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Mack 10 speaks on West Side COnnection..
MTV News have just spoken to Mack 10 about the new Westside Connection album "Terrorist Threats" which is set to come out in Ocotober. The Chicken Hawk had some interesting stuff to say:
If you ask Mack 10, he'll tell you that the rap game is going right down the toilet.
He says it's getting too soft, with too many MC's more focused on professing their devotion to a girl than on ripping a track. So the mission for the newly reformed Westside Connection on their new album, Terrorist Threats, is laid out: "We gotta bring hardcore hip hop back!" Mack 10 said.
"We're the masters of gangsta rap", he assured recently on the Los Angeles set of Westside Connection's new video, 'Lights Out'. "The rap game got bitch made. Hip hop done turned to R&B. You go to a show and can't get anybody out of their seats because all the songs are love songs. ²²²²²s ain't got time for that shit. We need to get that gangsterism back. It's not the same".
Mack 10 said fans can expect the same roughneck anthems and 'hood tales from Terrorists Threats that he, Ice Cube & W.C. delivered on the first Westside Connection album, 1996's Bow Down. The new project is due in October, and they've already completed tracks with Sir Jinx, Megahertz & Midi Mafia.
"We got a song called 'So Many Rappers in Love'", Mack 10 said. "Everybody is trying to please a girl on the radio now, huh? Nobody is making gangsta records no more? We got a song called 'Terrorist Threats' and 'Call 911'. It's that Westside Connection shit you like. When you hear it, you gonna be like, 'Them ²²²²²s is assholes!'"
Aside from the content on their album, Mack 10 said he also anticipates that he, Ice Cube & W.C. may raise a few eyebrows with their album title, but he's not worried.
"It is what it is", he scoffed. "Terrorist Threats. Perfect timing. It brings shock value to it. I understand that. A ²²²²² been catching terrorist threats in the 'hood forever. You tell somebody you gonna kill him or fuck him up, that's a terrorist threat. It ain't got nothing to do with the war. We didn't have to have no war for it to be a terrorist threat. I done had a couple of terrorist threat cases in the 'hood".
Although it's been seven years since Westside Connection's first album, Ice Cube, Mack 10 & W.C. have all remained tight and have collaborated on each other's solo projects. They had been thinking about realigning for a full project but were convinced after they received overwhelming fan support while headlining a recent Los Angeles Summer Jam concert.
"The last record sold 2 million records, and it's time to give it to them again", Mack 10 explained. "Just like it took Dr. Dre 10 years to do a second Chronic album, it took us seven years to decide we wanted to do another album. Wasn't nobody starving, ²²²²²s been having money, so it wasn't about that".
While 'Lights Out' will be featured on Terrorist Threats, first it'll be the lead single for Mack 10's compilation Ghetto, Gutter & Gangsta, due July 22. Mack 10 released a DVD by the same name earlier this year.
"It's a house party", Mack 10 explained of the concept for the Darren Grant-directed clip. "It's ghetto, gutter and gangsta. Lowriders, bitches and dogs. It's going down fo' sho!"
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