The dylannn (west coast hip-hop) listening club

was just thinking about this thread, glad to have you/it back

bump

fuck it yeah let's listen to some west coast rap
i've got music control at work and i've been listening to new stuff again

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 -
k3vin -
Sisilafami -
Spottie -

Iamsu album is what I wish DJ Mustard radio sounded like

I'm a hater

The Jacka - The Jack Artist

Can Scarface be considered West Coast rap?

Gulf Coast Rap

Can Scarface be considered West Coast rap?

― ∞, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:31 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no!

ha no way, also the point is to give dylannn something he hasn't heard.

let's do this

count me as a lurker (and learner) very happy to see this thread revived (if it revives)

haha. k. what would it be? southern or just something else completely?

i should've guessed ddddylan had listened to scarface already anyway.

anyway, i'll be lurking as well

um Scarface is from fucking Houston....? in what world is that the west coast?

west is west of the mississippi river, dude. i wasn't that far off the mark.

chill

west *coast* rap is california rap

Houston is about 1600 miles from NYC and 1500 miles from L.A.

this is about geography, it's about Texas, Houston, and Rap A Lot having a long established and acknowledged history and style that was perceived at the time and still today as a distinct local tradition and scene that was separate from NYC and LA

this is not a debate

right.

let's listen to dreganomics

feelin myself

Tmi

the jack artist

omg

man the album isn't THAT long

mac dre brought a halt to this thread the last time, too. you know i like get stupid but samey flow and its just not my fav thing in the world to listenn to for 43 minutes. we gotta move to the next entry.

*cris*

CRIES

not that i don't like old school good times type flow guys cause that style is in a lot of other stuff i like but the beats are ehhh and my interest wanes over a few tracks. but yeah it's good but whatever, next.

i like this though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAzytu5ot8

you have to tell me why i'm wrong though and dreganomics is a west coast classic

idk if I would go so far as to call it a "classic". D-40 can probably mount a more spirited defense than I could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpILw-M4NTk

this too

he's a p significant figure in the Bay and that's probably his best/most consistent album. Those were my reasons for the nomination. I don't think it's a classic on the level of Death Certificate or In a Major Way or whatever, just that he's a piece of the puzzle that had a big influence.

yeah i totally get it. just like i get e40 but never need to listen to 40 minutes of e40.

TBH i feel like that's an overrated Mac Dre record ... much prefer Heart of a Gangsta, Mind of a Hustla, Tongue of a Pimp, stupid doo doo dumb, al boo boo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI6CHDgcA8k

hmm that one's kind of morbid

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

he's kind of a west coast biggie imo

xpost
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