Would the westcoast be the same without Snoop?

[Gringo Starr]

lol @ you thinking you matter.

and no, i saw you come back into the general hip hop forum, and its obvious you came back to the thread to do your little ping-pong post thing.

lol@you avoiding everything cus you have no substatial evidence, just a bunch of over eggaerated statements that you obviouly made up

Hanging around for me, huh? Sorry, I dont need another stalker.

 

[surcaliman]

i stayed in chicago for a while and every1 there associates the so-cal scene (beaches,palm trees,lowriders,hollywood) with california period.only thing they now about nor-cal is san francisco and only 1 word comes to mind...gay.

 

[tha k.i.d.]

NO

 

[Gas One]

@ gringo, if youre going to try and sound smart, spell words above 6 letters correctly.

secondly, i'm avoiding everything because message board arguments that revolve around common sense are corny.

give it some thought, and youll realize what im saying is true. if you dont, fuck it.. you just dont agree. but that dosent mean im gonna sit here and go back and forth with your clucker ass all day just so you can see it from my eyes.

i stayed in chicago for a while and every1 there associates the so-cal scene (beaches,palm trees,lowriders,hollywood) with california period.only thing they now about nor-cal is san francisco and only 1 word comes to mind...gay.

exactly.
im not trying to diss the bay...but that shit is the truth

 

[surcaliman]

as a matter of fact..just look @ my sig..sunshine,palmtrees and lo-lo's...thats what the rest of the country thinks cali is all about.

 

[BIGSBY]

I don't really agree with tha' "think of cali, think of so-cal", but okay....that's your opinion cuddy.

 

[Gas One]

beach boys "california dreamin"...talkin about southern cali
"to live in die in la" tupac...southern cali
LL cool J's im going back to cali...video was in LA...
east west conflict = pretty much between southern cali and NY.

labels:
All the major labels are centralized in LA.

Television:
80 percent of tv shows, movies, at home movies are filmed in hollywood.

(pimp my ride = filmed in la. westcoast customs is in la.
rap school show = ice-t, southern cali rapper.)

Cheech and chong: filmed in LA.

NWA, one of the most influential groups in rap EVER: from southern cali.

the chronic, one of the most widely known albums ever: LA.

rappers who blew the fuck up, became rich, and got into movies: dr. dre, ice cube, snoop, dj pooh.

......

Bay area:

hyphy movement, e-40, rich gay politicians, oakland having a high murder rate, leinent marijuana laws, bad weather

 

[BIGSBY]

^^^
lol.
fuck you
im gone shut my mouth now.
i'm not trippin' any wayz.

=]

 

[surcaliman]

Cheech and chong: filmed in LA.

part of ''up in smoke'' was filmed in my hood...the house where cheech's cousin stawberry(the vietnam vet) lived is down the street.

 

[Gas One]

hahaha for real? thats tight..wheres that at?

(other west coast COUGH COUGH southern cali movies:

friday = took place in la.
boyz in the hood = took place in la.
menace to society = took place in la.
training day: took place in la
dont be a menace while drinking your juice in the hood: took place in la
CB4: took place in LA

wedding crashers: took place in san francisco.)

movies help shape the image of peoples ideas of a state because, thats all they see.

 

[Anaheim*Rob]

i stayed in chicago for a while and every1 there associates the so-cal scene (beaches,palm trees,lowriders,hollywood) with california period.only thing they now about nor-cal is san francisco and only 1 word comes to mind...gay.

I stayed in Virginia and South Carolina for a few years and when the conversation came up about where I was from the first thing people usually asked was how close to LA I was.

 

[surcaliman]

^^thats true..u mention places like palmdale or lancaster and ppl will ask how close to L.A. those places are.

hahaha for real? thats tight..wheres that at?

highland park,L.A.

 

[Gas One]

and lemme clear some shit up...

i love the bay. im up there almost every 2 weeks. i even street team for thizz down here, now. but i travel alot, and i have ran across all walks of people. and when talking about california, the thing i see often is that people associate that whole blue skies, palm trees, lowriders, and crips/bloods thing with the entirety of california.

of course us californians know better, but outsiders do not. you would be suprised how many people outside of california that do not know how far the bay is from la and that they are entirely two different worlds.

 

[MOREBASS]

You guys are actually right as far as people's perception of California being for the most part, everything that Southern Cali is, palm trees, beaches, and Hollywood.

But the point is that most people's perception are far from reality, as the majority of The West Coast, is nothing like So-Cal.

 

[Gas One]

But the point is that most people's perception are far from reality, as the majority of The West Coast, is nothing like So-Cal.

im not sure, but im willing to bet the population of san diego city (not county) + the city of LA is a huge chunk of cali.

i do agree with that though. once you leave la going north, its pretty much nothing like southern cali. that said, nothing between the 5 and the 580 is even worth stopping at beyond to get gas.

unless you wanna count fresno (and i dont.)

 

[kayvee]

no i dont think it would be the same without snoop.

~k.

 

[Sick Wid It]

imagine if he was never here, would it be the same? i was thinking about this the other day and it be wiered too think about it that way.

No, of course it wouldn't be the same. Not just westcoast rap either but rap in general wouldn't be the same. It's undeniable.

 

[RB20]

i stayed in chicago for a while and every1 there associates the so-cal scene (beaches,palm trees,lowriders,hollywood) with california period.only thing they now about nor-cal is san francisco and only 1 word comes to mind...gay.

Yeah I moved to TX from San Diego back in the 90's and that is how it was. San Diego, is it gangster like LA? How far away from LA is it?

You are spot on with the norcal too. I have seen that alot. Which is too bad. Both parts of Cali are better than most of the other garbage states

to the original question

I think the westcoast would be the same. Because it is bigger than Snoop. ANYONE could have represented the West Coast at that time being associated with Dre and Warren G. But therie were so many other people who didnt get as much exposure. MC Eiht, DJ Quik, Lynch....hell with Lynch I just happened to meet someone from Sac and he had that season of the siccness. I am sure I would have picked up on him after those appearances on the WCBB CD's, but still. Westside Connection. I am not going to sit here and lists every westcoast artists.

IMO, Snoop fell off after Doggystyle. The Doggfather was garbage with a couple of tight tracks. His No limit shit was the same. Some good tracks, but nowhere near the level of Doggystyle.

 

[Sick Wid It]

IMO, Snoop fell off after Doggystyle.

Whether or not Snoop fell off is irrelevant. The important thing is that he did Doggystyle, which had a tremendous affect on rap music as a whole during the time. Doggystyle is the reason things would've been different without Snoop. Like I said, it's undeniable.

 

[D'struction]

Gas One, you're close when you say "when people think of cali, they think of southern cali".....

But in reality, when people think of Cali, they think of L.A.