I dunno this can go back and forth, but maybe just look at the bay areas influence on California as a whole. Southern California has two specific cities that are big as fuck. In the bay, and I’m not going on numbers here I guess I’m going more on living here for a decade plus at this point, smaller cities, closer together. Like the town and SF are so close to eachother. You go from SF to Vallejo, you’d still be in San Diego *county* within that time.
But if I really gotta have my opinion on this, I’m gonna say SF has had the most influence just based on the city it is, oakland is obviously closely followed, and Vallejo is definitely next in line. You also gotta ask out of town ppl this question without it being biased, mac dre became fucking astronomically huge at a point but even still, there was a point before thizz, that out of town ppl either had no idea who dre was or simply didn’t care yet.alpt of what was huge locally wasn’t so much out of the area. Most ppl didn’t really even get hip to dre till thizzle dance and treal tv out of the bay, hate to say...the only reason I MAY say Vallejo has a good hold on the local Bay Area Music was e-40..
But y’all also are forgetting most ppl outside of the bay didn’t really even know sac wasn’t part of “the bay”...so a lot of ppl would damn near say that shit like cbo lynch , x raided etc etc etc was what put on hella hardcore..but once again that’s expanding shit to “north cali”...
It’s really gon depend on what music you in your opinion, was fuckin w.. and locally, that shit just may seem biased cuz you gon have your opinion based on where you were at.