Westcoast artists not focused on guns, money, redundant gangsta bullshit

[Oklin]

loot pack and most madlib projects

[Dargine]

Big Paybacc (even though he sometimes spitt that ganster-shit too, but he's a Crip so what else is he supposed to do, but he drops a lotta knowledge in his tracks too, and is about to do a track with Blak Civil from BK)
Columbo Black
Perfecto

[Fuck Your Existence]

happy now?

lol +1

[Mister Lepht]

I think you are looking for NameBrand.. Here a free link to his mixtape and myspace..



NameBrand - We Can Make It!!

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1. Open Up
2. I'll Hush You
3. Show Me (Freestyle)
4. Who Dem Boyz ft. Crooked I
5. Tranzformerz Ft. Ras Kass
6. #1
7. The Return (He's Back)
8. Yeah!! ft. Ras Kass
9. Mattress Money ft. Printz Haze
10. The Game Will Be Alright
11. Miss Conception ft. Jayou (Ghetto Blastrz)
12. Get It In ft. Ras Kass (Produced by: Alchemist)
13. You Aint Shit ft. The Pozerz
14. Say Good Bye
15. My Garden
16. Let's Rock (Bonus Track)


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[BOX5 the best poster on this site yell]

good thread,good to see cats is open enough to checc out other artist out here then just the typical,but also try to find a common ground cause what sense would it make if one side just says awwww that gangsta shit is wacc,and the other side says they hip hop shit is boring and wacc, find that common ground and respect all artist thats truly being themselves. it's all west coast,and we are mad creative out here just the fans need to show more respect, and who knows the next big artist on the west may not even be no gangsta type of rapper might just be  the regular cat with ill raps the way it really should be yell

[Dre-Day]

i don't really have problem with the gangsta rap "style", otherwise i wouldn't be here i guess 
but the formula of gangsta rap got exploited to the fullest, so there are definately a lot of rotten apples.
but you know what they say, money makes the world go round 

i think bishop lamont is an example of a rapper that has a mix of different styles ( if you check his street albums), although i wouldn't say he's the truth or whatever ( some of his songs don't go beyond the cliché level).

[D-e-f-]

Blackalicious !






(A2G EP with Alphabet Aerobics) check the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/i-dJ6xbrWHQ

The Gift Of Gab (of Blackalicious)

[K.Dub]

^Blackalicious is dope, no doubt.


And I can't believe I've been sleepin on The Coup. Good music, props Raide/Chad for uppin them. I'ma check them out.

[K.Dub]

^Blackalicious is dope, no doubt.


And I can't believe I've been sleepin on The Coup. Good music, props Raide/Chad for uppin them. I'ma check them out.

I can up the albums if you want?
All of you guys is sleeping on them.

I found Pick A Bigger Weapon and Kill My Landlord, but yes please

[HG]

custom made
pacific division

[SGV]

The problem is that a lot of the artists from the West who were never on that shit ended up flipping the script to gain more support from these West Coast heads who thought they were too nerdy (Even though 80% of the West Coasts heads on here are nerdy as fuck).

The West Coast has always slept on their underground. ALWAYS. Lord knows how many topics I've made about Project Blowed and related artists and very few people would remotely care. This is a good amount of the Project Blowed artists on one track. These cats are dope when it comes to posse cuts:



<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Apn5h6IiMtw" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Apn5h6IiMtw</a>

Heavyweights Round 4 featuring J-Smoov, Aceyalone, Neb Luv (Yes, all you G-Funk fans, this is the same Neb Luv from the 5 Footaz), P.E.A.C.E., Rifleman Ellay Khule, Medusa (The same chick that collabed with Pac), Abstract Rude, Suga B, Mikah 9, Zulu Butterfly Priest, NgaFsh, Self Jupiter, K-Bar, Trensetta, Rhymin Riddlore?, Busdriver, Ko Ko & Volume 10 (Yes, Pistol Grip Pump fame) ...

Scratches: Rhettmatic (Beat Junkies, Visionaries fame) & DJ Drez

Production: Fat Jack, Josef Leimberg (The same guy who fucks with Snoop and them), Daddy Kev, Mr. French & Abstract Rude

Here's Chillin Villain Empire, they're from Project Blowed, you heard a few of them on the song I posted above. They're busting over DJ Unk's Walk It Out:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-kBX8mqPsI" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/x-kBX8mqPsI</a>

Busting over This Is Why I'm Hot

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iCuIWt8_l08" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/iCuIWt8_l08</a>

Ellay Khule aka Rifleman - Who's Killing Hip Hop

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/G6tYMaEHvmU" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/G6tYMaEHvmU</a>

Hip Hop Kclan (Ellay Khule aka Rifleman & Pterradacto)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z3OCD09utK4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Z3OCD09utK4</a>

Some more of the Project Blowed cats:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/LUJUajiNEdY" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/LUJUajiNEdY</a>

Pretty much all worthwhile West Coast artists have been named here. I'll just throw in:

Psycho Realm/Sick Symphonies camp:


Psycho Realm (Sick Jacken & Big Duke) - Psycho Realm (1997) B-Real was apart of the group at this time.

