Drifter
09.19.24 | You shan't be disappointed by any of these great albums. Check one and let me know what you think of it! |
SteakByrnes
09.19.24 | hey my pal drifter much love
anybody who sees this list is epic and should jam Guerilla Maab |
Drifter
09.19.24 | to you as well steak!
that one's been on my check list for years. great pull |
Storm In A Teacup
09.19.24 | I have not heard of any of these. Will check all once I am done with all the songs from the contest on main site |
Storm In A Teacup
09.19.24 | + guerilla maab |
bellovddd
09.19.24 | Needs more seven Harris |
foxblood
09.19.24 | boom bap sucks homie |
Drifter
09.19.24 | lmao these albums are dope fox. but peep priesthood for sure it's super great you should love it |
foxblood
09.19.24 | ok BUT you gotta jam lil pigg penn please dude is the sac legend. I recently paid a lot for one of his albums so maybe I want validation of his greatness lol |
Drifter
09.19.24 | youre so right im adding it to my check playlist right now (different from the general thousand+ album long mental check list i previously mentioned)
edit: i see ima have to download it lol but i will do that right now too |
foxblood
09.19.24 | the beats on The Hogg In Me are some of the best I've ever heard so I'm excited to hear what you think |
Drifter
09.19.24 | ooo i see the primary producer did a couple songs for p folks and gangsta dre so im sure they are super sick. speaking of which i still gotta revisit gang banging poetry 2 i haven't heard it in years |
foxblood
09.19.24 | gang banging poetry 2 is a classic too, I really want the cd |
Drifter
09.19.24 | me too. if i recall correctly i actually saw it in person at a record store called phonoselect in sacramento about 2 months ago
that store used to barely get any hip hop of interest and i hadnt gone in over a year and magically so much incredible shit appeared. that album, another gangsta dre collaboration album, richie rich seasoned veteran (which i bought), and various other underground gangsta rap albums that i would've spent way too much on if i wasn't so painfully broke at the time. you might send them a message on instagram and see if they still have it i think it was like $20. they do incredibly fair prices unlike fucking amoeba in berkeley. |
foxblood
09.19.24 | Gang Banging Poetry 1 Is how lil pigg penn got his start as exec producer |
foxblood
09.19.24 | I don't go to berkeley anymore for music, buying cds in person is hard these days. Not really vinyl though. I never see g-funk stuff irl I have to get in on ebay or discogs |
Relinquished
09.19.24 | sprinkle me son |
Drifter
09.19.24 | i live in berkeley now cause i go to school here now and im already about done going to amoeba. they have some of the reissues of old albums like att will and big mack but they charge soo much. theyre charging $70 for an og of young ed's album time to stack and it's like bruh im not gonna pay what someone would charge on eBay at an actual record store. or like this mid career dru down album they're asking $40 for one copy and $50 for another for. ive seen all of these albums for at least a year and a half and theyre just sitting on the shelves cause the demographic there is not checking for old gangsta rap.
rasputin in berkeley is much much better but in general it's kind of shocking how unrepresentative a lot of their inventory is for old g funk esp bay area stuff. i still can find some good things occasionally but it's still disappointing sometimes.
im trying to avoid using the internet for cds cause i feel like i got really stuck doing it cause you can get exactly what you want but i feel like it's taken a lot of the fun out of the randomness and the excitement of discovery in person. much more exciting to find the first pressing Chronic without the feature box in the corner in person than if i just ordered it off discogs. funnily enough found that one at the berkeley amoeba lol
put me onto some other record stores around the east bay tho. one that is like unbelievably shocking is the store half price books in Berkeley often has insanely rare shit. a few months ago i copped Pistol's debut album, lil half dead's debut, and big mello's debut in the same trip all for like $25 total. and there have been multiple times ive found really really great stuff there. |
foxblood
09.19.24 | oh congrats on going to school there! I was born in bekeley, it always felt like a second home to me even though it's not cool like it used to be.
