News — Hip-Hop

Exclusive YMTK Listening Party @ DTO

Jun 28, 2017

If you haven’t had a chance to check out East Oakland native and hip-hop artist YMTK, you’re in luck. Oaklandish is hosting an in-store listening party at our downtown Oakland store on Sunday, July 14th. Stop by 1444 Broadway from 7 to 9 pm to get an exclusive listen of YMTK’s new, unreleased project “9 […]

Tags: Artists, Events, Hip-Hop, listening party, local music, Oakland, Oaklandish, Other, rap, Store, YMTK

20 Years Ago, Luniz Dropped “I Got 5 On It”

Jul 06, 2015

20 years ago(!), Luniz dropped the album Operation Stackola, which featured the classic song “I Got 5 On it”. The track was Luniz’s biggest hit. At one point it was number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The remix featured a number of popular Bay Area rap artists at the time, like Spice 1 […]

Tags: 20 years, Artists, Bad Boy, Bay Area, Biggie, East Oakland, Hate on Me, Hater, Hip-Hop, I Got 5 On It, Notorious BIG, Oakland, Other, Playa Hater, The Luniz, The Word Hater