WAS THE HYPHY ERA A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING FOR THE BAY??

[Stony Gwynn]

HOW DO YOU GUYS REALLY FEEL ABOUT THE ERA?? DID IT HURT THE BAY? HELP THE BAY?? OPINIONS AND THOUGHTS PLEASE...

 

[infinity]

i think it was a good thing - it pushed the bay to the forefront & caused a ton of slaps to be released. but at the same time it produced a lot of weak beats, watered-down music, and just shitty music by bandwagoners/coattail-riders (some of those being bay area vets). i can also see how others regions could have looked at it as a joke.

 

[Stony Gwynn]

THATS WHAT I ALWAYS FIGURED... IT WORKED FOR NIGGAS LIKE DRE AND HIS CAMP BUT OTHER NIGGAS SUCH AS F.A.B. AND YUKMOUTH WHO WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY DOPE LYRICISTS KINDA DERAILED THEIR OWN CAREERS FOLLOWING THE TREND... YUK HAD SOME HYPHY SLAPS BUT HE ALWAYS SHINED WITH HIS RAW GRITTY LYRICS AND STORY TELLING IS WHAT SET HIM APART FROM OTHER VETS... IM IN SO CAL SO I NEVER SEEN ITS EFFECTS FIRST HAND BUT TO THIS DAY WILL SLAP YUKS FIRST 2 JOINTS OVER EVERYTHING THAT CAME AFTER... EVEN THO HE'S GOOD FOR A SLAP FOM TIME TO TIME...

 

[Walkin]

as much as people don;t like it, it's the only thing over the last 13 years that gave the bay a buzz on a national level

 

[Rossibreath]

It ruined bay rap and made it so the mainstream will never except a bay rapper and created the worst slang terms ever

 

[Simpaticone1]

It was fun for a minute ...... But yeah its played out

 

[Darkshowdown]

A bad thing. not to sound funny or no disrespect but it made the bay look like a joke to other regions.

 

[Dhadnot]

its sad, I liked some hyphy shit and felt it was authentic in that it was a regional sound in a rap market where everything sounds the same, but other regions couldn't fuck with it.

 

[HellRazor5150]

Me personally I hated it, but the younger generation loved that shit. I thought it made the bay look like a bunch of pill popping idiots but at the same time it brought attention back to. so it was both good and bad

 

[MobbinINda916]

It got played out when everybody was using the same type of beats and same lines like "gas brake dip", "goin dumb", "get stupid".shit got lame after a while.

rappers need to be original and not use the same lines. I don't respect people that hop on new trends.

 

[MobbinINda916]

It got played out when everybody was using the same type of beats and same lines like "gas brake dip", "goin dumb", "get stupid".shit got lame after a while.

rappers need to be original and not use the same lines. I don't respect people that hop on new trends.

 

[Omnificent]

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[Stony Gwynn]

THAT TIME WAS 5 YEARS AGO

 

[SMCrazy]

Definitely a bad thing.

 

[Dead Blue]

was and still is horrible. fuck the hyphy movement.

 

[lopro]

The hyphy years were some of the best years of my life... a good thing to me.

Songs like these made me wanna break my neck and go ape shit.

 

[Cut-Throat]

was and still is horrible. fuck the hyphy movement.

Oh the irony....

 

[MobbinINda916]

The best era of bay area rap was the Mob Shit era in the 90's. E-40 In a a Major Way album and all of the other classics was the dopest period of time for bay area & sactown rap.

 

[infinity]

^i think thats easily agreed upon

 

[Incisions]

like most peeps said, the hyphy era had its good and it had its bad...when peeps like mac dre were doin it, classics were created. peeps like mistah fab amongst others just took it too far and made it seem fruity...but overall, it was a good thing, because it got peeps payin attention 2 the bay who never knew about the bay before hyphy.