What's your favourite year in west coast hip hop??

[The "Untouchable" DJR]

I gotta go with 1996...

Besides Dre leaving D.R. and Pac passing away this was a real good year musical wise for the left coast, lots of dope west coast songs and albums came out at that time. Ofcourse D.R. held the crown that year with albums like AEOM, Doggfather, 7 Day Theory, D.R. Greatest Hits and songs like Tha Dogg Pound's Just Doggin, Soopafly's I Don't Hang, LBC Crew's Beware Of My Crew, Danny Boy's Slip-N-Slide and Tha Dogg Pound's I Do...

Other artists who released dope albums that year were Mr. X, Young Murder Squad, Lil Half Dead, Westside Connection, Eazy, DJ Yella, Sh'Killa, MC Eiht, MC Ren etc and there were some tight soundtracks with west coast songs on it too like The Substitute...

Things done changed since then...   

[MontrealCity's Most]

Good thread dude. I would say 96 too . Don forget westside conection came out that year too.

[evan the dude]

yeah, 1996 gets my vote as well. really hard to top that year for the west, or any coast for that matter.

[eazye]

Well, it's gotta be 1996.Xzibit came out, Ras, Short dropped another great album (probably his last that was REALLY good), alotta great music came out from the bay...Pretty much everybody from the west was droppin' tight stuff

[R-Tistic]

Hmmm....it's always hard for me to separate years because I always catergorize music by whatever year I was in school....so Doggystyle and Regulate would be in the same year to me, even though it was 93 and 94, just because they both dropped in 4th grade for me.

But I'd say.............
95....when the West was at our prime, and before we started to decline after 96. This was the Lakers 2001 team...right in the middle of our greatness. That summer alone was better than any year after 96 for us. I can't even begin to name all the heat we had.....Cube Dre and everyone on the Friday Sdtk, WC n the Maad Circle - West up!!, Coolio (yes, his songs were dope), Skee-Lo I wish, Ahmad Back in the dayz, Digital Underground had that Oregano flow, The Twinz dropped, Luniz dropped I got five on it, I first heard E-40 and he dropped Sprinkle me, Too Short dropped gettin it, Dru Down dropped "Mack of the year", LBC Crew dropped Summertime in the LBC, Dogg Pound dropped Dogg Food and NY NY, Respect, Lets play house, Mack 10 came out and dropped Foe Life, Adina Howard dropped Freak like me and we know that she was to the west what Ciara and Cherish are to Atlanta right now, 2Pac dropped Me against the world and had Dear Mama and So many tears.................nothing can top that!!!!

92, 93, 94, and 96 were all amazing....but I think 95 gets on them. Since then....I'd say 2001 showed a LOT of promise, but nothing happened like we hoped it would.

[Sikotic™]

1996 can't be beat.

[Streetryder310]

1996 can't be beat.

[suckaa free]

anything before 1997 and nothing after 1987. 

[Narrator]

1992 - three of my all-time favorite West Coast albums were released: "The Chronic", "The Predator", and "Guerillas In Tha Mist".

I can see 1996, tho - that was definitely when the West was at its peak.  And then it all fell apart just as suddenly by the year's end when Pac died and Snoop's 2nd album flopped and it was obvious that Death Row was falling off.

[M Dogg™]

I liked 1993.

[SoCal Iz Active]

1995

[Tha G In Deee]

92, 93, 94, and 96 were all amazing....but I think 95 gets on them.

[acgrundy]

probably 95, but I can't remember what year albums came out, other than a select few

[BG Dresta]

92, 93, 94, and 96 were all amazing....but I think 95 gets on them.

['DsR']

96