man i used to love L.A. rap in the 90's, but then it had a distinct sound, music wise. damn near funk, i guess G-Funk. but i aint heard an L.A. album since the 90's. is the shit different now?
thats the golden era for the Frisco/Sac/Stockton area,i damn near think it mighta been the golden era down there too...........
I HATE TO SAY BUT THAT ERA WILL NEVER BE AGAIN, JUS LIKE THE NIGGAS IN THE 80s WAS UP ON THE ERIC Bs & HEAVY Ds TO THE NWAs & GRANDMASTER ACE AND WANTED THAT ERA TO COMEBACK IT NEVER DID, IT JUS EVOLVED. EVERY DECADE IS DIFFERENT, ITS TOO MANY CONSPIRACY'S ON WHY RAP IS WHY IT IS NOW, ITS JUST THE TIMES. THATS WHY NEW YORK NIGGAS ARE STUCK IN THAT 90s MODE AND AINT SELLIN, MORE PEOPLE WANT SUMTHIN NEW & THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE IM TALKIN ABOUT ARE THE TEENS, THEY SHAPE WHAT MUSIC IS WAT, JUS LIKE WHEN I WAS A TEEN AND EVEN YUNGER I DIDNT WANNA HEAR RUN DMC OR DOUGIE FRESH I WANTED TO HEAR SNOOP DOGG
Savv Out is right!! It seems that LA g-funk sound has died when everyone started to hop into down-south club beats just to break in nationally...
The same goes with the Bay's funk & mobb music; they decided to go pop or hyphy, whatever u call it...
Overall, todays music sucks... It will never be like it was back in the good ol golden days...... its just sad... smh...
THATS HOW I SEE IT, OH WELL. WE HAVE THE FABs, THE JAY ROCKs, THE NIPSEY HUSSLEs, THE G MALONEs, THE SLICKs. THAT I HAVE A FEELIN WILL MAKE ITs MARK, ITs UP TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANT THE 90s ERA TO COMBACK TO SAY "WE HAD OUR RUN, U LIL NIGGAS HAVE URs" I THINK THIS ERA OF WESTCOAST EMCEEs ARE DOPE JUS SEEM LIKE ALOT OF PEOPLE HOLDIN ON TO THE PAST.....NIGGAS DONT EVEN GANGBANG THE SAME ANYMORE. THAT RIGHT THERE SHUD TELL U SUMTHIN CUZ THATS WAT GANGSTA RAP WAS HACTHED FROM.......SHIT EVOLES
Supa SAV'D OUTT you are correct on ever level. The teens are a vary marketable source for artists to sell to. I would also like to add that those who listened to the 90's music and are grown now still like music, and many do not feel the newer stuff...but let the kids have theirs right. We also have to take a look at how the music game has changed internally such as the labels. A 90s artists might not get that big push they need because the labels are downsized and on stricter budget restraints. Out the trunk is cool but many of us who grew up in the 80's-90's era aint in the streets, clubs etc ( Except Brownie Mack..haha) so the market is still there, the vehicle in which an artist could reach them is no longer their.
I would also like to add that those who listened to the 90's music and are grown now still like music, and many do not feel the newer stuff...but let the kids have theirs right.
you hella right.im sure when i was slappin Sinister, or Young Murder Squad, or Mr.X, older cats was thinkin "this shit nowadays is garbage"............
I just turned turned 23 and I can't comprehend the newer club southern type shit. I should like it, but I don't.
My mindset is stuck on 90's Rap.
BTW, I don't think producers have to SAMPLE from oldschool funk records to make WestCoast Rap. A lot of good shit in the 90's that was considered G-Funk wasn't necessarily sampled. A lot of it was originally produced with that funk swing to it. Take a listen to the sound of Dr Dre's Chronic 2001, that had a modern WestCoast sound to it, it wasn't that gritty sounding as the older shit and it was dope as fuck still.
WC's latest album had some DOPE ass production. All original too from what I can tell. The Dogg Pound's Dogg Chit had some sick ass WestCoast production. The Game's Doctor's Advocate had some really good modern WC production too.
Everyone is just jocking the SOUTH right now, plain and simple. Has nothing to do with "oldschool" or "new school." G-Funk is a style of production aside from lifestyle, it should never die.
IMO, this is the modern WestCoast G sound:
Whatever happened to that Cali LOVE?!?!?!? No one reps us no more. Everyone wants to yell "oohhhhhh" on every track these days on these silly club songs. LOL Blah blah blah "ooohhhhhh" blahh blahh blahh "oooohhhhhh" hahahaha WTF is that shit, that's on every track these days now.
thats true, it doesnt matter about old or new it matters that if the industry wasn't skewed music would have a progression that would allow every region to keep its persona but sound updated. now most jumps on whatever is economically viable, at least in hip hop
