![]() I was getting dressed, and it came on the radio. (I think it’s Keak Da Sneak’s " Super Hyphy," but that song only exists if you have subwoofers.) A decade later, he still remembers the first time he heard 40's sparse 2006 banger: "I was getting ready to go to school. He and his friends formed a fledgling clique called Bay Boyz, inspired by the car-bouncing mania of E-40 tracks like " Tell Me When to Go," which G considers the crown jewel of hyphy. “ My favorite teacher was a Mac Dre CD,” he rapped last year on a track with Oakland hip-hop mainstay Mistah F.A.B. He admits that he was never much of a student - his preferred course of study was to post up in his bedroom smoking and making the beats for his crew to verse over late into the night. Graduating from high school in 2006, he came of age at the precise point when the hyphy sound, Pro Tools, and Myspace converged to make a new set of possibilities for local kids. ![]() Gerald Gillum was born in Oakland and grew up on the Berkeley-Oakland border, an area where all of the East Bay’s cultural elements find a way to overlap.
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