Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Moses got the 10 commandments from the bay area.
The first caveman invented the wheel in the bay area.
We know.
Whenever a song by that clique of bay area rappers came on Rap City it was channel switch on sight
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Moses got the 10 commandments from the bay area.
The first caveman invented the wheel in the bay area.
We know.
Ronnie Lott
#49erGang
Moses got the 10 commandments from the bay area.
The first caveman invented the wheel in the bay area.
We know.
I'm glad you recognize greatness
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
Moses got the 10 commandments from the bay area.
The first caveman invented the wheel in the bay area.
We know.
When you make comments to this effect:
The bay area got like 8 million people and the best they can come with is nikkas like Dru Down and Rappin 4-Tay
7 cities got a greater impact with like 1/7th the population.
You ain't really in a position to talk. The influence of the Bay Area hip hop scene on hip hop culture and music is quantifiably far greater than the 7 cities and its not remotely close.
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Nah. The reason the bay area is the butt of so many online jokes when it comes to hip-hop is that for a metropolitan region with such a large population and rich cultural history, its impact and presence in the realm of hip-hop is miniscule but many people from there pretend that they have this great hip-hop scene with huge influence, and make up these absurd stories about how the rest of the country is biting them and Mac Dre (whoever the fukk that is) is on Big and Pac's level, as if any human outside the bay area has ever voluntarily listened to an album by fukking Celly Cell or Mistah Fab.
The bay area's hip-hop influence is greater than Hampton Roads and its "not remotely close"? I don't see how you could possibly qualify that statement. Too $hort is considered a legend. E-40 is respected as well. The Luniz had one big crossover hit. Hiero is legendary amongst indie fans. Outside of that, nobody gives a fukk about bay area rap.
I don't want to act like the 7 Cities is all that either, but what bay area producer has had near the impact and influence as Timbaland, the Neptunes, or even Lex Luger's beat recycling ass?
Da Bassment Cru's had a pretty strong wave in the 90's and was more popular nationally than Mac Mall and them. Clipse had a solid run too. The hyphy movement? Yeah, that never quite took off.
But the fact that it's even a conversation speaks volumes about the lack of impact the bay area has had in hip-hop on a national level because Hampton Roads has less than 2 million people and the bay area has something like 8 million people.
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FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
It's a conversation according to who? You? Lol y'all kill me
Timbaland and the Neptunes are Hip Hop legends, no debating that. How you gon bring up Lex Luger though like Zaytoven don't exist? Lol.
Speak for yourself bruh bruh, whether you like bay rap or not is irrelevant to the topic of impact, influence and presence. MC Hammer alone had a bigger impact on Hip Hop than your entire region whether you like it or not bruh bruh rofl. You don't even need to bring up Bay Area rap to talk about it's influence, No Limit Records was birthed out here in Richmond California and the entire independent blueprint Master P made an empire from was taken directly from here. The majority of the early label releases were produced by EA Ski and even when he moved out the Bay his label continued to work with Bay producers like Ant Banks and Studio Ton. The entire wave of southern Hip Hop that dominated the late 90s and early 2000s was rooted OUT HERE.
>>> perm rap.
We have some of greatest and most influential producers in modern music history.
Teddy Riley
Neptunes
Timbaland
Lex Luger
The bay area got like 8 million people and the best they can come with is nikkas like Dru Down and Rappin 4-Tay
7 cities got a greater impact with like 1/7th the population.
Baby girl for the save
...Outsie of Teddy Riley all I see is producers who tried rapping because it wasn't enough talent in VA,and all sounded horrible doing it...Not to mention on the production side overated as shyt,that Neptunes,Timbaland production hasn't aged well at all,fukk outta here with that wack casio shyt:cambio:...To me Studio Ton,Rick Rock,Ant Banks,Sam Bostic and cant forget Zaytoven,make that list look light
@Mephistopheles the real reason why posters reppin' the bay go so hard is because 9/10 of them are non-black, and the demographics of the bay is majority non-black. Hip Hop culture and black culture in the bay in general is weak, so they use the bay area music scene as an IN or justification to be apart of our culture. The same way they pretend the demographics of Oakland is the same as it was in the Black Panther era.
Was JUST about to post this classic
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
They were way more popular than the perm/mane crew.Nobody gave a fukk about them ever
Unless we're talking pop/r&b
And Clipse > any street rappers that ever came out of the bay area.
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
I was gonna ask you to name a bay area producer better and more influential than Timbaland or the Neptunes. But now that I think about it, I need to ask you to name a bay area producer period because I can't name any.
Wait, somebody said Zaytoven.
That's all you got? Lex Luger > Zaytoven. I ain't even gotta bring up the legends.
you dont have enough hip hop knowledge to make a thread like this. Go sit the fukk down
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Hammer defined the word garbage and was an embarrassment to hip-hop, sorry. The fact that you mention Hammer as the centerpiece of your case for bay area hip-hop proves you lost already.
Breh. Skills called his first album From Where? because nobody knew where he was from, let alone gave a fukk about where he was from.
Clipse were definitely crazy on the mic, but I would take Short's catalog over them in a heart beat. And 40. I'd even take Mac Mall's first two albums over them. And San Quinn.