san diego the west coast revival?
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i definitely agree!!
to me, the new dago sound is the logical progression of that LA funk-influenced sound of the early 90s. shit like CMW, early WC and so on. them dago producers are really bringing it to another level, and since SD is not a company town like LA, a strong local scene could develop before anybody blew up. it always seems like in LA it's the other way around... alotta peeps make it major but there's not that strong a scene to back it up. except for the backpacking hiphop scene...
but that's just my impressions as an outsider.
to me, the new dago sound is the logical progression of that LA funk-influenced sound of the early 90s. shit like CMW, early WC and so on. them dago producers are really bringing it to another level, and since SD is not a company town like LA, a strong local scene could develop before anybody blew up. it always seems like in LA it's the other way around... alotta peeps make it major but there's not that strong a scene to back it up. except for the backpacking hiphop scene...
but that's just my impressions as an outsider.
I SAID IT TWO YEARS AGO.....IMMA SAY IT AGAIN.....
DAGO FINNA BLOW THE FUCK UP......ITS TOO MANY HARD HITTERS OUT HERE.......BELIEVE ME.....MORE AND MORE NIGGAZ IS ABOUT TO START FEELIN DAGO........YOU CANT HELP IT........SHIT...THEY ALREADY STARTIN TO SHOOT MORE AND MORE MOVIES DOWN IN THIS BITCH.........NEXT THEY WANNA SEE WHAT THE MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE........GET SOME NICE SHIT FOR SOME SOUNDTRACKS OR SOMETHIN....WHO KNOWS.......BUT WE BUBBLIN DOWN HERE.........
J-CIN
SILAZ
BOSS HOGG
ECAY
LIL CS
CRICET
MITCHY SLICK
DucefaceD
MOODSWANG
TAKE-OFF
.......ITS A GANG OF NIGGAZ DOWN HERE....PUT IT THAT WAY:devious:
DAGO FINNA BLOW THE FUCK UP......ITS TOO MANY HARD HITTERS OUT HERE.......BELIEVE ME.....MORE AND MORE NIGGAZ IS ABOUT TO START FEELIN DAGO........YOU CANT HELP IT........SHIT...THEY ALREADY STARTIN TO SHOOT MORE AND MORE MOVIES DOWN IN THIS BITCH.........NEXT THEY WANNA SEE WHAT THE MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE........GET SOME NICE SHIT FOR SOME SOUNDTRACKS OR SOMETHIN....WHO KNOWS.......BUT WE BUBBLIN DOWN HERE.........
J-CIN
SILAZ
BOSS HOGG
ECAY
LIL CS
CRICET
MITCHY SLICK
DucefaceD
MOODSWANG
TAKE-OFF
.......ITS A GANG OF NIGGAZ DOWN HERE....PUT IT THAT WAY:devious:
IT'S UP TO THE ARTIST.WE GOTTA FIGURE OUT IF WE WANNA BE GANG BANGERS OR BIZNESS MEN.WE GOTTA LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.BEIN THE BEST IN SAN DIEGO AINT THE BIG PICTURE.WE'RE ARE OWN WORST ENEMY.DISSIN EACH OTHER ON WAX,SAYIN STUPID SHIT ABOUT EACH OTHER IN INTERVIEWS,THAT AINT GONE GET IT.WE GOT THE ARTIST SHIT DOWN PRETTY COOL BUT WE ARE TRUELY BEHIND IN THE REAL RAP WORLD.WE DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE MONEY AND INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER,WE BE TRYIN TO MAKE MONEY OFF EACHOTHER UNLIKE THE L.A. NIGS WHO WILL COLLAB WITH EACH OTHER TO MAKE MONEY OTHER PLACES.WHEN I SAY COLLAB I DONT MEAN JUST MAKIN SONGS TOGETHER.I'LL GIVE UP THE GAME WHEN NIGGAS IS READY TO LISTENF
west craccin!!! i know i was just up there at daz's cd release function and all them nigga's was kiccin it on a whole long beach tip
they embraced me cause i knew one of them nigga's , and when we mobbed through the crowd mutha - fuccas got the fucc out the way!!! so mitchy's talkin some real shit as far as the unity goes cause i seen it happen!!!
