He’s basically the Hyphy Movement’s Mick Jagger. He’s 52 years old and still out rapping most of his youthful contemporaries. Just like Too Short, after a successful indie career, he signed to Jive Records for 3 million dollars and had what many view as one of the most profitable record deals in major label history.Į-40 then went out to bring the Hyphy Movement to a national audience with “Tell me When To Go” and he’s still putting out records to this day. This man has been rapping so well for so long that your grandma probably has a favorite E-40 song. E-40’s relevance and longevity is unrivaled. E-40 borrowed Too Short’s indie rap blueprint and sold tapes out of the trunk of his car and drove all over Northern California, handing out his tapes to anyone he saw with a loud stereo system for free.Īt first, many criticized E-40 for his unorthodox style, but 40 had the last laugh when he released “Captain Save a Hoe” in 1993 and since then he has arguably been the most prolific rapper in modern Hip Hop history.
E-40, like many of the people mentioned in this list, started out in the ‘80s. E-40 (Vallejo, California)Į-40 is Hip Hop’s king of slang and he also happens to be a Bay Area native hailing from the Beverly Hills (Hillside) neighborhood of Vallejo, California.
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Mac Dre unfortunately passed away due to a drive by shooting in 2004, but his spirit lives on to this day. If you don’t agree, you’re just fucking wrong. Mac Dre is one of the greatest, if not the greatest Bay Area rapper of all time. The moment Mac Dre doesn’t liven up a dance floor is the day the Bay is dead. We’re in the middle of a fucking pandemic, moron, but before Covid-19 cramped our collective ability to do the Thizzle Dance without PPE gear, a face mask and 6 feet of distance, you could literally go to any party in the Bay, play “Feelin’ Myself” and the entire dancefloor would explode. You can go to any house party in the Bay… Actually, don’t.
He moved to Sacramento, started Thizz Entertainment, made some of the most iconic songs in the history of Bay Area music. Once released from prison, Mac Dre’s music took a more fun-loving approach. In the age of Tekashi 6ix9ine, it may be hard to imagine, but before Instagram, rappers were actually gangster, well, not all of them, but certainly some of them and Mac Dre was definitely in the latter category. While generating a buzz throughout the Bay Area and the greater West Coast rap scene, Mac Dre’s ties to the Vallejo-based Romper Room Gang got him in some trouble and he ended up doing 5 years in prison… FOR NOT SNITCHING. Mac Dre was born in Oakland and raised on the other side of the Carquinez Bridge in the Country Club Crest neighborhood of Vallejo. You can’t mention Bay Area Hip Hop without mentioning MAC-MUTHA-FUCKIN’-DRE (please excuse the use of my hyphy hyphens) If E-40 is the Jesus of the Bay Area rap scene, then Mac Dre is the Holy Ghost or Furly Ghost for the initiated. In this article I’m going to do my best to give a brief bio explaining why the rappers I’ve selected for this article are the greatest rappers from the Bay.
In other words, my opinion is ABSOLUTE FACT AND IF YOU DISAGREE… YOU’RE WRONG! This article is also being written during the anniversary month of the darkest moment in Bay Area Hip Hop history: The murder of Andre Hicks, better known as Mac Dre. This article, like all the other great articles written about black music and culture, is written by a white guy who doesn’t make music.
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