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28 Oct 2021

E40 is Now Slinging Sausage

The Vallejo born, Bay Area rap mogul, E-40, aka Charlie Hustle, aka 40-Watter, aka Earl Stevens has started a sausage company.  That’s a real sentence, that you just read. 40’s new Vallejo-based sausage company ‘Goon With The Spoon‘ did not pay us to rep them, we just love 40’s bravado

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21 Dec 2020

Who Won the E-40 vs. Too $hort Verzuz Battle?

By JC Carlston I was minding my own business on a Monday morning, cycling through my typical covid routine of firing up the coffee and eating the rest of whatever food showed up at my door the night before. That’s when I saw it front and center, live on the

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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12 Nov 2020

The 6 Greatest Bay Area Rappers Of All Time

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. 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

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
14 Dec 2018

We Now Have RAP-ing Paper w/ Your Favorite Rappers on it!

This is so cool! It’s wrapping paper with some of the best rappers from the 80s & 90s on it! It’s rapping paper! Get this today so that you can wrap all your gifts in it for the Holla-Days! Check them all out right here. Now we know this list

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
13 Mar 2017

A Brief History of East vs West Coast Rap

Last week March 9th, marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Notorious B.I.G. In his few short years of superstardom, Biggie left a crater-sized impact on the music industry and a cloudy legacy behind him.

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07 Mar 2017

We wanna send you to Nef The Pharaoh as seen on Noisey!

Zach Goldbaum stands out in the crowd. He’s timid and white. He’s standing in a large group of young black men, who are just hanging out in their South Vallejo neighborhood. They’re conversing, smoking, shooting the shit. Nef The Pharaoh is one of the young men in the group who says, “…it’s

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