December 20th, 2011 at The Independent. This was a really fun show.
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Author: SergDun
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the source 1996 courtesy of my wife deciding to read while she ate a bagel this morning
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50 tracks deep so far. We keep talking about doing another one of these but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Might be making it happen though, the world needs more violent rap.
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bought a few tapes today at Creative Music. It was their last day open, found some good stuff.
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“Been Gettin G’s” Beeda Weeda, Eddie Projex (2011)
Increasingly, Bay Area artists are returning to the classics for mixtape beats, and I can’t say whether that’s a good thing or bad thing for the scene, but I can say that they’re fun to listen to. Where else are you going to hear a revamp of the beat to C-Bo’s “Want to Be a G?”? (Other than Boosie)
Keak da Sneak flirted with bringing back an updated early 90’s production a few years ago, with “In Front of Yo Mama’s House”, but it sort of stopped there. As novel as “cloud rap” is, Bay Area rap thrives on heavy bass, and while Young L and Droop E certainly deliver in this department, the tweaked out synths are just, I don’t know, not as timeless.
This is off of Beeda Weeda’s Bassrock Babies Leak, which also has a freestyle over “Da Bumble” and a track over a beat that sounds like an old Too Short beat I can almost identify (is it “Shortside”?). DB tha General’s Young OG 2 mixtape was similar in this regard. I don’t think it’s a bad thing for Bay Area rappers to be getting back in touch with their roots, even if it might seem retrograde, and it seems natural given how jarring the whole Hyphy thing must have been.
I have this fantasy project where someone gets together all the up-and-coming Bay Area rappers and has them cover or update Bay classics, In Tha Beginning… style. Not the ones that everyone knows like “Playas Club” but more local favorites like “H Ni**a Groove”, “Streets of Frisco“ and the like. Or just 13 different rappers all covering “Dope Fiend Beat”.
That’s why I like spaceghostpurp’s throwback shit. Yeah you can just go listen to old shit but the thing is I want new versions of that style as well. Fuck it, I want dudes to make miami bass again, fuck futurebass, i want raps about popping pussy and 808s. Fuck an ableton beat, hammer that shit. Bay rap over 808 slaps with that touch of funk should never die. I want that to live on so hell yes people should revisit those styles because they were fucking great and motherfuckers lost their way trying to get on another trend.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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this is what my Dad’s work bench has decayed into
I didn’t have a “job” for a lot of years, I just fixed cars for friends in that garage. I took a apart a lot of cylinder heads on that bench. Cut springs for herbs, cleaned carbs, rebuilt axles, whatever. Did my first b series swap in that garage, redid a failed sr20det swap for a friend that someone paid a “shop” to originally do, rebuilt a couple of transaxles, whatever. Seeing it this way just makes me sad, old man is getting tired and doesn’t bother to stay organized anymore.
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Tomorrow I finally return to the bay, I want out of this place so fucking bad. I can’t take the vast barrenness of stucco and freeways that is the low lying valley of desperation and failed urban planning that some people call Phoenix, Arizona.
charlie’s in the business, that’s my number one spot for them. Wipe Me Down’s are fun too but that mac dre energy drink is a motherfucker
I fucks with them. Homegirl over there is mad cool and knows what up with the cutty bangs