West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: R-Tistic on July 07, 2008, 02:06:22 PM
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I'm just curious...where is everyone on here from? I am not really speaking about origins, but about the place you grew up in or spent the most time in.
If you aren't from California...how did you get into West Coast music? When, and how were you exposed to it?
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So Cal! stuck on the east right now damn military got me in VA..
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Toronto, Canada
I got into West Coast music because i've simply always loved music and was exposed to hip-hop at a relatively young age; at the end of the day, the west coast sound (production) is what first got me into it
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UK Stand Up !
Think i got into hip hop and specifically westcoast as it was like a movie without pictures.
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Vancouver
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DK Stand Up !
Think i got into hip hop as it was like a movie without pictures.
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socal born and raised.
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Las Vegas. Born and raised in this 110 degree heat right now. ;D
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Born and raised in Compton.
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UK Stand Up !
I can't remember the first West Coast song I heard, But the first album I bought was 'Dr Dre - The Chronic' back in late 93.
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SoCal (LA) i live just down tha street from USC
u already know ive been on that westcoast shit from birth
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I live in Rhode Island on the East Coast. 8)
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I'm just curious...where is everyone on here from? I am not really speaking about origins, but about the place you grew up in or spent the most time in.
If you aren't from California...how did you get into West Coast music? When, and how were you exposed to it?
well when i first heard dre and snoop together i was ten years old. i was sold. i been bumping west coast shit every since.
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I live in Rhode Island on the East Coast. 8)
Same here!
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Born and raised in Oakland
And lol @ New Mexico listed as a Midwest state. Step ur geography game up.
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glasgow, scotland.
wer the g's at lol?
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quebec canada 8)
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Im From AZ...I grew up on that west coast shit...
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Great Idea! ;D
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North East of France
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san jose cal BAY AREA
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LMAO damn, Europe definitely runs it so far!
I honestly think the fans on here from Europe are realer fans than most of the younger people I know here in L.A....it's rare to find people under 25 and especially under 21 who are really true West Coast rap fans...and even though it's just a few years different, a few years in rap means a completely different era.
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ANTARCTICA NIGGA
NO SQUARES, WE POLAR BEARS
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I live in Rhode Island on the East Coast. 8)
Same here!
oh shit!
you in Lincoln I'm guessing..
Johnston here, not proud of it though (used to live in P-Town). haha
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Ontario Cali born in raised but i like in Oakland now
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From AZ.
How I got into Westcoast music? My cousin gave me the tape to NWA and the Posse.
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whittier throw the dubs up!
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country nsw australia.
i got in2 west coast music i tihink because of california love/tupac.
n the love for west coast music grew from there n still is grown
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Haha, Europe definitely runs it ;D I´m from Germany
Well, the reason I fell in love with westcoast-rap
Before I really fell in love with westcoast-rap, I don´t listen that much to rap music. Just a few songs that blew up at that time like from Outkast, Eminem, Jay-Z, Xzibit etc. The whole thing changed when I first heard Snoop´s "From Tha Chuuuch To Da Palace". DAMN I loved this track back then 8) Since this time (late 2002) I´m totally addicted to this westcoast-shit 8)
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Its safe to say im the dopest Australian poster on the dub. 8)
clint made us look bad :-X
but anyway. Being in Australia and only being 18, i didnt hear much west coast music, well none at all really. Wasnt til i was aout 12 when Em came out which put me onto rap, then i searched up Dr. Dre. 2001 and All Eyez On Me were actually the first hip hop albums i bought. (I got Em's stuff a couple weeks after, i remember it.) But after hearing those 2 albums i was hooked, eventually bought NWA's, Eazy's, Cube's, Dre's, Snoop's, Pacs albums. Mainly because of Dre, because he brought hip hop to me through Eminem. Havnt looked back.
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Holland aka The Netherlands, close to Amsterdam.
I prefer the westcoast style in hip hop over every other style.
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Belgium, Europe
I got into (West Coast) hip-hop when I started listening to Tupac at the age of 12 (that was back in 1998). That was right around the time when the Internet was getting used more and more, so I started searching for artists who were featured on Pac's albums: Rappin' 4 Tay, Spice 1, etc and from there on out I found out that I enjoyed West Coast hip-hop more than East Coast.
The beats, the keys/synths, the claps, the funk-influence, the overall vibe...that's what I like about West Coast hip-hop.
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Finland.
This thread has been done though, and it's still up there at the G-Spot, shit's pinned at the top.
