Reasons you fell in love with Bay rap?

[macdrebaby]

What are some reasons or albums/songs that made you start buying and lovin that bay area rap? This is for everyone, but im just curious to see what people outside the bay enjoyed first with bay area music.

For me it was Too $hort, The Mac, Digital Underground, Celly Cel, E40, Spice 1, Mac Dre, 11-5, Young Lay/Mac Mall, The Luniz, RBL Posse, Rappin 4 Tay, Souls of Mischief, Ant Banks, Brotha Lynch Hung, Messy etc...

When i was young i was always spending any money i had on music and most the stuff i was feelin was bay area stuff, mainly for the beats/production and slang that yall had going. That mob music especially was my shit back in the day, nothing like it i swear.

I was born on the east and lived in portland and the westcoast of canada most my life, and really no matter where i been livin that bay area rap music always had me excited to see what was new and available to buy in the store.

 

[916Fine$t]

shit back in 97 it all started with rutless by law and operation stackola slumpin in my stepdads tape deck.... the rest is history

 

[ni6apinoflavord]

The beats mayn.

 

[Rossibreath]

earl stevens. "like 2 drink beer wit mashed potatoes"

 

[livemanikins]

back in the day it was Heiro and E40. now adays it is still Heiro and E40

 

[Hyfeeboy]

The first time i fell in love with bay rap it was for rock rock roooooooooock

 

[onlyonesmoke]

too short,master p,jt the bigga figga, back in the day of 92...... but now bay music suck ass except for a few artist like san quinn, e-40,b-legit, mista fab.... I dont even listen to that shit no more...

 

[Mr Ceza]

I fell in LOVE with BAY RAP because I saw HIP Hop growing-Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, Salt N Pepa, LL Cool J, etc. And said they're has to be rappers from out here doing it...There was--I fell in love with X-Raided, DRE DOG, I.M.P., The Click, Too Short, MAC DRE, etc.

 

[ESFCE]

that mobb sound... 11/5, UDI, Cold World, Cellski, etc

 

[SEVENOSEVEN]

i grew up off this shit i remeber when i was little my brother bumpin RBL, E40, MAC MALL, CELLY CEL, RAPPIN 4TAY, TOO SHORT, YOUNG LAY...i started listenin to bay shit alot when i was in like 8th grade in like 2002 but i didnt start buyin bay shit till i was in 9th grade one of the first ones i bought was SAN QUINN I GIVE YOU MY WORD then i started buyin nothin but bay shit after that

 

[Nevasoba]

When I started jr high I was listenin to hella gangsta shit like NWA, DJ quik etc. At that time tha only cats from tha Bay I was diggin was Too Short and Digital Underground....neva liked that MC Hammer shit.....then my freshman year I heard Chunk's Menace to the Game, Totally Insane's Direct from the Backstreets, RBL Posses Lesson to be Learned, Mac Dre California Livin, 415's 41Fivin, and Dangerous Dame's The Bomb and it was a wrap from then on.

 

[HiLsyde707Kloun]

That Mobb SOund. Shit still goes hard even today.

 

[mackinainteasy]

stuff from back in the day was coo. But now yay area stuff is crap i dont waste my money on that

 

[kayvee]

i have an older brother...nuff said.

i grew up to this shit. lol

~k.

 

[mackinainteasy]

I am lucky to come from the era when I was in jr high and high school I could spend my money on bay releases and not suck. I started off in 1991-97 when i graduated being able to be in cars,walkman on the bus,or parties hearing this music.the click down and dirty bascialy every sick wid it release period. in my freshman year 93 mac mall illegal business came out,n2deep back to the hotel and 24-7-365,jt playaz in the game,spice1 amerikkkas nightmare and 187 he wrote,RBL a lesson to be learned and ruthless by law,GLP straight out the lab,richie rich seasond veteran,luniz operation stackola,11-5 fiend for the funk and a-1 yola,IMP Ill mannerd playas,Dre dog i hate you with a passion,C-BO gas chamber and autopsy,bro lynch season of the sicc,tupac me against the world,and boss balling comp 1. Like I said it was a era where you can spend your money and know shit would knock

yeah true but on all mac dre's solo's he never over did it and thats what i is think the biggest flaw today in bay area music.(the hyphy stuff in paticular) If mac dre was still here im pretty sure bay music wouldnt be like this, but this is a result and everyone took mac dre's death pretty harsh. But how far can "hyphy" go i think everyone is gone get tired we need to go back to that old mob style type a shit, ya feel me?

 

[yee]

messy marv and the mob figaz

 

[C-DUBB]

mobb shit!

its funny but when i was a kid if i saw a tape in the record store that was deigned by funky fat graphics i would buy it .. most of the time it was tight.. wierd to say that but i also bought anything from solar music group and it was usually tight as well.

or if the album featured jt or quinn etc .. it usually meant they were closley affiliated with them so it had that glp sound to it ... and once i had a taste of the click , i bought EVERYTHING with a sick wid it logo.... excpet for suga t )

but it all started with too short... thats where it began for me .. early too , like 3rd , 4th grade i was bumpin short dog.. for real .. i had the old white too short tapes witrh side AAA and side XXX YA KNOW! them were the days

 

[autistic]

Illegal Business, Smoke Dope and Rap, the SFC

 

[kurri]

back in the day it was Heiro and E40. now adays it is still Heiro and E40

exactly, it all started back in the day. I must be getting "old" but the artists today just dont have that long lasting appeal as the artists back in the day (E-40, The Click, Del, Mac Mall, Mac Dre, C.I.N., Lynch, etc.). I was lost in the hyphy sound, i miss the old bay sound. I didnt care for the new 40 as the beats sounded like a computer 40 (i know its just me). It was about 1999 the sound started to change, and i'm stuck bumpin the old shit still (some new shit here and there). I'm not here to diss the shit today, its just not my style i guess.

 

[KillaKali]

I'm a yunger dood & really didn't have anyone showin me this back in the day so I introduced myself to this music when I was about 10-11 but I always loved the Westcoast sound. Whether it was LA, Dago or the Bay. From the Poplockin Westcoast funk (Zapp & Roger) to the Mobb (Khayree) now to some Hyphy(Mistah fab).

Snoop, Dre, Kaution, Pac, Black Rhino, IMP, Dubee, DJ Quik, N2Deep, Click, Mac Mall, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc. The list goes on & on. I'm pretty widespread with my knowledge for the westcoast as a whole.