heiro crew, 40, mac mall, pac, quinn from there it pretty much branched out to everyone associated with one another. found more underground shit like zion i, crown city. found more sick wid it and done deal, etc. no one showed me anything about music i had to find it on my own, i mainly just found new music based on features i liked from previous shit. there's just such a good variety of music out here and i love the originality of the styles of rap and the beats. the attitude is different out here compared to other places in this country and our music reflects it well in various aspects.
Reasons you fell in love with Bay rap?
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I remember waiting for the new Eazy- E record to drop , and I went to Leopolds in Berkeley to cop it. Well , needless to say , it never dropped , and all they had was some group named The Click , and the tape was on sale for 8.99.
My homeboy Charles I went to middle school with used to tell me about it , and I was already up on the more mainstream acts(dare I say that in 2008) , and I had already peeped a ad for leopold's bay area rap stock in a source magazine( the one with dr.dre on the cover with a gun to his head), so I bought that tape , and that was that.
I just loved the fact that while all of my homeboys were waiting on La/Ny records to drop , I could always hit up a mom and pop and get Local music that was ten times better and more available.
Sam bostic and mike mosley/khyree never let me down , they made me so proud to be from the bay , it's like they captured the culture of they bay flawlessly. They stand out the most , but a gang of producers came with heat...
My homeboy Charles I went to middle school with used to tell me about it , and I was already up on the more mainstream acts(dare I say that in 2008) , and I had already peeped a ad for leopold's bay area rap stock in a source magazine( the one with dr.dre on the cover with a gun to his head), so I bought that tape , and that was that.
I just loved the fact that while all of my homeboys were waiting on La/Ny records to drop , I could always hit up a mom and pop and get Local music that was ten times better and more available.
Sam bostic and mike mosley/khyree never let me down , they made me so proud to be from the bay , it's like they captured the culture of they bay flawlessly. They stand out the most , but a gang of producers came with heat...
I liked the fact I was up on shit other youngsters didn't know shit about. When Dre and snoop came out i was listing to Chunk tottaly insane, rbl, IMP etc. I liked the beats and they were rapping about shit i could relate to. all the mainstreram sounded real manufactured and make by white guys in suits and still is. I liked Pac and the Ghetto Boys and that was about as mainstream as I got.
I fell in love wit it cuz i was blessed enuff to grow up on Bay music when it was at its realest and rawest form....90-97. I loved how unique and advanced it was back then. The beats, the characters, the slang, the delivery, the flow, etc... It was so different and it represented us to the fullest. Ill never forget how it made me feel. I wish someone would bring that back (we workin on it trust me).
Aside from a half dozen albums since then I havent felt the same way about bay rap. If i was a youngin growin up on Bay music today id have a completely different opinion of it.
Aside from a half dozen albums since then I havent felt the same way about bay rap. If i was a youngin growin up on Bay music today id have a completely different opinion of it.
Bay rap is still good IMO just because its not the same as it was in the 90s too many old school cats are quick to hate on the new stuff. Maybe it because everyone thinks they are rappers nowadays i don't know but I find there as just as many solid albums coming out now as what came out back then
im a big advocate of bay area rap period
im a big advocate of bay area rap period