'im trying to avoid using the internet for cds cause i feel like i got really stuck doing it cause you can get exactly what you want but i feel like it's taken a lot of the fun out of the randomness and the excitement of discovery in person.'
vinyl collecting is how I avoid that but I know you don't do vinyl. I could rec some vinyl shops that don't do cds but that's about it. as far as places that do cds I don't know, maybe street light records in santa cruz, I'm there often. kinda far tho. and mid hip-hop selection that's worse than rasputin. Pleasant Hill rasptuin is weird and is mostly dvds and clothes |
foxblood
09.19.24 | time to stack for $70 I prob would tbh |
foxblood
09.19.24 | 'demographic there is not checking for old gangsta rap.'
applies to all norcal, nobody here looks back on what music was made here at all. People in luxomberg are more into the stuff from here than the people from here are. it's weird as fuck to me. The amount of g-funk records getting remastered on vinyl in Luxembourg is mind boggling. Most Wanted Records for example, they remastered stuff from Red Money, Pigg Penn, Gangsta Dre, 3x crazy the list just goes on. What remasters come from cali itself for this stuff? jack shit lol |
foxblood
09.19.24 | I think we are so spoiled with artists most people don't bother to sort through it all and just put on tupac and call it a day |
Drifter
09.19.24 | lol yeah it’s hilarious that label from luxembourg does so many of the pressings. germany and japan seem to be like the most passionate locations for g funk/general gangsta rap fandom outside of the states if not moreso nowadays
time to stack for $70 is a pretty average price for it if not better from what ive seen online it's just the principle of it lmao. but i dont think its going anywhere soon if you really want it
and yeah the amount of incredible bay area artists that just get no love is crazy. so many people my age will be like yeah bro mac dre is the goat or the jacka but i feel like it's all just posturing anyways and those are still the tip of the iceberg. i have such a knee jerk reaction to mac dre getting brought up cause i feel like no one is actually genuine in their feelings for him even tho he is super good. even his own cds aren't common here but all the thizz nation ones stay unsold at the end of the hip hop section cause duh they will |
SlothcoreSam
09.19.24 | You checked the new Bello and Shem?
Top drawer cuntcore |
foxblood
09.19.24 | yeah Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg are holding it down. Since it's so common my gf and I often joke about the people from there listening to this stuff because they are so far removed from it's context that it's kinda adorable/nerdy imagining them bouncing to this stuff with little to no understanding of what a lot of it actually means and just grooving |
Drifter
09.19.24 | "oh congrats on going to school there! I was born in bekeley, it always felt like a second home to me even though it's not cool like it used to be."
thank you! i appreciate it and that's dope lol didnt know you were from here i assumed you were always up in east co co.
"maybe street light records in santa cruz, I'm there often. kinda far tho. and mid hip-hop selection that's worse than rasputin. Pleasant Hill rasptuin is weird and is mostly dvds and clothes"
yeah i heard of that rasputin years ago but have never gone lol. its funny cause i came to berkeley with my parents and brother in like 2016 and another time with just my brother in 2017 just to see the two big record stores here which are so crazy when i was younger and didnt know that much hip hop but now i realize theyre very hit and miss and the mythical-ness of them is a little lost now that its so regular to see them lol. but yeah santa cruz is a little far and i only go there with my gf for rare trips so idk if id ever make it there but it seems like im not missing much as it is.
