G-Eazy
At 25, he's the old man of the bunch, having worked the Bay Area scene for almost a decade. Unlike his Tumblr-centric tourmates, G-Eazy built up his following the old-fashioned way on MySpace, cementing ties with a number of Bay Area legends, such as E-40 and Lil B. Last year's These Things Happen is by no small measure his best effort to date, nicely pulling together his penchant for self-aware lyrics, off-kilter beats and an oddly charismatic sense of flow.