At a time when Snoop Dogg and the Game have become fixtures in pop culture, Mitchy Slick is continuing a tradition of West Coast gangsta rap that is completely unconcerned with the mainstream. His debut album, Trigeration Station, has more bite than any other West Coast rap album released in 2001. Rapping about gang life has become a hip-hop cliché, but Mitchy’s venom and precision recall the passion and excitement of gangsta rap pioneers like Ice Cube and WC. Witness the lyrical rampage in “Bringindawholeset”: “Show em what we made of / Show ‘em what an AK does / What the wrong congregate does / Anything for queso / Snitches we erase those / That’s what I brought the Eagle and the Calico for / Desperadoes and bezzles with yayo in the mail / Shred up on a paper trail / You like my Chevy? / I’m a hustler n***a, everything for sale.” While Mitchy talks the talk, his beats walk the walk. “Yeah Dat,” “Bowtie Brigade” and “What If” pack a nasty low-end not seen since the days when Sir Jinx was the best producer in California. Trigeration Station is testimony that authentic West Coast gangsta rap is alive and well and living in southeast San Diego.