Favourite Year In West Coast Rap Music?

[West Coast Veteran]

any year from 93-96

[Dre-Day]

hiphop in general peaked in like 92-94, those were dope years for west coast as well

you had snoops best shit, some of cubes best shit, dre's best shit, some dope 2pac stuff, then a load of dope underground stuff like pharcyde, souls of mischief

probably have to go with 93 because of Doggystyle


by 96 shit was getting mad disappointing - snoop had fallen off, 2pac had gone completely thugged out, dre has fallen off for a second there and hiphop in general was just sliding down from it's peak

i can see why you were very disappointed, but was it really THAT bad to you? 

[Tha G In Deee]

I'm gonna say a tie between 1995 and 1996. You had "Dogg Food", "Safe + Sound", "Real Brothas", "In A Major Way", "Operation Stackola", "Me Against the World", "This Is the Shack", "Conversation", "Mack 10",  etc. in '95 and "Bow Down", "All Eyez On Me", "Tha Hall of Game", "Perfection", "Doggfather", etc. drop in '96. All of those are pretty much classic West Coast albums.

[UCC]

hiphop in general peaked in like 92-94, those were dope years for west coast as well

you had snoops best shit, some of cubes best shit, dre's best shit, some dope 2pac stuff, then a load of dope underground stuff like pharcyde, souls of mischief

probably have to go with 93 because of Doggystyle


by 96 shit was getting mad disappointing - snoop had fallen off, 2pac had gone completely thugged out, dre has fallen off for a second there and hiphop in general was just sliding down from it's peak

i can see why you were very disappointed, but was it really THAT bad to you? 

Yeah, when Doggfather dropped I was SO disappointed. It's like Snoop had only got Doggystyle out, so I was expecting another Doggystyle (not realizing that Dre was really the mastermind behind that, so there was no way I was getting another Doggystyle). And Snoop had also dropped nothing but dope verses on everyone else's shit AND there was a rumor out at the time that he had got a full orchestra in for the beats, so I was thinking, holy fuck, so like Doggystyle but with mafioso strings all the way through - DOPENESS!!! And then I got the album and of course now it doesn't seem that bad... but at the time the rhyming seemed bored, the beats were so-so, there was way too much filler, etc - it was horrible listening to that for the first time, I thought they mustn't have given him enough time to finish the album or some shit, but my expectations were so high - basically Doggystyle 2 with an orchestra was what I was expecting

Same thing with the Dre album really, he had a few dope tracks on Aftermath presents, but not up to his usually standards and with looooads of filler. Luckily he fixed the problem by firing everyone and starting again lol

[gfunkin2]

Gotta be the 9 5

BG Knocc Out and Dresta- Real Brothas
Cold World Hustlers- Iceland
Coolio- Gangstas Paradise
DJ Quik- Safe + Sound
Dove Shack- This is the Shack
Goldy- In the Land of Funk
Havoc & Prodeje- Kickin Game
Kam- Made in America
King Tee- IV Life
Luniz- Operation Stackola
Mad CJ Mac- True Game
Montell Jordan- Thjis is How We Do It
Tha Dogg Pound- Dogg Food
Ray Luv- Forever Hustlin
Twinz- Conversation
WC & the Maad Circle- Curb Servin

list goes on and on...

[AnybodyKilla]

93-96, yall forgot about Spice 1's 187 He Wrote, one of my favourite albums of all time!!!

[Snoopafly-1986]

1999 for me cause thats when I started listening

[AnybodyKilla]

1999 for me cause thats when I started listening

Thats when i started listening too, around that time, but 93-96 were the best years in west coast rap even though i wasnt listening to it then LOL!!!

[hyet1ll1d1e]

90's duh. i dont htink there is any other era dat west coast was more popular.
89-99 imo was da best years and fav years.
new west has talent so im lookin forward to the 2010 - 2020 era -_- lol

[Maully aka [Fitted Da Boss]]

well the early 90's would be the obvious choice...but i also liked 2006...when the doctors advocate and the blue carpet treatment came out on the same day...and both albums were slammin...2 of the best albums out that year...next 2 king,release therapy,Hip Hop Is Dead, and The Inspiration...imo

[WestCoasta]

1999 was a good year

99-01 was great for the West

[when it rains it pours]

2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you got, soulja boy, hurrican chris, t- pain. just to name a few. SIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!     



i gotta go with 96 too, i still bump most of that shit on the list

[Mixtape Fan]

1996

2001 - 2ND

1992 - 3RD

[Drop A Gem On Em]

93-96

[187_gangsta_crip]

Yeah, 1996 was the year.