What album put you onto Bay Area rap?

[LevelUp]

I was listening to short my whole life, but back 2 the hotel had me buying every vallejo artist, first time i heard 40 too, rbl posse first album

 

[puppetmaster]

Life is too short. Stole it outta my brothers car was WAY too young to be listening to the shyt he was on on that album but hey

 

[LevelUp]

^classic

 

[Big Mel]

must have been either Too $hort, Digital Underground or MC Hammer. All those occurred around the same time.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Life is too short. Stole it outta my brothers car was WAY too young to be listening to the shyt he was on on that album but hey

Same.

A family friend put me onto this when I was pretty young, it was his favorite shyt at the time. I still listen to it from time to time and know every single kick,snare, and lyric on it.

The Bay Area has put out so much great music, it kind of gets hated on around here because of a few posters making jokes.

 

[PhonZhi]

3rd Eye Vision

 

[hiphopfanatic]

When I was 14-15, these three records got me listening to The Bay more.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Wasn't any particular album, when I was a young Pac stanley I looked for as much material as I could find and I always liked his collabs with Bay Area artists so I knew names like Richie Rich, Mac Mall, E-40 & The Click, Spice 1, etc. So I started checking for artists from that area eventually, I'd say the first full album from the Bay that I fukked with was Get in Where you Fit in by Too $hort. My favorite gotta be Game Related though, that shyt still bump plus its impact on the game is undeniable.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Honestly, I had listened to a shyt load of Bay Area stuff, it just didn't click with me that all these dudes were... I dunno. I don't want to say "from the same area"....

it's just amazing to me how I really was more hearing the hip hop I was listening to and not really LISTENING to it.

I mean... I had a love for the music. It was always so... organic sounding. More jazzy and not so bluesy (the south) or boom bap (east coast).

It just didn't click in my mind that it was "Bay Area" rap. Maybe it was because we were made to force rap into "East/West/South" in the mid 90s?

It makes me sad to think about how I used to listen to music and had no deeper appreciation of it. Like I was ignorant.

 

[Ashtrey]

Mc hammer 2pac too short

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I was listening to short my whole life, but back 2 the hotel had me buying every vallejo artist, first time i heard 40 too, rbl posse first album

Funny, just Put some Rbl on my Ipod

 

[Mr. Negative]

Honestly, us as hip hop listeners should really be giving the Bay their props. Their diversity and originality would really make you question where acts were from. THe 90's really was an era of stereotyped rap acts. You could tell if someone was from the east, the "west", the south, midwest..... but The Bay was FULL of cats doing different shyt from talk to dress. In hindsight, from that dusty backwoods Da Souf village I was in?

I thought the nikkas from The Bay was the flyest nikkas alive.

(sorry for the journal/retrospective/tl;dr type posting. Faulty brain chemistry)

First Bay Area albums I owned, all between 93-95 (I'ma try to list them in order):

(my nerdy comic book reading ass only bought this because it looked like some punisher superhero shyt :mjlool:

(I didn't "get" this album until years after I bought it. It went right over my head and I didn't like it.)

(it.... disappeared before I ever had a chance to listen to it.)


It's weird. Nowadays, Bay Area rap is the only rap I consistently listen to.

 

[Zero]

Been an E-40 and Too Short fan for years and listened to Luniz, Jacka, Mac Dre and Mall but I didnt get into Bay Area rap heavy until I heard 3xKrazy

 

[dza]

Still remember when pops thru this tape in the whip

 

[Zero]

Breh was a BEAST