The dylannn (west coast hip-hop) listening club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72HNX6bJ2ag

he's kind of a west coast biggie imo

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yeah i like that a lot

I think you'll find other records more to your liking. I always thought he was poorly 'sold' to the wider hip hop world after his death, it was all about the silly dances and the thizz face and the bizarre end of the production spectrum when he sounds a lot better over smooth shit like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighUqu2HhgI

imho

morals and standards needs a bloodier payoff

yeah i like the toned down tighter darker beats and the smooth let's go ridin stuff + more complex?? flow - narrative on these

Gonna share one last Mac Dre YouTube, only because this one is on a Khayree record rather than a Mac Dre one, so easily missed, but it's one of his best:

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

The reason I brought up Biggie is bc he has such good eye for details & also the way his words fold together w/ these perfect rhymes, very precise

he's funnier than Biggie

ha i love that part of 'off tha rictor' where he's like:

I'm in the party blazin
i see this hottie gazin
but her stretch marks got her look like a raisin
i'm on a different page and
i'm saucy like some cajun
wouldn't care if she was haitian, asian or caucasian

*lookin

never really bought off on a full album of Mac Dre although every album seems to have plenty of outstanding cuts.

i often listen to al boo boo these times

I liked Mac Mall's Illegal Business a little better than any Mac Dre album I heard

next!

Deej, was this your rec?

The Jacka - The Jack Artist

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've heard that raelly amateur raw like i like but we can talk about it
i've been listening to genie of the lamp

wait so you mean you've listened to that Jacka album

I don't know it myself

If we're still on mac dre

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc6LfTExnsw

https://bkblack28.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/next.jpg

Cool, here is where we left off:

Spottie - Suga Free 'Street Gospel'
D-40 - Jacka/Husalah 'Mob Trial'
Reverend - B-Legit 'The Hemp Museum'
octobeard - Blackalicious 'Blazing Arrow'
Whiney - Low Profile 'We're In This Together'
Sisilafami - E40 'Grit & Grind'
viacom diss - Nacho Picasso 'Exalted'
Neanderthal - J Stalin 'Prenuptial Agreement'
fadanuf4erybody - Above the Law 'Uncle Sams Curse'
Upper Mississipi - Ice Cube 'Death Certificate'
Shakey - Mac Dre - Dreganomics
D-40 - Jacka - The Jack Artist
k3vin -
Sisilafami -
Spottie -

― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, July 14, 2014 9:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kev you are you up you have one day to report or we skip to sisilafami

Thanks to Sisilafami's rec, I've been heavy on the A-Wax album. He's a deceptively good writer. Also, unrelated but very impressive is the RATKING 'So It Goes' album from a few months back. Surprised to see no ILM traction.

Sorry, thought I was in the Rolling Rap Bro thread. But I'd nominate A-Wax 'Pulling Strings' if dylann's game.

if dk isn't weighing in on the jacka i'm picking another one get kev out the paint

Solid job blocking out by deej who secures the rebound...

Can we revive? I don't want to jump the line but there's so much good west coast rap right now! Mostly, though, I just love to read Dylann.

oh this is an awesome idea, i totally need a west coast education too

― amandabama murderpussy (some dude), Saturday, July 6, 2013 4:47 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If dylannn needs/wants out (which it sounds like he does) then we can transfer the thread to sd, if he wants in.

I just scanned to see what was mentioned. Feel like I know a ton more 90s West Coast stuff now than I did back when this thread was active. A recent great discovery was South Central Cartel's All Day Everyday.

Recently I've been listening to Welcome to the Navy by DB tha General and Heroin Music by Lil Blood, not classics like most of the stuff mentioned in this thread but both really good.

yo it would be great if al^somedude could do the bulk of the listening and commenting work and i could just assist him.

No one weighed in on jack artist so I'm switching mine to sacramento's own Mozzy and I guess his most recent album "bladadah"

d-40 this is dark!

http://imgur.com/mP9npRf.jpg

and so blankfaced violent, dispassionate violent. violence as the core of the whole thing, not part of a dope game organizational capability to defend (opening track quotes ) and convincingly threaten or streets is chaos stay strapped or you might be taken under. just every hook KILL A NIGGA ROCK HIS ASS WITH THE SEMI-type thing ("cold body" ft kunta) mozzy has like this ultra hd first person shooter feel, hunting through the streets with like the album cover ak dripping blood. KILL HIM ON SIGHT / RISK DOING LIFE / MIGHT BE ABLE TO WIGGLE IF THEY DO IT RIGHT ("body 4 body"). especially without the backstory, the story about meaningless local beef oak park mack road vines of guys getting stomped at the mall, it's technically good with the flow and clean dark beats but the impression can be of mozzy as death squad middle manager, leading a morning pep rally to a team of shooters in khaki slacks and polo shirts leading a chant of NIGGA I KILL EVERYBODY ("nike" ft nelco). there's no specific target just corpses and the ones that got away for now. without cracking a smile showing much humanity, even on the tracks he's supposed to just bleak loading up the clip emptying the clip loading up the clip emptying the clip, putting the 40 in true religion jeans and going to sit outside someone's mama's house. rating: it's okay, technically proficient flow without any idiosyncrasy or much emotion. few guests offer shot of personality to bleakness. not really my thing.

thanks dylannn. always love your posts. now i wanna hear mozzy. can i go way obvious and suggest vince staples 'summertime '06'?