west coast gangsta shit.....

[tejas]

lil keke - pimp tha pen '95
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2X8EI1VUV1G6L3P34NBGLYHJQ3

this is my choice as representative of the whole DJ Screw movement in Houston. Screw started off just screwing (slowing down the BPM) & choppin (scratching, track backs, cuts, mixing) rap songs made by other artists, this was the first original song of the screwed up click to become a regional hit.

this is off a mixtape so you get a good picture of the total effect of a screwed & chopped song: masterful transition from the cloverland beat (previous song on the mix), a chorus from a random UGK song thrown in, screw's slowed down voice talking over the song, all mixed together in a psychedelic drug-induced haze (drug of choice prescription cough medicine containing codeine & promethazyne + weed).

 

[moonsi til]

it would be really hard to do sign langauge for gansta rap...

 

[tejas]

black menace - faces of death '96
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21C9OLACGHKVR1OKQQM1IA3514

really there aren't any "big names" from New Orleans before No Limit & Cash Money blew up. there were dozens of great rappers though, most of 'em now dead or in jail.

Like Memphis, New Orleans also had a very specific local sound (New Orleans Bounce) that was quite different from the general gangster style and harder to appreciate if the Chronic is your point of reference. So this 96 album by Black Menace is atypical in being more typical slick gangsta funk. This track should also bury the stereotype that New Orleans rappers are terrible lyricists, this shit is fierce.

 

[dirtysanta]

i think this is could one of my favourite music forum threads since ive been here.

Tejas. respect fella.

 

[tejas]

eightball ft. goodie mob - backyard mississippi '98
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22D1LHXOGXK2E08QR1Y6YBEBFW

another Organized Noize production. a bit more recent than everything else I been upping, but this beat is as beautiful as anything made in the Golden Age. Just oozes sweaty deep south FUNK. Eightball we already had, I picked this for Goodie Mob though.

There's a tendency for people to seperate Outkast/Goodie Mob/Organized Noize/Dungeon Family from the rest of the south ("oh I love Outkast but I don't listen to all that other negative music"). But Eightball & MJG, UGK, Geto Boys have all expressed their respect for them, & Goodie Mob have collaborated w/ many more typical Southern gangsta rappers.

ok, this was my last post. unfortunately no time for more depth on the South & I didn't get to do the Mid West at all, but hopefully I've shown that Dre is only a tiny fraction of this here gangster music.

 

[dirtysanta]

ok, this was my last post. unfortunately no time for more depth on the South & I didn't get to do the Mid West at all, but hopefully I've shown that Dre is only a tiny fraction of this here gangster music.

Dont be a stanger eh

 

[kakuma]

yeah thanks a shitload

got a proper education now

 

[E.J.]

I knew a little bit about the West Coast "Gangsta" rap scene, when i listened to some of those records back in the late 80's to 90's. But thanks to this quality thread, i'll be listening to those choons most defintely!! (plus bookmarking this thread)

 

[top_biller]

The Almighty RSO - One In The Chamba

Should be mentioned on this thread, don't have a download though

 

[Boogie Boy]

dunno if you got the link wrong, but that's the revenge of the x-men again <i have visions of marley marl scratch sitting there all lonely with no dl's & I don't like it... d'you still have the right link?>

Sorry mate, hadn't realised that I had fucked up. Give me a day or so and I will re-post with a few other old school goodies.

BB

 

[kakuma]

I knew a little bit about the West Coast "Gangsta" rap scene, when i listened to some of those records back in the late 80's to 90's. But thanks to this quality thread, i'll be listening to those choons most defintely!! (plus bookmarking this thread)

yousendit files expire after a week, so you wanna get all the tunes asap