Hip Hop Graduates of the Bay Area

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Here is a list of artists, that came from somewhere else, but gained their momentum and their skills from the bay area.

And the graduates are:
Too $hort - Los Angeles, CA
2Pac - New York, NY/Baltimore MD
Skee Lo - Chicago, IL
Swollen Members - Vancouver/Nanaimo BC, Canada
Master P - New Orleans, LA
C-Murder - New Orleans, LA
Silkk Da Shocker - New Orleans, LA

Uncertain:
E-40 - "I get lingo from Down South, cause I'm from out that way too, my roots" - MurderDog Interview

I am sure there are more rappers involved that have made it through the Bay. Please let me know which ones i've missed out on!
 
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Re: Swollen Members

BornIIDie said:
....how the hell so??
I am curious, are you familiar with Battle Axe records?

I read this in a couple of interviews. Moka Only and Prevail lived in San Diego while Mad Child (the leader) did a lot of MCing and shows while he lived up in Frisco. Then Moka and Prevail moved up to Frisco for a lil bit.

The reason I mentioned their asses is cuz they real big up here now (well I think they sold out but some of the old shit they came out was HELLA DOPE). They have been fuckin with Nelly Furtado for a long time, and even she is on this bay area shit (she used to listen to Hiero and Del back in her high school years.
 
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Originally posted by bsleezy
fuck swollen members
No doubt, they are a bunch of punks that got lucky! But the sad truth is, they learned their shit from the Bay Area. Talk about misrepresentation huh!

If you heard Moka's shit, it was nice before his fake dreadlock rasta ass sold out!