![]() ![]() Season Of Da Siccness may be hard to digest, but ultimately it has to be considered an all-around classic. The album is filled with shockingly graphic violent stories and images, but it is intelligent and even sometimes emotional at the same time. Lynch’s great flow goes together perfectly with the dark and sinister beats, entirely produced by Lynch himself. Season Of Da Siccness is his (full-length) debut album, and like all albums on this list definitely not for the faint of heart. “Locc To Da Brain,”, “Siccmade”, “Rest In Piss”, “Welcome 2 Your Own Death” are just a few of the standout tracks on this album. Sacramento’s Brotha Lynch Hung is an incredibly underrated emcee, who deserves props as one of the pioneers of the horrorcore subgenre. The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say! is a tight album, one of Ice-T’s best and the one that established Ice-T as one of Hip Hop’s most prominent and authentic personalities.īrotha Lynch Hung – Season Of Da Siccness (1995) The album’s most important theme – as evidenced in the album’s subtitle and the song “Freedom Of Speech” – is the PMRC censorship that was being imposed on Hip Hop artists at the time. The chilled-out album opener “The Iceberg”, the dope 9-minute posse cut “What Ya Wanna Do”, the personal “This One’s For Me”, the gangster tale “Peel Their Caps Back”, the thought-provoking “You Played Yourself”, the multi-layered noise on “The Hunted Child” and “Lethal Weapon” – this album is packed with dope tracks. From the epic, ominous intro “Shut Up, Be Happy” (featuring Jello Biafra and brilliantly interpolating Black Sabbath’s classic “Black Sabbath”) to the all-out fun “My Word Is Bond” – this album has something for everybody. Ice-T‘s grittiest album, but one with great variation lyrically as well as sonically. What do YOU think? Are your favorite West Coast Hip Hop albums here? Do you think any essential records are missing? Share your thoughts in the comments! ![]() Some of the albums in the HM section barely missed the cut, and all are worth listening to. Also, check the honorable mentions section at the end – it was hard to limit this list to ‘just’ 100 albums. ![]() In this piece, you will find 100 Hip Hop albums – no mixtapes, no EPs – we consider to be essential works to come out of the West Coast, not ranked but presented in release year order. Many underground West Coast Hip Hop scenes emerged during the 1990s that provided an alternative to the gangsta-themed lyrics prevalent in the mainstream, most notably the Hieroglyphics collective in Oakland and the freestyle scene associated with Freestyle Fellowship and the Project Blowed crew in Los Angeles.] Around this time, the Mobb Music style of production was developing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento popularized by artists including Too $hort and E-40 with a strong G-Funk influence and similar subject matter to gangsta rap. This subgenre began to dominate radio play and sales during the early 1990s with the birth of G-Funk and the emergence of Dr. The late 1980s saw the rise of gangsta rap as a response to the East Coast’s hardcore Hip Hop with the seminal act N.W.A and rapper Ice-T focusing on life and adversities in South Los Angeles. This could be largely credited to the fact that the early local West Coast Hip Hop scene revolved more around DJing than rapping. Unlike their East Coast counterparts, the sound emerging from the West Coast was more fast-paced and influenced by electronic music as exemplified by acts such as World Class Wreckin Cru and Egyptian Lover in the early to mid-1980s. An early landmark of the genre was in 1981 when Duffy Hooks launched the first West Coast rap label, Rappers Rapp Records, with its first act being the duo of Disco Daddy and Captain Rapp with their debut single “ Gigolo Rapp“. While there is no single defining sound, many different styles exist that developed from the sub-regions of the area. 100 Essential West Coast Hip Hop Albums: [ West Coast Hip Hop refers to Hip Hop artists who originate from the West Coast region of the United States. ![]()
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