WC and CJ Mac: Two South Central Legends Behind the Mic

West Coast hip-hop has never been short on storytellers, but few duos have lived through more of it firsthand than the hosts of The Dub C & CJ Mac Show. WC and CJ Mac aren't just talking about the culture. They built parts of it, and the show gives them room to walk through that history week to week.

WC (Dub C)

William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., known to the world as WC or Dub C, came up out of South Central Los Angeles and became a founding member of Westside Connection, the hip-hop supergroup he formed alongside Ice Cube and Mack 10. That's not a minor credit. Westside Connection is one of the defining West Coast rap groups of the 1990s, and being a founding member puts WC at the center of that era rather than on its edges.

On the podcast, WC is the elder-statesman voice, the guy whose own history overlaps directly with half the guests who sit down across from him. When Ice Cube came on the show, that wasn't a booking. That was a former groupmate catching up on the record.

CJ Mac

Bryan Ross built his name as CJ Mac, a West Coast rapper out of Los Angeles who released albums through Rap-A-Lot Records and through Mack 10's Hoo-Bangin' Records back in the 1990s. Two label homes, both stacked with West Coast and Southern rap heavyweights of that decade, tell you where CJ Mac's career sat in the scene. He's credited as the show's author on its podcast feed too, which fits someone who's spent years thinking about how to document this era of hip-hop for people who weren't there for it.

Where WC leans into the Westside Connection chapter of his story, CJ Mac's run through Rap-A-Lot and Hoo-Bangin' gives the show a second, distinct lane into 90s West Coast rap, one built on label politics and regional rivalries rather than a single supergroup.

WC and CJ Mac, together

What makes this pairing work is history, plain and simple. These are two rappers from the same city and the same era, described as lifelong friends, sitting down weekly to talk through "the journeys and exploits" of two legendary West Coast careers. The guest list backs it up. Along with Ice Cube, they've sat down with Too $hort, Xzibit, OT Genasis, and G Perico, artists who span three decades of West Coast rap and talk to WC and CJ Mac like the friends they already are, not like they're doing press.

Worth flagging for anyone digging through the archive: the show is currently marked inactive in the directory, a status that's been in place since April 2026. The feed's last new episode went up back in May 2024, so it looks like WC and CJ Mac have gone quiet on this one for now.

That's the appeal of The Dub C & CJ Mac Show: two guys who lived the story now sitting across from the people who lived it with them, telling it the way it actually happened.