September 18 , 2006
CWB Store NOW ONLINE.

Go there now.

July 14, 2006
Gallery is active, new songs
We here now yall! 2 weeks in and our family is growing. The movement gets stronger as each day passes. We will continue to put up new music, and we have Paleface show footage on the way! I would like to welcome Jon Conner, and Illson to the team. the newest additions to the franchise. The gallery is up and running, we have over 20 songs in the mp3 player, (which has gotten over 4,500 plays might i add) and we are rapidly approaching the 200 registered member mark on our message board. I hope everyone is enjoying this as much as we are. We aint shit without our homeboys and home girls reppin' the Dubb and speaking on us in their private circles.

In closing I would like to say mail outs will be gone to you by the end of next week and the store is coming!

Appreciate ya'll, one dubb..
Big Dutch

July 7, 2006
100+ members on the message board
Thank you to everyone who joined the message board. The street team will be receiving stickers in the mail in the next two weeks. New videos and more music, along with a working store and gallery will follow shortly.

June 26, 2006
Welcome to the new home of C.W.B.
This site was created to help navigate the traffic for the music side of things within our organization. It's real simple to get to pretty much everything you need; from artist info, to news updates and show info, its all right here.

Make sure to register at the message board, and leave us comments and suggestions.

The site itself is still under construction (only the Artists page & Message Board are up), but will be completed as soon as possible. Please check back in the upcoming days for more updates.

Also, feel free to enjoy the hours of streaming music located in the music player in the upper-right corner of the site.

The shock value alone of seeing whiteboys, and not just your average whiteboys, but real mc's from real places is enough to make the average fan feel a bit standoffish.

That is why we created this site, to let you hear and see the people that the reputable big homies have hand picked to lead this crusade. An unheard of, and more than just an uphill climb into the harsh world of the hip-hop industry. This will be your opportunity to watch history be made, one song at a time, one day at a time.

Our goal is to offer hope, and a sense of pride to all hip hop fans that have been shunned their rightful opportunity to enjoy hip hop in an open forum. We hope you enjoy your time here and frequent the site often, as we will keep things moving on our end. Always keep it 100 and hopefully we can get you through the days ahead........

Be Easy,
The Artists of www.therealcwb.com

This May, independent icon Haystak, his longtime p-n-c (and fellow Nashville native) Lexx Luger, and Bay Area veteran Dutch The Great will release The SouthWest Connection - (C.W.B.) on Independent Day / Paid In Full / Koch Records.

The three artist's/entreprenuer's have come together for this project that stands to be the catalyst for many projects bearing the C.W.B. brand. While not the original unit formed in Nashville in 1999, this new incarnation of leaders has assembled to take the rapidly growing C.W.B. movement nationwide.

That movement has grown over the past few years to include independent and major-label artists, producers, and an assortment of industry insiders (who for privacys sake shall remain nameless) who overwhelmingly hail from lower-class America, have criminal pasts (or presents) which leads to being labeled crazy white boys by their black and brown neighbors - and through their shared experience feel a kinship with one another.

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 www.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 its 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.

While the movement also boasts some well-known members - like Bubba Sparxxx (see Take A Load Off from Deliverance ) C.W.B. began as an anonymous group of aspiring rappers. Not until the groups frontman, Lexx, was introduced to Haystak by a mutual friend, and one of C.W.B.s earliest recordings - Oh My God subsequently made its way on to Staks third solo album, 2002s The Natural (Koch), with heat filled verses from Bubba Sparxxx, Lexx, Haystak and the rest of the original members of C.W.B. was a movement introduced to the world.

Unfortunately, two botched deals and many management changes for the group prevented a proper C.W.B. album from ever making it to stores, making The SouthWest Connection the very first release bearing the C.W.B. seal. But through mixtapes, the internet, dvd's and savvy underground marketing Lexx was able to keep the C.W.B. name fresh in the minds of many of it's loyalist fans as well as creating new ones. Three of the four original C.W.B. members (Lexx, D-Ray, and Stump) however do appear on this project, alongside the newest Dub addition, Dutch The Great, and many other cross country Dubb affiliates.

Before Dutch first started dubbin he was a solo artist and label President. In 2002 he released his solo debut, The Peacekeeper , on the label he was also President of, Fortune Enterprize. Running the label with Latin rapper, Mr. Kee, the northern California native oversaw the release of several albums from 2001 to 2003 before he and Kee mutually parted ways.

A longtime fan of Haystak, Dutch reached out to Lexx in 2004 to collaborate. Almost overnight, he was indoctrinated into the C.W.B. movement by its vocal leader and found himself working alongside both Lexx and Stak for this joint project.

While Haystak is responsible for conceiving the concept of The SouthWest Connection , and Lexx is responsible for much of the quality control of production and getting the buzz on the marketing end. Dutch is responsible for coordinating the albums release through Paid In Full Entertainment. The label is owned and operated by Bay Area rap impresario B-12, who a few years ago was the VP of Urban Music for Bayside Entertainment, which initially distributed releases from Fortune Enterprize.

Dutch is also responsible for guest spots on the album from his other crew, Bayrider Gang. The hyphy stylings of his homies A-Wax and Smigg Dirtee are balanced by the Southern fried flavor of Interscope Records latest signee Big Fella, Young Struggle and Jellyroll of the Halfway House. Additional appearances from several indie artists from the northern California and mid-South regions are juxtaposed alongside blazing bars from Haystak, Lexx, and Dutch.

Ironically, the songs that feature just the albums three headliners are some of the standout selections from The SouthWest Connection .

The first of which, Undisputed, serves as a reminder of why Haystak is one of the Souths most revered independent artists when the Tennessee titan spits: Before they started callin this property tenn-a-key/You mention hip-hop in Tennessee they mention me/That white boys off the chain, like a savage pit/Bout to blow up like a plutonium accident.

Another production by one of Staks trackmasters,Jody Stevens (who produce's 8 songs on the album with Sonny P.), Take Me As I Am, is a creative and sonic gem, an ode to humility which is unheard of in todays rap game - delivered over bluesy guitar strings.

Sacramento-based beatsmith Vince V (MC Eiht, Bizzy Bone) serves up additional audio treats on the album 5 to be exact. The space-age funk of Just Like You, yay area bounce of Still Got It, and surefire club banger, Player Like Me, all captivate. But the soul-drenched Sleepless takes things to another level musically as well as lyrically. The antithesis of Dutchs cool calm delivery, Lexx barks: 2005, 8 days from September 11th, the South coast under water they done lost they levies/It cost me $86 just to fill up the Chevy, so excuse me if my records seem a little bit heavy.

In addition to spittin lyrics of fury and getting his Dame Dash on, Lexx also jumps behind the boards for the live-music powered Hustlin and Dopeboy, a hyper-crunk rock-rap hybrid that avoids sounding contrived and corny, like most attempts at genre blending.