The jury was still out for me in regards to Iggy Azalea. I know she got the cosign from Tip, she is giving A$AP Rocky that becky, and she is already in a feud with Azealia Banks out of BK, but none of those things really meant she could spit. Then FKi dropped their mixtape a few weeks back and this joint was on it. Now it could be the smooth Diplo produced track, or my love for ’90s era Lil Kim, which you can tell was a huge influence on her flow, but yo, like the song says, I think she ready. Ol’ girl had me rewind her verse at least 10 times the first time I heard the song.
It’s nice to see a white girl who can actually do this rap shit well, white girl mob I’m looking at you, you could learn a thing or two.
Some facts about this video:
- It was shot in LA.
- The directors Alex/2Tone & What You Steal also have a clothing line SSENSE and if you watch the video on website links pop up on all the different outfits for people buy.
- SSENSE, Alex/2Tone & What You Steal are based out of LA. So support the hometown.
The video is pretty cool, if only for the interactivity, but it’s actually a good hip hop video. Also, I’ve been telling you guys for a while Diplo is hands down one of my favorite producers and when he works with Hip Hop acts, that shit is always gonna be fire. Now someone get him in the studio with the likes of Slaughterhouse, A$AP, Curren$y, Wayne and’em, & Nicki Minaj.
New music from the kid who is reminding the world the West Coast hasn’t fallen off, featuring the Dr they tell you to go see when your record sells aren’t doing to well. I’m already anticipating K. Dot’s performance at Coachella, his debut album, hearing this song at Coachella, most likely on Sunday night, Detox, but most importantly I can’t wait for those summer nights at dusk when you are heading out to buy some more alcohol for the pool party where all the girls are dressed in next to nothing, the grill is steady cooking the best meats, and you hop in your car, drive down Clinton St real slow blasting this song on your way to Sherman’s Liquor, passing the girls in the cut offs who turn their heads to see who is bumping that good shit from Dre.
If you haven’t experienced something like this in your town, come down with me for one of my family summer parties………and that’s what makes this song a hit to me. Because it can evoke those kind of memories from me. Like the song says: We got the women, weed, and weather….Welcome to LA.
Reminiscing when the LA Raiders
Was in my home, snapback fitted on my uncle’s dome
And I don’t condone dickriding,I’m addicted to
Westsiding,living in a city where the skinny niggas die
And the semi bullets fly, but it turn me to a lion
Trying, and I mean that shit
As much as I love Game, The Red Album, and this song, yo Kendrick steals the show with the last verse. Rapid fire with the deliver, like bullets from the AK, with just as much power. TDE, Black Hippy, LA Muthafuckers!
Kurupt is orignally from Philly, but he moved to LA and we adopted him as an LA/West Coast artist. He puts it down for LA, but never forgets to rep Philly. Since it’s the time for the rise of the new west, I put forth that we adopt Gangsta Gibbs. He is more West Coast than artists FROM California. This video is just another exhibit of why I feel Gangsta Gibbs should be considered one of LA’s own. Gibbs, TM:103, CTE. West Coast.
“Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don’t live here.” - Ice Cube
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene.
If Cube taught a class at UCLA/USC about the history of LA through his eyes, I’d be the first one to sign up for that class. This video is a good compromise.
Pistols & Palm Trees
LA Weekly vs H.H.I.R: 20 Greatest LA Rap Albums of All Time
LA Weekly Presents: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time
1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)
2. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
4. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)
5. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992)
6. DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (1991)
7. Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991)
8. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (1991)
9. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (1989)
10. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots (1993)
11. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (1991)
12. The Game - Doctor’s Advocate (2006)
13. Dr. Dre - 2001 (1999)
14. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (1990)
15. Suga Free - Street Gospel (1997)
16. Tyler, The Creator - Goblin (2011)
17. Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It (1988)
18. Kool Keith - Sex Style (1997)
19. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens (2007)
20. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to Dilla (2009)
For the most part, I agree with a majority of these albums being on this list. Some I feel should be higher, (Eazy-Duz-It, 2001, Below The Heavens), and some I feel should not even BE on the list, (Kool Keith, Tyler, Doctor’s Advocate). Here is H.H.I.R’s list, which I feel resembles my list a little more.
Hip Hop Is Read Presents: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time
1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)
2. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
4. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)
5. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (1990)
6. Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991)
7. Dr. Dre - 2001 (1999)
8. 2Pac - Me Against the World (1995)
9. Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food (1995)
10. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992)
11. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (1989)
12. Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It (1988)
13. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (1991)
14. Warren G - Regulate…G Funk Era (1994)
15. DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (1991)
16. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday (1993)
17. Low Profile - We’re In This Together (1990)
18. N.W.A. - Niggaz4Life (1991)
19. The Game - Doctor’s Advocate (2006)
20. Xzibit - Restless (2000)
I personally would have subbed out Doctor’s Advocate for The Documentary, I mean it WAS produced by the D.R.E. How is Doctor’s Advocate more LA than The Documentary. I would move Low Profile, down to the early twenties and bring in Westside Connection’s Bow Down. Finally, I’d have to go song for song and really analyze whether or not Restless should be there in place of 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz. Restless had the whole West Coast hoping Xzibit would sign with D.R.E after hearing X, but 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz had What You See (Is What You Get), and the video was the inspiration behind CJ’s crib in GTA:SA and no game’s more LA than that.
HHIR’s Honorable Mentions:
21. Westside Connection - Bow Down (1996)
22. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (1991)
23. Above the Law - Black Mafia Life (1992)
24. House of Pain (no, they’re not from Boston!) - House of Pain (1992)
25. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots (1993)
26. Compton’s Most Wanted - Music to Driveby (1992)
27. Mack 10 - Mack 10 (1995)
28. King Tee - At Your Own Risk (1990)
29. Compton’s Most Wanted - Straight Checkn ‘Em (1991)
30. Snoop Dogg - Tha Last Meal (2000)
I’ve written/talking about in depths about what the Chronic/West Coast gangsta means to me, how it’s influence who I am, the kind of music I listen to, etc. One thing I will never forget is the first time my cousin and I heard Nate Dogg. We had the chronic on both tape and CD and we had basically played out the singles until our box ate our tape and the CD began to scratch. We finally decided maybe it should be time to listen to this legendary disc from beginning to end and we then we got to track 6. For those of you who don’t have the track listing memorized like your first home phone number like I do, that is track is Deeez Nuts. Not only did that give us something stupid to holla at the little girls in the playground when you want to break the ice, but it also introduced us to Nate D-O-double G for the first time. I will never forget his outro on that song, and I can still rap it acapella to this day. After that he taught me what to do after you take a lady home from the club (side note: I don’t care who you are or your fillings about misogynistic lyrics, no one can resist singing this song), he taught me not to love no hoe and make sure my chronic has no seeds, and to always take things to that next episode. Nate is as much staple of West Coast hip hop as Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, Eazy E, and NWA. You can’t speak on West Coast music without mentioning his name. You will forever be missed Nate. If I smoked I would roll a huge joint and smoke one in your honor, since I don’t I encourage everyone to do so, FOR NATE. DPGC Dogg Pound Gangsta 4 Life West Coast Stand Up and never forget to……
SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY. Kush. Dr. Dre. Nate Dogg.
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