The 50 Greatest Bay Area Rap Songs - Complex Magazine

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  • shitzrshitzr 648 Posts
    cosigning on apg and 415.

    others that should have been mentioned when talking about bay rap:
    ant
    pooh (especially "fuckin with dank")
    seagram ("fuck you fools mind ya own! take yo fo twenny five paid ass home!!!!!!!)
    c-bo & hung (yeah sac, but whatever)

    also this might be a far stretch for the list, but what about hugh e mc?

    as far as hammer...shit, i would rather have premo up in that list:

    anyone remember the video for this? hilarious!

  • jinx74jinx74 2,287 Posts
    from the bay and with his thizzlenation website im still disappointed that someone trying to rep the top 50 bay songs cant include two of the most important rap groups (with many offshoots mind you) to come from here.

    i do agree with a lot of the stuff dude put up and i liked his little write ups as well (though i would duck and cover about his "no good rappers ever came out of Sunnydale" line). i also agree that no one could get it right (i would of included more 90s records but thats cause im old and stopped listening to a lot of this stuff post 2000). so right on for doing it!

    just saying... dudes from here and couldnt get it right on those two and thats wack to me.

    say what you want matthew but ill comment HARD on anything bay area related. ive lived it, worked it, owned it and talked about it my whole life. ill make my 6th generation SF kids know about it too...

    im hella bay area

  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    Jonny_Paycheck said:
    grandpa_shig said:


    also, black dynasty deep east oakland.

    this.

    No 415? Can that be?




    I might could have to retract my earlier quasi-approval of this list.

    I'm sayin'! Really? No 415?

    This should have been on the list...........


  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    Jonny_Paycheck said:
    For what it's worth:

    Cities Of Dope

    A live mix of Bay slap, a lot of underground and tape-only business sandwiched between the requisite turfy mobb hyphy shit.

    Feelin' this mix Jonny!


  • Mongo_Slade said:
    J, chill.

    Given how rich and diverse Bay Area rap music is, there was no way anyone could have made a list that would please anybody. I could quibble with some song choices but overall I think it was really solid.
    agreed.

    quotes from the blog: "There will be plenty for readers of this blog to disagree with, and I'm curious to hear feedback. These lists are complicated things, guys.
    No, Team Knoc didn't make the cut, but "Fruity Pebble Punk Rock" was on my brainstorm list. With all the press Lil B is getting these days, someone's gotta step up for them and point out that he didn't coin the word "Based" at all! "

    fuck lil b, and is equipto on the list? i dont see it typed down on the site just this flash pic shit my old ass laptop cant compute ^^

  • Herm said:

    da oowee

  • jinx74jinx74 2,287 Posts
    I was a little harsh in my reply. Chalk that up to being old surly knowing too much and having a newborn in the house. I still stand by my post but would have been nicer in my wording.

    Just to rephrase a little nicer Matthew, to me, missing those groups in this list, it's like if you didn't put freaky tales on the too short mix. Just wouldn't be right.

    But hey maybe all those post 2000 tracks really are that important to the bay area sound. What do I know?

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    DJ_Enki said:
    edpowers said:
    I can't view the list from my phone.....can someone list the Top 15 ?

    15. Andre Nickatina f/ San Quinn -- "Ayo"
    14. E-40 f/ Suga-T -- "Sprinkle Me"
    13. Too $hort -- "Freaky Tales"
    12. 2Pac f/ Shock G and Money B -- "I Get Around"
    11. The Federation -- "Hyphy"/"Hyphy" remix
    10. Dru Down -- "Pimp of the Year"
    9. Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
    8. Dre Dog -- "Smoke Dope and Rap"
    7. Keak da Sneak -- "Super Hyphy"
    6. Mac Dre -- "Too Hard for the Fuckin' Radio"
    5. E-40 f/ The Click -- "Captain Save-a-Hoe"
    4. Souls of Mischief -- "93 Til Infinity"
    3. Rappin' 4-Tay -- "Players Club"
    2. Too $hort -- "Cuss Words"
    1. Luniz -- "I Got 5 On It"/ "5 on It" remix

    Should probably be Dopefiend Beat instead of Cuss Words.

    Might need to have Dusted and Disgusted in there...Mr Flamboyant as well.

    Mac Mall's Sic Wid This. JT and Mac Mall's Game Recognize Game remix as well.

    Makes no sense that neither Bammer Weed nor Back to the Hotel aren't top10.

    Richie Rich's/415's Sideshow.

    Celly Cell's It's Going Down Tonight.

    Mac Dre's I Need a Eighth.

    IMP's Scandalous.

    JT & GLP's SFC.

    3XKrazy's Keep It on the Real.

  • what! no LAVISH STYLE HUSTLERS KLAN??! har har

  • RG - most of those tracks are on the list, just not in the top 10.

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Jonny_Paycheck said:
    RG - most of those tracks are on the list, just not in the top 10.

    Cool...I can't bring myself to scroll through those horribly designed articles, so I only had the top15 list to go by. I hadn't read all the replies on here either before rplying myself, and it's cool to see that a few of us wound up mentioning identical ommissions. BAY AREA POWERS ACTIVATE!

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Jonny_Paycheck said:
    RG - most of those tracks are on the list, just not in the top 10.

    Cool...I can't bring myself to scroll through those horribly designed articles, so I only had the top15 list to go by. I hadn't read all the replies on here either before rplying myself, and it's cool to see that a few of us wound up mentioning identical ommissions. BAY AREA POWERS ACTIVATE!

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts

  • He was doing fine until he started rappin'.

  • http://www.ghettorainbow.com/index2.htm

    i loaned my copy out to a friend and never got it back. usually i dont mind, but this was a keeper!

    they had some sort of weird obsession with danny glover.

  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    Players Holiday

    and

    Stanky Panky


    should be on this list

    I can't read it

  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    And


  • players holiday is on the list!

  • mannybolone said:

    When he started with "U N Dat" all I could think of was this


  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    why was there no link to paycheck's recent mix in this thread

  • ScottScott 420 Posts
    Brian said:
    why was there no link to paycheck's recent mix in this thread

    Here's a golden opportunity for you to excel. Right that wrong and post a link!

  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts

  • Jonny_Paycheck said:
    For what it's worth:

    Cities Of Dope

    A live mix of Bay slap, a lot of underground and tape-only business sandwiched between the requisite turfy mobb hyphy shit.

    because there is a link!

    That was prior to Noz swagging me out though.

  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    hah, completely missed that. good stuff, thanks!
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