>what music do you think I gravitated towards in my youth?
>Most of the G-Funk sound does not come from a California....it
>came from places like Detroit and Ohio
>which is why this post is asinine

... but other than that last part haha yea I'm with you.

I do sort of bemoan the loss of "regional" sounds (whatever that meant, at least) from 90s and 80s hip-hop, that we talk about often around here and also in just general hip-hop circles.

In other words there *was* a very distinct (or at least distinguishable) west coast sound (and if you want to zoom in even further, distinct/distinguishable Bay area sound, distinct/distinguishable LA sound, etc.), a distinct/distinguishable east coast sound, a distinct/distinguishable south sound, etc.

Everything these days is a mish mash. Which isn't all bad by any means, to be clear. I just long for the days when regions were sort of coming out with their own interpretations of hip hop.