Pomona has a specific place in West Coast rap that gets flattened whenever anybody outside California tells the story, and the artist who most embodies it has spent thirty years refusing to leave. The delivery is the signature — a rapid, sing-song, conversational flow that nobody has successfully copied, over production from the man who defined that whole Inland Empire sound. Records from the late nineties still get played at parties out here as though they came out last year. Live he works a crowd like a comedian, and the audience is heavily local, heavily multigenerational. A Ventura room on the first Saturday of the new year. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Regional rap history in Southern California mostly lives in rooms like this now, and the people who know it turn out for every one.
Pomona has a specific place in West Coast rap that gets flattened whenever anybody outside California tells the story, and the artist who most embodies it has spent thirty years refusing to leave. The delivery is the signature — a rapid, sing-song, conversational flow that nobody has successfully copied, over production from the man who defined that whole Inland Empire sound. Records from the late nineties still get played at parties out here as though they came out last year. Live he works a crowd like a comedian, and the audience is heavily local, heavily multigenerational. A Ventura room on the first Saturday of the new year. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Regional rap history in Southern California mostly lives in rooms like this now, and the people who know it turn out for every one.
Pomona has a specific place in West Coast rap that gets flattened whenever anybody outside California tells the story, and the artist who most embodies it has spent thirty years refusing to leave. The delivery is the signature — a rapid, sing-song, conversational flow that nobody has successfully copied, over production from the man who defined that whole Inland Empire sound. Records from the late nineties still get played at parties out here as though they came out last year. Live he works a crowd like a comedian, and the audience is heavily local, heavily multigenerational. A Ventura room on the first Saturday of the new year. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Regional rap history in Southern California mostly lives in rooms like this now, and the people who know it turn out for every one.