head.

 

[askG]

when ppl say that someone is bringing the westcoast back, i think what thye mean is, like back in the 90s, when you had westcoast artists being dominant precence in the mtv scene, the mainstream...imo the westcoast has never left, if youre a fan of westcoast music youre a fan but i think ppl mean for the westcoast to be all over the radio and mtv...i dont consider anyone affiliated w dr dre westcoast, they almost seem universal, plus the fact that they moslty fuck w ppl from the east...i rarely buy eastcoast music or anything that gets played a gazillion times on mtv, so for me, the westcoast has never left, its been getting bumped on a daily in my stereos.

 

[Gutterson III]

yeah, the west coast hasn't dominated the mainstream for yrs.. the west has been asleep since '96.. they almost had something in '99 again, but the South started to get huge and the east regained a lot of acceptance on radio especially on the west coast. For the west to come back, we'd need a lot of west coast artists to do big numbers and be in heavy rotation.. but, I don't see it happening any time soon unless the South falls the fuck off. that's the leading force in hip-hop right now.