http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/music/archives/003282.html
June 23, 2006
From the north side to the Sicc side
Looking for G-Macc's apartment in Natomas. The heat from the parking lot concrete practically hurts.
G-Macc comes outside, clutching his latest CD ("Graveyard Shift") and a two-way pager. We go into his apartment. There's no furniture, save for a couch and a TV set. He explains that he just moved in. The rapper who also calls himself V.A.M.P.I.R.E also has a house near 24th St. in south Sac. But right now G-Macc's laying low. He says that when summer comes, the vibe gets heated back in the old neighborhood. Too many people are outside, and it's easy for old tensions to boil.
G-Macc's from the south side of Sacramento, in a neighborhood dubbed the Garden Blocc. This 'hood is infamous for two things: its Crip sets, and its hip-hop. Brotha Lynch Hung is from here, the rapper who put Sacramento on the hip-hop map with horrorcore tales of life on 24th St.
Mr. Doctor also reps the Garden Blocc. So does C-Bo, and X-Raided (who's serving a murder rap in state prison) and so many other rappers that Garden Blocc hip-hop is its own mini-industry.
G-Macc talks about this, until the call comes and we're on our way to Tre-8's place. He's got an apartment on Riverside Blvd. in Greenhaven, where a guest bedroom doubles as the office space and production studio for Orakle Records. G-Macc needs to pick up his car, which is parked across the street from Tre-8's, and if the vibe's right he'll lay down a verse. But right now, all of this sunlight isn't sitting right with the V.A.M.P.I.R.E. He curses the sun and heat instead.
Posted by cmacias at June 23, 2006 10:59 AM