The biggest West Coast songs to never be singles or have videos....

[R-Tistic]

What songs from the West would you say are classics, or near classics, that never received any radio or TV play? This might be easier for people from California to speak on, since we would have heard it. You can mention album cuts from albums that everybody knows and has, or you can mention songs that would have been lead singles for albums that didn't get much push.

I'd say that NWA Fuck the police is easily #1. Everybody in the nation knows that song, and it was very controversial...but it was way too extreme to ever put on radio or TV.

2Pac Hit em up is probably #2....it was very controversial, and even Biggie fans in NY sang the lyrics to it..but it could never be on radio.

Suga Free "Why you bullshittin?" has to be #3, because it was never censored enough to hit radio....but if you put it on in any L.A. club, people will sing it word for word. 

Other than that...I'd say:
Snoop - Tha Shiznit
DJ Quik - Mo pussy (at least I don't think it was on radio)
Dogg Pound - Bomb azz puzzy
Jayo - Sherm stick

I can't speak for too many Bay songs, because I'm sure that there are songs we know about in L.A. that got radio play in the Bay, but not in L.A.

[famozni]

what we do
knoc trun al feat warren g and xzibit

dr dre whats the difference

dpg dpg music real video not the bullshit amateur video they made on the couch

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

2Pac Hit em up is probably #2....it was very controversial, and even Biggie fans in NY sang the lyrics to it..but it could never be on radio.

u never seen the Hit'em up video?

[R-Tistic]

2Pac Hit em up is probably #2....it was very controversial, and even Biggie fans in NY sang the lyrics to it..but it could never be on radio.

u never seen the Hit'em up video?

Yeah I remember it, and I remember the Mo pussy video too (or maybe it was Sweet black pussy)...but those videos never got video play on TV, so that's really what I'm goin for....the songs that the average consumer who listens (or listened) to radio and watched BET/MTV may not have known about, especially before the internet took off. I only heard Hit em up because Murs n his brother had it on tape.

[soopadoopaflykid]

the most known got to be snoop dogg - aint no fun....play that any house party and it usually gets the place goin

[Teddy Roosevelt]

the most known got to be snoop dogg - aint no fun....play that any house party and it usually gets the place goin

Ha ha. I'm listening to that song right now.

[Intriago33]

I'll throw it out there like I do in these type of threads: Crooked I - Boom Boom Clap, could of been a huge hit.

[Quadruple OG]

One song that should have been a monster but had a pretty shitty video was Dr. Dre "Bad Intentions".  Shit could have blown up crazy but the video sucked ass. 

But two songs jump to mind, "Put it on me" with Dr. Dre and DJ Quik, and "On the boulevard" with Dre and Snoop.  Both songs could have had some crazy videos and probably would have been hits.  Another one that should have had a video was 2pac feat. K-Ci and Jojo for "Thug n me".  K-Ci & Jojo already had a radio version of the song recorded and put on their album (replacing the middle Pac verse with singing verses) and they could have filmed a video for the track.  That song could have been a monster if they did it right.

[Eddie G.]

the most known got to be snoop dogg - aint no fun....play that any house party and it usually gets the place goin

I'll go with that too.  I heard Why U Bullshittin on the radio a couple weeks ago for the first time.  But yeah, everyone knows that song.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

the most known got to be snoop dogg - aint no fun....play that any house party and it usually gets the place goin

I heard this song on the radio less then a week ago (and a week before that).

[swangin and bangin]

dre- whats the difference between me and you or some shit like that

[acgrundy]

Dogg Pound - Smooth
Ice Cube - Friday - I know there is a video, but did this song really blow up like it should have?
DJ Quik - Dollars + Sense
Roscoe - Smooth Sailing - See Ice Cube
Kurupt, Xzibit, MC Ren, Nate - Hardest Mutha Fuckas
Xzibit - Choke Me, Spank Me, Pull My Hair

[D-Reborn]

Tha Eastsidaz - Milk n Honey
Kurupt fr Tray Deee & Xzibit - Fuck wit us

 

[CaliKorleone]

Have to agree with Ain't No Fun.  That would have been a crazy ass music video.

My list:
Snoop Dogg and Tray Dee - 21 Jumpstreet
The Eastsidaz - Crip Hop
Snoop Dogg - Cali Party
Xzibit - Get Ya Walk On
Mack 10, MC Eiht, Eazy E - Get Your Ride On
Westside Connection - King of the Hill
2Pac, DPG. Outlawz - Initiated
Ice Cube - Jackin 4 Beats
Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Too $hort, Scarface - Game Over

[CHUCK KNOXXX]

Have to agree with Ain't No Fun.  That would have been a crazy ass music video.

My list:
Snoop Dogg and Tray Dee - 21 Jumpstreet
The Eastsidaz - Crip Hop
Snoop Dogg - Cali Party
Xzibit - Get Ya Walk On
Mack 10, MC Eiht, Eazy E - Get Your Ride On
Westside Connection - King of the Hill
2Pac, DPG. Outlawz - Initiated
Ice Cube - Jackin 4 Beats
Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Too $hort, Scarface - Game Over

both jackin 4 beats and get ya walk on had videos