Hip-Hop is a music that has gone through a variety of different eras, separated by time and geographical location. Luckily with the impact of the internet, regionalism has become a lot less prevalent in the art form and has become much more open to new places. The one place that seems to have been forgotten by the masses though, is the West coast. Aside from big name acts like The Game and Ice Cube, the West coast has been quiet in the mainstream rap world. If this were due to a lack of quality music, it would be understandable, but that just isn’t the case.

They say proof is in the pudding, and in this case the pudding is a mixtape released in 2006 by the incomparable DJ Crazy Toones. The mixtape, which was released through Dubcnn.com, was one of the most slept on gems of it’s year. The only reason I found out about it was through a promotional DVD supporting the project that I found in my local record store in early 2008.

The tape consisted of everything a great mixtape needs; a highly competent DJ who knows how to handle a turntable, a central theme throughout, and enough high profile artists showing up to make it seem like a retail album. The theme is West Coast to its gritty core. With old school MC’s such as MC Ren, King T, and Ice Cube wrecking original and recycled beats together with new school spitters like The Game and Young Maylay, it shows you that while the limelight isn’t being shined on the West, the region still has the talent it takes to hold it down for Hip-Hop.

1- The Arraignment (Intro)
2- G Shit- Ice Cube & WC
3- Roll On Em- WC, Xzibit, MC Ren, & Maylay
4- The Wait Is Over Remix- Damani & WC
5- South Central (Skit)
6- Will I Die- The Game & Gusto
7- Definition Of A Mixtape (Skit)
8- You Aint Street!!!- Mad CJ Mac
9- Gangbang Music- Supafly & Kurupt
10- This Life- Snoop Dogg & WC
11- The Rat Pack- King Tee, Maylay, Roscoe
12- Mixtape Shit- Ice Cube
13- How To Survive In The LBC- Daz
14- Its Going Down ft. WC
15- We See You Niggas- WC, Jayo Felony, & Maylay
16- The Powa Of Mix-t-a-p-e-s (Skit)
17- Where You From- Bad Lucc
18- Hoodrat Bitch Part 3- P.S.
19- Why We Thugs- Ice Cube
20- Bangin West Coast- Soopafly
21- You Can Have A Crazy Tape (Skit)
22- Black Ty
23- Outro

DJ Crazy Toones – CT Experience (Hosted by DJ Skee & DJ Reflex)