SD culture

Before I study..


The peculiar case of San Diego Hip Hop and Culture... so immediately what are you thinking bout JabbaWockees, bout Jayo Felony.. and for some even Mitchy Slick? It's not like that, with a community with such a proud history of being a rival city to San Fran and LA the SD hip hop scene seems to go in a unique 4 year spectrum.

The problem is, first and foremost.. alot of cats really from here Don't rep the city... It's a sad reminder that you aren't thought of as hard unless you from LA or from Compton or some slum in the So Cal Area. It is also a city with no real connection to its own people....

If you didn't know San Diego is a commuter city filled with phat cats who moved here for the beauty, college kids, and more importantly cats retired from the NAVY. There really isn't this common struggle for a lot of SD peoples unless they reside in another city such as Escondido or El Cajon. Then at that point it becomes more viable to rep the city they actually from... hmm the 4 year theory was something Norm Rockwell at Access Hip Hop told me in passing.

There are these huge gaps in SD hip hop history.. simply because at some point the culture died. We have some of the oldest heads in guys like Blame One, Mane One, all the Southeast heads and the like.. yet then theres this period of emptiness before we get to people like Son of Ran or Castle Creeps.

It sucks man, being from the newer new school you find that in SD what also sucks is the lack of feeling of community among rappers. People don't put other people on in SD thinking that the struggle should be hard... when truly it shouldn't be we should all be happy if one of us makes it.

There is also this huge gap in style as a lot of the Southeast heads or heads in general wanna be gangster rappers. The problem is since no1 thinks we're hood they have to be especially ghetto to survive. I mean the shooting at Urban Underground San Diego was simply because the normal heads were no longer coming out. IT WAS THE SD UNITY FEST FOR GOD SAKES?! Then, we lose another venue.. most of the cats now are hella progressive and you got some of the most original styles ever.

The fact that everyone is different allows for people to be totally different in SD but also hard to call anything the "SD" Style...

One of the biggest disses in SD History.. is first that Murs said something after years with working with ACCESS hip hop which helped launch his career that "SD is not a place for hip hop".. it was also echoed in the only time that Scribble Jam held tryouts in San Diego.. if you know for a fact.. yes i was one of the participants.

The problem we seek to rectify in SD is to create the type of unity we sometimes see at these underground SD hip hop events. Everyone got their own swagger but no one should feel like they don't have the city behind their back.

DiagKnowSys is working to sponsor different hip hop events from all of the elements of rhyming, djing, breaking and graff to show that hip hop is unified.

Everyone and their mama after seeing JabbaWockees make it wants to be a dancer now, which helped kill off many other elements in SD for hip hop. The sad reality experienced by them should help to let cats know... don't let the man control you.. control your own destiny.

I have mad pride for them but at the same time.. Do you have pride for SD? Do you have pride for the city?

U go out to frisco and you'll see mad heads wearing SF hats... but rarely do I even see anyone with an SD hat unless they reppin our culture at a hip hop event.

I get it.. SD is a collection of individuals.. but since when is it cool to live somewhere and act like u live somewhere else????

Yeah your originally from LA or Nor Cal or Boston.. but where do u live now? Where do you pay taxes?

IT's long gone.. and we at DiagKnowSys want you to help SD culture stay alive.. by reppin local SD BRANDS AND STORES..

shouts to Armory, 5 and a Dime, Willy's Workshop, and all the SD brands like model sitizen, armory clothes and the like.. trying to keep u aware that we got flavor...

Please if anything look to find some SD events and rep..

cuz if hip hop leaves the city..

Then hip hop is no longer a part of your life..

Deucez
Tri Flaw