West Coast Labels

[Ynot]

Wassup ya'll? I was wondering what west coast labels are in existence, meaning who's really making moves? [Not just some label that has a name with no artists] I see how the Roc is doing well with Kanye West at #2, and the Young Gunz at #3 on the albums charts. I see that and say, "Damn.. I wish there was a label out here that is trying to make moves like that or at least producing good artists" I know good music is music regardless of sales, but I never really see or hear about many west coast artists releasing any music continuously. The way the industry is, these east coast and south artists are releasing like 2 albums a year. It seems slow out here, but it could be because I'm someone on the outside looking in, not knowing the inside stories about who's in the studio or who's releasing underground... Let me kno what's goin on...

[AxleF]

I guess Ill start this off with:

Shade Sheist - PYO Records
Damizza - Baby Ree Ent.
(kinda goes hand in hand doesnt it?)
Big C Style \ Lil Flossy - Rawway Ent.

Add to the list homies.. The West got alot goin on so Im knowin we can list more.

Ax

[Drakar1]

E-40- Sic Wid It
Brotha Lynch- Siccmade
JT The Bigga Figga- Get Low
C-Bo- West Coast Mafia
Heirogliphics- Heiro Imperium

[GangstaBoogy]

TuSlic - Lock'd Down Records

[ExZit]

jay tee's 40 ounce recordz got many releases with pretty big named artists like Miami, N2deep, Baby Bash and Frost..

[CRAFTY]

IV Life Records have been making some moves lately (they released 2 free mixtapes in 2003 and their first official [independent] release is coming up this month: Game Over).

[michael jackson]

yeah damizza and them got chyt craccin

[PhantomChild]

My boy Paris with Guerrilla Funk doing that "real hip-hop uncut" eh!

[mrtonguetwista]

Mitchy Slick -- Wrongkind Records

Lil CS --  Ghettoworld Records   www.ghettoworld.com

Ecay Uno-- Bomb Leery Ent.

Irocc--Money Hungry Ent.

Mackvillin--Juvenile Hall Records

Bay Loc--SDC Records

[ACGRUNDY]

yukmouth -  smoke-a-lot records

jayo felony - in the trenches (or something like that)

[LazyLatino]

Big Saccs-Geed Up Records: Big Saccs "California Earthquakes" 4 tracks done so far...other stuff too..maybe Saccs wanna speak on that  






Peace

LazyL

[smoke562]

yeh yeh, we know all those labels,
im pretty sure he askin which labels are sellin records doin it big on the billboard charts, and all the ones you mentioned aint sellin shit. its the cold truth, and i wish it wasnt like that, but it is.
the west is all goin independant now (well atleast most of the west coast artists are), coz they bein driven out of the music industry to go underground.
yes, they still are makin dope music, and they might be makin decent money doin it independant, but they aint blowin up shit, coz if they were, then we would hear their music on the radio & on mtv all the time like how these eastcoast cats are

[Ynot]

that's cool i wanted to kno who's out there independent too becuz i kno everybody is doin their own thing... it's not the old days where death row had a lot of the popular west coast artists on the same label... thanx for the info people, now i can check into where i can get some of this music