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- Artist: C-BO
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- Release Date: September 25, 2001
- Type: Contains explicit content
- Genre: Rap
Review
C-Bo continues to smooth out the darker elements of his music on Life As a Rider. He's still one of the most hardcore rappers on the West Coast, but the death obsessions that characterized his early albums for Awol -- The Autopsy (1994) and Tales From the Crypt (1995) -- have been displaced by more of a big-baller mentality. C-Bo's "rider" persona is much more accessible than his former "American nightmare" persona, and it also helps that he works primarily with producer Mike Mosley on Life As a Rider, who lays down beats that sound obviously influenced by Dr. Dre's early-2000s sound. You could argue that C-Bo is compromising his former hardcore-as-hardcore-gets approach for a more commercially viable gangsta approach that's not too far removed from what you'd expect from latter-day 2Pac or Snoop Dogg and his Eastsidaz posse; however, the change is actually quite welcome. C-Bo had exhausted his "American nightmare" style by the end of the '90s. So, even if he's merely following the trends in West Coast gangsta rap, it's a new direction for him to head in, something that longtime C-Bo fans will either complain about or, more likely, accept as part of the rapper's growth -- artistically as well as commercially. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Cowboy | C-BO | (4:39) | |
| What U No Bout | C-BO, Outlawz | (4:45) | |
| West Coast | C-BO, |
(5:20) | |
| I Am C-Bo (Skit) (Crash of da Riders) | C-BO | (:27) | |
| Creep | C-BO, Yukmouth | (4:11) | |
| Undadawgs | C-BO, |
(3:45) | |
| Who Bangin | C-BO, Young Meek | (3:50) | |
| If It Ain't Ruff | C-BO | (3:33) | |
| Let Me Ride | C-BO | (3:54) | |
| Routine Check | C-BO | (2:56) | |
| Who Got Flows | C-BO | (3:56) | |
| Haters, Music, Hoes (Skit) (Spade, Tish, Crash) | C-BO | (1:40) | |
| Don't Love These Hoes | C-BO | (4:02) | |
| G's and Hustla's | C-BO | (4:19) | |
| Rag Lo-Lo's | C-BO | (3:55) | |
| Outro | C-BO | (1:44) |
