"When You're A Gee" opens the B Side with percussive West Coast force, using a Richard Pryor cut from "UFO". This song is to Quik what "Hustlerz Ambition" is to 50 Cent . "My game is tight so if you're lookin and listenin and learnin, apply it to yours and you'll earn – respect in abundance, and you can never be checked see.
When you're a muthaphuckkin Gee". Instrumental sounds like Hood Rock before "hood rock" was coined, with a fat guitar rip that outlasts the rest of the beat. Playa Hamm guest stars.
After that is "No Bullshit" featuring 2nd II None flaunting his MC Ren -derived delivery over a beat made for set trippin. Classic early ‘90s sound over which DJ Quik sounds absolutely incomparable. "Only Fo Tha Money" opens with Quik wondering aloud why people like this "dirty talking shit" before bouncing into another one of his timeless instrumentals.
2nd II None dates the track with weak rhymes and stale flow, but it only makes Quik sound better in comparison. "Let Me Rip Tonight" is DJ Quik 's interpretation of those old parody soul songs made famous by NWA at the time ("Automobile" and "I'd Rather Fuck You" spring instantly to mind). Throwaway track, the joke goes on too long.
"N****z Still Trippin" continues that theme. Despite the title, it's all about fuckin bitches. Crazy, juvenile X-rated posse cut in the vein of "Buddy".
Features a who's who of early Quik collaborators like AMG, Hi-C, JFN and of course 2nd II None . Funny to think the white boy bashing, Everlast diss "Can't Fuck witta N***a" was still a whole year away when Quik introduces JFN as his "funky white n***a" here on "N****z Still Trippin". JFN the funky white n**** gets shouted out again next in "Tha Last Word", Quik's spoken word outro to the record.
Mellow beat rides underneath his proclamations.
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