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Drifter
09.19.24 | "yeah Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg are holding it down. Since it's so common my gf and I often joke about the people from there listening to this stuff because they are so far removed from it's context that it's kinda adorable/nerdy imagining them bouncing to this stuff with little to no understanding of what a lot of it actually means and just grooving"
hahahaha right i forgot belgium along with them. the only place doing any reissues is rap bay but theyre mostly just big names anyways besides like woodie and a couple others maybe. i follow a number of people on instagram from places like Germany and ukraine who adore this stuff and it is so funny how much they love it and rep it considering where they are. the thing is tho, is those international reissue labels are there for a reason cause that's where the market for those albums is. i do really wanna cop that att will album that ive spotted at amoeba but like i said its been there for at least a year and a half so i think im safe to save up for it. besides that one isnt incredibly taxed its only $15 which is pretty fair for a recent (albeit reissue) new condition cd. big mack too |
foxblood
09.19.24 | dude Jacka is the definition of a mid bay area rapper. Shame he died, like all slain bay area rappers, but it doesn't mean his output was really better than anyone else or even above average. Better Bay area rappers die all the time with little talk about it. I loved Johnny Ca$h. Before Jacka died I usually skipped his stuff because a lot of it is bland. Mac Dre has 100% charisma but half of his albums are complete ass. I'm the one that has all those unsold thizz nation cds lol. kinda because I was school friends with Sebastian AKA Tha Thizz kid who put his shitty album out on Thizz nation and his dad was swamp kat, who made Mac Dre some beats. He has a Dru fucking Down feat on his terrible album, I'm forever jealous. The stuff takes me back hard even when it sucks |
foxblood
09.19.24 | My test to see if someone really knows the depth of bay area rap is to see if they have respect for Cougnut |
Drifter
09.19.24 | hahahaha that's great. ive never listened to jacka myself but i definitely get the feel that a lot of his mythos is just from his death. and yeah i love some mac dre stuff like his debut and stupid doo doo dumb and the genie of the lamp but overall yeah there's a lot of unnecessary stuff that most dont even know about but just blanket praise i feel. |
Drifter
09.19.24 | yeah cougnut is very dope. i need to listen to more IMP i haven't heard ill mannered playas since like 2017. i remember back when i still knew little about hip hop i said he was like goldie loc but actually really great (lol). andre nickatina's muthafucka is such a crazy classic song in no small part due to his feature on it |
foxblood
09.19.24 | kinda random but I am the biggest fan ever of this weird little rap (not g-funk) group, called Young Dunnyz. I got their album Straps n Packs Vol. 1 (their only release lol) from rap bay a while back and no joke this stupid thing is one of my most cherished possessions. C-Dubb is one of the members of Young Dunnyz, and he is probably my most mourned slain bay area rapper. dude was onto something real imo, charisma out the ass. idk if it'll be your thing but I recommend just because I think it's an 11/10 mixtape and they have literally no other fans besides me. maybe add it to your long list or somthin |
foxblood
09.19.24 | 'i love some mac dre stuff like his debut and stupid doo doo dumb and the genie of the lamp but overall yeah there's a lot of unnecessary stuff'
yeah an album like 'It's Not What You Say... It's How You Say It' is such garbage no one even knows it exists. It's all downhill after his debut imo |
Drifter
09.19.24 | saved young dunnyz
funny you named that mac dre album cause i think i jammed a few songs from it and thought it was uninteresting. the ice cream truck sample song is kinda funny tho |
Drifter
09.19.24 | there's a c dubb on discogs with some cassette only albums from the mid to late 90s is it the same dude? actually i realize not cause this one is still dropping stuff
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2726965-C-Dubb-2 |
foxblood
09.20.24 | there are a bunch of c-dubbs, that indeed is not him. they aren't on discogs. Some of the other nore notable members are J murda (has a good song with Philthy Rich, hasn't done anything else except some old solo songs) and Doe Bama ( had a brief career and solo album with San quinn, iamsu! etc on it) I can't even figure out if Doe Bama is still alive, I think he is but there's no info. Info for the group in general is hard to find |
foxblood
09.20.24 | also have to briefly mention 'Surf Squad', a related rap group from hunters point. Phil Geez from Surf Squad is another favorite, he's out of jail and making music again. His old stuff is better though |
Drifter
09.20.24 | dope. gotta look into them as well. at some point it feels like everyone was a rapper at some point lol |
Drifter
09.20.24 | jamming lil pigg penn right now and it's already amazing two tracks in |
foxblood
09.21.24 | I might actually like the second half more too |
Typhoon24
09.22.24 | One to the chest and one to the dome
Well if them niggaz catch you slippin' then yo' ass is gone |
