West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Noname on September 18, 2006, 11:09:37 AM
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I been listening to rap music for about 7 years now, from the age of 13. West Coast rap first got my attention thanks to Pac. I heard a couple of songs from him and i thought ''damn that dude is dope, wheres he from?'' So i started to check him and his group the Outlaws. But at that time i just started to get into internet and internet was still though the phone, you remember? You pay per minute. So i didnt really find any good music from them. So i mostly listened to commercial rap, and stuff i could find easy on the internet (cuz westcoast music wasnt really big in Holland) .
But then i bought my first music album ever, Dre's 2001 album. I listined to that album at least a couple of 100 times. And the West really got my attention from there. So i started checkin where Dre and Pac came from, and they both came from Death Row. So from there i started checkin the Death Row music. I was already 15 or 16 at that age. And i loved All eyez on me, Doggystyle and especially The Chronic. I loved the whole G-Funk thing. Thats why i never really got into East Coast rap. To dark for me, i like that summer vibe. But when i started to get into music forums, and especially this one, it was all West for me. Here i learned the West wasnt only Death Row it was much more then that. So i started checkin all the old classics. But im not finished yet, im still checkin new west coast albums which i havent heard yet, and it still dont bore me.
I just love the sound. I cant explain it, you have to be a westcoast fan yourself to know it.
So what (or who) got you into West Coast rap? And why do you prefer West Coast rap?
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Living in Lakewood, California in the late 80's and the whole L.A. was going crazy for N.W.A.
I listened to Run DMC and Michael Jackson only before that.
I didn't get really serious into Hip Hop until about '91 when Cypress Hill, N.W.A., Cube, Quik and all them was runnin' shit.
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Growing up in Los Angeles Killafornia.
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The first West Coast rap record I ever bought was R U Still Down. After that, I started checking for more Tupac music. That was in 1998. In 2000, when I had an Internet connection, I started buying albums off of Amazon.com from artists who were featured on Pac's albums - Dru Down, Spice 1, etc... - and gradually I got to know more and more West Coast artists. In about two years time, I had gotten to know artists like Mack 10, W.C., Jayo Felony, and so on because they were all featured on each other albums.
And what I like about West Coast rap is the funk-influences and bass lines.
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Living in Lakewood, California in the late 80's and the whole L.A. was going crazy for N.W.A.
I listened to Run DMC and Michael Jackson only before that.
I didn't get really serious into Hip Hop until about '91 when Cypress Hill, N.W.A., Cube, Quik and all them was runnin' shit.
Growing up in Los Angeles Killafornia.
why do you prefer west coast rap over east coast rap for example?
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Living in Lakewood, California in the late 80's and the whole L.A. was going crazy for N.W.A.
I listened to Run DMC and Michael Jackson only before that.
I didn't get really serious into Hip Hop until about '91 when Cypress Hill, N.W.A., Cube, Quik and all them was runnin' shit.
Growing up in Los Angeles Killafornia.
why do you prefer west coast rap over east coast rap for example?
I think it's by default. The first rap CD I ever listened to was "Safe + Sound' and I fell in love with the sound. So I started to look for music that had a similar sound. Then not long after that "All Eyes On Me" came out and blew me away. I perfer West Coast music more than East Coast because I could relate to it more. The stuff and streets they're rappin' about I seen. Don't get me wrong though I also like East Coast music I just like West Coast music better. Gotta support the WEST. Another reason was my older brother had a lot of cd's so I would listen to his.
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Mine came in different stages.
When i was about 8 i saw boyz n da hood and i loved ice cube's acting in there. I then saw New jack City with ICe t. I listened to rap here and there till13-14 but not into that hard i was in a rock band but i listened to rick and Wutang biggie were big during this time das efx too and boot camp. Then i heard a Eazy e record got that on tape, then i heard bow down in 96 and bought the record and that was it for me i was full fledge westcoast.
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Tq - Westside, saw this on tv when i was young and my dad called it rap.... so thats how i got into wescoast rap
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I grew up in so california and my step-brother had rythm-al-ism back in 99 when i was 9 and i was hooked. I got Balance & Options also. I didnt start to listen to Quiks other cds until later...After that I picked up 2001 and I was a 2pac groupie up until the age of 13 then i started to listen to other types of hip-hop but mainly westcoast after I left califronia.