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=92586.0 (http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=92586.0)
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I was gonna click Australia but those cat's have some of the wackest Hip Hop out fuck that!!! :laugh:
New Zealand hard!
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Leeds, England
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the netherlands
ik grew up listening to all my parents records, they had all kinds of music..from elvis to kool & the gang, from juan luis guerra to public enemy, from peter tosh to sugar hill
but the chronic & doggystyle made me fall in love with hiphop period 8)
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I was gonna click Australia but those cat's have some of the wackest Hip Hop out fuck that!!! :laugh:
New Zealand hard!
yeah true scribe is the hottest rapper around.
us ausssies do have hilltop hoods,bliss n esso.phrase but not much else at the moment
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I'm from Finland.
Well Cypress Hill was the first rap artist/group that I started listening to, it was 1998 I guess (when cypress hill IV album came)...but I started to listen to the g-funk sounding west coast rap couple of years later...the year was 2001 (before this I only listened to cypress hill and de la soul)..I didn't know anything about dogg pound or snoop dogg or dr.dre, I had only heard people talking about them...so I was buying some cd's with my friend, and I found death row's greatest hits ;D...I looked the booklet, and I was like "daamn, snoop dogg, dr.dre, ice cube, 2pac...I have heard about these guys...and they are on the same cd" so I bought that....The classic snoop and dre tracks hit me already after the first listen...after that I bought snoop's "the last meal" and dogg pound's "2002" ...after that I have bought all kinds of west coast rap....
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im from Sweden
i bought a hip hop classic compilation CD in 2002 i think because of ice cubes opening line in Straight Outta Compton which i saw in the commercial for it and i eventually got hooked on NWA and other west coast acts.
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i was like 12 or 13 when i first heard What's my name. Then i did a little resarch and found out about Deathrow, Dre, The dogg pound, Warren-g, The twinz,E-40 and the click, Too short... and been hooked since then !
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I'm from Poland, Poznan to be exact. I started listen to rap in late '96 and my very first cassette was 'Pacs All Eyez On Me that was given to me by one of my homeboys from elementary school... I started to liste and I realised that 'THIS IS THE SHIT 8)!" Then he gave me a Doggystyle cassette and that's how it started... I became a die-hard Tupac/Death Row/West Coast fan till this day...
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I live in Rhode Island on the East Coast. 8)
Same here!
oh shit!
you in Lincoln I'm guessing..
Johnston here, not proud of it though (used to live in P-Town). haha
Yeah, I'm in Lincoln now, but lived in Prov till I was 19 or 20, so I still rep Prov since that's where I spent most of my life.
I'm in Johnston 90% of the time though cause that's where my girl lives at.
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Vancouver
I forgot to tell my story lol
I got into west coast hip hop with The Chronic, Doggystlye, and It Takes a Thief. "What's My Name" was always on the radio at the time too (so it was 93-94). It was really the first music I actually liked (other than a tape of Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" I had in 1989 lol).
I couldn't buy the tapes because my parents wouldn't let me ( I was 10 or 11 at the time ), so I had to dub them off people at school. The Chronic and Doggystlye were my favorites, and that's basically all I had for like a year so I memorized both albums word for word. Those tapes were like crack at my school, people had to steal them off their older brothers, and we'd be bootlegging them like crazy lol.
Once I started buying cd's I got Dogg Food, MWTC, and The Click's Game Related. That was before the internets really took off, so I would just see the video on TV and then buy the album. I bought Game Related off seeing the "Scandalous" video once. I had to save my allowance for that one. I didn't even know who was in Tha Dogg Pound when I bought it lol. I just remember seeing Dre at an award show announcing that Tha Dogg Pounds album was coming out next. So I figured I had to buy it lol. Anything with a Death Row logo on it back then you didn't have to think twice about.
It basically just progressed from there, dozens of LP's, hundreds of CD's, and thousands of .mp3's later, here I am.
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how the fuck yall gonna leave NEW ENGLAND off the list?
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Vancouver
I forgot to tell my story lol
I got into west coast hip hop with The Chronic, Doggystlye, and It Takes a Thief. "What's My Name" was always on the radio at the time too (so it was 93-94). It was really the first music I actually liked (other than a tape of Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" I had in 1989 lol).
I couldn't buy the tapes because my parents wouldn't let me ( I was 10 or 11 at the time ), so I had to dub them off people at school. The Chronic and Doggystlye were my favorites, and that's basically all I had for like a year so I memorized both albums word for word. Those tapes were like crack at my school, people had to steal them off their older brothers, and we'd be bootlegging them like crazy lol.
