What do people outside the bay think about bay area music.
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i am in love with hyphy,...case closed
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slowpoke challenges a producer!!!!!!
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will he take it,....or not,...and mind you i'm not doing this to see who can wave the bigest dick,...but i really i wanna see more heads looking at northern califooledyeah
this is the kinda healthy chit that norcal needs,...
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slowpoke challenges a producer!!!!!!
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1671281&posted=1#post1671281
post #120
will he take it,....or not,...and mind you i'm not doing this to see who can wave the bigest dick,...but i really i wanna see more heads looking at northern califooledyeah
this is the kinda healthy chit that norcal needs,...
I live in Norway and I have been down with Bay rap since Life Is too short, Bigg ocean mobb 415 and Homicide and the JAK Squad. I love bay rap, but I feel the best era was between 95 and 98. Today there are too many records that sound the same and most rappers don't sound hungry no more. I would like the days of mobb music and that fat production to come back. Just can't get with the club beats of today.
Another thing that annoyed me about bay area is all the compilations which made rappers focus on singles instead of making quality albums. I guess I feel the same about all mixtapes coming out today.
But damn, Bay area rappers make out the majority of my record collection, though.
Another thing that annoyed me about bay area is all the compilations which made rappers focus on singles instead of making quality albums. I guess I feel the same about all mixtapes coming out today.
But damn, Bay area rappers make out the majority of my record collection, though.
IVE SPENT ABOUT A QUARTER OF MY LIFE IN THE BAY... ITS MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME... BAY MUSIC HAS ALWAYS BEEN APART OF MY LIFE... WHEN I FIRST WENT TO LIVE IN THE BAY, MY BOYS WOULD ALWAYS PUT ME ON BAY ARTISTS ID NEVER HEARD OF, AND TO THIS DAY, I STILL BUMP ALL THAT SHIT THEY PUT ME UP ON... OF COURSE THERE WAS TOO SHORT, BUT IM TALKIN ABOUT MAC DRE, I.M.P, MAC MALL, DUBEE AKA SUGWOLF PIMP, MESSY MARV, G.L.P, LIL RIC, 11/5, AND THE LIST GOES ON... ILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL TO MY BOYS FROM PITTSBURG FOR LACIN ME UP ON THE GHETTO, GUTTA, GANGSTA SHIT FROM THE BAY...
Man.... I love it. Point blank. I'm out in the UK and I don't listen to nothing else no more. I would be embarassed to be in my ride with music the next man has, that's part of it, but mainly I just hate what currently passes for mainstream rap.
Right now I wouldn't even download a new Kanye West or whoever CD. it used to be that I still cared when a Redman or a Nas CD came out, I don't think I'm even at that level right now. It's only Norcal music in my ears 24/7 now.
I got to be real and say I came up on Run DMC, then really it was all that early nineties I listened to the same as most people, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Tribe, Beatnuts, Rakim, plus I was digging for all that old Sugarhill ish I was too young to hear out the gate.
Then after Biggie I didn't really feel no one else stepped up to be a star. I collect CD's so I kept swooping shit but it got more and more weak, the minute I had a 5th Wu CD or had copped a Bone Thugz CD, I knew it was time to quit with that shit. It's in boxes now.
By that time I'd already come up on All About My Fetti off the New Jersey Drive soundtrack and from then on I was locked onto picking up Bay CD's. At the start it was Sickwidit since it was easiest to pick up, it just snowballed after that.
I picked shit up left right and centre, it was all SF CD's, Vallejo, man it was just one two then the next. I remember the day I got Stupid Doo Doo Dumb and Rapper Gone Bad, I was already ordering Rompalation after that.
Five or six years ago I'd probably have bought 20 to 30 'mainstream' hip hop CD's retail in the stores each year. Now I don't even step in a retail store more than once a year and just cop 40 or 50 Bay CD's mail order off the internet.
I just love the Bay sound, I ain't no cheerleader, I'm just being real about what I feel, millions of people listen to 50 Cent but I hear that and it just bores the fuck out of me. I like how the Bay is independent to make slumps that ain't for squares lol.
