New Interview: Thuglordz with Murderdog Magazine

Interview is with C-Bo by Black Dog Bone
Photo by Barry Underhill

Bay Area Rap was more on the level of pimp/playa type of Rap until you came along and brought the hardcore Gangsta shit. You played a big role in shaping the Bay Area sound. Well you know, I come from a different side. Sac is not really considered the Bay Area. It was more gangs and territory shit. Me goin to jail, goin through all this stuff as a kid—juvenile hall, boys camp, county jail, prison, CYA—bein involved in all that activity that was goin on. Me being a real stand up dude and not bein no sucker, and out there on my own—that’s how my rappin was. My Rap was always a component. Instead of just sayin I’m flossing and this and that, it was always a war or fight, a gang activity or something. That was my life. It’s interesting what you’re saying. When you look at it, in the Bay Area there was no gang activity like you had in Sacramento.

In Sacramento it’s all about gangsta shit; it wasn’t anything else for me to rap about. The ones that’s out there rappin now, born with the microphone in their hand—they ain’t doin no gangsta shit. That’s why my career never really took off like it was supposed to. Because I kept having to go back to prison for living the way I lived. That’s the different from these rappers nowadays. They don’t really have to do nothing, cause we already opened it up. We made it to the point where it ain’t cool for nobody to do nothing. They had an example from us. Now these other muthafuckas is like, “Naw, hell no!” They never lived the life you lived.
Right. You see what I’m sayin? They just wanna rap about the shit. What’s real about it is some of these cats that ain’t been through it, they rappin about it, but some of these cats have got real stand up dudes on the side of them that went through that shit. They can’t rap, but they got this rapper who will bring their stories out. I can understand that too. But some of these dudes need to give it up, man. You’re saying that a lot of young artists are hearing the stories of some real OG’s and bringing it into their raps. That’s what they’re doin. They sponging up the game. Most people think of C-Bo as a Bay Area rapper, but really Sacramento is whole different world from the Bay.
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