Bay Area Music: The Lost Art of the Solo Album

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MaddDogg

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Why is it almost nobody seems to come out with solo albums? Of course the costs are enormous, but this used to be the bread and butter of Bay Area music. Now the Bay Area is all mixtapes and collabos. Sure they are cheaper, but they just arent as solid. No one can deny one of the things that made the "Golden Era" of Bay Area music was solo albums. Me and my boy are bumpin Keak right now, and I just realized COPIUM came out FOUR YEARS AGO. It really creates a huge void in the Bay Area rap scene when people aren't releasing solo albums. IMO you can really only buy 1-2 mixtapes of an artist before you lose interest. Yet we have artists doing 7-8 mixtapes in between albums.

Thoughts / opinions?
 
mrbasicofmbc

mrbasicofmbc

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shit a lot of these artists treat mixtapes as albums. kind of annoyin cuz when they finally release an actual solo the shits weak cuz they dun put they all into like hella back to back mixtapes. i just rather hear a real album from someone. like in this one dvd i think it was the bay area block stars b-legit is talkin about how he's gon put out an mixtape after every album or sum shit. i'm thinkin fuck all that just come wit the solos like you use to do before all this mixtape stuff got big. and sometimes dependin on who it is doin the mixtape, they may just come wit bullshit just to make fast money. i've heard about some of those type of mixtapes before too. never been a fan of mixtapes even tho they are another good way of promotin yourself.
 
Rossibreath

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agree 100% mixtapes r garbage. only people who dont waste my time & money r 40 & turf & maybe fab. how the fuck can sum of these dudes not drop a album for like 4 or 5 years? blaming it on the label is getting old, move on or sumthin.
 
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mrbasicofmbc

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^^^yea maybe an album every year to a year an a half is coo but i hate when people come out wit an album every month nearly tryna do it no limit style except its the same artist. i like not hearin from an artist too much.
 
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autistic

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cats be going crazy with features now and days. Back in the 90's solo albums were actually solo albums. If you think about it Seff's first album I can't even think of anyone who was featured on that shit. I liked that cd hella much becuz Seff did his fucking thing on that cd feel me. "How Does It Feel to Get Played by a Hoe? I really wouldn't know.."
 
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ThaG

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good point

If you drop 5 mixtapes between albums, there's a good chance when you start recording the album, it will feel like a mixtape for you and you will deliver some half ass shit. Which is what we observe...

And it is true that collabo albums often somehow dilute the responsibility (if there is any left) between the artist and they both come weak instead of providing the best of both, what the original idea behind these albums is
 
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ThaG

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autistic said:
cats be going crazy with features now and days. Back in the 90's solo albums were actually solo albums. If you think about it Seff's first album I can't even think of anyone who was featured on that shit. I liked that cd hella much becuz Seff did his fucking thing on that cd feel me. "How Does It Feel to Get Played by a Hoe? I really wouldn't know.."
Click to expand...
And Seff was with GLP, it was the most natural thing to have features...
 
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MaddDogg

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Is that really how it goes? I got to bust out the Livin Kinda Lavish cd.
@9800. Im bitchin cause I aint heard ONE GOOD SOLO in the bay in years. I was pumped about Turf's. It was ok. It just didnt do it for me.
 
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gitwitit

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just look at mess...he used to come out with slappin ass solos. turf politics, bandannas tats and tongue rings, disobayish, now its all these comps and mixdiscs
 
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