In his recent CRWN Series interview, rave of the moment, DJ Mustard said that West Coast Hip Hop was dead before he and YG came along. He makes dope beats, and YG is a cool west coast rapper, but are his claims true? Hmm! Anyway, read his words below before I speak on this.
"It was dead. It wasn't nothing going on. We had OGs like Snoop, Dr. Dre, Cube, all of them but it was time for a new generation and nobody in this audience can tell me somebody they was listening to before me and YG started bringing that sound back together. You got me, you got Nipsey [Hussle] you got Dom [Kennedy], you got Casey Veggies like now that's all together. It wasn't nobody before that."
Being someone that has been listening to Hip Hop music for like three decades (90s, 2000s, and 2010s), this is one of the things that pisses me off about new rappers/beat-makers on the scene. Once they start enjoying a little fame and popularity, they forget all the people that came before them. Just like a lot of Hip Hop listeners have totally forgotten most of the rappers that came on the scene in the 2000s, this dude has forgotten that Game had the whole West Coast on his back in the mid 2000s to late 2000s.Before Game, West Coast Hip Hop had been off the map for a while after the whole era of Snoop and Dre. Game paved the way for the new era...the Jay Rock's, and the ScHoolboy Q's, and these two I mentioned where doing their thing before DJ Mustard and YG came on the scene too. Well, I ain't gonna hate on dude, he is really popping right now, but he needs to remember his Hip Hop history, and pay respect where it's due. I have seen loud mouths like him come and go.
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