Seagram

Equally adept at dealing out narrative reflections and fearsome threats over laid-back funk grooves and menacing productions worthy of horror films, unsung Bay Area gangsta rapper and producer Seagram left behind a small if revered body of work. It's limited to The Dark Roads (1993), Reality Check (1994), and the posthumous Souls on Ice (1997), all of which were released on Rap-A-Lot and charted. Oakland native Seagram Miller debuted in 1992 with "The Dark Road," a grim G-funk track that helped push the parent LP, The Dark Roads, into Billboard's hip-hop/R&B chart the followi...