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oakland

Last updated: Thu Oct 23 2025 13:35:13 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Oakland represents the distinct West Coast hip-hop sound emerging from California's East Bay, characterized by funk-influenced production, conversational flows, and street-level storytelling. The music blends laid-back G-funk aesthetics with grittier urban narratives, reflecting the city's complex social landscape and independent hustle mentality. This tag captures both the classic '90s Bay Area rap legacy and its contemporary evolution into smoother, jazz-tinged styles.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
43		1977	Various Artists	beko_killshaman	alternative alternative pop alternative rock america american american underground california oakland post-punk usa
78		1977	Various Artists	17708	bay area oakland
27		1989	A.P.G. Crew	On The Rise	gangsta rap oakland
52		1990	Richie Rich	Don't Do It	bay area gangsta rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
25		1991	Black Dynasty	eight ball in the corner pocket	bay area gangsta rap oakland
41		1991	Rappin' 4-Tay	Rappin' 4-Tay Is Back!!!	bay area gangsta rap oakland san francisco underground rap west coast rap
60		1991	Raw Fusion	Live from the StyleeTron	oakland
50		1991-10-03	415	Nu Niggaz on tha Blokkk	bay area gangsta rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
37		1992	Pooh-Man	Life of a Criminal	bay area g-funk gangsta rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
76		1992	Seagram	The Dark Roads	bay area gangsta rap oakland
93		1992	E-40	Slappin	oakland rap
100		1993	Souls of Mischief	93 'til Infinity		bay area # 85
66		1993	Digital Underground	Who Got The Gravy? / "..Cuz A d.u. Party Don't Stop!"	bay area oakland rap
23		1994	The Delinquents	The Alleyway	bay area gangsta rap oakland west coast rap
31		1994	Rally Ral	Something Kinda Funky	bay area gangsta rap oakland
38		1994	Dangerous Dame	Excape From The Mental Ward	bay area gangsta rap oakland
96		1994-09-06	Dru Down	Explicit Game	oakland	g-funk # 26 bay area # 51
99		1994-09-13	Rappin' 4-Tay	Don't Fight The Feelin'	bay area g-funk gangsta rap hip-hop oakland rap san francisco underground rap west coast rap	underground rap # 24 west coast rap # 68 g-funk # 73 bay area # 91 san francisco # 94
87		1994-09-23	Saafir	Boxcar Sessions	bay area oakland	bay area # 40
42		1995	Rappin' Ron & Ant Diddley Dog	Bad-N-Fluenz	bay area g-funk gangsta rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
47		1995	A.M.W.	Real Mobb	bay area gangsta rap oakland
65		1995	Rappin' Ron & Ant Diddley Dog	Bad N-Fluenz	bay area gangsta rap oakland
68		1995	Nightcrawlers	Catacombs	bay area california hip-hop oakland rap
73		1995	Black Dynasty	Deep East Oakland	bay area g-funk gangsta rap oakland
90		1995	Ray Luv	Forever Hustlin'	oakland
98		1995-01-24	Too $hort	Cocktails	oakland west coast rap	west coast rap # 62
49		1995-02-28	Dangerous Dame	Escape from the Mental Ward	bay area gangsta rap oakland
89		1995-04-25	Seagram	Reality Check	bay area gangsta rap oakland	bay area # 57
97		1995-10-10	Souls of Mischief	No Man's Land	bay area oakland underground hip-hop underground rap west coast rap	underground rap # 29 west coast rap # 57 bay area # 88
15		1996	Tha M.O.B.B.	Never Trust Them	bay area gangsta rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
56		1996	Mr. Ill	Rebirth	bay area gangsta rap hardcore rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
21		1996-06-11	Milkman	Reminisce	california g-funk gangsta rap oakland west coast rap westcoast
95		1996-08-20	Dru Down	Can You Feel Me	oakland
40		1997	T-Mo	Tribal Groove Volume 1	bay area california g-funk hip-hop oakland rap
77		1997-08-12	Seagram	Souls on Ice	bay area gangsta rap oakland
48		1998	Tymatale	Tymatale	bay area gangsta rap oakland
64		1998	Saafir	Trigonometry	bay area oakland underground rap west coast rap
75		1998	Yukmouth	Thugged Out: The Albulation	bay area gangsta rap hardcore rap oakland west coast rap
4		1999	Sunspot Jonz	Child of the Storm	hip-hop underground hip-hop
5		1999	M.C. Dee	Time Money and Drama	bay area gangsta rap oakland
13		1999	Derty Looks	Explicit Visions	bay area gangsta rap oakland
92		2000	Ratos De Porão	Sistemados Pelo Crucifa	brazil oakland usa
30		2001	HMS Glick	Across the Miles	singer-songwriter chicago oakland
16		2001-11-13	Yukmouth & Tha Gamblaz	Block Sh#t	bay area gangsta rap hardcore rap oakland san francisco underground rap west coast rap
53		2003-01-23	Pep Love and Jay Biz	The Shamen	bay area oakland underground rap west coast rap
46		2004	the Dead Hensons	pope john paul III	oakland san francisco
80		2004-02-10	Red Pocket	Thick	oakland
