Someone educate a NYC nikka on bay area hip-hop.

[Stir Fry]

Check out this album (Genocide & Juice) when you get a chance

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Quannam Projects

Capital Tax

Cytoplasms

Silk E.

Harm

C-Bo

Hobo Junction-Saafirs Crew

Bad N Fluence Click (RIP Rappin Ron)

Father Dom

Dangerous Dame

@FruitOfTheVale covered a lot...I know theres a few we are overlooking..

 

[Deucage]

Spice 1's first 3 albums.
They're still in rotation today

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Mac Dre >

Its funny how nobody really thought this when he was alive

 

[Mac Casper]

Its funny how nobody really thought this when he was alive

That's not true.

"Trying to stay number one without stepping to number two" - Mac Dre

lyrics like this would be completely out of context had this not been the case. He was commonly referred to as a legend, there are many instances of this from his peers while he was alive.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

That's new true.

"Trying to stay number one without stepping to number two" - Mac Dre

lyrics like this would be completely out of context had this not been the case. He was commonly referred to as a legend, there are many instances of this from his peers while he was alive.

I never heard Mac Dre referred to as a legend when he was alive, or rarely heard his albums in the trunk or club, when he was alive.

He BARELY got radio play unlike many other prominent Bay Area rappers.

I used to DJ and was NEVER asked to play a Mac Dre track.

Im just stating what Ive experienced listening to Bay Hip hop in these streets since "to hard for the fukking radio".

This is not a diss..

 

[ILLMMORTAL]

Aye cuz,Just go pick up that Born to Mack and Life is Too Short,E40 or some Spice 1!
Learn some history! Real shyt!

 

[Mac Casper]

I never heard Mac Dre referred to as a legend when he was alive, or rarely heard his albums in the trunk or club, when he was alive.

He BARELY got radio play unlike many other prominent Bay Area rappers.

I used to DJ and was NEVER asked to play a Mac Dre track.

Im just stating what Ive experienced listening to Bay Hip hop in these streets since "to hard for the fukking radio".

This is not a diss..

How many instances would you like to hear?

Radio play wasn't Mac Dre's territory - he was an independent artist and as you know, after the 1996 Telecommunications Act signed by Bill Clinton - a majority of radio space in major markets was bought up by a few corporations and they then controlled the playlists.

 

[Still Benefited]

How many instances would you like to hear?

Radio play wasn't Mac Dre's territory - he was an independent artist and as you know, after the 1996 Telecommunications Act signed by Bill Clinton - a majority of radio space in major markets was bought up by a few corporations and they then controlled the playlists.

Plus im pretty sure radio was already dead by then

 

[FeloniousMonk]

How many instances would you like to hear?

Radio play wasn't Mac Dre's territory - he was an independent artist and as you know, after the 1996 Telecommunications Act signed by Bill Clinton - a majority of radio space in major markets was bought up by a few corporations and they then controlled the playlists.

All of'em prior to his death in 2004.

And, Yep. I do. Clear Channel came in and crushed the buildings. Thats where the protests about the lack of local music being played began.

Radio play wasnt Dre's territory because he didnt want to do the politics, not to mention if you're not getting requests to get heard..(Ive actually asked Pds/Md's about Dre's lack on airplay on primetime...) yet many other bay Area artists did, some got radio spins and some got actual adds(yet not after a major upset directed at CC exec's).

 

[Mac Casper]

All of'em prior to his death in 2004.

And, Yep. I do. Clear Channel came in and crushed the buildings. Thats where the protests about the lack of local music being played began.

Radio play wasnt Dre's territory because he didnt want to do the politics, not to mention if you're not getting requests to get heard..(Ive actually asked Pds/Md's about Dre's lack on airplay on primetime...) yet many other bay Area artists did, some got radio spins and some got actual adds(yet not after a major upset directed at CC exec's).

I'll be back

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

E 40>>>>> Mac dre

 

[606onit]

I wonder if these guys own property in the Bay?

 

[Mac Casper]

E 40>>>>> Mac dre

ohhhhhhh no . . . . not at all, not even close - and for the better part of the last 13 years E-40 has been doing his best Mac Dre impression

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

ohhhhhhh no . . . . not at all, not even close - and for the better part of the last 13 years E-40 has been doing his best Mac Dre impression

E 40 is all original .

In a major way>>>>>