Vallejo, California

Everything Vallejo is known for

26 songs mention this city 7 artists from here

Vallejo, California, a waterfront city in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, has a notable musical identity. Seven artists call Vallejo home, including the rhythm and blues group Sly & the Family Stone and hip-hop artist E-40. The city is also mentioned in 27 songs, such as "Feeling Like That Nigga" by Mac Dre and "Over My Dead Body" by Drake.

Music in Vallejo

Songs About Vallejo

Feeling Like That Nigga
Mac Dre
93%
"Fools smash off screamin', "Trick, fuck the Crest""
Make You Mine
Mac Dre
54%
"I'm from Vallejo where most niggas is pimps"
Boss Tycoon
Mac Dre
53%
"With the king of Vallejo, bitch, foldin' paper"
Mafioso
Mac Dre
50%
"Vallejo"
Let’s All Get Down
Mac Dre
44%
"Cuz I'm a R-O-M-P from the C-R-E-S-T"
Hot Jalapeños
Mac Dre
42%
"I'm a Crestside cut-throat, a cold toe-tagger"
Ain’t Hard 2 Find
2Pac
24%
"I'm from the V-A-L-L-E-J-O"
California Livin
Mac Dre
20%
"I'm from the V-A-double L-E-J-O / Where makin' dope raps is all I know"
Pest Control
The Game
8%
"Could have went and got E-40, brought Ice Cube back"
It Ain’t Hard to Tell
Nas
7%
"I'm like Sly Stone in Cobra"
Grown Shit
Mac Dre
7%
"From Vallejo, born in Oakland"
Over My Dead Body
Drake
7%
"My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay"
California (Remix)
Colonel Loud
7%
"Oakland, San Jose, or Vallejo"
Money Trees
Kendrick Lamar
6%
"Bump that new E-40 after school / Earl Stevens had us thinkin' rational"
Snap Yo Fingers
Lil Jon
6%
"What's up 40? What's happenin'?"
Like That
Future
5%
"40 Water, 40 water"
Since ’84
Mac Dre
5%
"In the Sco the O and Valley Jo"
Dollalalala Lotsa Paypa
Mac Dre
5%
"Preppy pimp, Crestside rider"
Life Goes On
Lil Baby
5%
"They love me in the Bay like E-40 (40)"
Choppin’ Blades
UGK
4%
"Just like E-40: pimpin' in a major way"

Showing top 20 of 26 songs

Artists From Vallejo

H
H.E.R.
r-n-b Pop: 73
E
E-40
hip-hop Pop: 67
B
Baby Bash
hip-hop Pop: 65
S
Sly & the Family Stone
r-n-b Pop: 57
M
Mac Dre
hip-hop Pop: 52
N
N2DEEP
hip-hop Pop: 51
C
Con Funk Shun
r-n-b Pop: 45

Rivers & Roads in Song near Vallejo

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Vallejo.

U.S. Route 101 7 songs

History of Vallejo

American Canyon, CA RoadyGoat

American Canyon, a relatively young city carved into the landscape just off Interstate 80, embodies a particular California dream. It’s a place where the suburban hum of quiet streets meets the pull of both wine country and the tech-driven Bay Area. Many residents make the daily trek to Napa or across the bridge for work, returning to the calm of their community in the evenings. While the city itself may not boast centuries of history, it has seen its share of notable figures pass through, and at least one called it home from the very beginning.

4.9 mi away

The Explosive in Your Heart Pill RoadyGoat

1879

Here's a molecule with a double life: nitroglycerin, the heart of the dynamite once made in Hercules, is also a heart medicine. The very compound that levels buildings has been given to angina patients since the Victorian era to stop chest pain. In tiny doses it relaxes and widens blood vessels, easing the heart's workload -- a vasodilator. For over a century nobody knew why it worked. The richest irony: Alfred Nobel himself, who built his fortune on nitroglycerin, developed heart disease late in life and was prescribed the very same substance. He wrote that it was 'ironical' to be ordered to swallow nitroglycerin. The mystery wasn't cracked until decades after his death -- the drug releases nitric oxide, which signals vessels to relax. That discovery won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

6.1 mi away

Dynamite Is Mostly Fossil Algae RoadyGoat

1867

The whole reason this town exists comes down to a clever bit of chemistry. Liquid nitroglycerin is ferociously powerful but dangerously unstable -- a bump or a jolt can set it off. In 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel found a fix: soak the liquid into a soft, chalky powder called kieselguhr, better known as diatomaceous earth. That powder is made of the fossilized silica shells of diatoms -- microscopic algae that lived millions of years ago. The porous fossils drink up the nitroglycerin like a sponge, taming it into a paste you can mold into sticks and handle safely. Nobel named it dynamite, from the Greek for 'power.' It won't go off from a drop; it needs a blasting cap to ignite. So every stick made in Hercules was, at heart, ancient pond scum doing the heavy lifting of keeping an explosive calm.

6.1 mi away

Angel Island Immigration Station

1910

The Ellis Island of the West, where hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants were detained and processed.

18.9 mi away

San Quentin State Prison

1852

California's oldest prison, opened 1852, with a death row and a view of the San Francisco Bay.

16.8 mi away

Things to Do in Vallejo

historical 23.1 mi away
Golden Gate Bridge

The most photographed bridge in the world. International Orange against San Francisco fog.
historical 21.2 mi away
Alcatraz Island

The Rock. America's most notorious prison on an island in the San Francisco Bay.
food 23.6 mi away
Swan Oyster Depot

San Francisco's 18-seat oyster counter since 1912. No reservations. The line starts before they open. Fresh Dungeness crab and sourdough.
food 22.9 mi away
Tadich Grill

California's oldest restaurant operating since 1849 — the Gold Rush year. San Francisco institution. The cioppino is non-negotiable.

Everything Near Vallejo

87 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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