West Coast Music

Bloods - Damu Ridas Vol. 2 - How Deep Is Your Hood (1999)

2008-09-16T10:11:00.002-07:00

Los Angeles, California
Label: Dangerous Records

How Deep Is Your Hood is the second and last album of the American gangsta rap group Damu Ridas. It was released on November 10, 1999.

Track Listings
1. Kickin' Knowledge
2. Young Active Brazy
3. Feel'n' Ya Man
4. Young Dogs With No Muscle
5. Day in a Life
6. How Deep Is Your Hood
7. Ya'll Nigga's Know My Name
8. Is Ya Bang'n or What
9. All About Money
10. Darby M-Fuck'n' Park
11. 104% No Kut
12. Blood: Y'All Active
13. I Ain't From Africa
14. Blood: It's on For Life
15. Get Yo Money
16. Nigga's & Bitches
17. Give It Up
18. Ride Again
19. Fuck All Y'All

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Bloods & Crips - Bangin' On Wax (1993)

2008-09-16T10:11:00.001-07:00

Los Angeles, California
Label: Warlock Records

Bangin' on Wax is the first album by gangsta rap project, Bloods & Crips. The album was released on March 9, 1993 for Warlock Records and was produced by Ron "Ronnie Ron" Phillips. Bangin' on Wax was a success, making it to #86 on the Billboard 200 and being certified Gold by the RIAA. Four singles were released "Bangin' on Wax", "Piru Love", "Crip, Crip, Crip" and Steady Dippin'".

Track Listings
1. Gangsta Talk
2. Bangin' On Wax
3. Shuda Beena B-Dog
4. C-Sick
5. Rip A Crab In Half
6. Piru Love
7. No Way Out
8. I Killed Ya Dead Homies
9. C-K Ride
10. Crippin Ain't Easy
11. Crazy Lil' Nigga
12. Another Slob Bites The Dust
13. Crip, Crip, Crip
14. Putting In Work
15. Steady Dippin
16. Mackin' To Slob Bitches
17. K's Up
18. Bro Dahwood-Transmigrator Of The Soul

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B-Brazy - The Braziak

2008-09-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles, California

B-Brazy was from 109th Street & Figueroa Avenue, (Denver Lane Blood Hood), he was shot and killed by an Los Angeles Mexican gang. He was set up by an Latina female member of that gang and was shot and left for dead on May 9th, 2003, in a Inglewood hotel room on the 800 Block of W. Manchester Blvd.

B-Brazy (Bruice Parish) made his debut on the "Bangin On Wax" track intitled "Damu Ride"

Track Listings
1. Intro
2. It Don't Matter
3. Smile Now Cry Later
4. This World We Live In
5. Gangstrizm
6. Don't Trip
7. Fuck A Strike
8. The Drought Is Over
9. I Don't Wanna Know
10. My Niggaz - B.I.P. Damu
11. Skit
12. My Chucks

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Battlecat - Gumbo Roots (1995)

2008-09-16T09:30:00.000-07:00

Long Beach, California
Label: Warner Bros. Records

Kevin Gilliam, better know by his stage name Battlecat, is a hip-hop producer from Long Beach, California. He is best known for producing artists such as Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, and Tha Eastsidaz and along with a number of other West Coast rappers. His aesthetic is a progression from the early-'90s G-Funk sound pioneered by Dr. Dre, characterized by fat synth bass lines and soulful keys. He is also the concert DJ for Snoop Dogg.

Gumbo Roots is the first album by West Coast producer Battlecat. It was released on December 31, 1999 through Warner Bros. Records. The album was originally to be released in 1995 through Lifestyle Records but never came out.

Track Listings
1. Journey
2. Ain't No Thang
3. On Top Of The World
4. Swerve On
5. Reality Check
6. Stone Cold Nut
7. Waterdrop
8. Just The Way I Live
9. Master Plan
10. Blue 64'
11. Out Here
12. Freedom
13. Set Trippin'
14. Everybody Give It Up
15. Cat's Shout Out (I'll die for the funk)

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B.G. Knocc Out & Gangsta Dre'sta - Real Brothas (1995)

2008-09-15T14:31:00.000-07:00

Compton, California
Label: Def Jam/OutBurst Records

In late 1995, Compton natives and half-brothers BG Knocc Out & Dresta released their debut album "Real Brothas" to little fanfare on Eazy-E's Ruthless Records. Recently I have been going through my collection and reviewing some of my favorite albums, trying to steer people towards some underrated hip hop releases. "Real Brothas" shines on multiple levels. While on the surface the duo may just look like another jeri-curled, Compton Crip rap group, Knocc Out and Dresta are two of the toughest, grittiest west coast rappers that I have heard, and despite their young age they come as hard as any, heavy with threats and stories. Musically the production is excellent, graced with the slow rolling, heavy bass, whiny synths, and hard beats of the best g-funk records of the 90s.

