"Christian"/"Bay Area" Rapper "Transparent"
Behind The Scenes @Arizona Benefit Concert
Twitter: @transparent82
 Check out "Christian" rapper, "Transparent", who hails from "The Bay Area", as he takes us on the "Journey of the LIFER" in Episode 4.
"Transparent" takes us with him behind the scenes, showing things seldom seen, as he prepares to rep the Lord at a Benefit Concert in Phoenix, Arizona!
If you like what you hear all tracks appear on "Transparent's" street album "D.O.P.E.". (Dominating On Purpose Everyday)
Song 1: "LIFERs(LIfeNation)" ft. Sky Manzanetti(Prod. by Black Knight)
Song 2: "Next In Line" ft. Kia(Prod. by Black Knight)
Song 3: "We On Top" ft. Black Knight(Prod. Black Knight)
"Oakland"/"Christian" Rapper "Transparent"
Ft. "Sky Manzanetti"
"LIFERs"(LifeNation)
(Official Video)
Twitter: @transparent82
"Dallas,TX" "Dorrough" Music Ft. "E-40" "Vallejo"
"All The Above"
(Studio Performance)
Off "Highlights" Mix Tape
Twitter: @DorroughMusic
@E40  "Dorrough Music" teams up with the Ambassador of the Bay Area, "E-40" to produce a single for "Dorrough's" new mix tape with popular mixtape DJ Ill Will, and catalogs the experience working with "E-40", the song is featured on his new Mixtape "Highlights", which also features LA Rapper YG. Guest cameos by DJ Amen, Director Gino Rocks, and The Rap Manager.
25 Arrested In North Bay Federal Drug Sting
Of Bay Area "Thizz Entertainment" Record Label
 25 men arrested in Fairfield and Vallejo for a Federal drug sting of Vallejo,Ca based record label "Thizz Entertainment".
Man, if its too cool to be true, you got to know that the police are involved. The part that's messed up is that it was all a setup. The police waited 4 years to make sure when these dudes sat down, that they weren't getting up. It was said, that the police had set them up with a major supplier to make the charges higher.
The charges being announced are money laundering and distribution. $75,000 cash and a million dollars worth of drugs like cocaine, weed, codeine "syrup" and heroin were ceased. Among the arrested were rapper 41 "Lil Bruce" Thurmon 39 Dante Barbarin, 34 Clifford Bullock III, 38 Andre Cawthorne, 36 Damian Peterson, 42 Gaylord Franklin Jr., 36 Jasquez Harris, 47 Michael Lott, 43 Michael McFarland Sr.,42 Lawrence Kennedy Nelson, 37 Major Norton III, 45 Eric Robinson & 25 Anthony Young.
A longtime Bay Area rap label, long linked by East Bay law enforcement to armed robberies, drug dealing and murder, has been implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking distribution network after a four-year federal drug investigation, prosecutors said Tuesday. Twenty-five individuals - including the CEO and numerous rappers associated with "Thizz Entertainment," the label founded by slain Vallejo rapper Mac Dre - have been charged on multiple drug counts of distributing Ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and codeine cough syrup across the East Bay and the country, according to a federal prosecutor. The head of the organization, Michael Lott, 47, of Vallejo, who raps under the name "Miami the Most," remains on the lam, along with nine
Thizz Entertainment's business model was simple - sell drugs to finance its record label, said Vallejo police Lt. Ken Weaver.
For many in law enforcement, Thursday's bust marks the end of a dangerous few decades in Vallejo involving the rap label, which started as a street gang committing robberies and selling drugs to finance its fledgling rap careers and turned into a nationwide criminal enterprise, authorities said.
"The main players that belong with Thizz Entertainment now have warrants for their arrest for the drug trafficking trade," Weaver said. "The streets of Vallejo will be a little safer this summer because of this."
The bust also spotlighted the controversial history of Thizz Entertainment, including the murder
Advertisement of Mac Dre, who was shot to death in 2004 after a performance in Kansas City, sparking a brief Vallejo-Kansas City rap war. In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of young men in a small Vallejo neighborhood called the Country Club Crest, or The Crest, across Highway 37 from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, began knocking off pizza parlors. The Romper Room Gang moved on to hitting banks, slinging dope and committing murder, police and DEA officials said, to raise money to fund "Romper Records."
"It was an explosion of rap music and rock cocaine," Weaver said. "That was a huge deal to us because it was the first time we saw such organization by this culture and it was new to us. We learned from them and they learned from us."
Many members were put behind bars, as police locked in on rap lyrics detailing and glorifying their robberies, including Mac Dre, who in 1992 got a seven-year prison sentence.
Upon his release, Mac Dre formed Thizz Entertainment. The word "thizz" derived from the feeling one feels while on MDMA, or Ecstasy.
The label blew up and put the Bay Area on a nationwide rap spotlight.
"Thizz, when Mac Dre was on the label, were a major factor. They were coming out of a transformative time in the Bay Area," said
Davey D, Bay Area journalist and hip-hop expert. "It was a resurgence of having national attention refocusing on the Bay." As Mac Dre and his label's popularity soared, he went on tour and played a show at a Kansas City club Nov. 1, 2004. As he left the club in a van, he was killed in a hail of gunfire.
Kansas City police named Kansas City rapper Fat Tone as a person of interest in Mac Dre's death, but by May 2005 Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins and Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, were found shot to death at a construction site near the Palms Casino. Bay Area rapper Andre "Mac Minister" Dow was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their murders, and authorities said his motive was to avenge Mac Dre's murder. He is also accused of killing a prostitute who was a witness in Fairfield.
