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Westside Connection - Terrorist Threats (CD)

Album Details: Terrorist Threats

Release Date:04/12/2004
Label:Priority Records
UPC:724352403004

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    Better-off with the 1st album

    By darrick  Dec 15, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this Terrorist Threats review helpful

    Pros: lyrics

    Cons: beats

    I was 100% sure that these OG's was gonna put the West back on the map. Well I was greatly disappointed with the results. I know that you have to change with the times but it's best to stick to what you know best; Gangsta Sh!t! I'm not... saying just lyrically, the beats have to be gangsta as well and that's what this album is missing (gangsta beats). The same goes for Spice 1, another Westcoast icon. The only one that seems to be stickin to the G-code to the fullest and holding it down 100% is C-BO, both lyrically and beat-wise. I'll stick with the 1st album which will always be a classic from these Heavyweight Westcoast G's. Read more Less

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    By Slick Mitchy  Dec 9, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this Terrorist Threats review helpful

    Pros: everything

    Cons: None

    this has got to be the best cd released this year,they speak on all the things that are wrong in hip hop today,all of them kill every track they rhyme on, and the beats are straight all the way through what more could u ask for?

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  • All Music Guide

    A long seven years after the gangsta rap supergroup Westside Connection released Bow Down, one of the definitive West Coast gangsta rap albums of the '90s, they reunited in 2003 for a second goround, Terrorist Threats. Of course, the state of the rap union had changed a lot since 1996, which was the height of the original gangsta era, back when 2Pac and Biggie were still taunting the world from the streets (rather than doing so from the grave). So it's a little unsettling to hear the trio of veteran gangstas in Westside Connection Ice Cube, WC, and Mack 10 still trying to rally the "Gangsta Nation" circa 2003, the year of young gunners like 50 Cent and prettyboy skirtchasers like Chingy. Yet on the other hand, the oldfashioned gangsta growl of Westside Connection seems all the more poignant as a result as if they are ghosts of gangsta past, back to haunt listeners especially on songs like "So Many Rappers in Love," where these O.G.s call out their much younger, "21 Question"asking ...contemporaries. Not everything on Terrorist Threats is gruff and bitter, though. Standout songs like "Gangsta Nation" and "Lights Out" have plenty of feelgood swerve, especially when the likes of Nate Dogg and KnocTurn'al grace the hooks. But besides the PFunky hooks here, Westside Connection are back to make a point, not just to make you Crip walk, and while you may often prefer to Crip walk rather than actually listen up, the overall message is nonetheless clear. In 2003 rappers weren't making gangsta rap like they used to, and if you're indeed nostalgic for the oldschool gangsta posturing of the '90s opposed to the fauxgangsta stunting of the 2000s, Westside Connection have come back to keep it real, so recognize. - Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Westside Connection

The rap supergroup Westside Connection came together in late 1996, comprising Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC (of WC the Madd Circle). The trio released the single "Bow Down" in September, and it reached number 21 on the singles charts. The subsequent album, also titled Bow Down, hit number two and quickly achieved gold status. Subsequent work, like 1998's The Shadiest One, ... Read more