The new Fool's Good signee lands somewhere between late-80’s 808 slaps and the mobb music style that dominated of the '90’s Bay. Recommended if you miss Mac Dre.
| 2 Hard 4 Tha Radio: May in the Bay | June 9, 2015 |
Legendvry, Mistah Fab, Trackademics, Erk Tha Jerk, and Larry June.
| Nef the Pharaoh & The Art of Ballin’ Like Baby | May 15, 2015 |
Nef the Pharaoh is the best rapper from Vallejo since the last great rapper from Vallejo.
| 2 Hard 4 Tha Radio: The March Bay Area Rap Round-Up | April 3, 2015 |
All the latest splashes from the Warriors domain.
The new Shots Fired is here to appease your workday melancholy and fill the void of bad Macklemore jokes. Some things you can set your watch by. This week’s guest is Clyde Carson, who you may be familiar with from his hyphy days with The Team or 2012’s “Slow Down.” We talked about everything from […]
| The Funkadelic Pimp Rap of 100s | March 11, 2014 |
Will Hagle is looking for his activator. Reducing Bay Area rapper 100s to a shadow of his pimp rap ancestors would be reductive. The truth is that 100s is comprised of shards of several other artists from various musical backgrounds. He talks a Short-esque pimp game, sure, but he also hails from the same city as the Based God. […]
| Andre Nickatina & Bay Area Rap – Candy Paint & Cocaine Forever | September 26, 2013 |
Max Bell was thizzin when he wrote this. Bay Area rap comes and goes in the national rap consciousness. In the early ‘90s Digital Underground made impregnating someone in a Burger King bathroom socially acceptable. Luniz’s “I Got 5 on It” remains in contention for the best smoking song of all time. Hyphy had its […]
For the latest episode of Shots Fired, Nocando and I welcomed IAMSU!. To the non-blog world, Su is best known for rapping on E-40’s “Function” and Sage the Gemini’s “Gas Pedal.” His biggest production is probably Loverance’s “Up,” which I have heard remixed in about 74 variations. If you go deeper into his catalog, he’s […]
| Bay Area Brawlers: DaVinci & Shady Blaze | February 13, 2013 |
Some smooth leather seats and Cadillac rap for a Wednesday evening — with a boxing bout or two to toughen us up. Taken from DaVinci’s MOEna Lisa. The new Shady Blaze video is below the jump because he raps too well and there is no amount of Bay Area bud that can make him mellow.
| Shady Blaze Be Truth | January 16, 2013 |
Shady Blaze rap fast. Shady Blaze got sickest flow. Shady Blaze not be fake. Shady Blaze take slow jam and make it street. Shady Blaze be called crazy. Shady Blaze have .45. Shady Blaze does want to have to use .45. Shady Blaze be 5th chapter of Green Ova. Shady Blaze be high as hell. […]
