Name: William L. Calhoun, Jr.
Artist Name: WC aka “Dub-C” - West Cost Rapper
Birth Date: Born in 1970 - Origin Texas, USA

WC is a West Coast Rap Legend, and a sharp lyricist. As rap has become ubiquitous, its artists have moved slowly but steadily away from the street-centered mentality that made the music so potent in the 1980s and early 1990s. Realizing that rap has lost its edge and intensity, Los Angeles rap icon and Westside Connection member WC returns rap to its creative roots exemplary lyricism, conceptual greatness, bone-crushing production on his masterful new album, Guilty By Affiliation.

WC started his career in a Group called Low “Profile”.

Low Profile was originally a duo of two aspiring rappers and a DJ coming out of L.A. The group’s membership consisted of WC and DJ Aladdin, who went on to pursue a career in visual art. The duo made its debut with Rhyme Syndicate Records, on a compilation album produced by Ice T and Afrika Islam, before becoming a duo on Profile Records. The group was a short-lived but influential West Coast hip hop duo. Together, they released one album, We're in This Together before breaking up. They also appeared on the Rhyme Syndicate compilation Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through. DJ Aladdin began working with Ice T and WC formed a group called WC and the Maad Circle which included DJ Crazy Toones & Coolio. A Year after WC formed the group called WC and the Maad Circle.

WC and the Maad Circle was a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California that consisted of WC, Coolio and DJ Crazy Toones . (DJ Crazy Toones is WC’s Little Brother, and his real name is “Lamar Calhoun”, and now he’s official DJ for WC & Ice Cube)Following the dissolution of Low Profile, the rapper WC formed the group and released a pair of albums, “Ain't a Damn Thang Changed” in 1991 and “Curb Servin'” in 1995. The albums spawned a few popular singles, notably "Dress Code", "West Up!" and "The One".WC later left the group and formed the Gangsta rap Super Rap Group “Westside Connection” with Ice Cube and Mack 10.The Super Rap Group Westside Connection did consist of “The Gangsta, the Killer & the Dope Dealer” Witch was Ice Cube, WC & Mack 10.

Westside Connection's first album was “Bow Down” that got released in 1996 and reached the number 2 position on the Billboard 200. Bow Down was a classic West Coast Album, with the singles “Bow Down” & “Gangstas Make The World Go Round”. The Album “Bow Down” went to Platinum. The album “Bow Down” got released under Ice Cube’s Lench Mob Records.1998 WC released his first solo album “The Shadiest One”, it got Released in April 28, 1998 in Pay Day Records. Features by: Ice Cube, Mack 10, CJ Mac, Too Short, E-40, Daz and Ron Banks. it got produced by WC & Crazy Toones.

November 12th, 2002, WC Released his second solo album the “Ghetto Heisman”. It features collaborations with Westside Connection members Ice Cube and Mack 10, as well as Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, MC Ren and others. And it got produced by Buckwild, Scott Storch, Crazy Toones, Tony Pizarro & Brian Wilson.

Then December 9, 2003 Westside Connection released their second and last album “Terrorist Threats”. The album became popular with its single "Gangsta Nation" and was certified Gold. “Terrorist Threats” got released under Mack 10’s “Hoo-Bangin' Records”.Sadly “Terrorist Threats” was Westside Connection’s last album, The group disbanded because of some conflicts between some of the members.

Guilty by Affiliation is WC's third solo album, released on Ice Cube's independent label, Lench Mob Records, and got released August 14th 2007. The guest rappers on the album are Ice Cube, The Game, Snoop Dogg and Butch Cassidy. Guilty By Affiliation’s producers: Ice Cube, Crazy Toones, Nottz, Teek the Beatsmith, Dee Underdue, Mr. Porter, Emile, Rick Rock, Jelly Roll, The Legendary Traxster, Laylaw, D-Mac.

Examining the reality of ghetto life in America has long been a staple of WC’s work, a trend that continues with his new collection. “Growing up in a gang-related area, I realized that you can get caught up in the justice system, and I saw how it easily becomes the injustice system for us,” WC explains. “I wanted to call the record Guilty By Affiliation for that reason. Also, being from the West Coast, there’s been so many uphill battles just to get noticed.”

WC details the pitfalls of life in Los Angeles ghettos and his struggle to ascend to music industry stardom on the intimidating “West Coast Voodoo,” the confrontational “This Is Los Angeles” and the Butch Cassidy-assisted “Dodge Ball.” Elsewhere, the title track details how being black isn’t a job, but an adventure -- with police, rival gang members, drugs and other forces waiting to derail you.

WC then references the famous fairy tale on “Jack & The Bean Stalk,” which signals the awakening of a sleeping giant -- WC, in this case. On this monstrous cut, WC flexes his visually arresting lyrical skills: “I’m harder than Michael Jackson’s dick in a day care…I beat a rappin bitch up, too, ‘cos I don’t play fair.” The piano-propelled “Paranoid” further showcases WC’s twisted humor: “I’m nothin’ nice, like Fantasia without no makeup on, on the mic I’m a ugly ass sight.”

By documenting his own struggles with society and the still harrowing aftermath of America’s institutionalized racism, WC has created music that is important and thought provoking as it is entertaining. “I’m dealing with being black, just having a jacket thrown on me for being black,” he says. “Once that jacket is on you, there’s so much that comes with it, from just stepping outside to what people expect you to do if you’ve had some success. It’s like an ongoing rollercoaster. It takes a strong individual to not crack or break down.”

Since appearing on the Ice-T-backed Rhyme Syndicate compilation in the late 1980s, WC has remained rock-solid and has established himself as one of rap’s most important voices. He was the visionary behind Low Profile and the political WC And The MAAD Circle. With supergroup Westside Connection (Ice Cube, Mack 10, WC), WC flexed his gangster rap heritage to the hilt.

One constant throughout his distinguished career has been his uncanny ability to draw attention to his high-octane rhymes through his varied inflection, his wide-ranging delivery patterns and his constantly shifting rhyme speed. Long-time partner-in-rhyme and childhood neighbor Ice Cube has also been a constant in WC’s career and is releasing Guilty By Affiliation on his Lench Mob Records. “Cube’s not just a feature,” WC says. “He’s a part of the record now.”

And it’s a record that will send shockwaves throughout a rap community that has become too comfortable with its own success. “There’s still problems in the ghetto that exist,” WC says. “They’re not over with. Until they’re dealt with accordingly, there’s going to be a lot of chaos out here. And I’m a product of that.” Guilty as charged.Right Now WC is touring with Ice Cube & Recording his new album ”Return Of the Barracuda”