Like a fresh of breath air, this new video by LA's own Blu* is one giant exhale straight through your ear canal and aiming right for your brain. Mmm, I think I caught a contact buzz...pass the turkey sandwich this way.
Boo-hoo all you want, but LA's underground scene has always been just as important as the gangster posturing that's been blasted across the world (and reformatted by every region since). Freestyle Fellowship, Living Legends, Pharcyde...dudes put in work and left lasting works for everyone to aspire (and thus inspire). With two new videos debuting from Pacific Division and Murs in the past week or so, it only made sense to round it out with a classic third.
This tracklist surfaced this weekend as the likely line-up for Snoop's ninth studio album, Ego Trippin. Here's hoping it'll be better than his crappy reality show!
Strong Arm Steady is serious hip-hop; Phil da Agony, Mitchy Slick and Krondon are serious dudes. This isn't some nerd rap ish with matching backpacks...this is raw, unadulterated, grimy street business. It just happens to be smarter than you.
A little buzz is rumbling down here from up north. Haji Springer hails from the Bay and represents Thizz Entertainment. We got his new song, "Stay Fly" featuring DogWood Speaks, exclusively for you.
This is not a disrespectful post directed at Power 106's DJ Felli Fel, aka LA's most powerful radio DJ. I respect that Felli Fel is self-producing his entire album and his show knocks pretty well, however, he's a glaring symptom of the West Coast's problems. Shouldn't LA's biggest DJ have at least one West Coast rapper on his big budget debut single?
This is my Bill O'Reilly post here...simultaneously firing up my base and pissing off the opposition. The Game got more ink on his face. What began as a butterfly (aka the most questionable tatt in the history of entertainment), turned into a standard "LA" (aka the most awkward cover-up tatt ever), has now turned into a star surrounding that "LA" (aka a the doodle from a freshman girl at Manual Arts Senior High School). Let the asinine conversation begin.
It's been nearly a year since Evidence's way UNDERRATED The Weatherman LP dropped, but the record is still resonating and still making moves. The Dilated Peoples emcee/producer just released a video for the Alchemist-assisted "Chase The Clouds Away" and you can check it here.
So a few hours ago, we were alerted to a piece online that gives out a few more details on the status of the seminal Nate Dogg's health after suffering a stroke around Christmas...
This is the type of posting better fit for US Weekly or VIBE Confidential: an audio of the 911 call made after Nate Dogg's recent "Heart Attack," but we couldn't help but find the tape fascinating. We're sad like that.
Shouting out the founder of Facebook over Timbaland production? Only Crooked I could ever claim that.
After a tumultuous, but not completely vile or useless, debate yesterday, we thought it'd be good to focus all that fire and brimstone on something that actually matters. The segmentation of yesterday's argument--turning should-be friends into foes--is just part of Their plan, after all.
This post is numbered because this should really be an ongoing conversation. Not like you cookie cutters have it every day in the comments section, but with real intellect and arguments made from reality. We're not blind. There's a lot of great music coming out of West Coast artists, but it has hardly had a commercial impact since the early-'90s. We'll keep investigating why, but remember, let's just keep it civil.
Unless your name is Maya Rudolph. The remix to his robot sexy single got all over the internuts this weekend and so the question goes to you...
There aren't too many rappers who make the talk show rounds like Ice Cube. That's what a family-safe film career does, but O'Shea Jackson isn't promoting any kind of rom-com these days. OK, so he kinda is, something about a church getting robbed...but gangsta rap made him do it.
So many classic videos from Too $hort, but you can't really start a remember when? post without the grainy streets and cemeteries of East Oakland.
Or maybe just act a little jealous towards the friendlier folk up there. Sick Jacken/Psycho Realm are touring the great north and dates are to follow. If any one of the cookie cutters are cannuckian, send photos and recounts to craigthatclapp at gmail dot com.
Some pretty reliable rumors coming straight out of The Game's camp and exclusively to SOHH Left Coast right now: Dr. Dre and The Game are cool again and working on the Compton emcee's next album. More details to follow.
Dear SOHH Lefters, this J Wells song arrived in our Inbox this weekend with a cryptic message from its sender: "there is a reason why J is putting out this diss track" said the representative.
(Dear SOHH Left readers, this memo made it into our mailbox today. We thought we'd share. Your thoughts?)
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Blame Gangsta Rap. That's the message behind Ice Cube's provocative new video for "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It." It's a heated moving picture featuring some of the most infamous and disturbing footage of recent years.
The Game made a cameo appearance at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip New Year's Eve to help out his homie Nas with a few songs. He also revealed some details of his new album that will follow-up his 2007 banger, Doctor's Advocate.
Unless you count Kanye West. Or rapping in front of The Hundreds store in Los Angeles. Otherwise though, Skillz's year-end rap up is entirely devoid of West Coast news. Watch the video and ask yourself, what was he missing?
