Oakland Sideshows and Hoes. Not A New Phenomenon

Oakland and San Francisco has been the epicenter of a lot of good local music that finds it's way through impossible winding bends to get national airplay, where often times just gets "appropriated" (oooh, key word) by some other group and repackaged in some sense, somewhat like how the hyphy movement was repackaged as "Crunk" in the Dirty South (I need a citation, I know, but trust...).

Fairly recently there has been notoriety within the Hyphy movement and with the phenomenon of "side shows" etcetera, but the phenomenon of "side shows" goes back to an older time, where perhaps hyphy emerged from its progenitor, nonetheless as just as energetic and maybe a bit more freak nasty (referring to Too Short of course, gotta love Him) and still representing Oakland California hard.

Richie Rich rapped both in and out of Oakland and San Francisco.

If you listen close you can hear the "sampling" of the song "Side Show"

in the introduction (see video below) followed by "turntable" "scratches"

(notice all the keywords here) and the reference to "Trues and Vogues"

which is a reference to car rims and the whole sideshow culture existing

at an earlier time. Meanwhile issues are still the same, such as violence

and police brutality:

Sampling above taken from this song:

Too Short's "Freaky Tales" was a Bay Area anthem for years and was famous for its hard lyrics and exertion of masculinity by young African American males who are socially marginalized in Oakland and the rest of the nation during the context of the making of the song: