Trentonian emcee C. Weeks goes right for the jugular with the straightforwardness and matter of fact simplicity of Hustla.

Succeeding largely on the strength of a phat ass chaotic track designed to raise the blood pressure and the well thought out and delivered intricacies of C. Weeks rhymes, Hustla gets a solid green light like almost all the music coming out of talent town, err, I mean Trenton these days. It'll take a few plays to pick up on all the wordplay contained within. As the title suggests this cut is all Gully and all about life in the streets and while we've all heard that tale a billion times before Weeks manages to do it in a way that keeps your attention. Better yet, he does it with a twist of originality, no airs, exuberance and his own brand of cerebral calisthenics that show him to be clearly ahead of the local pack of crowded emcees.

While not a superstar and undoubtedly a rapper with room to grow artistically, C. Weeks does more than enough to keep you interested... and isn't that what the game's all about? I predict we'll be hearing much more from this brother in the coming months. Trenton Makes, The World Takes.

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Review by Funk Wizard Snow
Editor- PhillyHipHop.com
July, 2003