I speak with authority because I copped enough CD's, I put my ear to music from other areas but ain't nothing else got me interested. Occasionally I go digging in the crates and listen to my Beatnuts, Illmatic, Tribe and old 94 type shit again. But nothing else.
I can't tell you why, I'm mixed race, I grew up in a hispanic country and most of my neighbourhood and friends were African, so the beats and that music for the summer has always been the shit I dig, I think the Bay got a little bit more of that flava.
The production is different to me, the energy is different, it's like fine wine the tunes don't get old, they just get more mobbish (all my other old CD's just sound dated) and as for new shit, nowhere else makes new original cuts to make my mouth drop.
That's my take... words don't really explain it. I didn't choose Bay music, Bay music chose me - there are cats around the world who just came to love this music, the only trouble so far is they ain't A&R's, they ain't stars and they ain't got media empires.
Fold.
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p.s. Before anyone asks how come I didn't speak on any West Coast (non-Bay) acts past or present, I got that shit twisted. I listened to Snoop and Pac and WC and cats like that for a minute, but I never really wanted more.
But I got to be honest, outside the Bay I found West Coast music, the real LA G-Funk, I just find that shit gets played out after like a second, I didn't want to hear no more. It's the opposite in the Bay.
It's weird shit because as far as sales you'd think the West had longetivity and the Bay on its own didn't, but I don't take it that way. To me the Bay comes with something new whenever I check, mainstream West Coast music like Snoop ain't really moving on.
Right now I wouldn't even download a new Kanye West or whoever CD. it used to be that I still cared when a Redman or a Nas CD came out, I don't think I'm even at that level right now. It's only Norcal music in my ears 24/7 now.
I got to be real and say I came up on Run DMC, then really it was all that early nineties I listened to the same as most people, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Tribe, Beatnuts, Rakim, plus I was digging for all that old Sugarhill ish I was too young to hear out the gate.
Then after Biggie I didn't really feel no one else stepped up to be a star. I collect CD's so I kept swooping shit but it got more and more weak, the minute I had a 5th Wu CD or had copped a Bone Thugz CD, I knew it was time to quit with that shit. It's in boxes now.
By that time I'd already come up on All About My Fetti off the New Jersey Drive soundtrack and from then on I was locked onto picking up Bay CD's. At the start it was Sickwidit since it was easiest to pick up, it just snowballed after that.
I picked shit up left right and centre, it was all SF CD's, Vallejo, man it was just one two then the next. I remember the day I got Stupid Doo Doo Dumb and Rapper Gone Bad, I was already ordering Rompalation after that.
Five or six years ago I'd probably have bought 20 to 30 'mainstream' hip hop CD's retail in the stores each year. Now I don't even step in a retail store more than once a year and just cop 40 or 50 Bay CD's mail order off the internet.
I just love the Bay sound, I ain't no cheerleader, I'm just being real about what I feel, millions of people listen to 50 Cent but I hear that and it just bores the fuck out of me. I like how the Bay is independent to make slumps that ain't for squares lol.
I speak with authority because I copped enough CD's, I put my ear to music from other areas but ain't nothing else got me interested. Occasionally I go digging in the crates and listen to my Beatnuts, Illmatic, Tribe and old 94 type shit again. But nothing else.
I can't tell you why, I'm mixed race, I grew up in a hispanic country and most of my neighbourhood and friends were African, so the beats and that music for the summer has always been the shit I dig, I think the Bay got a little bit more of that flava.
The production is different to me, the energy is different, it's like fine wine the tunes don't get old, they just get more mobbish (all my other old CD's just sound dated) and as for new shit, nowhere else makes new original cuts to make my mouth drop.
That's my take... words don't really explain it. I didn't choose Bay music, Bay music chose me - there are cats around the world who just came to love this music, the only trouble so far is they ain't A&R's, they ain't stars and they ain't got media empires.
Fold.
1
p.s. Before anyone asks how come I didn't speak on any West Coast (non-Bay) acts past or present, I got that shit twisted. I listened to Snoop and Pac and WC and cats like that for a minute, but I never really wanted more.
