Top 5 West Coast blogs? A podcast panel ranks No Jumper first, Juice Unlocked in the mix

Who runs West Coast music news? Juice Unlocked put the question to its followers on Aug. 13, 2025, with a podcast clip titled "Top 5 West Coast Blogs" and a challenge in the caption: is this list accurate?

In the 54-second clip, the panel answers fast. No Jumper is "probably the first one," and probably the biggest, the room agrees.

The list

After No Jumper, the picks were FooCommunity, which one speaker said he follows because he is Mexican and cares about that side of the scene; L.A Eyekon, who got a shout-out for doing his thing; and CrazyHoodMedia, described as a West Coast page that posts a lot of Mexican rappers from L.A.

Juice Unlocked rounded it out, drawing a "Let's go" from the room. One panelist joked that the others were only being nice because he was sitting right there.

Then came the debate. A speaker said he had left out Thizzler, the Bay Area page, and the group slotted it in at No. 6. The reasoning: NorCal is a different vibe. The pushback: it is still California.

“No Jumper. It's probably the first one.”

By the numbers

The clip flashes each page's Instagram profile as it is named. The screenshots showed No Jumper at 2.9 million followers, Thizzler 613,000, FooCommunity 321,000, Juice Unlocked 65,900, L.A Eyekon 46,100 and CrazyHoodMedia 4,717, with a bio claiming 95,000 YouTube subscribers.

The post's cover graphic shows a wider field of 20 pages, including The Aux Connect, That Daily Slap, Southwest Connected, HaterMedia and GrindFace Music. The post drew 69 comments.

“I think these guys are just being nice though, because I'm right here in the flesh.”

“It's NorCal. It's a different vibe.”