The best music transports the listener to another world, a place where they can see, hear, touch, smell and imagine -- all because of the music coming from their speakers. One listen to Mack 10’s Hustla’s Handbook and you are transported to the rugged streets of Inglewood, California, where ballers glide through the streets in the freshest cars, drug dealers rule the block, women are as scandalous as they are beautiful and getting money by any means necessary is the primary goal.

“If you want to hear about hustlin’ and the streets, then this is the record to buy,” Mack 10 says of his sixth album. “It’s a handbook of stuff that people love to hear from me. A Mack 10 fan is not interested in anything other than what he’s been hearing for a decade from me. I did it well on Hustla’s Handbook and I think I did it in a rough type of way because my fans always want me to keep it so gangster.

As one third of Westside Connection (with Ice Cube and WC), Mack 10 formed in 1996 hip-hop’s first supergroup and proved that gangster rap, especially from the West Coast, was alive and well, despite naysayers in the media and within hip-hop itself. With Hustla’s Handbook, Mack 10 continues his remarkable recording career, which has stretched more than a decade and has been one of the most consistent hip-hop has ever seen. Now, with an album that harkens back to the energetic and clever raps that made him a star a decade ago, Mack 10 has come full circle.

“I wanted to regain the form of some of my earlier stuff,” he says. “I was in a good frame of mind and I wasn’t under any pressure doing the record. I had a lot of fun doing this record, more than any record I’ve ever done.” It shows. Check out the exclusive new track "Like This" feat. Nate Dogg from the upcoming album, Hustla's Handbook, out September 27th.
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