How else can we give back to the west coast scene?

[gFuNkA]

kinda something like im doin on my site (Features and Releases section)...postin albums with some infos (scans, tracklists, sounds snippets and links to purchase). it works cause i see on my amazon account that ppl are buying or browsing cd´s through my site. the best thing: i earn some money (not much, but better then nothing)

[dexter]

Dont steal.

[Tha_Reverend]

we can assassinate every east coast heavy wieght one by one.  we'll call it "Project Dub"

[Kaidy]

How about an online radio station playing only west coast?

But like Represent said already, you guys do a great job already, theres only so much you can do online, and its very hard right now to get new listeners into west coast rap. so um, just keep doing whut u doing i guess

[budsmokeronly]

what kind of scene are you talking about?  Are you talking about going platinum and getting radio and TV Play and winning awards?

If you are then basically rappers have to sell out.  Jayo Felony ain't gonna win no awards or get his videos played.  Ecay Uno ain't gonna go platinum.  and neither is bad azz album.  Nor 90% of the westcoast.  Its the simple truth.  Unless they sell out like snoop, dre, xzibit, etc. they are not going to be popular with most of the  people who buy music.  Gangsta Rap, G-Funk just ain't as popular anymore.  It's just like all types of music, they all change and shit.  Look at rock from the eighties to the nineties to now.  So for someone like Celly Cel to go platinum he would probably have to have neptunes make him a beat, or some other producer who is really popular and expensive at the moment.  He would have to collab with artists like Nelly, Ja Rule, 50 Cent, Eminem, Snoop, Lil Bow Wow, Beonce, Limp Bizkit, Justin Timberlake, etc.  He would have to have at least 4 Huge Mainstreem Singles like Beautiful, PIMP, My Name Is, etc.  thats how it is, and if you can't see that then I don't know what too say.  There is plenty of decent and above avg albums that dropped this year that didn't sell shit because of reasons above.  It's sad to say but either rappers have to go independent and make money off a few sales, or they gotta switch there style, basically sell out, and make music for whats popular at the moment.  Perfect example is WC.  He was backed by a major, Def Jam.  IMO it was an excellent album, I luved it.  But it didn't sell very much.  Because of the reasons above.