Tag Archives: West Coast Rap

Based away of LA, California, Dom Kennedy (delivered Dominic Hunn) can be a rapper using a fiercely 3rd party streak. With a method that pairs terse, basic lyricism using a knack for narrative, Kennedy got inspiration from Western world Coastline rap legends like 2Pac and DJ Quik and started rapping …

Laid-back Inglewood, California rap group Cali Swag Region broke away when every member was an adolescent. MCs Chante “Yung” Glee and Cahron “JayAre” Childs and MC/DJ Corey “C-Smoove” Fowler — who had been joined up with by dancer M-Bone — agreed upon to the Capitol label via Checkmate GROUP and …

The progenitor of what he terms ratchet music (what others might call strip club anthems), DJ Mustard (Dijon McFarlane) is a rap and R&B DJ and producer from South Central LA, California whose 2010s rise is related to a straightforward, hypnotic sound. He began with YG, as noticed for the …

A multi-instrumentalist, rapper, singer, and maker from LA, California, Terrace Martin spent almost ten years behind the moments before dropping his debut album in 2013. The 1st record the youthful Martin bought was EPMD’s one “You Gots to Chill,” even though his appreciate of hip-hop grew afterward, he also begun …

Along with his cool-headed SoCal demeanor and everyman charisma, Blu was championed in the onset of his documenting career when he collaborated with Emanon DJ/producer Exile for the highly acclaimed LP Below the Heavens (2007). Created Johnson Barnes in Inglewood, California, Blu, whose stepfather was a pastor, was affected by …

A Bay Region rapper who appears like the Notorious B.We.G. but includes his own circulation, Big Cheeze debuted this year 2010 using the aptly entitled single “I MANAGED TO GET.” The cigar-toting rapper came back in 2015 using the strike single “Poor Behavior,” offering Vidal Garcia and creation in the …

Following a dissolution of Low Account, a late-’80s West Coast MC/DJ partnership between WC and DJ Aladdin, the rapper created WC as well as the Maad Group and released a set of albums, Ain’t a Damn Thang Transformed (1991) and Suppress Servin’ (1995). The albums spawned several well-known singles, notably …

In true sophomoric, Beastie Guys fashion, rapper Luke Sick (Luke Oakson) and maker Vrse Murphy (Patrick Murphy) of indie rap duo Sacred Hoop dig through personal and surreal anecdotes of medicines, sex, ladies, and the rest in between having a throwback hip-hop flavor. Aided with a solid of typical suspects …

A grassroots achievement, Seattle maker Ryan Lewis not merely climbed to number 2 around the Billboard 200 album graphs, but with small mainstream help, his 2012 sophomore launch with rapper Macklemore debuted with just Mumford & Sons in his method for the main spot. Given birth to in Spokane, Washington, …

Perhaps the just rap producer to emerge from Scandinavia is a chap who goes on the alias of Big Ice. Originally from Western Oslo, Norway, Big Snow got into the business enterprise by writing for just two from the Bay Area’s most widely known rap magazines, ‘4080’ and ‘Illtip,’ during …