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The Shadiest One | 
 enlarge | Artist: Wc
Label: London / Umgd
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 119234
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 828957
UPC: 042282895721
EAN: 0042282895721
ASIN: B0000067KS
Release Date: April 28, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Hog | | • | Where Y'All From (Skit) - WC, | | • | F**kin' wit Uh House Party | | • | The Shadiest One | | • | Can't Hold Back | | • | Keep Hustlin' | | • | Just Clownin' | | • | The Autobiography | | • | Worldwide Gunnin' | | • | Like That - WC, Calhoun, Wendell "B | | • | Call It What You Want | | • | Rich Rollin' | | • | Cheddar | | • | Bank Lick (Interlude) - WC, Calhoun, L. | | • | It's All Bad | | • | Better Days - WC, Beverly, Frankie | | • | The Outcome |
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 Bangin Album for the Lowrider December 5, 2007
G-Funk 4ever (Rollin')
WC finally gets a chance to release a solo album, 1998's The Shadiest One. Ater about a decade in the rap game at this point, WC has several group albums with Mad Circle and earlier (in the 80's) with Low Proile. This album came out when the West Coast was losing popularity in the game and the shift in focus went back east. This album is full of fun and bouncy G-Funk and crazy spits by WC. Production goes to Battlecat, Ant Banks, Daz Dillinger, Barr 9, Crazy Toones, among a few others, and all bring their A-game to the boards. Battlecat's "Hog" is an upbeat bouncy lowrider joint with cool keyboards and a vocorder. "F--kin' Wit Uh House Party" is simply a phat joint. Battlecat again provides an energetic lowrider beat, and WC spits funny rhymes about going to a house party with a hoochie amongst rival gang members and gettin beat down, and he gets revenge. The beat is some of the phattest G-Funk I have heard in a long time. Young Tre laces a sunny laidback Cali beat on "Keep Hustlin'" with WC, Too Short and E-40 all delivering their trademark styles, and 40 Water really spits here. All their different rapping styles make for an entertaining listen. "Just Clownin'" is another Battlecat joint with a bass-heavy, deep-groove beat; WC describes about "snatchin' muthaf----s outta Nissan trucks" when Run-DMC starting out. He drops funny lines like that throughout the album. He may be humorous but he is definitely street and both elements create what we like about WC, along with his changeable flows that stay in tune with the beats. "Cheddar" is a fair Westside Connection hustler joint that sounds like it would be good for the clubs over a Mo' Suavea' southern bounce beat. Ant Banks produces the title track feat. CJ Mac. The beat is almost identical to Banks's beat on the title track his own album, 1995's Do Or Die, only the whiny synth is more prevalent here and the beat is a little faster. CJ and Dub drop some crazy street flows. "Betta Days" is a relaxed, soulful, smooth G-Funker, and WC gives an A-1 performance with a sick flow. The lyrics are deep. Dub can't believe that he made it to the year 1998 considering how crazy life was in his hood, with the loss of friends and gang violence. He drops some philosophy about how to carry on with life. Ron Banks from the Dramatics drops some dope hook vocals. "It's All Bad" is menacing with a hard beat and angry, loud, pessimistic flows by Dub. All in all, if you want an entertaining album with fast gangsta flows, great, funky beats, and some humor mixed in, then this one is for you.
 Album Can Be A Little Shady At Times (Rating: 7 out of 10- -3.5 stars) April 26, 2007
Chandler (Atlanta (College Park), Georgia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maybe I had too high of an expectation from this album.
Especially when:
A) W.C. is a West Coast vet, who rarely flaws
B) Being told that this was one of the best of 1998
C) The Rap Pages Magazine gave this a 5 out of 5 (and they were pretty accurate in their reviews before they discontinued)
This album, W.C. rhymes about the street life and jacking/robbing people on most of the tracks. On the title track, "The Shadiest One" he and CJ Mac rhyme about robbing people over an Ant Banks beat. A couple of few other songs that stood out to me was "The Autobiography" as W.C. rhymes about his past life on a old school Crazy Toones beat. I would say that the best song on the album would be "Like That" featuring Daz, CJ Mac, and Ice Cube. What makes that song unique is the Big Daddy Kane scraches in the song ("It's like that y'all..."), something that wasn't being heard that much back in the late 90's, especially on the west coast.
The Shadiest One is a solid album from W.C. One thing I seem to notice was that he uses the flow of other rappers in his songs. Now other artists do it, but many of them try not to make it noticable. Like on songs "Keep Hustlin'" and ""Can't Hold Back", he uses the flow of Rakim and Big Daddy Kane respectively. Even Skooby Doo reacreates the beat to "Ain't No Half Steppin'" for the latter song. Some of the production really doesn't hold together like I expected on a few tracks. Possibly because almost every producer used synthesizer in their beats, as a popular west coast production technique, but I got tried of it halfway through the album (and this is comming from a fan of west coast rap music).
The Shadiest One is an album worth owning, but I wouldn't rush out and go get it ASAP. At a time when the east was pulling together and the south was making a name for themselves and starting to blow up, people forgot what the west had to offer. The Shadiest One does give somewhat of a taste of what was left on the left coast. I recommend that you check this album out. More dedicated W.C. fans will probably be more happer than I am for this album. Peace!
Lyrics: B+
Production: B
Guest Appearances: B
Musical Vibes: B+
Top 5 Favorite Tracks:
1. Like That
2. The Autobiography
3. Hog
4. The Shadiest One
5. Call It What You Want
Dub-C at his Best in the Game! November 22, 2005
Loco-E (Watts, CA)
W.C., originally part of a early 90's Los Angeles rap trio The Maad Circle to the mid-90's with his patnaz Ice Cube & Mack 10 formed a group called Westside Connection, my Locc W.C. drops hard unlike on Ghetto Heismen, The Shadiest One has more Dope beats, is waay harder and in some songs like The Shadiest One featuring CJ Mac, is Hard, Heavy & Grim. W.C.'s most popular hit on hear was the song Just Clownin', yet W.C. can't go soft with the song Like That featuring CJ Mac & Mack 10, just another Heavy Hitter. W.C. goes crazy loco with his boys in the Maad Circle on the song It's All Bad. W.C. has proven to be a true Locc, and a West Coast Heavy Hitter.
Dub's best are 1, 3, *4, 5, 6, *7, 8, 9, *10, 11, 12, 13, *15, 16 & 17.
3 Stars January 16, 2005
The Best Rap Critic
WC is one of the best out of the west, but The Shadiest One is and AVERAGE album.
 Mediocre album from anything but a mediocre rapper December 22, 2004
O.G. Kalaban (SAN DIEGO United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album was highly anticipated on the west by the streets but when it dropped it proved to be a disappointment. From a lesser caliber of artist this would have been a great album, but true fans of W.C. know his capabilities and this effort just didnt measure up. Im not sayin this is unlistenable, far from it. The whole album is playable, if only a couple of times. It becomes monotonous and predictable almost immediately. If u just want good music then this is for u, but if u want something ground breaking u will have to look else where for the moment.
I still luv W.C., dont get it twisted.
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