Artist: WC
Title: Ghetto Heisman
Label: Def Jam
Year: 2002
Rating: 4 of 5
Review by: Dead Eye - deadend_rec@hotmail.com

W.C. is finally, finally back! First of the intro, then "Bellin" featuring Kokane. The whole song explain the term Bellin. Good album opener but since "The Streets" featuring Snoop and Nate is next let´s peep that! When we now is about to sum up WESTCOAST RAP 2002 what songs has been the best, well this great song will be on my top 10 for sure. People will bang to this for another 1000 years, that´s my prediction! You might say, "I´m tired of every single having Nate on it!" Okay I respect that but Nate never gets old, yesterdays news or worn out. He shouldn't mess too much with all east coast cats that he ain´t really down with, but hey Nate is universal - you can´t go wrong!

"So Hard" features Scarface. A combination I thought I never would see to be honest, but now that I hear it I´m so glad they got together. Buckwild did the beat and it fit both rappers so great. Probably the fact that they both on Def Jam was a helpful factor to make this happen.
WC keeps net working with Def Jam artists on "Flirt". This time he hooks up with R n B cat Case to make a funky love song, Rick Rock did the beat but it sounds like some Teddy Riley, some Blackstreet stuff. It worked out cool anyway!

"Walk" features Ice Cube and Mack 10 - they even call this a Westside Connection song! I hope we´ll see a new Connection album soon, since Hoo Bangin closed down shop I dunno what happened. I´m sure the plans still there, but they all got their thing to do. But all Connection songs we done heard lately been so hard, we just need that new album. Battlecat did the beat.

"Tears Of A Killa" with Butch Cassidy got a more serious tone, he talks to God, mention politics etc. A real deep song I´m sure y´all will feel! Butch also joins WC on "Da Get Together". More of a regular WC track that we´re used to, I would recommend this one at any BBQ for the coming summer!
"Wanna Ride" features Ice Cube and MC Ren. Ren dosen´t delivers tons of rhymes but when he does the Black Villian show us why he is among the best from the west! He made a great appearance on Ghetto Heisman! Cube is of course on point!

"Bang Loose" features a sample from George Clinton´s song "Atmosphere" so we get a real up tempo funky sound. On the track WC shares the mic with Dr Stank, Lady T and Dauville! I don´t know too much about them, feel free to fill me in! "Get Out" has WC rapping solo, and that´s good! See I love collaborations but when I pick up a WC album I wanna hear WC to a certain amount, I don´t want no damn compilation. And the balance solo/collabs was great on here. Especially now that we waited so long for this you need them solo tracks!

"Let´s Make A Deal" was produced by DJ Crazy Toones for Bandana Swangin Entertainment, which I assume, is WC´s own production company, not sure if it´s a record label yet! However this song is great and fresh new beat that´s real original with a Spanish kind of twist to it! "Something 2 Live 4" ends the new effort, great way to end the album. Again a serious song but more gangsta than r n b type of song!

WC is back and we will notice his return! This was a great album, could have been a lil bit better but with one of the years 10 best songs (The Streets) we can´t do nothing else than once again bow down and welcome dubb back! Finally he´s home!