Choppa scream loud like a new born child

"Never do my brother like Of Mice And Men
I guess I'm dead wrong in this life of sin
Bitches get treatin' like recyclin'
Baby momma and her patna say I'm triflin'"

Ezale - One Job
(From One Job single; 2026)

Mobby Brackins returns proper for 2026 after the Make Her Gig video and a couple of cameos. One Job only took around three weeks from initial snippet to official audio, which is the equivalent of three days in Ezale time. Pleased to report that he's consistent as ever with his ToNHTe Show-core brand of Mob Music. Ezale only got one job, to make music I can post on this blog, can't call in Sic Wit Tis in his full time job.

Related: R.I.P to Tone Capone who produced some of the greatest NorCal Rap songs of all time plus some Rap-A-Lot Records favourites. I'm gonna pick Devin's Georgy as my underrated Tone production of choice, purely because it seems like everyone except me hates that song. In fact, I think Devin himself hates that song because I once read a message board post where some guy who'd gone to see Devin live bumped into him outside the club and asked him if he was going to perform it and Devin gave him the gas face.

MC Ez

There's snippets of a new Ezale song for me to obsess over like it's 2016 again. One of the many things I like about Ezale's videos is that they always feature his same homies who were all up in the 5 Minutes Of Funktown and Foreal Foreal videos back in 2013/2014. We're all on this journey together like a Jumanji flick.

We should probably talk about P-Lo's new song with Clyde Carson, IamSu and Ezale. The beat-switches annoyed me initially, and I'm gonna attribute them to the influence of That Canadian Nonce™. But the song is growing on me like human microbiota.

P-Lo ft. Clyde Carson, IamSu & Ezale - Bay Boyz 4Ever
(From Out The Box album; 2026)

P-Lo · BAY BOYZ 4EVER (feat. Clyde Carson, Iamsu! & Ezale)

In The Trunk (part 2)

Trunk Boiz & Seiji Oda ft. Fijiana - Sky Scraper
(From Right Back In EP; 2026)

A video for one of my favourite cuts from the Trunk Boiz & Seiji Oda EP. I fuxwit this one because it sounds like a Trunk Boiz and Kreayshawn collaboration which should have happened in the early 2010s. And that's the thing: lots of my current favourite choonz sounds like a parallel universe of Rap which never happened but which really should have happened.

Kreayshawn's Gucci Gucci was a true “I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!” song.

The P stands for Penance?

P-Lo - Run It Back
(From Run It Back single; 2026)

Ring the alarm, P-Lo back in my good books after helping That Canadian Nonce™ besmirch a Mac Dre classic. Not a Slap-Magnifico, more a Slap-Atonemento.

In The Trunk

Trunk Boiz & Seiji Oda ft. Fijiana - Sky Scraper
(From Right Back In EP; 2026)

seiji oda · Sky Scraper (feat. Fijiana)

Trunk Boiz & Seiji Oda - Never!
(From Right Back In EP; 2026)

seiji oda · NEVER!

The Boiz are back in town: after No Fillins2, I Call Tell and Go Dumb!, Seiji Oda & the Trunk Boiz have recorded an EP together. Seiji mixed his tai chi Hyphy with the Trunk Boiz' traditional dumbness to create an alternate universe Baytrix. The Fijiana lass on Sky Scraper even sounds like Kreayshawn.

Mýa Jammer

Mýa ft. Too $hort - Just A Little Bit
(From Just A Little Bit single; 2026)

This ain't Gina G, motherf**kers! $hort and Mýa go back like babies and pacifiers? Most unexpected collaboration of 2026 so far or wot? This song sounds like it could have dropped at any point in the last 30 years and that's why it's so good. Throwback R&Boogie which NorCal's electric-boogalooing fonky-grampa OG Mike Chaos can strut his stuff to. This shit is so Grown & Gorgeous™ that $hort even put a suit and tie on for the video.

Dance To My Misandry

Bri3 - Whatever
(From Whatever single; 2026)

The golden-era era of Hateful Hoe Rap singles continues with this song by Maryland's Bri3. Definitely wasn't expecting a cheeky Heavy D sample in a 2026 song. The overly critical hater's in the house! Give me more professionally A&R-ed Rap singles and less 74 second brainfart throwaway tracks.

Bonus beats: Seiji Oda brought the Trunk Boiz back again. A cool breeze on the boombox of AM radio bubblegum Hyphy. If I ruled the world this song would be the Steal My Sunshine of 2026.

Seiji Oda & Trunk Boiz - Go Dumb!
(From Go Dumb! twingle; 2026)

seiji oda · GO DUMB!

