White Boys can’t rap? Nashville natives Haystak, Lexx Luger, and Bay Area spitter Dutch Tha Great have come together and formed the South-West Connection aka C.W.B to dismiss that point.
Some of you probably remember Dutch from the Bay Area group F.E. who dropped their highly underrated album “What We Do” a few years ago. Dutch has come a long way since, and linked up with Southerners Haystak and Lexx Luger on this project. But the C.W.B. is not just a one-album thing, it is, as they call it, “a movement“.
Now numbering in the tens of thousands, the C.W.B. movement has become more than just a community to trade war stories within, but a forum – both physical and online (see whiteboyscantrap.com) – for white hip-hoppers to showcase their music in a supportive setting often not found in the broader hip-hop nation. And while this forum allows artists who might otherwise go unheard escape unfair ridicule, it also provides a haven for fans of the music and accompanying movement to commune with their social peers, whom are both in and outside the business. In 2006 it’s not uncommon to see supporters of the movement who have no connection to the music industry or the group C.W.B. sporting a C.W.B. tattoo, representing their loyalty to The Dubb.�
The “South-West Connection” album is in stores now, on Independent Day/Paid In Full/Koch Records.
Features on the album include A-Wax and Smigg Dirtee, aswell as some Southern fried flavor of Interscope Records latest signee Big Fella, Young Struggle and more. Production was handled by Lexx himself, Jody Stevens & Sonny P., Vince V and more.
I have four tracks from the album for ya’ll to listen to, you can check them out below:
C.W.B. – Take Me As I Am
C.W.B. – Dope Boy
C.W.B. – Sleepless
C.W.B. – By The Bar
For more information, hit up myspace.com/dutchthegreat. Don’t sleep!