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Snoop Doggy Dogg
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Ice-T - colors
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Warren G.
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N.W.A
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when my cousin played Doggystyle
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too short and m.c. hammer
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when my cousin played Doggystyle
no shit eh
same here
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thats just what was around, i remember birthday parties growin up where my friends older brothers and sisters would be playin the chronic and too short and stuff and we would all love it cuz of the swearing, it was on since then
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remember seeing the vid for Dr Dre - Nothin But A G Thang when i was a kid... and the rest was history.
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when i was about 10 or so
around 92/93 snoop n dre.... then too short, eazy e, then 2pac
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I was 11 years old, summer of 93', and I was at a weeklong basketball camp that was held at a Division 1 college campus. So we lived in the dorms for a week, and there was a lobby with a TV in it, where we'd hang out in between games. The older kids always had it on MTV, they'd play the top 10 video's of the week. It was all these Rock video's on I wasn't really impressed with...
Then standing alone as the only hip-hop video in the countdown was "Wit A Dre Day"... when Snoop came in and started with, "Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yipee Yea", that was it for me. Everybody was repeating that line all week around camp... I've been a hip-hop head ever since.
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Growing up in Los Angeles Killafornia.
the cd that got me looking for more west coast shit was "Dogg Food"
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why do you prefer west coast rap over east coast rap for example?
pretty much cuz I'm from the West and the music really fits the lifestyle and mood of the everyday scene
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why do you prefer west coast rap over east coast rap for example?
pretty much cuz I'm from the West and the music really fits the lifestyle and mood of the everyday scene
exactly.
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Warren G's Regulate.
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Shit, some of you guys are young.
Wasn't overly exposed to 80s rap artists like Run DMC, LL, Beastie Boys etc, etc, although I knew some of their songs back then. Was a fan of MC Hammer without knowing that it was rap, lol. I remember listening to my mates older bro's Str8 Outta Compton tape at school and thinking, shit, we're gonna get into trouble, this has swearing on it, lol.
It wasn't until Tony Toni Tone's 'Feels Good' that I got into the funky shit.....then Quik came out....can't forget the whole Death Row era shit....and I was hooked.....my fav. time...early to mid 90s.
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Eazy muthaphukkin E lol
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^why is that funny?
but for me, The Chronic....then it was "Get in Where You Fit In" Beeyatch!!! 8)
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I would saying growing up there, but then again, lliving in the South hasn't really gotten me into Southern rap all that much.
Must have been the appeal of the gangsta image at that time.
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With me it started in the late 80's when I was in junior high school. I remember listening to the pop rap of the day, such as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Salt N Pepa, MC Hammer, shit like that. Then I got into EPMD, Public Enemy, and X-Clan as I wanted to delve deeper into hip hop musically. Also NWA was absolutely HUGE during that time and anyone who grew up in Cali can attest to that. Also when Cube left, that's all that people talked about for months.
That's when I started getting curious about gangsta rap and all of the sudden I was listening to Ice-T and Ice Cube. Also, the Underground and Playboy Short had that funky shit that just sounded good in the ride. By this time I was in high school and everyone was getting into that shit. DJ Quik comes out, CMW, Above the Law, Kam, Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill was huge at my high school when they dropped. Can't forget Da Lench Mob. I liked the in your face nature of west coast shit and the militancy of it, so I was listening to a ton of west coast rap by then as well as Public Enemy. Plus I liked how it sounded in the ride, in my homeboy's bucket with just one tweeter and that shit would be distorting the bass something terrible, bumping Kam's Every Single Weekend on the Boyz in the Hood soundtrack, but we didn't give a fuck, we'd bump that shit anyway. I remember seeing kids trying to hook up systems in their car with second hand equipment and wires hanging everywhere, shit like that. The whole vibe of west coast rap just went along with that, not to mention growing up here in the first place. It didn't matter what piece of shit you drove, it had to bump.
Even though I always like east coast music, west coast rap just has a certain feel to it, a certain rhythm to it. You can relate to the subject matter, whether positive or negative. As the 90's progressed, it was west coast artists that pushed the boundaries musically, while east coast cats were stuck in sampling drum break mode. It was west coast cats who first fucked with instruments, composing melodies, using horns, guitars, keys, and being that I grew up around music and played musical instruments, I could appreciate the musicianship behind it, whether it was Ant Banks brand of funk or Dr. Dre's brand of funk.