From the BBQ to The Bakery (part 5)

RBL Posse & The Yee Section - Don't Give Me No Bammer
(From the Splash Bakery YouTube channel; 2026)


Splash Bakery & The Yee Section are back on form this week. First they dropped a Live Performance With Real Instruments™ version of Don't Give Me No Bammer with RBL Posse. Then they dropped a Live Performance With Real Instruments™ version of Intro with DB Tha Geneeal which sounds like it was revamped and restamped by DJ Quik & Robert Bacon. Them Tiny Desk brehs could never.

DB Tha General & The Yee Section - Intro (live at The Bakery)
(From Splash Bakery YouTube channel; 2026)

Stop Being Greedy

Casual - Hard Drive Music
(From Black Magic album; 2026)


Sum shit I didn't see comin' in 2026: Casual having a semi-viral moment with a song where he implores rappers to stop being stingey bastards by hoarding unreleased music on their hard drives. My man. This is Reality-Rap, we really go through it! Some anti-Scrooge Rap which sounds like a Scooby Doo ghost train.

On the album cover, Casual bizarrely looks like Diamond D dressed as a member of Suicidal Tendencies in the 1980s. All Casual wanted was a Pep Love, just one Pep Love and Del wouldn't give it to him!!!

Born To Audiomack: Best of Bavgate

~~ Best of Bavgate ~~
1. Keep It Gangsta ft. LJ (2005)
2. Like Me (2005)
3. The Gate (2005)
4. Touched (2005)
5. Committed ft. Juvenile & Skip (2005)
6. Stay Strapp ft. Turf Talk (2006)
7. Play Bavgate ft. Pooh Sauce (2006)
8. I'm About That Actin ft. Messy Marv (2006)
9. Black Rags (2006)
10. Tyme 2 Shine (2006)
11. Mob Shit ft. Squeeze (2007)
12. T'z Up ft. Mac Mall & Geezy (2007)
13. Park The Scrapers (2007)




Bloggers say they got Bay love, but it never was, they ain't got no Yee like The Breakfast Club. Bavgate started out as one part of the duo Steady Mobb'n in 1991, went solo in the early 2000s and eventually found his final form in 2005 as Thizz Nation's sorta-equivalent of Kokane. Take a soak in Bav's music with this playlist of my favourite songs of his from the Thizz era. Motherf**kers mad because the 'net is jockin' and motherf**kers mad because my posts is knockin'. Keep It Gangsta is a minor classic which should have been a major choon - a two steppin' tune for polar bears and squares alike.

HBacK

Kool John & P-Lo - Mardi Gras (Go Crazy)
(From Moovie! 2 The Yeequel album; 2024)


Apparently this is quietly becoming a big song on TikTok. Here at The Martorialist we very much approve of HBK Gang songs belatedly having a moment. Tell me when to pay attention when Don't Matter goes viral.

IamSu - Don't Matter
(From Young California album; 2011)

Sunday Funday

LARussell & Lil' Jon - Having Like This
(From Having Like This sngle; 2025)


Lil' Jon beats X NorCal rappers is always the proverbial Good Combination™... well, apart from that one posthumous Mac Dre song which was too XXXtra Jonish for my liking. Anyhoo, props to Jon for getting LARussell to commit to a solo song which lasts longer than 2 minutes. This song sounds like it could have come out at any point between 2002 and 2006 which is exactly what it needs to sound like. The future is the past now!

Unrelated: when's the last time I watched the Clipse's $2 Bill MTV concert from 2002? At a guess it was around 2005 before I accidentally taped over it with an episode of Reno 911. Cot damn, Kelis has never looked fitter than her cameo in that concert. If you don't think Kelis was top 5 dead or alive in this clip then ur probably gay, m8.

Clipse ft. Pharrell & Kelis - When The Last Time (live)
(From MTV's $2 Bill concert; 2002)

"You know, it's not like i'm some modern Punk, dickhead!"

Dilligentz ft. The Pack & Go Dav - Punk Rock (remix)
(From Fresh Impression mixtape; 2007)


I feel like Johnny F**kface the Punk Rock beezy because I never knew this song had a video. As for the song itself, it's proof that the L.A Jerk sound was just an offshoot of what NorCal rappers like The Pack and Dilligentz were already doing.

Crimson Gig

Seiji Oda ft. Young Bari - Mobby Miyazaki
(From HUMAN+NATURE album; 2025)


Here at The Martorialist we're pleased this one now has a video. On a universal level, it's the missing link between Studio Ton and Studio Ghibli. On a personal level, it inspired me to check out Young Bari's music from his HBK Gang Uncle era where I discovered I Rep That Blocka. Most of Seiji's anime references are over my head, but that's ok - I like when rappers talk in code about crazy shit which don't make no sense to me. Peace out, it's the Boy Boy Young Mess & The Heron!

