''Westcoast Gangsta Shit'' is a collaborative studio album by American
West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast region of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the e ...
recording artists
Daz Dillinger
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz and commonly Daz), is an American rapper and record producer. In the 1990s at Death Row Records, aided the catapult of West Coast rap and gang ...
and
WC. It was released on June 19, 2013 via Dilly Recordz and Bigg Swang Recordz.
Production
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was handled by Rob Tee, Broadway, DJ 2High, Amplified, Beanz N Kornbread, Dae One, David Gold,
DJ Battlecat, Kj Conteh, Kuddie Fresh, TJofthewest, The Arsonists, Touch Tone and Trippy Keez. It features
guest appearance
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s from
Snoop Dogg and
Butch Cassidy.
Background
On April 15, 2013,
Daz Dillinger
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz and commonly Daz), is an American rapper and record producer. In the 1990s at Death Row Records, aided the catapult of West Coast rap and gang ...
and
WC announced that they would be releasing a collaborative album titled ''West Coast Gangsta Shit'' on July 2, 2013. The first single from the album "Late Nite" was released on May 21, 2013. The second single from the album "Wha'cha Gon Do" was released on May 31, 2013. The album was later released two weeks early on June 19, 2013. On August 2, 2013, the music video was released for "Don’t Call It A Comeback". On August 22, 2013, the music video was released for "Stay Out The Way" featuring
Snoop Dogg.
Track listing
;Sample credits
*Track 9 contains elements from "
Why You Treat Me So Bad
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" written by
Denzil Foster, Thomas Derrick McElroy and Jay A. King
Personnel
*Delmar "
Daz Dillinger
Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz and commonly Daz), is an American rapper and record producer. In the 1990s at Death Row Records, aided the catapult of West Coast rap and gang ...
" Arnaud – main artist, executive producer
*William "
WC" Calhoun, Jr. – main artist, executive producer
*Calvin "
Snoop Dogg" Broadus – featured artist
(track 2)
*Danny "
Butch Cassidy" Means – featured artist
(track 13)
*Fiji – background vocals
(track 10)
*James Broadway – scratches
(tracks: 1, 9, 11, 13), producer
(tracks: 1, 8)
*Lamar "DJ
Crazy Toones
Lamar Dupré Calhoun (November 18, 1971 – January 9, 2017), better known as DJ Crazy Toones, was an American hip hop producer and deejay. He was a member of the rap group WC and the Maad Circle and was later signed to Ice Cube's Lench Mob Recor ...
" Calhoun – scratching
(track 3)
*Jesus – bass
(tracks: 11, 13)
*Carlos "Los" McSwain – drums
(tracks: 11, 13)
*Masa Ash – keyboards
(tracks: 11, 13)
*Stretch Keys – keyboards
(track 12)
*Tony "Touch Tone" Issacs – producer
(track 1)
*Rob Tee – producer
(tracks: 1, 8, 12), engineering, mixing
*The Arsonists – producer
(track 2)
*Karrie "Kuddie Fresh" Carroll – producer
(track 3)
*Donald Johnson, Jr. – producer
(track 4)
*Kenneth Roy – producer
(track 4)
*Kadjaly "Kj" Conteh – producer
(track 5), mixing
*David Gold – producer
(track 6)
*Dameon "Dae One" Garrett – producer
(track 6)
*Kevin "
DJ Battlecat" Gilliam – producer
(track 7)
*TJofthewest – producer
(track 8)
*C. "Trippy Keez" Varnado – producer
(track 9), mixing
*Amplified – producer
(track 10)
*E. "DJ 2High" Daniels – producer
(tracks: 11, 13)
*Travis "Shaggy" Marshall – mixing
*ZBoy Fro – assistant engineering
*Farid "
Fredwreck
Farid Karam Nassar (born June 23, 1972), better known by his stage name Fredwreck, is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer. He got his big break when he became a producer for Dr. Dre's newly founded r ...
" Nassar – mastering
References
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2013 albums
WC (rapper) albums
Collaborative albums
Daz Dillinger albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists