What album put you onto Bay Area rap?

[TEKBEATZ]

Casual - fear itself

 

[GoldTeef]

Probably the best album to come out of the Bay
#classic




"My skin color, automatic transaction
I'm already classified, no second chance"


"Why can't I sag when it's just a style
Little beard, black hoodie, and I'm all good
People judge before they even know me
Stare at me, don't know I'm lonely
Outside's from these stares from police
And I get the bad rep because another man that just looks like me"


"It makes me sad to see pimping like I'm at a battle with my surroundings
Everybody do it, but not really
And I couldn't imagine my momma
Universal knowledge is karma
I see young girls hanging off the corner
And they searching for love in the wrong space
Gave her mind to a pimp, now he's changing faces"

"Get your point across without violence
The black dying by the gun, I'm tired of crying"

 

[Robbo]

Breh was a BEAST

I always liked Mac Mall more than Mac Dre, but you can't really say that shyt in the bay since Mac Dre died

 

[dish lowry]

Digital Underground (Sons Of the P album is great)
Too Short & MC Pooh on the Juice soundtrack.

i liked Del- Dr. Bombay a lot

 

[THE K-MAN]

Breh was a BEAST

The Bay Area Illmatic

 

[Mac Casper]

There's a blue bird on my shoulder can I kill it?

 

[Luxury Tax]

 

[DaveyDave]

Spice 1 probably 187 He Wrote unless you want to count Hammer

before that I always like the features of Spice 1 on Eiht albums and shyt like the Luniz

 

[Danie84]

187 He Wrote/Amerikkka's Nigtmare & Stackin Chips makes the cypher complete

 

[Taadow]

Digital Undergound - Sons Of The P was the first one amongst my circle of influence that really popped off when I was a young'un
livin' in L.A....

but when I moved out here mid-90s, I didn't realize other locales were feelin' the Bay until Game Related came out.
That's when I really started listening to Bay rap heavy.

 

[Still Benefited]

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This thread is a beautiful sight...I remember first comin on the innanets and the lack of respect people seemed to have....I knew it was only a matter of time before the tables turned tho....Just like in those movies where they out in the desert thinking its all over,seeing double,about to fall over....They stumble across that pool in the desert just at the right time....Hiphop dry mouth is at a all time high,rap fans stumbling onto classic bay area hiphop to quench that thirstiness

 

[Big Mel]

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.

The Pharcyde are from Los Angeles. I'm deducting 10 Illmatic points from your score.

 

[The_Hillsta]

First Bay Area tape I ever took to school...Freaky Tales.....Bruh, look at that cover, walkin around the yard in levis and fila with that shyt in my pocket thinkin I had some shyt

We all knew the words that shytIt was how he was rappin, shyt was so easy to recite. Cold part is we was all still youngins, muthafukkin elementary school. No radio play, no video play during this time but you heard that muthafukkin bassline outta every lac, box chev, mustang, bucket, apartment window, boom box from the Rich all the way to the east side O. Parents gone, my older brother would be chippin paint off the walls with Born To mack. During recess the janitor at our school would post up in the parking lot playin too short tapes in his Nova.

Muthafukkaz would leave kickball games and run to the gate just to hear this fool slappin Freaky Tales, Mack Attack, Dope Fiend Beat Talmbout slappin hoe$ in the face ith donkey ropes

The stage was set in motion....Elementary to junior high.....

Too Short - Born To Mack/Life Is/ SD's In The House, Richie Rich/415vin - Groupie Ass bytch/Sideshow, Digital-Freaks Of The Industry/Humpty Dance/Doowhutcha, Dangerous Dame-I call Your Name, MC Pooh Out to The bytches/fukkin wit Dank/The Hit, Filthy Phil-Consequences,...

then around 90-91 you started hearing ALL this shyt on Bay Area radio

 

[ManBearPig]

Mob Figaz

 

[Khadafhi]

My older brother put me on to too $hort, e-40 n the click. I remember when i went to frisco round 91 n i traided this nikka 36 chambers for rbl posse a lesson to be learned. Been fukkin wit since