I ain't talkin' about Word Of Mouth & DJ Cheese, boiiiiiiii

Bski aka B-Ski Rocks - Coast 2 Coast
(From Decoding The Secrets Of An Alternative Destiny album; 1999)


Best hitherto-unheard by me song on the fourteenth and final volume of Big Sleep's Bay Area Jazz-Rap compilations; Sleep used to have a job then he grabbed his last paycheck and split, now the only job Sleep got is cold bloggin' shit. Anyhoo, Coast 2 Coast is super-sloppentific Bay Area backpack-Rap from an underground tape/CD-R which sounds like the best song I never bought on 12" from Mr. Bongo. This song is best experienced with your third eye browsing old pieces by the dearly-departed Bay Area graffiti O.G Dream TDK. My mind spray 4 real.

I miss the dayz when I could bounce off other bloggers. Nowadays all those other bloggers do is sit on Twitter 16 hours a day complaining that Twitter is making the world a worse place.

Last Kharas

"If life's a riddle with a song in, all the best ones sound like longing
And how I yearn to be with Shulgin"

Real Lies - Shulgin
(From We Will Annihilate Our Enemies album; 2025)


Quite a feat that "you know my life is full of cheap surprises, I gotta get offa the grid/it's as if these algorithmic freaks don't know who they're f**kin' with" isn't even the best lyric in Real Lies' latest single. Like Freddie Ljungberg in the final stretch of the 2001/2002 Premier League season, Kevlar Kharas & Pumpin' Patrice don't miss. The best way to listen to Real Lies: taking a long, tipsy piss in a moonlit city alley with neon-lit nightbuses whizzing by behind you.

Oh wait, you're here for Rap music, right? Okay, so my baby-blue bruv Big Sleep is putting together a 14 volume zipfile series (!) of Bay Area Jazz-Rap over on his blog. Volumes 1 and 2 are up now. Sleep's got the gift 2 gab too. Peep game:

Whether you know your Mac Ts from your Mack-Ts1 or not, there's somethin' for everyone here. Doesn't matter if you're listening to I.Q. or Eyeque. I got it all covered: from Dave Dub to Joe Dub, everything from dank smokin' killers to doja smokin' nerds. A who's who of “who's that?”, that'll make you sound like a group of owls listenin' to Mike Jones.

If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surproiz

Seiji Oda ft. Trunk Boiz - No Fillins2
(From HUMAN+NATURE album; 2025)


Seiji Oda already recorded a homage to the Trunk Boiz Cupcake No Fillin back in 2021. Now he's recorded a sequel featuring none other than the Trunk Boiz themselves. This ain't Cloud-Rap, this is Incense Smoke-Rap. Even your new age hippy missus can catch a vibe to this shit when she's treating her chakras with her collection of painted rocks healing crystals.

Good top, very philosophical

Seiji Oda - Sleeve Jobs
(From HUMAN+NATURE album; 2025)


Some Oakland rappers go on Sway In The Morning, while other Oakland rappers make legit slaps which are as gentle as a field of wheat gently swaying in the morning breeze. It's a paradox in the Baytrix which Seiji Oda has been exploring/exploiting since Like This in 2020 and continues to explore/exploit in 2025 with Sleeve Jobs.

Rewind for Seiji's best song of 2025 so far which isn't on his new album for some unfathomable reason. He actually coaxed an excellent, no Auto-Tuned cameo out of Iamsu - summat which hasn't happened in a decade.

Late pass!

Myaap ft. Vae Vanilla & 3200 Tre - Feeling Dis
(From The Bigger Picture album; 2024)



I've been checkin' for Myaap since HTS but I completely missed this song from the tail end of last year. A posse cut where everybody came with their own perspective and everybody got their points across. 2nd best non-2025 Rap song I've discovered this week so far. The first is Risky Business by Murs & Shock G/Humpty Hump. Never in a month of Black Sundays would my square arse have guessed that Shock G guested & produced a song on a Def Jux album.

Murs ft. Shock G & Humpty Hump - Risky Business
(From The End of The Beginning album; 2003)


I'm sure most of youse lot were already familiar with Risky Business, but nobody ever told me about it! In fact, the only song I know from this particular Murs album is Transitionz Az A Ridah.

We're All In The Same Yang

"Sauced up, bossed up
Just got a few dollars she coughed up
All in a bitch mouth like cough syrup
Can't help this the way I was brought up"

Ezale - On The Radar freestyle
(From P-Lo's For The Soil cypher for On The Radar; 2025)


A mere freestyle, but it's the first time Ezale has rhymed over a P-Lo production and it's a great fit like tighty-whities. I'm down for a proper Ezale & P-Lo collaboration, preferably an EP together like the LARussell & P-Lo EP where Ezale does the raps and P-Lo does the slaps.

Speaking of which, it's very weird to hear the word slap enter Britain's normie vernacular. Just last week I caught an episode of British soap-opera Coronation Street and one of the zoomer lads said "this curry slaps!" O rly? Nane 3 Mac Dre songs, m8.