Why Does Detroit Hip-Hop Sound Like Cali (More Specifically The Bay) Hip-Hop?

[InGodWeTrust]

Bay always been big in the Midwest.

Luni Coleone, Brotha Lynch (SacTown)

 

[Mainy]

 

[Pit Bull]

Some people forget or don't know that the Bay, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis & New Orleans are all Black cousin cities. It has to do with the Great Migration and in turn the hustle game.

Great Migration (African-American) - Wikipedia

It's a big chance a hustler in one of those cities has a connection to another one of those cities in some way. Heck, most Black people from those cities have close kin in more than one of those other cities.



Them having the same sound is exactly like how Memphis & New Orleans music is extremely similar. It's all tied together.

Sad it took three pages to get the real answer

 

[FreedMind]

Im not debating this.

Im asking about the 'orgin' you speak on and when The Bay Area start "biting" because, my point is the Bay was cracking before Detroit had a mainstream voice..

Damn I see what you mean fammo, but that ain't me that was saying the Bay biting Detroit artists

 

[Mainy]

I think this video is in Oakland

 

[mrfortune]

cuz the bay fukk with kansas and detrioit heavy. all they did was take the sound and speed it up

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

The origin of what, exactly?

I really dont recall Detroit rappers coming out here, yet Bay Area rappers where all over Detroit.

Matter of fact, I bet there more BAY artists that get love in play in Detroit, than Detroit artists, get love and play in the Bay..

MC Breed (born & raised in Flint, but that's just an hour from Detroit) is basically considered a Bay Area rapper because that's who he worked with mainly (Too Short, 2Pac, Spice 1, etc)

Currently Detroit artist tour heavy in the Bay. Both cities rock with the other (it's funny seeing Bay rappers heavy on Cartiers just like Detroit lol)

Doughboyz Cashout in Oakland

 

[Whogivesafuck]

Cash money dominated the streets for literally a decade. That Detroit hustling sound was not around at the same time as cash money and first started showing up 3-5 years after cash money blew up in 99. They had a direct influence on the production whether or not it’s admitted

factz.







As far as cali. Mob and g-funk got played out in the late 90's, cali nikkas started fukking with cash money heavy.I was catching flak for saying this

Lingo, dreads. I remember when cash money started running things in the late 90's and early 2000's, there was alot these clicks in high schools calling themselves headbussas, cash money ballers,

But 03Greedo pretty much confirmed the next year later in his interview with say cheese tv. I would also say west music is based off Detroit based Parliament and One Way bass synth sound.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/03-...t-was-influenced-by-louisiana-culture.619449/

 

[Mainy]

Philthy Rich speaks on Detroit

 

[FeloniousMonk]

MC Breed (born & raised in Flint, but that's just an hour from Detroit) is basically considered a Bay Area rapper because that's who he worked with mainly (Too Short, 2Pac, Spice 1, etc)

Currently Detroit artist tour heavy in the Bay. Both cities rock with the other (it's funny seeing Bay rappers heavy on Cartiers just like Detroit lol)

Doughboyz Cashout in Oakland

Detroit it considered the Bay Area's sister city.

Im waiting on the receipts on how the 'sound' originated in Detroit and the Bay Area 'bit' the sound, based on op Im quoting.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I would also say west music is based off Detroit based Parliament and One Way bass synth sound.

Parliament move to Detroit in 68. By that time the funk had been formed.

The West music is based off the funk period.

That One Way bass synth sound it a simple LFO moog.

Lets not gloss over the fact of the Ohio Players from Ohio.

The Barkays out of Memphis..

James Brown..

Dazz Band..

The West music is not exclusive to or based off Detroit based Parliament.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Not all Detroit rappers sound alike or have that sound. Royce 5-9, Snap Dogg, Elzhi, Black Milk, etc all got different sounds. Philthy Rich from Oakland says Detroit is his favorite city chill at though. Detroit is its own thing and not like the other midwest cities though and in a way I don't like it when people group the whole midwest region together. Detroit aint like St. Louis, Chicago, Ohio, Indiana, etc. My boys cousin was out here several years ago from St. Louis and was tellin us how different the vibe was out this way.

i always thought Dilla and Black Milk had a west coast swing to a lot of beats. they are just so well rounded that its not the only sound they put out there.

 

[Whogivesafuck]

Parliament move to Detroit in 68. By that time the funk had been formed.

The West music is based off the funk period.

That One Way bass synth sound it a simple LFO moog.

Lets not gloss over the fact of the Ohio Players from Ohio.

The Barkays out of Memphis..

James Brown..

Dazz Band..

The West music is not exclusive to or based off Detroit based Parliament.

Yes I know Parliament is from Planfield. They located to Detroit.We already explored this in other threads.

The genesis of The Westcoast sound is based off Bernie Worrell (Funkadelic/Parliment) Bass Synth sound.Again he also influenced One Way. Matter fact our first popualr hiphop/dj crew Uncle Jams Army's was named after the Parliament album 1979.





The Difference between Bay/LA old school sound is that, LA artist hired professional musician to play while Too Short played a simple basic rhythm themselves.

 

[wire28]

nikkas goin back to parliament

if we gonna play that game lets go back to motown the true originators of the modern day music business

at the end of the day its all love. i got much respect for oakland. nikkas already dropped big facts about the sister city status and the commonality between the cities black history

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Midwest people love Cali music because we talk the same (except Chi they have their own accent)

black people from Indianapolis talk just like people from California. Bay Area rap is my favorite kind of rap music.

now people here just listen to whoever is hot in the south but me personally i feel like i can relate to Bay Area rap the most. i think Bay rappers are the best.

Maaan I’m not completely sure what Nap nikkas sound like but it sure as fukk ain’t Cali

Can co-sign whatever southern street acts are hot is what’s popping there...been like that at least the early 2000s when I started going there regularly