Bay Area Hip Hop [usually] Sux

(and if you haven't heard any of E-40 and his stable of folks, you are seriously seriously missing out on some bugged shit w/great tongue-twisting lyrics)

Ubiquity and Om are not hip-hop labels.

there's not even a single hip hop store in the city. but walk down lower haight and you have like 20 techno stores

make me a mix for whenever we'll finally meet up

I still stand by Beat Street in Vancouver being the best hip hop store in the west coast... the staff there are very nice and knowledgeable, and you can preview practically everything.

Seattle has decent outlets for previewable hip hop vinyl.. especially cheap promos of the latest singles.. no dedicated store that I know of (although, I walked by this store called Respect Records once, which looks like a hip hop store, but I'm not sure.. I think I need Rickey or Matos or Segal to help me out here).. but in any case, if I can find hip hop here.. just not necessarily at a hip hop only store, per se.

i think i told you i was pissed that i went there second. at that store around the corner i paid like CAN$30 for a Rasputins Stash record and then 5minutes later found the same record at Beat Streat for 16. boo

DJ Shadow is unbelievably overrated.

I second this. In fact, I'm so out of the loop, I thought they had stopped rating him altogether a while back.

For a the history of the hustle, click here.

Other current stuff to note:
- Kool Kyle & Inspector Double Negative
- Funky Riddim Records in Berkeley
- http://true-skool.org/

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UEY4LSK9T3D3E5XCOR239CBJ

I still like Souls of Mischeif's "93 till Infinity" though. But that would fall under golden era.

The other thing that's terrible about going to clubs with a packpacker(read:white) DJ is that they always play the same five goddamned songs from like 12 years ago. If you're going to play out and you're going to play 9tre stuff, dig up something from 1993 that I might have slept on. But no, it's always the same Pharcyde/De La Soul/Tribe record in every set.

Some of the guys from quanumm may be disappointed to discover they are, in fact, white.

See, now y'all're forcing me to plug my own shit. Tonight @ Oaklandish:
http://www.oaklandish.org/hella3.jpg
Oakland's 2nd Saturday Speakeasy
w/ DJ Phatrick & DJ Treat-U-Nice on 4 turntables
Hosts: Do D.A.T. (the Attik) and resident DJ 2 Blaq B

here's a song of YaBoy's with RickRock production
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NF0W3I9PQY8Z14ODAPGG1GBDA
sh*t's pritty danged hard, ay. not exactly a sure-fire-hit but it's a bit banging. just thought I'd share...
& here's an even better Cult-classic track by the same cat called 16's,samples STARWARS theme & the sh*t is suuuuuuuuuppper-hard. but not no party sh*t. but haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard like twhaaat.
http://s3.youshareit.com/files/ea9f4872a56e8d47949529fc0986569c.html

^^make sure ta check for the snipped-muppet samples covering the curses, = haaaawt!!

if ya don't know bout TheTeam then I can't really help you. them cats are pure spit-blooded fire.
TurfTalk, Keak, Federation & all that hyphy sh*t are sum of the craziest nuttiest styles ever, but I can see if ya don't appreciate the steez. sh*t heat though...

secondly, in doses the Bay backpack rap sh*t is great. Lyrics Born is a genius. Planet Asia, Pep Love & Encore are all beasts. Mission/Crown City are pretty damn tight. P.U.T.S. are decent for that True School sh*t. um, yeah latter-day Souls Of Mischief & them Zion-I cats can be annoying/grating after too much & so can Blackalicious but like I said,--in DOSES the sh*t's great... I'd advise just NEVER listen ta anticon. then you're fine, I don't think there really even is any "white backpacker" scene here besides them...

www.royalarkmusic.com

hilarious thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9iTcDK4JU

the jacka feat. andre nickatina's "glamorous lifestyle" is getting lots of radio play, it's pretty catchy.
E-40 has a new album out. i haven't heard it yet. what else is good right now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPbgNHDpgAY

and re:"jungle," pretty good, i hadn't heard that before. i like the kalimba!

I think I've given up on hip hop

but this is such an exciting time for it. everything is in flux.