Psycho City Blocks.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/uEqj1XqHn9k" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/uEqj1XqHn9k</a>

Showdown

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ov27tmcq4eg" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Ov27tmcq4eg</a>


A War Story Book 1 (1999)

Sick Dogs

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KrUrUeXKNH4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/KrUrUeXKNH4</a>

Movin Through The Streets

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oez6OLZh9Z0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/oez6OLZh9Z0</a>


A War Story Book 2 (2003)

Good Times

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wcnsnmz3KFc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/wcnsnmz3KFc</a>

Killing Fields

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zm0TZ8VVWw4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Zm0TZ8VVWw4</a>


Street Platoon (Crow & Cynic) - Steel Storm (2003)

Funeral March

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/IwNTtWKy_iQ" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/IwNTtWKy_iQ</a>

Dead Lines

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iz-9LBikg5I" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/iz-9LBikg5I</a>


Sick Symphoniez (Sick Jacken, DJ FM, Crow & Cynic) - Sickside Stories (2005)

In My Lifetime

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/lgnuLhAOMzA" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/lgnuLhAOMzA</a>

Reason To Fight

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uf__osMmj8g" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Uf__osMmj8g</a>


Sick Jacken & Cynic - Terror Tapes (2006)

Grapples Of War

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/yPPTUUymYnY" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/yPPTUUymYnY</a>

One Love

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/dj-8u8MGqnM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/dj-8u8MGqnM</a>


Sick Jacken & DJ Muggs with Cynic - Legend Of The Mask And The Assassin (2007)

2012

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/SYkWGAU9-dw" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/SYkWGAU9-dw</a>

Legend Of The Mask & The Assassin

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gDqhvnZiPVU" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/gDqhvnZiPVU</a>

They might have a little gun talk, but their music is militant. It's street. It's political. It's in depth.

Others to check: Tha Mexakinz

This is one of the illest Wake Up Show Anthems ever, Xzibit (Damn he was a beast back then), Chino XL & Tha Mexakinz

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/lbr-I1r38ps" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/lbr-I1r38ps</a>

This is the video for the track, but it has a different verse from I-Man & doesn't have Chino.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/o1KWAZtzMM4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/o1KWAZtzMM4</a>

Provoke The Extreme with Chino XL

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/cVbi6p0HRaM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/cVbi6p0HRaM</a>

Abstract Rude (Was on Heavyweights Round IV that I posted)

Yep

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DgMvNecANL0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/DgMvNecANL0</a>

Stop Bitin

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qZ4tiHLG5bw" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/qZ4tiHLG5bw</a>

Trensetta (Was featured on Heavyweights Round IV that I posted)

Freestyle

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vw_VBXd-BFE" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/vw_VBXd-BFE</a>

Some Track, not sure of the name

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qWAGmvCY1So" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/qWAGmvCY1So</a>

[Tay]

Props to everybody for getting this thread active, there are so many solid artists and groups listed here that it is ridiculous. Chad brought up the Jacka and the Mob Figaz, who have a lot of gangsta songs, but especially Jacka and Fed-Ex have a different way of rapping about it, and a lot of references to being Muslim and spiritual. The Team has a few gangsta lines and a lot of club songs and stuff, but they had a different sound going that has some nice appeal. Frontline is also pretty nice, their last album "Lock & Left" had no promotion or buzz, but it was pretty solid. Andre Nickatina & Equipto have an alternative vibe to their music, and someone barely brought up Sick Jacken, who is dope. Also, I didn't see Chace Infinite mentioned, another L.A. cat who is nice on the mic.

[Intriago33]

Frontline is also pretty nice, their last album "Lock & Left" had no promotion or buzz, but it was pretty solid.

Really? I didn't know they dropped another album, their early stuff with E-A-Ski was alright.

Also, I didn't see Chace Infinite mentioned, another L.A. cat who is nice on the mic.

Indeed, Chace is a beast, him and Khalil are a nice combination.
I heard they're working on a new SS record?

[gwincorporated]

you may wanna check out my boy wing to www.myspace.com/gwestwing he resides from compton

[Tay]

Chad brought up the Jacka and the Mob Figaz, who have a lot of gangsta songs,
but especially Jacka and Fed-Ex have a different way of rapping about it, and a lot of references to being Muslim and spiritual.

The Jacka is hella underated and Rob Lo´s beats is some soulfull shit.
The real problem is generic gangster rap,not gangster rap itself.
There´s some generic bullshit alternative rap too,so don´t act like everything is good on "your" side of the fence. 

The Team has a few gangsta lines and a lot of club songs and stuff, but they had a different sound going that has some nice appeal.

Personally I don´t feel them,but to each his own you know 

Frontline is also pretty nice, their last album "Lock & Left" had no promotion or buzz, but it was pretty solid.

Shit was ok 

Andre Nickatina have an alternative vibe to his music

^^^^yeah  alternative it is,bugged out 
I feel him,he´s funny.

I didn't see Chace Infinite mentioned, another L.A. cat who is nice on the mic.

I did,he´s a member of Self Scientific 

Ok, I see where they were mentioned now, I guess I missed it. And I definitely agree about there being plenty of garbage alternative rap and all that, but I was just trying to make it relate to this topic. I think Rob Lo's beats are incredibly underrated, and would like to see him work more with some other sounds outside of the Mob Figaz just to get more variety and exposure. I think Fed-X is really talented too, he sounds like he puts so much effort into his rhymes and has a nice style. Also, I don't think this was mentioned, but the Prophets of Rage, and especially, Rico Pabon. Sometimes he rhymes in Spanish which really isn't my thing, but he has some good music. I actually found out about him at a concert through my college music class, so that was really cool. I'll try to up something in a little bit, but check him out because he is talented and has a cool sound.