get a bar of that "lowbottom'd out "cd then holla!!!
the lecta!!!
they embraced me cause i knew one of them nigga's , and when we mobbed through the crowd mutha - fuccas got the fucc out the way!!! so mitchy's talkin some real shit as far as the unity goes cause i seen it happen!!!
get a bar of that "lowbottom'd out "cd then holla!!!
the lecta!!!
I agree we have to interact with each other, but more important is interacting with the fans. The people that actually BUY the music. I don't give a fuc if another known rapper doesn't know about me, but I give a fuc if that nigga, mexican, white, asian, etc drivin' down the street bumpin' rap, or in his walkman at school don't know about me. That's why I approach all of them as if they never heard about me. I never assume they already know who I am, that's why I'm always on the grind! That's the actuall rap consumer. That's who I'm concerned about. That's my thing, interacting with the fans. What niggaz gotta realize to that we will never blow up if we don't sell outside our circle of friends. That's why I'm at any event in Dago or when I'm out of town talkin' and tryna' sell to the fans. If I'm at a show not performing, and some known act is, you best believe I'm out front selling at least 5 to 10 cd's, and talkin' to as many people as possible and makin' myself visible to the fans. And I know the demographics, so I don't go just where the niggaz is at. I'm at events like the PB street fair (sold 21 cd's out there) to mostly whites, and some mexicans, but the love I received out there was lovely. I was kind of surprised.
I get hella frustrated watchin' the game from the sidelines. Seein' new artists on 106 park like Joe Budden, Chingy, and David Banner. They will NEVER put a new West Coast artist on there, shit they only play Snoop, and just debut an E-40 video, and never play it again. I don't know maybe it's our music. Maybe we need to re-evaluate. Joe Budden (garbage), Chingy, and the David Banner song can all be songs played in the club. Obviously you can't blow up without one (look at 50). The West just has to do em' but with our own twist. That's why I do songs like Faded & X-Rated. Look at what made the West blow up in the early 90's. Snoop and Dre had party songs. G Thing was a house party setting. Then they had these songs that were party songs, but with a street/west coast twist Gin & Juice, What's My Name, Dre Day, all of those song had a party vibe in the video. Ain't no fun is a party classic. We need to look at our history and see what blew the West up in the early 90's, and come with a new twist, especially from a new area like San Diego. We can do it. Another example Jayo's biggest hit was a club banger "Watcha Gon' Do", but it had a gangsta twist to it. Our city has put out albums in the last couple of years that our fadin' a gang of niggaz shit, but for the majors to come to the West again, it's going to take more than one West rapper goin' platinum. Why you think they givin' out deals in the South like it ain't shit. Because they have artists like Luda, Lil Flip, Cash Money, etc that went platinum all within a few years. What have we had? So ain't no majors trippin' off the West. Shit, if Def Jam couldn't get WC a well known West Coast legend to even go gold, what makes you think they have ANY faith in the rest of the West? It's a cold game.
