OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
A lot of great albums were named in here that I didn't even know people listened to around here outside of the Westcoast heads.
Favorite West Coast album
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A lot of great albums were named in here that I didn't even know people listened to around here outside of the Westcoast heads.
This is pretty hard to do, there is so much. But i'd say:
MC Eight - We Come Strapped
Spice 1 - Amerikka's Nightmare
Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
Luniz - Operation Stakola
Westside Connection - Bow Down
Yukmouth - Thugged out: The albulation
Bad Azz - Word on tha streetz
Warren G - G Funk Era
MC Eight - We Come Strapped
Spice 1 - Amerikka's Nightmare
Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
Luniz - Operation Stakola
Westside Connection - Bow Down
Yukmouth - Thugged out: The albulation
Bad Azz - Word on tha streetz
Warren G - G Funk Era
LunaticVillage415
All Star
A lot of great albums were named in here that I didn't even know people listened to around here outside of the Westcoast heads.
Ehhh... People from the East Coast love No One Can Do It Better.
Why? Because its West Coast Rap delivered in a distinctly East Coast fashion. The D.O.C. was spitting more like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim on that album than Too $hort. The subject matter of the Doc's rhymes were very typical of East Coast Hip Hop in the late 80's. His lyrical subject matter is pretty much limited to rapping about rapping and ripping stages, rocking parties and formulating rhymes. He never gets into a vivid narrative of street life like say, Too $hort or Ice-T. Although D.O.C.'s rhymes and delivery were very East Coast, the beats by Dre was some of the best the West Coast has ever produced on that album. 
Souls of Mischief 93' Til' Infinity is another West Coast album East Coast heads love because they sound like a Native-Tounges Tribe Called Quest type of group on that album. Their beats rely heavier on jazz samples than heavy bass and whiny synths. Their rhymes more filled with obscure pop culture references than raw disturbing violent imagery. Their image, demeanor and delivery more boy-next-door like Q-Tip rather than menacing like N.W.A. But the Souls of Mischief sounded like they could have been from Queens on that album. Hardly West Coast. I know very, very few people who are fans of that style of Rap in the Bay. And the people who are just happen to be the whitest white people on the planet.
Why do you think that album is so critically acclaimed? Most music critics lived in NYC during that era. 
All of this being said, people from the East Coast are largely ignorant of Bay Area Rap. They think Bay Area Rap is limited to Too $hort, E-40, Mac Dre and 2006-era Hyphy. They only give credit to one West Coast legacy, that being Death Row/N.W.A. Hence, the full title of this blasphemous thread.
Its lightweight stupid seeing that West Coast Rap pretty much started off in the Bay with Too $hort in the early 80's. But most East Coast heads criticize Too $hort for his "delivery". As if making complex rhyme schemes filled with pop culture references talking strictly about rapping on stage is somehow "better" than painting a timeless vivid picture of a crack-era Oakland. Also, given that many classic Bay albums actually predate The Chronic and make Dre look less revolutionary than he truly was.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet.
Real suprised nobody posted this.
Was going to list these as well.