GUILTY BY AFFILIATIO

Personnel: Crazy Toones (scratches). Additional personnel: Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, The Game , Butch Cassidy. Recording information: Lench Mob Studios, LA. For his third solo album, underrated West Coast gangsta Dub-C split with Def Jam, and signed to his old Westside Connection bandmate Ice Cube's label. He's joined by Ice, the Game, producer Rick Rock, and a host of others on gritty, cinematic tales of ghetto life, leavened with touches of humor and masterful, R&B-flecked musicality. It's not so much the beats or the production that make a WC album, it's the deft, hard-hitting rhymes, found in abundance here on tracks like "This Is Los Angeles" and "West Coast Voodoo."

• Genre: Pop
• Format: CD
• Released: 8/14/2007