Cali Brehs...Tell Me Why Ya'll Like E-40 ?

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This.

I didn't understand E-40 until I was able to chill out West and get faded with the homies while they listened to it.

I hated that shyt at first, but after awhile something clicked, and all that shyt made sense.

Now he's one of my personal favorites.


this is a good example of how to understand somethin that u don't get off jump..but everybody can't use that method to get into a nikka music/style/flow....honestly u shouldn't have to....good music reaches u no matter where u are....:manny:
 

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E-40 was/is the ambassador of MOBB MUSIC. During the zenith of that shyt. You muthafukkaz undadig? We NEVA gave a fukk if that nikka was top 10, or if anybody outside the Bay listened to him:russ:

nikka...A nikka named Studio Ton, do the googles, Studio Ton was the in house producer who captured that particular sound that had muthafukkaz confused. He handled the production of EVERY one of them early Sic Wid It albums.We talkin a production sound that chipped paint offa walls, had red lights and stop signs vibratin, pagers chirp in.... Topped with samples that made ya granma nodd her gead. Mobb music fit that Bay Area lifestyle muthafukkaz was living back then...

Hustlin, partyin, fukkin with broads, nice ass weather.....mobbin everything from clean ass cutlasses and box Chevy's to yo uncle's astro van with the cheetah skin seat covers...

No L's, sideshows, we talkin bass wars in the high school parking lot with the muthafukkin principal judging. Muthafukkaz calling the police living nearby thinking the big one done hit...

4 15's witta zappco hot as fish grease crackin shyt in half to Da Bumble! Da Bumble nikka! The music went hand in hand with the culture out here. And that's JUST the production. nikkaz had never heard a nikka do a buck 50 before Federal...

Wihth content and slang muthafukkaz could relate to out here. nikka 40 was foe the poor, the underdog, still is to this day. West, Midwest, south fux wit 40 or at least in the 90"s. If you don't like him or Bay Mobb Music don't fukk with it or try to force yourself to...

It would be like a New York nikka tryna explain to somebody from sunny ass Cali the vibe listening to Wu Tang during the winter walking to the station with the headphones, grimey beats, dusty, cold ass world. Different strokes, artists, culture.
 

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ive seen west coasters give props to jada on plenty occasions.

I'm sure jada isn't a hot commodity out there at all, but the way youre painting it is a bit much. or maybe youre under-estimating how irrelevant e-40 is on the east.





a thread debating their style 26 years later.
naw you're overestimating jada in cali. you can find people who like anything anywhere, but outside of "why?" his shyt never got air play, ain't nobody ever hype over the new jadakiss, nobody was banging that fab/ jada shyt. the comparison is disrespectful to 40 if anything. :yeshrug:
 

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E-40 is a top 10 MC dead or alive..I can't think of a single MC who has had a longer more consistent career. Even the rappers who hated on 40 have jocked his style and bit his slang, some of them maybe unknowingly, that's the kinda reach Charlie Hustle has had. He's worked with tons of revered MCs throughout his career and there's a reason for that, his game is recognized all over the map. To trivialize his contributions as just "game spitting" or "slick talking" is really discrediting, he's a lyricist, plain and simple. And if you can't recognize that you're probably a hatin ass Rasheed Wallace type and should just dig into your backpack and pull out an MC2 CD and listen to whatever "metaphysical force field/mathematical core real/astronomical bore feel" bullshyt they be on.
 

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aight...but he's an international celeb...so his skills aren't just confined to one area....lets take bone thugs for example....when they first dropped a lot of kats ain't know what the fukk they was talkin bout outside of Ohio...but they fukks with them cuz the music was quality...eventually we picked up on the way they flow and fell in love....

40 spit that weird slang and i didn't get it...but the music didn't catch on to me either....in the interview he was butt hurt cuz Biggie rated him a 0 out of 10 as a quality rapper...and they was gonna kill Big for that....like i said was Big even lyin tho?...:gucci:
E-40 is a better MC than Biggie. There..I said it.
 

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He’s giving everybody game in his raps and doing it over top notch production.

Almost sounds like you're describing another GOAT

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that jibberish he was spittin-

:mjlol: hold on, breh.

you can't be a fan of Ghostface and claim you don't like another rapper cause he allegedly spitting gibberish.

Supreme Clientele is one of the greatest rap albums ever made, and it's more decipherable "jibberish" on that album than all 24 e40 albums.
 

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:mjlol: hold on, breh.

you can't be a fan of Ghostface and claim you don't like another rapper cause he allegedly spitting gibberish.

Supreme Clientele is one of the greatest rap albums ever made, and it's more decipherable "jibberish" on that album than all 24 e40 albums.
Exactly....nah mean!!....:mjlol:....
 
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