San Quinn - How The West Was Won

you can't mention the west coast rap scene with out mentioning San Quinn.



San Quinn Is A Bay Area Rapper from Fillmore district of San Francisco who has been rapping for more than a decade,he has always had reginal sucess but he seems content with it that way. Quinn holds the record for most appearances on different albums. He is the CEO of Done Deal Ent. which originally consisted of his brother Bailey, Big Rich, Don Toriano, Boxx Kev and Quinn's cousin Ya Boy.Ya Boy is now on the up and up and seems to be on his way to a healthy career (but thats for future blog).What you also might not know about San Quinn is he taught The multi platinum rapper The Game how to rap when The Game was early in his career.








San Quinn-Hell Yeah Music Video from Lee Cummings on Vimeo.


he has a long catlogue of Albums

Solo albums
Dont Cross Me (1991)
Live n' Direct (1994)
The Hustle Continues (1996)
The Mighty Quinn (2001)
I Give You My Word (2004)
The Rock: Pressure Makes Diamonds (2006)
From a Boy to a Man (2008)


Its A shame not more people know about him out side of the westcaost or even outside of the US.I think I must be one of the very few people to know San Quinn In the UK.

I think One of his best albums is The Rock: Pressure Makes Diamonds (2006) I would reccmend buying it. www.amazon.com/Rock-Pressure-Makes-Diamonds/dp/B000BB0396

San Quinn has a new album coming out soon on SRC/Universal called 'From A Boy To A Man'

Sooo check him out!!!

www.myspace.com/sanquinn

Enjoy
C.L.F!