News — Rap

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 […]

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 and E-40. And it even gave the duo the chance to do shows with Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, and the Bad Boy Records family. Definitely a face on the Mount Rushmore of songs that put Oakland on the map, “I Got 5 On It” would be somewhere between “Too Legit To...