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Track Listing
1. Lead the Way - (featuring Too $hort/Vidal Prevost)
2. X-Files - (featuring B-Legit/Harm)
3. Get That Paper - (featuring Askari X/Vidal)
4. Wired Up - (featuring Yukmouth/Dru Down/CJ Mac)
5. Shut Up - (featuring Ice-T/Too $hort)
6. Boss Bitches - (featuring Silk E/Conscious Daughters/Grip)
7. Blue Suits & Badges - (featuring J-Dubb/Kurupt)
8. No Win Situation - (featuring King T/Casual/G Stak/Keek The Sneak)
9. Game Shooters - (featuring E-40/Mac Shawn/Too $hort)
10. Never Sober - (featuring MC Eiht/Knumskul)
11. In the Ghetto - (featuring WC/G Stak)
12. Hoes & Tricks - (featuring Goldy/Slink Capone)
13. Let It Go - (featuring Den Gee/T Pup/Baby DC)
14. Cali 4 Ni Yey - (featuring Too $hort/Vidal Prevost)
15. Hook Up, The - (featuring Murder One/Smash Cold/187 UM)
16. Me & Ski - (featuring EA Ski)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | 187 UM, Askari X, B-Legit, Baby DC, CJ Mac, Casual, Concious Daughters, Conscious Daughters, Den Gee, Dru Down, E-40, EA Ski, G Stak, Goldy, Grip, Harm, Ice-T, J Dubb, J-Dubb, Keek The Sneak, King Tee, Knumskul, Kurupt, MC Eiht, Mac Shawn, Murder One, Silk E, Slink Capone, Smash Cold, T Pup, The Concious Daughters, Too $hort, Too Short, Vidal Prevost, WC, Yukmouth | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
T.W.D.Y.: Ant Banks: (rap vocals, keyboards, drums); Captain Save'M, Dolla Will (rap vocals).
Additional personnel: James "Tre" Rabb (guitar); J Spencer (saxophone); Quinton "Black" Banks, Sonny B., C. Wheeler (keyboards, drums); John Jubu Smith, Elijah Baker (bass); Dionne Jackson, Delinquents, Kokane, Otis, Shug, Goldy, Butch Cassidy (background vocals).
Producers: Any Banks, Sonny B, Todd Shaw.
Even without the use of samples, Ant Banks has created an inventive form of West Coast hip-hop. Playing keyboards and drums on every track and lending his vocal stylings here and there, Ant Banks compliments the rest of T.W.D.Y (Captain Save'm and Dolla Will) through 19 impressive tracks.
Armed with a stock pile of West Coast guest MCs (Too $hort, Ice-T, MC Eiht, E-40, and WC to name a few), T.W.D.Y. runs the gamut of topics including racial profiling ("Blue Suits & Badges"), controlling women ("Boss Bitches"), living in squalor ("In the Ghetto," which samples "The Ghetto" by Rick James), and drug use ("X-Files"). While T.W.D.Y. isn't exactly a radical departure from pre-existing West Coast rap, it's a fine addition to the genre.
Industry Reviews
3 discs out of 5 - ...Drenched in funk with barrels of bass Scotch-taped to the bottom....[they] would like to remind everyone that...the sun is shining, the bass is pumping, and the pimps are pimping...
Vibe (11/01/2000)
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