Is the west on top again?

[HighEyeCue]

yeah if you discount Canada and Drake...

[Will_B]

the West isn't on top, the game isn't a coastal thing anymore. it's a question of different scenes. you have the mainstream scene,from which come : the Game, Tyga, Will.I.Am, etc. you have the mixtape scene where you have among others, westcoast artists : Dom Kennedy, the T.D.E./Black Hippy Movement, Casey Veggies, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs... some have become mainstream (Kendrick obviously, but not only), but these rappers have the same profile, they all made their name (Curren$y excluded) grinding, putting out mixtapes in which they would feature one another (the names I've mentioned appear very often as features on the mixtapes from like 08 to 11). as DOM Kenndy said on Twitter, "Two and half years ago I wanna say Freddie Gibbs, Kendrick and Me had a FREE show above the Roxy and it wasn't even packed." so these artists, who are from the west for some of them, gained a following (including a lot of us) and became relevant and some even mainstream.

Kendrick has broken the current mould that you only get somewhere with grind and hustle (plus shock value/image/beefing/being a clown on YouTube etc)

He brought the game up a notch or 2, with intellegence and lyricism at the forefront , and the world is listening

[West Coast Veteran]

West Coast definitely back but don't know about on top. Kendrick is really the only major star on the West right now.

[Sccit]

I'D SAY ALL SIDES ARE EVENED OUT RIGHT ABOUT NOW.. THE WEST NEEDS 1 MORE HEAVYWEIGHT ARTIST 2 PUT US OVER THE TOP. RIGHT NOW- KENDRICK, TYGA, MACKELMORE, TYLER ALL MAKIN AS MUCH NOISE IN THE MAINSTREAM AS ANYONE. IT'S BEEN A WHILE, NO DOUBT. OUTSIDE OF KENDRICK, DUNO IF THATS WHO I REALLY WANT REPPIN THE WEST, THO.