Once I started buying cd's I got Dogg Food, MWTC, and The Click's Game Related. That was before the internets really took off, so I would just see the video on TV and then buy the album. I bought Game Related off seeing the "Scandalous" video once. I had to save my allowance for that one. I didn't even know who was in Tha Dogg Pound when I bought it lol. I just remember seeing Dre at an award show announcing that Tha Dogg Pounds album was coming out next. So I figured I had to buy it lol. Anything with a Death Row logo on it back then you didn't have to think twice about.
It basically just progressed from there, dozens of LP's, hundreds of CD's, and thousands of .mp3's later, here I am.
thats a dope summary man
thats true though, anything with the death row logo stood for QUALITY...until Pac died and things snowballed
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born in new mexico, living in LA now....gotta say westcoast rap had an influence in me moving to LA...had to see what all the fuss was about plus smoke some bomb ass kush and do that whole thing..........
anyway,
when i was like 5 an older friend was trying to get me into music and suggested "the chronic" and "doggystyle". Not knowing, i had my mom take me to wal mart but they didnt carry "those explicit artists" so we went to radio shack and got em. Then i got regulate, later on dogg food. since then those have been my fav albums with good reason
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New York although I've always been partial to West Coast music.
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I live in Rhode Island on the East Coast. 8)
Same here!
oh shit!
you in Lincoln I'm guessing..
Johnston here, not proud of it though (used to live in P-Town). haha
Yeah, I'm in Lincoln now, but lived in Prov till I was 19 or 20, so I still rep Prov since that's where I spent most of my life.
I'm in Johnston 90% of the time though cause that's where my girl lives at.
who's your girl? lol
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thru 2pac´s all eyez on me.after that i looked in booklets and was wondering who these dope rappers were and where they´re now (i thought ppl like kurupt, nate dogg, dru down,etc. were only featured on AEOM and had nothing else) then i saw that these people have albums,videos,etc. got into them.AEOM and ppl featured on it were first introduction to west coast rap.then i was diggin deeper and deeper and HERE I AM=crazy ass motherfucker who thinks about rappers that nobody else givez fuck about.
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thru 2pac´s all eyez on me.after that i looked in booklets and was wondering who these dope rappers were and where they´re now (i thought ppl like kurupt, nate dogg, dru down,etc. were only featured on AEOM and had nothing else) then i saw that these people have albums,videos,etc. got into them.AEOM and ppl featured on it were first introduction to west coast rap.then i was diggin deeper and deeper and HERE I AM=crazy ass motherfucker who thinks about rappers that nobody else givez fuck about.
that's the same way I got into it except with Doggystyle.
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Haha, Europe definitely runs it ;D I´m from Germany
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thru 2pac´s all eyez on me.after that i looked in booklets and was wondering who these dope rappers were and where they´re now (i thought ppl like kurupt, nate dogg, dru down,etc. were only featured on AEOM and had nothing else) then i saw that these people have albums,videos,etc. got into them.AEOM and ppl featured on it were first introduction to west coast rap.then i was diggin deeper and deeper and HERE I AM=crazy ass motherfucker who thinks about rappers that nobody else givez fuck about.
that's the same way I got into it except with Doggystyle.
;D
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Seattle WA
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shame theres not many US peeps here
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im from toronto canada i was in grade 7 when i first heard whats my name by snoop & ever since ive been riding with the west.
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Grew up in Corona, CA. I've got into that West Coast shit bcuz of my older sister.
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where all my CALI people at??
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Born and raised in Waterbury, CT...
I just been exposed to Hip Hop all my life, so I don't remember alot.. :laugh:
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I got into (West Coast) hip-hop when I started listening to Tupac at the age of 12 (that was back in 1998). That was right around the time when the Internet was getting used more and more, so I started searching for artists who were featured on Pac's albums: Rappin' 4 Tay, Spice 1, etc and from there on out I found out that I enjoyed West Coast hip-hop more than East Coast.
That's kind of how it started with me, but I had it with TQ's first album. A few years later I did a project about 2Pac for school. I had to spend 80 hours on it, which I actually did lol. When I started working on that project I had one Pac album. When it was finished, I had 7. I also used to check sites like wc2k and wckillaz all the time.
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I currently live in Kansas, BUT BORN in CALIFORNIA 8)
northern that is!