West's Best
- Saturday, march 21
- 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
- Rogers Forum 33800 King Road, Abbotsford, V2S 7M8, Canada
West’s Best brings together four pillars of West Coast rap on March 22, 2026 at Rogers Forum in Abbotsford, Canada. Detroit-born and Los Angeles-shaped, Xzibit steps in with the raw storytelling and gravel-toned delivery that ran through At the Speed of Life and 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz, then sharpened alongside Dr. Dre for Restless and Man vs Machine. Between cinema, TV and the road, he keeps a tight link to the 90s Los Angeles underground while moving with the times, a straight line from Likwit Crew to today.
From Vallejo, E-40 carries the Bay Area playbook: independent hustle via Sick Wid It Records, a run from In a Major Way to My Ghetto Report Card, then marathon series like Revenue Retrievin’. His syncopated flow, off-kilter rhythms and slang-heavy writing have fed hyphy and shaped the coast’s vocabulary, with regular link-ups alongside Too Short and the wider California network.
Long Beach mainstay Warren G traces the G-funk blueprint first drawn with 213, then stamped on Regulate… G Funk Era. Slow-motion grooves, melodic synths and fat basslines frame a producer-rapper who kept refining the formula from Take a Look Over Your Shoulder to The G Files and the Regulate sequel EP.
Compton’s DJ Quik closes the loop: MC, DJ and studio architect, from Quik Is the Name through Rhythm-al-ism and The Book of David. Funk-driven, soul-leaning arrangements and precise engineering define his catalog, with side paths like Blaqkout and Rosecrans. Together, they map the coast from Long Beach to the Bay, a live survey of G-funk, hyphy pulses and seasoned West Coast craft.
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Rogers Forum
33800 King Road, Abbotsford, V2S 7M8, Canada