the title of the article catch your attention? you see coke pure uncut dope in a title and you definitely feel a certain way. i get it… but in twenty twenty four, you gotta let audiences know what you’re cookin up. so if listeners want some ghost and rae from ninety ninety five, they would just type coke rap and get more out of search results than being direct. so let’s first give shouts out to the og’s who stay on that ghost & rae… you still fam.
but og’s…. i’m around the same age as you so i know what we saw in ninety eighty eight through ninety ninety eight. that was amazing. but fam… if you are the ones saying you miss that old nineties hip hop i just gotta stop you there. i know you’re not checkin for jay worthy or larry june on a saturday afternoon… you should tho… you’re just not knowin… but we got u… stay on the wave.
and today… kids don’t even search for ghost and rae anymore… they search for coke rap… they search for drumless rap… they search for griselda… westside gunn… daringer… the alchemist… pusha t… dru down… master p… fashawn… you know… pure uncut raw
i gain a lot of respect when any new rapper gets suga free down with them… suga free’s pimp hop never gets old. it just gets better on that street corner over time. go peep that debut album from suga free and tell me it ain’t top 3 of all time…. i’ll wait…
certain emcees can be pimps on one track and then flip it over to be a mfn savage on another track. i always loved that type of versatility from rappers because i was and am highly ADHD and i just needed a little skit with my skat. emcees like spice one just checked all of the boxes for me. he was a crazy gangster rapper, a bank robber, but then an educator to youth, and then a reggae singer all on one album. spice one will forever be one of my favorite rappers because he knew no boundaries… now just think… what if spice one still rapped… he does… what if spice one still really rapped… he does. what if the bay took some notes from what’s goin on in la and they just started fusing young with old to build better community…. could be some shit right????
coke rap to me is underground rap. and that is why i stay in the lane on those slow bpm’s with that funk in the trunk… give me some chilling bars over a slumper and i’m locked in on repeat… this is what the new fashawn, odessa kane, and scarub track is to me. producertrenttaylor provided the soundscape which is cold… like brrrrrrr cold… then bring in some mfn magicians on the track and you get some str8 up wizardry out of a place that’s least expected. i like that lane… YNG SLeePY x YNG SNeaKY have been bumpin this track in their portable cassette player boomboxes all weekend. they’re really f*ckin with “empty roads” which is dope to see.
let’s see… what else is on that coke rap underground rap pimp rap type hype? how about this type of pimpin…
mix that dope with the west coast and sprinkle in a lil heavy hitters and you might end up on planet nug… nuglife bubblin nicely with rocky g on this…. that beat is some good good just starting to bubble and that is why i fuck with it. cali just stays winning with california rap aka california hip hop aka whatever the fuck you want to call that pure white on the track. i type out all these genres because i’m battling bots out here… the spotify stream chase game is a joke… just invest all of that energy into content and building partnerships and watch mountains tumble fam…
i gotta end this at some point so let’s see… what is coke rap to me? it’s these tracks below mixed with some west coast lyricists that can be wavy, gangsta, role models, and good people, all in one story. let these artists create and do what they love. go support producers like producertrenttaylor, yams, wiardon, nuglife, budgie, the alchemist, daringer, and more… they’re the ones really cookin out here…