OK who really started this underground independent shit

[valley2thebay]

ive ben gettin in alot argumens over who started this independent shit..all these niggaz say mac dre started it..no..in my opinion e-40 started it...even c-bo said he soaked game from e-40 ...i hear jt started it..master-p stared it..i mean who was the first nigga to seel cds out they trunk?

 

[Nevasoba]

To me its Too Short

 

[4thereal]

yea i thought it was too short too

 

[Jazzo]

Too Short

 

[valley2thebay]

damn..totally forgot about that nigga....life is too short is the shit mane..

 

[valley2thebay]

so he was the first one to rap out in nor cal huh?

 

[4thereal]

yup. he also was doing a thang too called special request. where somebody would pay him to make a song about the person or something like that. he was definitely ahead of the game.

 

[Jazzo]

so he was the first one to rap out in nor cal huh?

Yeah and also Michael "The Mac" Robinson the Crestside Legend!

 

[4thereal]

there were other rappers too in the 80's rapping out of norcal like a rapper by the name of motorcycle mike i believe out of richmond in like 1981.

 

[Jazzo]

there were other rappers too in the 80's rapping out of norcal like a rapper by the name of motorcycle mike i believe out of richmond in like 1981.

I forgot about him, lol. That's going way back almost to the Sugar Hill days!

http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/index.php?id=1333

 

[4thereal]

I forgot about him, lol. That's going way back almost to the Sugar Hill days!

http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/index.php?id=1333

yea he made a song called super rat or something like that. that's probably a couple years before short came on the scene. but there were a whole bunch of them tho in the mid 80's when short was out there.

 

[4thereal]

just saw the pic of it on the link, yea i wish i had that vinyl

 

[JdNsane]

HAMMER

 

[TKASH]

wow......

 

[midsouthmusicc]

It was Too Short but Master P and and jt had sum part of da independent hustle out da trunk and doin compilations and shit like that

 

[dj pimp]

IN MY OPINION, HAMMER IS THE MAN THAT REALLY STARTED MOVIN HELLA UNITS OUT THE TRUNK. TOO SHORT WAS DOIN IT BEFORE HIM, BUT HAMMER CAME ALONG AND KILLED IT. AFTER THAT I THINK 40 AND THE CLICK PERFECTED IT AND TOOK THEIR GRIND TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. THEY WERE DRIVING DOWN SOUTH AND AND MAKIN THEIR NAME KNOWN EVERYWHERE BY WORD OF MOUTH

 

[kontac]

magicmike and calvin t was on the 72 bus wayyyy back in the day along with Too short selling the homemade tapes

 

[dj dant]

yea i say short, hammer, made it mainstream,

 

[CoUzIn Jiggz]

TOO SHORT was the most notable indie artist on a large scale to push music out of the trunk. He wasn't the only one, but he was primarily the poster boy of the independent rap scene. From my knowledge, he was the 1st to sign to a major label besides hammer, and Spice 1 followed signing with Jive as well.

 

[707north]

TOO SHORT, HAMMER, AND E-40 AND THE CLICK IN THAT ORDER. THEY ALL WERE SLANGING REAL HARD. 40 WAS A HUSTLER PERIOD.