84		2004-04-20	Tajai	Power Movement	hip-hop oakland
63		2005	A-Plus	Pleemix Volume One	bay area oakland underground rap west coast rap
85		2007	A-Plus	My Last Good Deed	bay area oakland underground rap west coast rap	bay area # 30
9		2007	Nutt-So	Nutty's Playmix Vol. 2	bay area gangsta rap hardcore rap oakland underground rap west coast rap
14		2007	DJ Ötzi	ötzi	deathrock oakland
69		2007-06-05	Turf Talk	West Coast Vaccine (The Cure)	bay area gangsta rap hip-hop oakland rap west coast rap
45		2008	Locura	Animas	ambient bay area chillout downtempo female vocalists flamenco funk fusion hip-hop jazz fusion jazz-funk latin latin jazz liquid funk lounge neo-soul nu jazz nu-bluz oakland salsa san francisco singer-songwriter world fusion	nu-bluz # 41
88		2008	Grip Grand	Brokelore	bay area nerdcore oakland	bay area # 47 nerdcore # 47
11		2008-06-10	Keak Da Sneak	Deify	bay area rap	bay area # 74
70		2008-09-30	J-Stalin	Gas Nation	bay area hip-hop oakland	bay area # 4
55		2009-12-31	gomorrans	Giving Birth To Love	dixieland jazz soul funk gospel	dixieland # 55
58		2010	The Famous	Come Home To Me	alternative alternative country american americana bay area california country oakland outlaw country san francisco
67		2010	Rogue Wave	Good Morning (The Future)	oakland rock
83		2010-05-18	Keak Da Sneak	Mobb Boss	bay area hip-hop oakland rap west coast rap	bay area # 16
81		2011-02-20	Space Ghost	FSCK	ambient oakland
54		2011-06-20	Turrks	Bisbee	alternative alternative rock america american american underground california experimental rock goth rock gothic rock no wave oakland post-grunge post-punk usa
51		2011-07-11	Quinn Deveaux & the Blue Beat Review	Under Covers	blues gospel oakland soul
59		2012	Replica	Demo	hardcore hardcore punk oakland usa
71		2012	Bad Liar	Yours Truly	acoustic emo oakland post-punk
86		2012-04-24	Loquat	We Could Be Arsonists	female vocalists oakland rock san francisco	san francisco # 66
61		2013	Replica	Replica	hardcore oakland
91		2013-01-13	Ragana	Unbecoming	atmospheric black metal experimental black metal metal oakland sludge sludgecore	sludgecore # 80 experimental black metal # 90
3		2013-09-16	Nome	Pony Dreams	acoustic freak folk noise oakland
35		2013-11-12	Lee Majors	Turkey Bag Boy	bay area gangsta rap oakland rap
33		2014	Lil Dowager	Attorney at Law	bay area hardcore noise oakland
36		2014-06-24	Replica	Beast EP	hardcore hardcore punk oakland usa
32		2015	Young Chop	Shadey State of Mind	oakland
34		2015-12-30	Freddie	Melanin Monroe - EP	oakland
1		2016-06-03	Cos BV	Silk to Dry the Tears	electronic house los angeles oakland techno
39		2016-06-03	Mesmer	Mesmer EP	oakland stoner rock
94		2016-09-16	Elujay	Jentrify	hip-hop oakland
79		2017-01-13	clocolan	Nothing Left To Abandon	downtempo electronic idm oakland
44		2018-11-09	Dead Eyes	Dead Eyes	oakland post-punk
12		2020-10-02	Variex	Struggle Sandwich	g-funk oakland rap
22		2020-11-11	Vesuvian Face	The Great Confinement [demo]	black metal oakland raw black metal usbm
28		2020-12-04	Deafheaven	10 Years Gone	black metal shoegaze
72		2021-01-29	Sitka Sun	All The Way West	jazz modern jazz oakland
24		2021-02-19	Danny Lubin Laden	Through Our Time	ambient improvisation jazz new york oakland soundtrack trombone
82		2022-05-20	Abunai	People Eat Music	dance electronic hip-hop jazz oakland rnb
62		2022-08-18	Morbikon	Universal Funeral	black metal melodic death metal metal oakland
57		2022-09-13	Morbikon	Cursed to March on Shattered Limbs	black metal melodic death metal metal oakland
74			Keak Da Sneak and San Quinn	Welcome to Scokland	bay area oakland san francisco	san francisco # 17
2			Ryan Beebe	...and then we'll dance some more	anti-folk glam rock jazz oakland psychedelic folk
6			Cell Block Compilation	Cell Block Compilation	bay area gangsta rap oakland
7			Overdrive A.D.	15 Songs	bay area hardcore oakland punk rock san francisco
8			Clif Soulo	Pacific Standard Time	california hip-hop oakland rap
10			the fat acrobats	the business of buildings	experimental pop indie folk lo-fi oakland san francisco
17			Peck the Town Crier	Groundhog's Day	nerdcore oakland
18			Pope John Paul the Third	beebe brothers leftovers	oakland
20			Qui a.k.a TriQui Di	Pronounced ... Key	alternative gospel jam neo-soul oakland pop rock soul
26			Modyst	A Flight of Ideas	california chillhop korean lo-fi oakland rap
29			SmartMeter	smartmeterBPD : demo	bay area california deathgrind electronic grindcore hardcore hardcore techno industrial noisecore oakland techno
19			Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, arr. David Kanaga	The Nutcracker (2020)

Related genres

• bay area
• gangsta rap
• west coast rap
• underground rap
• rap
• san francisco
• hip-hop
• california
• g-funk
• hardcore