Bay Area songs

Berkeley rapper Rexx Life Raj caught me off guard with "Where I Belong." Shout out to Matt St. John over at East Bay Express for the feature he wrote ...

Lil B has come a long way from his MySpace & Datpiff glory days, and so has rap music. Despite his impact, paving the way for many of today’s bigg...

The beauty of music is its ability to grab and capture your attention no matter where you are or what you're doing. This track is a perfect example.I ...

As a culture/genre/industry of its own, hip-hop houses a continuum within itself. You can have two songs that are based on syncopated rhythms with rhy...

Eligh & Amp Live's collaborative album Therapy At 3 is out November 15, and the first official single is the track "Tattoo Song," which discusses ...

Of all the current batch of rappers that can't legally drink at clubs yet, Main Attrakionz has the most potential. I've lauded them on here previously...

Tyler, The Creator and his Odd Future crew have made quite the impression on the music scene in the past year or so. From releasing free albums on the...

San Francisco has it all: beautiful parks, friendly inhabitants, delectable restaurants, and mind-blowing musical talent. With a community so collecti...

Well it's time to finally rap (HA!) up our series on Bay Area hip hop, and why not finish with a bang? I saved the hip hop duo Zion I for last because...

We're on the verge of wrapping up our Bay Area series, so I figured what better way to do so than with Crown City Rockers? Who, you ask? Truth be told...

Lyrics Born is a silly, silly man. And that's just how I like him. LB's 2003 debut Later That Day"¦ was not something wholly original, but something h...

Perhaps most exemplary of the Bay Area's unique style is the prolific Del tha Funkee Homosapien. A few months ago we reviewed Del's most recent work P...