Sorry but at no point in time has there been any more bad music coming out the Bay than there is any other region in the country, there just hasn't... and if you look at it in a historical context, the Bay Area has contributed an absolutely ridiculous amount of good music to the genre.
Hurt is the wrong word, it's more a combination of shame and pity because it is embarrassing to see. It's some self hate type stuff man.
I just chalk it up to a lack of exposure. If you're a younger dude it takes genuine effort and a willingness to go back and listen to the stuff that was coming out in the 90's.
Switching the point of focus to the modern era, I think another big factor is a lot of you dudes who speak down on the music scene out here have either outgrown "gangster rap" "street music" whatever you want to call it, and/or it was never made for you in the first place.
And that's fine, but if you've never listened to a retail project form The Jacka, HD, Shady Nate, J Stalin, Joe Blow, Young Gully, etc, who goes around saying, "most Bay Area rap is trash" then you're just ignorant.
If you are familiar with those artist and that lane of music is your thing, I seriously challenge you to name a rapper anywhere speaking that real life struggle rap who makes any of those guys look bad.
