The album drew up the blueprint for hyphy and West Coast gangsta rap.
[wanna add Soulja Boy as well so that you have a non-2020s reference point, he has a 2011 song called Bammer Bammer BammerRBL’s OG “Bammer” is a singular effort. Not only did the song introduce the general public to the then underground term “SFC,” it helped bring unity to the streets of a warring San Francisco.
On a broader scale, the song’s impact immediately lit a fire throughout the West Coast rap community. Its subject matter, smoking weed and having a good time in the neighborhood, is the direct predecessor to another dance floor-crowding anthem that would drop just a few months later: “” from Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg.
“Keak Da Sneak and Mac Dre, posthumously, are credited with hyphy, but RBL’s first album has that style, along with all the West Coast influences,” John Leatherwood, who helps run a small imprint that curates and, told SFGATE. “There’s no one definitive act or album, but ‘A Lesson to Be Learned’ is up there — in stature and influence — for sure.”
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