But I got to be honest, outside the Bay I found West Coast music, the real LA G-Funk, I just find that shit gets played out after like a second, I didn't want to hear no more. It's the opposite in the Bay.
It's weird shit because as far as sales you'd think the West had longetivity and the Bay on its own didn't, but I don't take it that way. To me the Bay comes with something new whenever I check, mainstream West Coast music like Snoop ain't really moving on.
I love the Bay music scene since I first knew what music was. I been rapping since 89.... so it wasn't a lot at the time. I feel the Bay music scene needs to spread out, because it's becoming cluttered, and too many old heads won't give up. It's soo many new heads... that I don't have enough loot to support em all. I miss the compilation era because it you had a chance to experience them all and decide which album you wanted more. I'm from Sac... the Valley...not too far from the Bay but it aint the Bay. A lot of influence comes from there but I-80 connects us all in Nor Cal so soak that in. I just feel the Bay needs to focus on all of Cali and not settle with just THE BAY as they're market. All this money spent on grills & Scrapers but no one wants to spend it on promotion.
they aint feelin it
my cuzzo's in FLA and GA dont like the music at all i'd try to bump some of it in the whip theyd be like WTF is that shit niggga u want me to kick u out the car(jokin)? lol
my folks in Philly is even worse
least my folks in the south like certain shit
like Too Short, The Jacka they jus dont like any Mac Dre/Thizz or hyphy shit, they cant understand it
my cuzzo's in FLA and GA dont like the music at all i'd try to bump some of it in the whip theyd be like WTF is that shit niggga u want me to kick u out the car(jokin)? lol
my folks in Philly is even worse
least my folks in the south like certain shit
like Too Short, The Jacka they jus dont like any Mac Dre/Thizz or hyphy shit, they cant understand it
my fam in new york fucks wit Jacka.. well all of the Mob Figaz really... they cant stand e-40 or keak
couple people fuck with agerman... (only people i've introduced his music to lol)
yeah and the hyphy shit = a no-no in new york lol
they dont ride around to hyphy music.. and they sure dont wanna hear it at a club or party.. cuz its radio singles + dancehall reggae there
couple people fuck with agerman... (only people i've introduced his music to lol)
yeah and the hyphy shit = a no-no in new york lol
they dont ride around to hyphy music.. and they sure dont wanna hear it at a club or party.. cuz its radio singles + dancehall reggae there
I go to school in L.B. and fer real it takes time fer them to feel Hyphy shit. I keep it in rotation 24/7 so they kinda get used to it. Mac Dre takes a minute fer them to feel, but they be liking Thizzle Dance and Feelin Myself...i heard sum cars slumpin Mac in Compton...A lot of people be feelin tha Team, n they music...they wuz into its Gettin HOt...and they wuz giggin to SuperHyhpy not totally fukkin ravin over it but feelin it...
Man I was in the army and I met people from everywhere. I think the biggest problem was they didn't even know anybody from the bay. Maybe only 40 and few new others but that was it. So they would be bumpin some mainstream shit. I would throw in a bay track and they'll be like who the fuck is this. Most of the time not knowin a person most people wouldn't even listen to it.
wooorrdd! I hate when people role down the street bumpin songs that are on the radio 24/7 bobbin there head like there cool or something. I'd be embarrased bumpin shit that everyone and there grandma already done heard a thousand times on hiphop/pop radio.
On topic, I am from San Diego and I love bay shit. Believe it or not, alot of bay area/diego shit is really popular in the U.K. and sweden. But alot of states in the u.s. other then cali aren't really feelin bay shit (or synth based mob shit i should say). I have 2 friends that have been living in michigan the last 5-6 years and all they listen to...even know about...is radio shit. I try putting them onto some gangster shit and he literally reply's with "This shit isn't on the radio, if it aint tight enough to be on the radio it aint tight enough to be in my cd player". I just wanna slap him for being so ignorantly fuckin stupid. All his friends over there feel the same way, and there not square ass dudes either