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But then i bought my first music album ever, Dre's 2001 album.
That's the album that did it for me. Before that I was in to some hip hop, but when I got this album I fell in love with hip hop (and West Coast hip hop in particular).
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My brother got me into rap when I was like 8 years old. He had real muthaphuckkin G's on tape and I was hooked.
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N.W.A., Too $hort and The Chronic.I simply loved the funky beats and explicit lyrics.Although I'm listening to more East Coast Hip-Hop now, the West Coast is what I enjoy more and I can't forget that it got me into Hip-Hop in general
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me livin in scotland ther isnt much people out here tht are into it, but about 10 years ago my friends big brother stuck on the chronic and kurupt and RBX caught my attention then tht was tht untill now. i still much prefer west coast to east
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when my cousin played Doggystyle
no shit eh
same here
Same here :o
He played me Murder Was The Case OST (it had just come out then) too, and I've been hooked ever since.
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The first west coast rapper I started listening to was Sir Mixalot and some other Seattle rappers (like Kid Sensation, ECP, E-Dawg) back in the late eighties before Mixalot got famous with Baby Got Back. I used to bump SWASS, Seminar, Rollin' With Number One, etc when Seattle actually had a rap scene. But I think the Chronic was the album that got me hooked onto west coast rap as we know it today.
I notice the beats before I appreciate the lyrics, and that g-funk shit was more melodic and smooth than the east coast stuff. Better to bump in your car too - it's like Cali rap is meant for people cruising around in their cars, whereas NY rap is for dudes listening to it on their headphones in the subway.
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The first west coast rapper I started listening to was Sir Mixalot and some other Seattle rappers (like Kid Sensation, ECP, E-Dawg) back in the late eighties before Mixalot got famous with Baby Got Back. I used to bump SWASS, Seminar, Rollin' With Number One, etc when Seattle actually had a rap scene. But I think the Chronic was the album that got me hooked onto west coast rap as we know it today.
I notice the beats before I appreciate the lyrics, and that g-funk shit was more melodic and smooth than the east coast stuff. Better to bump in your car too - it's like Cali rap is meant for people cruising around in their cars, whereas NY rap is for dudes listening to it on their headphones in the subway.
Yeah i agree with you on that. For me beats and flow are more important then lyrics. Thats the big difference i think between East and West Coast rap.
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well....it started when I listened to Dr. Dre's 2001, my friend had it (later he gave it to me for a another cd cause he wasn't really diggin the sound, weird ;D ).....then I noticed snoop in there, so I bought Tha Last Meal....after that I saw that Kurupt had released Space Boogie and I remembered him from dre's album, bought the album.....and the final step was when I bought death row's greatest hits.....gin & juice, nuthin but a g thang, I just looooved the sound....after that I started checking other west coast artists like bad azz, daz dillinger, nate dogg, goldie loc & tray dee, warren g etc......after that I saw that all those dope beats were usually done by dre, warren g, fredwreck, daz, battlecat, soopafly, dj quik etc......so I started checking their productions, and that way I was introduced to many other artists.....step after step :)
to me, it has been always the music, the melody, the sound of west coast rap....I didn't care about the lyrics, I was just listening those dope azz beats.....nowadays I appreciate lyrics waaaaayyyy more, but I still don't care about the lyrics so much when it comes to these west coast veterans 8)
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A friend of mine had a tape called "Mega Dance Rap" or something like that... it was mostly crap, but Digital Undergrounds "No Nosejob" and DJ Quik's "Tonite" caught my attention... I was prolly about 7-8 years old at the time, so from that point it was mostly the big singles that got my attention (I Got 5 On It, Gangstas Paradise, Regulate++), but in 96-97 i got into 2pac because of California Love, bought the albums, and from All Eyez On Me, i expanded my horizont. "feat. Dr. Dre, well I better get me a Dr. Dre album then, feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dru Down, C-Bo, Rappin' 4-Tay ++++", so I got my hands on albums from the other artist on the album, and it wasn't long before I didn't listen to anything but westcoast rap :P
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Beastie Boys opened my eyes, but working with J-Dee from Da Lench Mob was instrumental in getting me really interested...
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deep cover/always into something introduced me
the chronic welcomed with open arms