I think we just need to keep puttin' out quality product, but re-evaluate our music only to a certain degree, because our shit is already hot, but we need to decide if we want to stay underground, or really blow up. And that's in the music! Don't get me wrong I'm not sayin' make mainstream shit. Keep it raw, but just express yourself from all angles (hard, party, street, sad, comical etc), because I don't know one nigga that's one way all the time. All Dago needs is the door opened. LA had their time. It's time for the New West. Dago.....keep grindin' ya'll. 1
C.S. Heat
I get hella frustrated watchin' the game from the sidelines. Seein' new artists on 106 park like Joe Budden, Chingy, and David Banner. They will NEVER put a new West Coast artist on there, shit they only play Snoop, and just debut an E-40 video, and never play it again. I don't know maybe it's our music. Maybe we need to re-evaluate. Joe Budden (garbage), Chingy, and the David Banner song can all be songs played in the club. Obviously you can't blow up without one (look at 50). The West just has to do em' but with our own twist. That's why I do songs like Faded & X-Rated. Look at what made the West blow up in the early 90's. Snoop and Dre had party songs. G Thing was a house party setting. Then they had these songs that were party songs, but with a street/west coast twist Gin & Juice, What's My Name, Dre Day, all of those song had a party vibe in the video. Ain't no fun is a party classic. We need to look at our history and see what blew the West up in the early 90's, and come with a new twist, especially from a new area like San Diego. We can do it. Another example Jayo's biggest hit was a club banger "Watcha Gon' Do", but it had a gangsta twist to it. Our city has put out albums in the last couple of years that our fadin' a gang of niggaz shit, but for the majors to come to the West again, it's going to take more than one West rapper goin' platinum. Why you think they givin' out deals in the South like it ain't shit. Because they have artists like Luda, Lil Flip, Cash Money, etc that went platinum all within a few years. What have we had? So ain't no majors trippin' off the West. Shit, if Def Jam couldn't get WC a well known West Coast legend to even go gold, what makes you think they have ANY faith in the rest of the West? It's a cold game.
I think we just need to keep puttin' out quality product, but re-evaluate our music only to a certain degree, because our shit is already hot, but we need to decide if we want to stay underground, or really blow up. And that's in the music! Don't get me wrong I'm not sayin' make mainstream shit. Keep it raw, but just express yourself from all angles (hard, party, street, sad, comical etc), because I don't know one nigga that's one way all the time. All Dago needs is the door opened. LA had their time. It's time for the New West. Dago.....keep grindin' ya'll. 1
C.S. Heat
C.S. spitting game... lovely.
i don't know about y'all, but what makes the new dago shit so dope to me is the fact that they come so tight lyrically. when i listen to LA rap these days they are mostly talking about the same old shit with the same old word. ecay, C.S., VMF and them talk mostly about that same shit but from a whole new angle with new vocabulary, new flow and more maturity. and the address wider topics... listening to songs like "poisonous city" or "fed up" gives me hope, cause they have the bumping beats that the west was always known for, but they also make you think.
maybe it's because many of the artists down there really went through a lot of shit (look at C.S. or ecay) which made them grow up and talk about this gang shit from a different perspective.
anyways, i'm off topic. keep up the great work!
BTW: i thought "nasty gangbangers" off the strong armed robbery tape was a dope ass party track. are you talking about something like that, C.S.?
i don't know about y'all, but what makes the new dago shit so dope to me is the fact that they come so tight lyrically. when i listen to LA rap these days they are mostly talking about the same old shit with the same old word. ecay, C.S., VMF and them talk mostly about that same shit but from a whole new angle with new vocabulary, new flow and more maturity. and the address wider topics... listening to songs like "poisonous city" or "fed up" gives me hope, cause they have the bumping beats that the west was always known for, but they also make you think.
maybe it's because many of the artists down there really went through a lot of shit (look at C.S. or ecay) which made them grow up and talk about this gang shit from a different perspective.
anyways, i'm off topic. keep up the great work!
BTW: i thought "nasty gangbangers" off the strong armed robbery tape was a dope ass party track. are you talking about something like that, C.S.?
Perfect analogy. Especially the part when you said "many of the artists down there really went through a lot of shit (look at C.S. or ecay)". Somebody once told me "C.S., ya'll Dago rappers are more real than LA rappers now, because all you guys (you, mitch, ecay etc) really been through the shit ya'll talk about, and you can tell". This was said from somebody that's NOT from Dago. I believe as a whole we bring it lyrically more, but they still get OUTSTANDING mc's like Crooked I, Ras Kass, etc. But we spit it lyrically, but about real life shit we've been through. Like Ecay said "let the people decide".