Lott, who was with Mac Dre when he died, took over Thizz Entertainment after his friend's death and produced albums for more than 60 artists, some who were arrested in the drug probe, including Gaylord Franklin, 32, who raps under the name "Geezy," Bruce Thurmon, 41, aka "Little Bruce," and Major Norton, aka "Dubee."
In July 2008, DEA agents found a confidential informant who led them to Lott, and an undercover agent made his first buy of 200 Ecstasy pills in a Vallejo gas station parking lot.
The agent gained the trust of Lott, who introduced him to the large distribution ring, focusing on Ecstasy with Transformers, Batman and Lexus emblems, but dealing in just about any drug, the DEA said.
After numerous undercover drug buys and hours of surveillance and recorded phone calls, the DEA pulled the agent in December 2010. During the year and half, members of Thizz Entertainment and its associates were slain and one was shot at by police in drug related activities, according to the DEA.
They began to spread the enterprise to other states where they made music connections while on tour, Weaver said. Drug shipments were sent from the Vallejo area to Oklahoma City, New York, Atlanta and Milwaukee, the DEA said.
The drug money is used to finance the rap label, he said, a strategy not uncommon to many young men trying to leave tough urban neighborhoods, Davey D said.
"Do my dirt and invest it into something legitimate and graduate," Davey D said. "It's a longtime formula that doesn't hold the stigma because it's looked at as bettering yourself and getting yourself out of danger. This is not an unusual story. I've heard that story lots and lots of times."
The story ended Thursday, as agents cascaded into Vallejo and other East Bay cities to serve arrest warrants on 25 Thizz Entertainment associates.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for May 4 in Sacramento federal court.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_20473073/thizz-entertainment-at-center-widespread-drug-network-federal?source=most_viewed
"Thizzler On The Roof's"
"The Bay Area Freshmen 10 Class Of 2012" Nominations Are Now Open
 Ehhhh, if you're from the "Bay" you already know what time it is. Its time for you to nominate who's hot in the "Bay" for the "Thizzler On The Roof's" "The Bay Area Freshmen 10 Class Of 2012".
You can nominate your picks for "The Bay Area Freshmen 10 Class of 2012" with only 3 ways to enter.I got Cousin Fik, League 510, Kool John, iamsu, Young Win, Tom Cat, & Anomosity.
Website: http://www.thizzler.com/baf10 & write in your pick
Facebook: bayareafreshmen10 & write your pick on the wallTwitter: Tweet #BayAreaFreshmen10 @TheThizzler with the name of pick
Check Out "E-40's" "The Block Brochure"
Album Release In-store Signings In
Sacramento And Berkeley, CA
"Oakland" Dude "Joe Blow"
"Mob Reflections"
(Official Video)
Album "Real Recognize Real" In Stores Spring 2012
Twitter: @j0eblow
(Compton) "YG HOOTIE" FT "A WAX" (Bay)
"LA 2 THE BAY"
(OFFICIAL VIDEO)
OFF THEIR "INTERSTATE TRAFFICKING" ALBUM
Twitter: @YGHOOTIEBSM
@waxfase
 Individually, Brick Squad Monopoly and Konvict Muzik represent two of the strongest crews in hip-hop, and while most recognize the collectives for their strong southern roots, both have managed strong West Coast presences, thanks to the work of Compton's "YG Hootie" (Brick Squad) and the "Bay Area's" "A-Wax" (Konvict).
Despite the 400 miles of California coast between them, "YG "and "Wax" have formed their own bond, and now, on May 29th, Brick Squad Monopoly's "YG Hootie" is teaming up with Konvict Muzik rapper "A-Wax" to release their new collaborative album, "Interstate Trafficking". The album, which will be released via BSM/Illburn Records, includes features from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame, and will be preceded in the coming weeks by a Trap-A-Holics-hosted mixtape.
While official first single, "Make Room" featuring Gucci Mane, will be released in the coming days, for now, to celebrate the album announcement, "A-Wax" & "YG Hootie" are excited to release the album's latest visual, for the track "LA 2 The Bay". The video, direct by Blind Folks Films, who also happen to serve as Waka Flocka's in-house video team, opens with a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge and catches the two rappers throughout, performing in front of landmarks from both California cities.
With "YG Hootie" repping Compton and "A-Wax" putting on for the Bay Area, the two have built parallel careers nearly 400 miles apart. After appearing of major releases like Waka's Flockaveli and Ferrari Boyz, YG linked with "A-Wax", who has worked with Akon as part of his Konvict Muzik roster. Now, the two emcees have joined forces on their new collaborative project, "Interstate Trafficking", which will be released May 29th, 2012. The album, which features both Gucci and Waka, will be released via BSM/Illburn Records.
"Oakland" Christian Rapper "Transparent"
Drops Promo Video & Pics For
His new Video "LIFERs" (LifeNation)
& Peep Him Live In San Francisco "#Jotl" (Teaser)
Twitter: @Transparent82
 "Christian" rapper "Transparent" drops pics and promo video for his upcoming video, which I can't wait to see, "LIFERs" (LifeNation).
Transparent ft Sky Manzanetti
"LIFERs" (LifeNation)
"Transparent"
Performing Live In San Francisco
"#JOTL" (Teaser)
"Oakland" Rapper "Mistah F.A.B."
On Importance Of "SXSW"
& Working With "Statik Selektah"
& "French Montana"  The Bay's, "Mistah F.A.B." was chilling on 6th Street in Austin, TX during SXSW and spoke briefly on the importance of the festival to the career's of artists both established and emerging, what he's personally got coming up musically, and hints at projects with Statik Selektah and French Montana.
Only thing I have to say is that he threw out a lot of "West Coast" artist, but I could be wrong, I didn't hear any "Bay Area" artist. To think of it, I don't even think I heard him say "The Bay".
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