At the time I made ‘Safe,’ I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers.
There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the – look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.
I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.
Me and Jeffrey Wright were hanging out a lot. We go surfing a fair bit when he’s on the West Coast. He’s a legend.
I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk – I don’t care.
On the West Coast, things are more relaxed, maybe because people have more fun outdoors. In the East, where the weather is not so good, people have to stay indoors. They’re very knowledgable fans. This makes you play even harder.
Everybody in the West Coast always like to hear YG, RJ, and Mustard together.
I’ve always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I’ve always been associated with that because I’m from the West Coast.
I’ve been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, ‘I want to be a rapper.’ But I’m a white girl, not going to be a rapper.
They don’t sell the Nathan’s hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I just end up getting Nathan’s to ship them to me.
I am just so proud to be able to take my NAPA car, my NAPA Toyota, to the West Coast and race in front of the fans in Southern California.
A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Attitude is attitude, whether you’re a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
No, I don’t think about the myth of the West. It’s not the kind of thinking I do. That’s more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
When I was in the West Coast watching the Giants, Rich Aurilia was a guy I always liked.
‘Going Back to Cali’ is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast – West Coast rivalry.
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