Author Topic: will the west coast ever see the sucess it had in the past (Read 555 times)

Trauma-san · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2003, 08:56:24 PM »

It ain't up to Dre and Snoop to carry the west. They been workin' with just westcoast acts for years, I don't blame them for going half and half. Maybe if there were more dope westcoast names out that would help them sell records instead of them having to carry them, then they'd put more westcoast on there. I mean, Snoop could go raid l.a. and the bay and put all these no-names on there that are dope, but he ain't gonna sell nothing. Or, he could go with some of his friends in the business, regardless what coast they're on, I can't hate him for that. Same with dre, he's just working with people on his level. If there were more Ice Cube's out west, who consistantly sell well, and are maccin like dre, then he'd work with more westcoast artists. He's done plenty with guys nobody's heard of, Knocc, Hitt, etc. and nothing happened with it.

budsmokeronly · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2003, 09:28:02 PM »

for anyone who says ain't much good rappers in the west anymore, here is a list of albums that dropped last year that I bought that are all bangin, but didn't do well sales wise or recognition wise:

Tray Deee- Generals list
Daz- all those albums he dropped, not the best but decent
Keita Rock- lets get it crack'n
DJ Quik- under the influence
WC- Ghetto Heisman
C-Bo- life as a rider
C-Bo- West Coast Mafia
Knoc'Turn'al
Doggystyle allstars
Spice 1- Spiceburg Slim
Xzibit-mvm
Clue dog & doc holiday-Pomona Pimpin
Mr. Keal- the opposite of hate
iv life records underground vol 1
mack 10- da hood
snoop- paid da cost
pac- better days (didn't like it much)

then these artists dropped albums, but I haven't gotten a chance to buy them, but I have d/l sum songs from them:
Foesum
Mac Dre (a couple of albums)
Miami
Rappin 4-tay
Luniz
Yukmouth-united ghettos
Shade Sheist
Relativez
c-lim aka Slim Loc 1
big syke
B-Legit
E-40
Caz
Celly Cel
Dru Down (I think)
Jay Tee
K-n9ne
KF Klik
King T
Luni Coleone
Zigidy

Now I ain't sayin that all these albums are classics, in fact I really can't think of one that is a classic. But they are all good decent albums, and I would rather listen to anyone album on that list over 99% of the shit played on the radio, or mtv. I would listen to any of these over any top selling album from last year, yes including eminem. And I probably missed a lot of albums too. The west has plenty of talent, it just ain't always recognized or utilized right (ex. dpg not workin together, dre and snoop not together, sum bad production, etc.) A lot of WCC sleeps on hella westcoast artists. Shit I know I even am sleepin on hella artists.

P Nelson · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2003, 10:13:57 PM »

Yea ... they dont use their talent.. Death Row Breakin up, Dpg breakin up, rappers doing movies instead of making albums, a lot of thangs, pointless beefs

Tha_Reverend · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2003, 11:12:01 PM »

there is only one true answer. and it's BOOTLEGGIN.

there weren't that many peeps that had comps back in the early 90's yet alone access to mp3's and shit like that (if that stuff even existed back then). West coast music is still on top man. peeps just don't buy it. execpt us (hip hop heads). if there where a census taken on how many peeps in america have these hip hop artists' albums, bootleg or OG copies, there would be too many to count. I have seen fools with 200 cd case wallets filled to the brim with nuthin but bootlegs. remember, what makes an album successfull is how much it sells and not how good the quality of the music was. If success was based on how much music was bootlegged, then the West would win hands down. eazily.

-Nate

Trauma-san · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2003, 12:56:43 AM »

^^ People are bootleggin' east and south stuff, too, though. I dont' see any reason why westcoast stuff would get bootlegged any more often than other stuff.

AC - you're right, there's lots of stuff, but we're talkin will the west ever see success again, nobody you mentioned was successful at all. I guess pac sold a lot, but the west just ain't getting the presence out there like it used to. Peace~

budsmokeronly · « **Reply #20 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:25:46 AM »

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AC - you're right, there's lots of stuff, but we're talkin will the west ever see success again, nobody you mentioned was successful at all. I guess pac sold a lot, but the west just ain't getting the presence out there like it used to. Peace~

I know they were not sucessful. Thats what I am talkin about. A lot of u guys said that the west hasn't been bringin out any good albums. All those artists that I listed drop great, good, or at least decent albums. Most of them IMO are way better than the shit that is sucessful and sells.