In Texas being 14-18 yrs old from 92-96 it was Westcoast all day. We had the Geto Boys UGK, Big Mike and Face that was gonna get played in TX regardless. But in my neck of the woods we had "Bay Area" cats that we fukked with heavy too. Like in my hood cats like C-Bo, Mac Mall, obviously E-40 and Too Short and even early Master-P was getting 100x more Plat ran even Biggie, The Wu, Nas, and whatever NYC based rappers that were hot at the time. Me personally, I didn't even respect NY during that time. Most of my love for NYC rappers at that time came in my mid 20s and early 30s. To the point that RZA is my no.1 Hip-Hop producer of all-time. I like Samples but Rza is a Master at chopping them up to where you don't even discover it until decades later. It hurt my soul once ppl started uncovering Dre's Samples he just looped shytand put that "Dre Gloss" for the most part. I never even heard the og sample from California Love until my 30s and even the "Nuthin But a G-thang" sample from the intro to "I wanna do something freaky to you". I really thought he came up with all that shyt, until I realized My Granny's album collection had absolutely everything hip hop has ever sampled. That collection was the only thing I coveted once my Granny passed away.i got about half of the collection because of a hating azz cousin of mine all of a sudden wanted the other half. For what reason she couldn't even tell you. But next time I'm in Texas best believe I'm just gonna straight up just "Jack" that shut. She got them just sitting in her garage, I actually listen to those old records on my $2000 turn table set up. She doesn't deserve them.
Oh shyt I'm on another rant. For no good reason. I'm sorry y'all. I'm a recently divorced man with wayyyy too much time on my hands these days.