Track Listings
1. Everday Allday
2. Jealousy
3. Whose The 'G'
4. Compton Swingin'
5. Life's A Puzzle
6. B.G. Knocc out
7. Compton Hoe
8. Micc Checc
9. Compton and Watts
10. 50/50 Luv
11. Real Brothas
12. Do Or Die
13. Take A Ride
14. Down Goes Another Nigga
15. D.P.G./K

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Att Will - Do It Att Will (1993)

2008-09-15T14:24:00.000-07:00

Compton, California
Label: Big City

Track Listings
1. The Gate
2. Shoot'Em Dead
3. Just Another Day In Compton
4. Gettin High
5. Wreck 'Em
6. Nurse Bitch
7. Make A Bitch
8. Hoe Hopper
9. Show 'Em How It's Done
10. Be On Your Way
11. Lick 'Em Good Lucy Show
12. Do It Att Will
13. Time Is Thru
14. Ghetto Nightmare
15. The Junkyard
16. Outro

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Above The Law - Time Will Reveal (1996)

2008-09-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

Pomona, California
Label: Tommy Boy

Track Listings
1. Intro
2. Encore
3. Evil That Men Do
4. Table Dance (Skit)
5. Gorillapimpin'
6. 1996
7. Killaz In The Park
8. 100 Spokes
9. Clinic 2000
10. My World
11. Endonesia
12. Shout 2 The True
13. Playaz & Gangstaz
14. City Of Angels
15. Apocalypse Now

Above the Law was a rap group from Pomona, California, founded in 1989 by Cold 187um, KMG the Illustrator, Go Mack, and DJ Total K-Oss. In 1999, The group signed to Suge Knight's Death Row Records but left in 2002.

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Above The Law - Legends (1998)

2008-09-14T13:58:00.001-07:00

Pomona, California
Label: Rhino/Ada

Track Listings
1. Intro 'Floetry'
2. X.O. Wit Me
3. Set Trippin'
4. Promise Me
5. Be About Yo Bizniz
6. Clinic Niggaz
7. Soliciting
8. Deep AZ The Root
9. The Streets
10. Summer Days
11. L.A. Vibe
12. Worldwide
13. Karma
14. Soul Searching
15. Adventures Of...
16. In God We Trust

Above the Law was a rap group from Pomona, California, founded in 1989 by Cold 187um, KMG the Illustrator, Go Mack, and DJ Total K-Oss. In 1999, The group signed to Suge Knight's Death Row Records but left in 2002.

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A Lighter Shade Of Brown - Spill The Rhyme/Spill The Wine [12in] (1992)

2008-09-14T13:58:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles, California
Label: Pump Records

Track Listings
Side A
1. Spill The Rhyme (Radio Version)
2. Spill The Rhyme (Extended Version)
3. Spill The Rhyme (Instrumental Version)

Side B
1. Spill The Wine (Muggs Wine Mix)
2. Spill The Wine (Muggsamental Version)

Message From The Shade: If you drink, don't drive - It's simple we want you alive

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187proof - Dope Lika Pound Or A Key (1991)

2008-09-14T13:18:00.000-07:00

Oakland, California
Label: Wax That Azzs Records

Track Listings
1. 187proof
2. Lights Start Flashin
3. Foul Play
4. One Nation
5. Oakland California
6. East Bay Gangster
7. 976-Spice
8. Foul Play Remix
9. 2 B Reel
10. One Nation Jazz Apella
11. 211 At 711
12. Gangster Thang

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2nd Nature - Episodes (1998)

2008-09-14T13:11:00.000-07:00

Long Beach, California
Label: Global Mogul Group

Track Listings
1. Meeting
2. I Cant Wait
3. Last Night
4. Show Me the Money
5. Concrete Jungle
6. Street Life
7. Where Do We Go? - Second Nature,
8. Listening Party
9. Rap Pays
10. Southern Cali
11. Take Me Back
12. Deal
13. Shot Callers
14. Platinum Forever

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2nd II None - The Shit (2008)

2008-09-14T12:58:00.000-07:00

2nd II None was a rap group from Compton, California. It consisted of cousins KK (born Kai McDonald) and Gangsta D (born Darius Barnett).

Compton, California
Label: Death Row Records

Track Listings
1. Intro
2. Getcha Clown On
3. The Dogg N' Me
4. The Message
5. I Can Tell (The Nasty Song)
6. Nuthin' Has Changed
7. Let's Get Higher
8. Kant Wait To Do This
9. Tha Shit
10. Get Ya Hot
11. Funny How Things Change
12. B Alright
13. If U Ain't Fuck'n (How U Gonna Get Home)
14. Didn't Mean To Turn You On
15. Funny How Things Change (Remix)
16. Theo Commercial

Their career started in 1987, when they were signed to Profile Records along with DJ Quik, after the release of The Red Tape. They released their first album in 1991, the self-titled 2nd II None on Profile Records. Their second album, Classic 220 on Arista Records, came eight full years after their debut. Their albums were mainly produced by childhood friend and rapper/producer DJ Quik.

Both of the group's albums reached the Billboard 200 album chart and entered the top 40 on Billboard's R&B/hip-hop album chart.

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2008-09-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

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