Bay Area rap history circa 92 – one of the earliest Peanut Butter Wolf related productions before he  was called Peanut Butter Wolf (PBW) was in 1992 when a young (pre Charizma affiliated) “Chris Cut” was doing engineering production for The Siggnett Posse from San Jose. In the video above DJ Marz talks about getting the crew’s tape back in the day that also had a vinyl release. Marz also recalls many legendary Bay rap spots in the reminisce clip that should make ol skool Bay fools smile in recognition. As far as the music (all good) among my faves is the opening song on Side A of the tape “Get Right To It (J-Wa nz + D-Flat)” which has a a funky distinctly Bay Area sound (a little APG and a little RBL sounding), The release was on Both Sides of the Bay label. It was recorded in Venus Studio San Jose. Talking with PBW recently he recalled that, “the lead MC from the group was the nephew of the lead singer of the Village People.” And will there ever be a Siggnett Posse reunion with PBW in the mix? Anything is possible. Start a FB petition and make it happen.

Published in the Source magazine issue number 19 (March/April 1991) this is the Hip-Hop Slam Top Ten Chart from Feb 1991 – a time when the weekly Hip Hop Slam radio show broadcast on KUSF San Francisco. This chart included the still amazing sounding Tragedy/Intelligent Hoodlum track “Arrest The President” plus Bay Area/NorCal joints from the likes of Paris, Consolidated,  Homicide,MC Tom Slick, Audi & Mike Dee, Diceman P + DJ Ronski (the pick hit) and Digital Underground with the number one song (“Same Song”) that featured a then hardly known rapper called 2Pac. 

1) “Same Song” Digital Underground

2) “Dead Homiez” Ice Cube

3) “Step In The Arena” Gang Starr

4) “The Hate That Hate Made” Paris

5) “To My Donna” YBT

6) “Gots To Be Faithful” Audi & Mike Dee

7) “Arrest the President” Intelligent Hoodlum

8} “This Is A Collective” Consolidated

9) “The Melody” Homicide

10) “Crime Story” MC Tom Slick

PICK HIT: “Tommy Said” Diceman P & DJ Ronski