NW producers such as Bosko, FunkDaddy, Kevin Gardner and Redwine have been shaping the Bay & Sac sound for years! Even me and Syko have started doin' beats for some of these cats. Have we EVER gotten any real credit? Nope. I can name some of the hardest cutz on numerous Bay Area classics and if you check the credits...more than likely it was one of the people I mentioned.
Also...let's not forget about Jake One who recently signed to G-Unit and has been apart of 2 PLATINUM albums (G-Unit's "Beg 4 Mercy" & The Get Rich or Die Tryin' Soundtrack)...and has numerous other production credits both past and upcoming. Bean One is another soon to be big producer from Seattle who I hear is doin' alot of work on the new Roots album. Watch out for Kuddie Mak too.
This is why I'm startin' NWRAP.COM...because I'm tired of depending on these cats from Cali & abroad. Why do we feel the need to have them validate us? People act like if Cali doesn't approve of us then we ain't shit. FUCK THAT. We've always had love for them...and they've rarely shown us any love back. The NW needs to do the NW...we need to become self-sufficient and support our own. NWRAP.COM will attempt to put the pieces of this scattered scene together and hopefully in the process allow those from the NW to shine that deserve it, along with trying to form the foundation that we will be able to build upon. I know it's possible!!!
We need to stop suckin' everyone else's dick though. It's one thing to like these cats music...shit I like their music. But it's a whole other thing to try and sound like them ALL FUCKIN' DAY LONG.