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

[SHO-NUFF]

i see it's a lot of nikkas in here that "didn't buy his last tape"

 

[Crispy]

40 and Mike got a few bangers

 

[Blankthawtz]

Jadakiss is ass. The endless similes tired coke metaphors and empty punchlines are used to hide the fact that he lacks substantive content. The fact that Styles who is infinitely more talented sits in 2nd place to Jadas fronting of the Lox is proof that people prefer style over substance.

Gotta rep you for this breh.... Thought I was alone on this fact...

 

[WestS1de]

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.

Spot on. The only song i know is Why

 

[Zero]

Breh spits game, why y'all keep making threads asking us to defend dude? He ain't for you then keep it moving, ain't nobody making "NYC dudes, tell me how the fukk you listen to nature or das efx"

Everybody got super regional people they fukk with, end of thread.

 

[Zero]

E-40 always had them crazy ass lines and his production was always on point....when I first heard record hating bytches.........40 Fonzarelli nikka!....

Monkey mouth BIATCH!

 

[Crispy]

40 /B legit combo always slaps

 

[Cool DOC]

As a native NYer, it took me a while to appreciate 40 Water. Now he's one of my favorite West Coasters, I learned a lot from the music.

And If I wasn't already familiar, the music in this thread would further convince me he's wack. But these songs, these right here should be a lil easier to digest and make you a lil more open to Fonzarelli

 

[FaTaL]

not tryin to diss this dude like i use to back in the day...but i tried to listen to his music when i was younger and i just couldn't get into it whatsoever...i'm a Eastcoast breh but i got Cali music that i've fukked with for years (dre..snoop..mac dre...etc)...40 shyt was just super wack to me...that jibberish he was spittin just didn't click..

i'm watchin the interview about how he called off the hit on Biggie for him sayin he was a trash rapper....but was big lyin?.....i'm tryin to give this dudes catalog another honest spin since i've gotten older....but really wanna know what yall see in this guy...gimme a track that i NEED to hear that puts him as worthy of HOF?

i see him in interviews/espn and he seems like an alright kat....but this bout his music....

In a major way

That's the only e40 album I really fuks with

It's held up really well after 20 years

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Bruh, you used to fast forward 40's verse on Santa Rita Weekend? C'mon maaaaaaaaaaayne

A perfect example of what I mean when I say it can't just be regional. Spice 1 ripped this shyt (arguably with a better verse than Boots). E-roc ripped it, Boots ripped it, and 40........not so much, lol. So it aint that I dont fukk with the west or the Bay, it's just 40. The nikka is just trash to me. (Although he's fukking Rakim compared to B-Legit and D-Shot. Them 2 nikkas is just )

Only two tracks I ever fukked with from 40 where "Earl Its Yo Life" and "Big Ballin With My Homies", and that's mainly cuz I thought it was a dope remake of Posse on Broadway.

I also thought he outshined Kweli on that track they did together, which prolly had more to say about how much Kweli had fallen off by that time than anything else.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I can't agree that regional sound is gone.
I can tell where people are from, but I've been around the country.

I have been to every big city and basically the most podunk small towns all across this country, it's not about you telling where someone is from. It's the over all sound and slang as well. You have a rapper from Queens, who people thought rhymed like he was from the South, with production from an LA based producer. You have a female rapper from Queens, who was put on by a Southern rapper, who never sounded like a traditional New York MC ever, even now.

People rarely stick with one producer for a whole album, they will go out and get whomever is popular, which ends up being a hodge podge of a bunch of different sounds.

You have people from New York talking like LA gang baners, using LA slang. You have people from LA drinking lean and rhyming slower....Very few albums have a regional sound to them and haven't for a real long time now. You are wrong.

 

[Jean Jacket]

I have been to every big city and basically the most podunk small towns all across this country, it's not about you telling where someone is from. It's the over all sound and slang as well. You have a rapper from Queens, who people thought rhymed like he was from the South, with production from an LA based producer. You have a female rapper from Queens, who was put on by a Southern rapper, who never sounded like a traditional New York MC ever, even now.

People rarely stick with one producer for a whole album, they will go out and get whomever is popular, which ends up being a hodge podge of a bunch of different sounds.

You have people from New York talking like LA gang baners, using LA slang. You have people from LA drinking lean and rhyming slower....Very few albums have a regional sound to them and haven't for a real long time now. You are wrong.

Artists tend to follow whatever wave is popular at the time, in the mid 90s it was rapping fast. By accent alone and subject matter and locations they drop in records you can tell. I agree, this current wave is ass. What I've noticed is that NY lost it's soul. The West Coast still reps hard. The South sets the trends, and the Midwest copies everybody else. If you listen to the same stuff all the time by a handfull of artists, of course you think I'm wrong.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

In my opinion, people from the East Coast don't really fukk with Cali Rap like they think they do. People on the East Coast really only respect one dynasty of West Coast Rap when you break it down that being NWA-DOC-Dre-Snoop-Pac-Game-Kendrick. Oh, and cacs from the East Coast love Pharcyde, Souls and Mischief and Hiero because they sound like a Native Tongues crew down to their jazzy production and playful non-threatening lyrics. If rappers didn't shoutout Mac Dre on every other song earlier this decade, you wouldn't know shyt about Ronald Dregan either. Besides those rappers who else from the West do you really fukk with? Too many people from the East act like anything from the West not tied to Dre is trash and anything from Bay is super trash . People on the East Coast don't realize the vast amount of West Coast Rap that exists past and present. Yes, a lot of it is repetitive garbage, but there are literally dozens and dozens of classic underground West Coast albums that the average East Coast rap fan has never heard. People don't realize how much their beloved Snoop, Dre and Pac were very much influenced by independent rappers from Bay (i.e. Pac got his game from the Bay, Snoop admitted he patterned his style off of 415 from Oakland etc.). To me, 40 is one of the most distinct of those independent hustler personalities from the Bay. I'm from the Bay but I live on the East Coast. The level of hustling and independent thinking in the Bay is on another level. If you've never spent any real time in Northern Cali or the Bay and you're from the East Coast you're not going to really understand 40 . To be real, if you aren't familiar with the culture of the Bay, you don't fully understand Pac.

 

[Taadow]

E-40 music to me is like what 2Pac said about Thug Life - it describes the lifestyle that is lived by the most niccas.

You got to be a nicca that knows the lifestyle of most niccas to understand/appreciate it.

 

[kBNeRd281]

come on dawg