Never Forget: WC - "Better Days" / "Cheddar"

[Taadow]

Never Forget is a thread series where you and I - your host, Taadow - revisit some hits that we may have stored in the attic of our minds. Today, WC - "Better Days" b/w "Cheddar".





"B-B-BUT WAS IT REALLY A HIT??"

Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #64
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Peak: #33 / #42

AFTERMATH:

Surprisingly, "Better Days" is Dubs' second biggest hit of-all time...but that may be because
"Just Clownin'" is his biggest, and it was the single before this one. I didn't remember "Better Days"
getting that much "non-urban" airplay, but I can see it with the easy Frankie Beverly sample, the
message, and Jon B. on the hook...

...but then it made more sense when I saw that the B-side was "Cheddar".
"Cheddar" was on the low one of the bridges between the West and the South, especially during
the late 90's "fucc the bullchit, let's get some money" era. Southern producers started getting a lot
of West love after this cut came out (for better or for worse).

Also for better or worse, this is when it seems like Dub kinda got pigeonholed as the
"just do the C-Walk" Guy, and people didn't really appreciate his raps as much. Ah well.

 

[Deltron]

classsssic!

 

[re'up]

Ahh man....I never forget that 'Cheddar' song, it's pretty intertwined in my memories of 7th/8th grade, but that 'Better Days', I had all but forgotten. I think the cd single for 'Cheddar' had this one it too....This is that playing basketball on the blacktop til your hands are caked in that asphalt, bringing a change of clothes to ball before your first class, walking to Carls Jr. with the homies, counting out quarters to get a burger and fries, walking to school with a tape player and headphones, listening to a mixtape you made, all late 90's shyt....trying to save money for cd singles and lil silver chains, Tommy Hilfiger jeans and Nautica shirts with Jordans and Iversons, all the girls and little innocent flirting and going out with girls being nothing more then a title.....This is that fall 98 shyt, along with TQ 'Westside'... This played on Z90 90.3, which once upon 20 years ago was a real rap station.....Thanks for the memory jog, that shyt does leave me feeling bittersweet nostalgia knowing it's been so long, and hardly anyone is left from that era.....like it never happened lol

Also, need that mp3 of 'Better Dayz', apparently this one, isn't the same as the album version. This is the one I remember having on cd single....

 

[rdot]

Dub Hella underrated

 

[calh45]

I can fukk with this thread.

 

[zayk35]

DAYGO

Ahh man....I never forget that 'Cheddar' song, it's pretty intertwined in my memories of 7th/8th grade, but that 'Better Days', I had all but forgotten. I think the cd single for 'Cheddar' had this one it too....This is that playing basketball on the blacktop til your hands are caked in that asphalt, bringing a change of clothes to ball before your first class, walking to Carls Jr. with the homies, counting out quarters to get a burger and fries, walking to school with a tape player and headphones, listening to a mixtape you made, all late 90's shyt....trying to save money for cd singles and lil silver chains, Tommy Hilfiger jeans and Nautica shirts with Jordans and Iversons, all the girls and little innocent flirting and going out with girls being nothing more then a title.....This is that fall 98 shyt, along with TQ 'Westside'... This played on Z90 90.3, which once upon 20 years ago was a real rap station.....Thanks for the memory jog, that shyt does leave me feeling bittersweet nostalgia knowing it's been so long, and hardly anyone is left from that era.....like it never happened lol

Also, need that mp3 of 'Better Dayz', apparently this one, isn't the same as the album version. This is the one I remember having on cd single....

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Gettin' my stalk on walk on loc I'm all about the paper
Hoppin' out the Navigator with braids & Chucks Taylors

 

[Deltron]

anyone fukked w/ his ghetto heisman joint? felt it was a sleeper of 02

 

[Taadow]

anyone fukked w/ his ghetto heisman joint? felt it was a sleeper of 02

Absolutely, copped it first day.

I didn't like the singles particularly, but it had some bangers on there. My cuts was the one with Face,
"Walk", "Bellin'", "Da Get Togetha", and "Something 2 Live 4".

 

[Flav]

I was listening to W.C music before he made the C Walk popular

 

[raoulduke187]

WC's flow is ill