“I loved rock, but I always listened to hip-hop, too. After a session with Ice Cube, the whole hip-hop guitar thing on the West Coast kicked off for me”: Session ace and Wu-Tang MD Stone Mecca talks gear, Snoop Dogg and his self-taught style

Stone Mecca.

Guitar isn’t the first instrument associated with hip-hop music, but Stone Mecca has spent his career changing that narrative. 

Dating back to the ’90s, Mecca has appeared on albums by Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Wu-Tang Clan and RZA, becoming a go-to session player whenever the best of the West Coast scene needed six-strings added into the mix.