Kam (born Craig Miller in Los Angeles, California) is a political emcee known primarily among hip hop fans and music critics during the 1990s. Born in Los Angeles, he is considered an esteemed West Coast underground rapper. He is known for his Nation of Islam-influenced lyrics and membership, and affiliation with his cousin, fellow West Coast emcee Ice Cube. He is also known for his powerfully commanding baritone voice and knack for using multisyllabic rhymes. He has only released two albums since his well-received 1993 debut album “Neva Again”. That album featured inflammatory anti-government lyrics and hit single “Peace Treaty,” a song about the 1992 Watts gang treaty.
His first appearance on record was with the song “Every Single Weekend” from the 1991 “Boyz N The Hood” soundtrack. Since then, he has collaborated with artists including Ice Cube, Erick Sermon, MC Ren, C-Bo, DJ Quik, DJ Pooh, Tha Eastsidaz, Method Man, KRS-One, Snoop Dogg, Dresta, B.G. Knocc Out, Yukmouth, and Public Enemy, among others. He has released music on two record labels, East West Records and JCOR Entertainment. “Made in America” is the second album released by Kam. It was released on March 14, 1995 for East West Records and was produced by DJ Battlecat, DJ Quik, E-A-Ski, Warren G and Cold 187um, among others. This was Kam’s last album for East West Records.

Poppa LQ (born Kenneth Green) is a gangsta rap artist from South Central Los Angeles, California. His debut album, “Your Entertainment, My Reality” was released in 1995 by Houston-based hip-hop label Rap-A-Lot Records in association with Noo Trybe Records. The album was produced by DJ Battlecat, Jason Lewis, Joseph Jonhson, Kenneth Green, Mike Dean, and Tony Dennis.

Lil Fly (real name Gary Hudson) is a hip-hop/rap artist from the Fillmore district of San Francisco, California. His debut EP, “Bonafide Playa” was released in 1995 by Rag Top Records and was produced by Al Eaton (One Little Indian Studio), The Enhancer (Bayview Productions), T.C. & Regi-Reg (Premiere Productions). It features appearances by Rappin 4-Tay, The Banksta and Franky J. The album art was done by Phunky Phat Graph-X.

Rappin’ Ron & Ant Diddley Dog was a hip-hop/rap duo from the Eastside of Oakland, California. Their debut album, “Bad N-Fluenz” was released in 1995 by Cell Block Records and was produced by Ant Banks, G.O. Twice, B. Branch, Mike and Sonny. The album art was designed by Dawg Eat Dawg Designz.

One of the best G-Funk albums released out of the California. Members include D-Shoot, GF, Bias, and SOS representing different parts of the Bay Area (Oakland, East Palo Alto, Stockton). If you like that old school Westcoast sound with smooth vocals then this is a must have for your collection.

The Twinz are a hip hop duo from Long Beach, California, consisting of twin brothers Deon “Trip Locc” Williams and Dewayne “Wayniac” Williams. After working with Warren G on his debut album Regulate…G Funk Era, the Twinz released their own debut album Conversation. The album was released on August 22, 1995 through Def Jam Recordings and was almost entirely produced by Warren G. Two charting singles were released from the album, “Round & Round” and “Eastside LB”.

Dubbed sometimes as a kind of Mobb Deep meets NWA type group, Custom Made drops their sophomore follow up to 2004's LA State of Mind on their new home at Babygrande Records! The West Coast collective formed in 2003 and since releasing their first album lost one of their original members Sinister Six, but pushed on with their highly sought after mixtape series Street Cinema, which Babygrande also eventually put out in a "Best Of" release. Recently picked up as one of Rawkus' Top 50 (hope you've been keeping track) in unsigned talent, the honor couldn't have come at a better time as Original Dynasty puts Element, Bluff, Scoobs and Aneek back in the spotlight.

Semi Hendrix is the acid inside the headband and the fork inside the electric socket. It’s hard-core hip-hop, furious voltage spiked with funk and soul. It’s political and street, cerebral and reckless. It’s Jack Splash and Ras Kass running roughshod over everything from economic inequality to racist government policy to your girl. The album title is Breakfast at Banksy’s. Consider it the rare soundtrack for the revolution and the party.
The duo formed following Splash’s world tour with his underground cult funk band, Plantlife. Upon its conclusion, the 10-time Grammy-nominated producer and three-time winner decided to leave Miami in favor of Los Angeles. For the native Angeleno, this was where it all began. He’d seen incredible success over the previous decade, producing for Cee-Lo, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, and a slew of others. But he wanted to return to his roots and make a pure hip-hop album, a passion project with no input from industry types.
“I decided that if I was going to make true art, then I needed to work with the best of the best…the Picasso of the West Coast,” says Splash. “And everyone who comes from LA knows that it doesn't get any better than Ras Kass.”
If you’re unfamiliar with the Waterproof MC, you need to stop reading this and listen to Soul on Ice, Rasassination, and any of the tracks bodied by the Golden State Warriors (Ras, Saafir and Xzibit). Once you’ve done that, you understand why the Carson-bred rap beast is one of the coldest MCs to ever hypnotize an audience.
But neither Splash nor Ras has even done anything quite like Semi Hendrix—probably because no one has ever done anything quite like Semi-Hendrix. It’s a warped psychedelic odyssey glimpsed via two brilliant minds in a crooked world.
Produced entirely by Splash, the instrumentals recall classic genre-liquefying experiments like DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing and Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde. You can file Semi Hendrix somewhere between Gnarls Barkley and Run the Jewels.
Faded acid-washed freak-outs fade out from raunchy comedy clips. There are shredding guitar solos and nimble funk lines.
Meanwhile, Ras Kass spits flames about Brooklyn hipsters, greedy record labels, and Capitalist inequality. He interweaves Thomas Paine’s anti-Colonial tract, Common Sense with the rapper born Lonnie Lynn. In the course of four bars, he’ll slip in references to Biz Markie, Star Trek, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway.
The intellect is staggering, but never self-serious. He’ll go from talking about squirters to indicting “Stop and Frisk” policy. The sound is kaleidoscopic. Nothing is sacred. Guest spots include Brothers Voodoo, Cee-Lo and Raheem DeVaughn, Teedra Moses, Kurupt, Montego Meli, Alice Russell, Wrekonize, and Jessica. But for all its virtuosity, this is 100 percent raw. If you wanted to know who Semi Hendrix are, the answer is simple: they’re the wildest style.

Classic G-Funk Shit From Riverside, CA.

Pure G Funk album from LBC cali rap trio Foesum contain members of DJ Glaze, MNMsta, and T-Dubb.

New album from west coast hip-hop act Dilated Peoples. Japan edition includes exclusive enhanced content. Virgin. 2006.

2Pac was the rap name of Tupac Shakur (born June 16, 1971, East Harlem, New York, USA - died of gunshot wounds, September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) an American rapper and actor. He started out as a roadie for the group Digital Underground and was signed by Interscope Records in 1990.