I guess I liked a bunch of that stuff on the snap thread but that's pretty much all I've heard in the last couple years that held my attention

hilarious thread

ya :-|

fwiw the past 2 yrs or so have been incredible for bay area raps. i might turn this into a rolling nu bay raps thread, in fact. but yeah, bay rap around the time this thread was started ?? unless you were really into hyphy or were paying attention to mob figaz (who were pretty bleeding edge at the time) i can see being kinda underwhelmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwZp3moiPqY

still <3<3<3 circa-05 hyphy

its the jack boy
you bitch-ass niggas out here so scary
yall dont even understand why the fuck you comparin me
got dope like purp smoke, choke, get ya throat split
with the box cutter, im in the box brother
26s under ridiculous thunder, cant drive through the P no more
dirty dayton last month, i was high, i was drunk
i'm so fly, what the fuck, i don't give a fuck
i dont even give a fuck, take me out,
pat me down the strap was never found but it was there baby
so fuckin tucked away i never care
we be friday afternoon
facin towards Mecca
watch ya mouth, shake suckas cuz the boys'll come snatch ya
you gotta album in the stores but the hood dont respect ya
youse a bitch-ass nigga, but (???? is that arabic?)
off the 12th in the 7th letter, got yo girl outta sweater
she chose up after my show, i ain't have to sweat 'er

i think that verse is dope but jacka is def a rapper whose shit doesnt always translate typed out the way gucci's does

all the other rappers on this song, except dude who does the hook, i just dont know. whats with that scarface biter??

i eventually got into hyphy, but bay area hip hop, in general, still sucks. it's so corny here.

u are listening to the rong shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhV-3FNUo5w

there's not even a single hip hop store in the city. but walk down lower haight and you have like 20 techno stores

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, May 13, 2005 1:45 PM (4 years ago)

lolll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ATNQ2wTnM&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktvOo5vj0E

20 techno stores

RIP

deej, i guess i mean more the scene than the music.

oh well im in chicago we dont even have the music

lol Playaz Club is like what 15 years old...?

40 never lets me down tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADXuyQVd3g

I scrape the streets, fuck peace, i got hella shit that'll leave ya hella stiff
yuh-oh
hundred-round drums sit round top the calico-oh,
yuh-oh, niggas come from cali yo
ya say its thug everywhere but it ain't the same
nuh-oh, cuz errybody got a thang
put one in the cham' can't catch ya drain, slugs faster than a train that'll splat ya
got ya brains on the seven-inch screen, i woke up this morning so yo i know its not a dream
now i gotta shower for an hour no trace of the gunpowder no trace of the rollo
cleanin out bottles of remy just to hide the thought of this nigga layin on his black leakin a river

lol this thread

Worth reading?

not really, the links to the better mixtapes are dead. surprisingly little discussion of actual music and more complaining about stores/audiences

eh, alright. Is there a good bay rap thread, or does it all just run through Gun Sounds?

I couldn't find a decent bay rap thread, no... which is why I ended up on this one. gun sounds threads have only been called that for the last year or two iirc...?

i've totally come around to bay area rap since this thread

who was that dude who played like really slowed down rockish rap tracks over there? i should totally mine those old threads,

okay who is this

Spottie its mostly run through the last 2-3 years of gun sounds esque threads

And occasionally lightweight jammin thread or artist specific threads

Spottie do u have g chat

is there a jacka thread? or even a proper bay area thread?

anyway, beyond classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osU6-Zr8PN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfbpi7YjFw

this song is so damn good. love the low key hook

I agree that the Bay Area puts out some of the most embarrassing hip hop. I cannot STAND that indie(read:white) hip hop from the bay area.
I still like Souls of Mischeif's "93 till Infinity" though. But that would fall under golden era.

The other thing that's terrible about going to clubs with a packpacker(read:white) DJ is that they always play the same five goddamned songs from like 12 years ago. If you're going to play out and you're going to play 9tre stuff, dig up something from 1993 that I might have slept on. But no, it's always the same Pharcyde/De La Soul/Tribe record in every set.

― Morgan Patrick (public_radio), Saturday, May 14, 2005 7:28 AM (7 years ago)

smh @ this thread

[usually]

I cannot STAND that indie(read:white) hip hop from the bay area.

What's this referring to? The Coup? At that time maybe Paris? Zion I? Probably meant to include Blackalicious, etc too.

How about Main Attractionz?

http://soundcloud.com/weirdworldrecordco/marshmellow-yellow-main

Marginal Prophets probably lol

Main AttrakionzzzZzzz do indeed sux

maybe like clouddead type stuff?

Ray Luv tho yall