Do you know anybody outside the bay who actually listens to Wack ass E40 in real life

[Newportbox]

Ehhhh, That doesn't make E40 any less trash.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Yall dudes are talking about everything but E40's actual music.

It's more than music you new york dirtball

 

[Newportbox]

Nah, you just not trying to hear shyt.

Then again, if the best rapper from where I repped hadn't dropped a solid project since 98, I wouldn't be hearing much myself.

You trying to make it a regional thing. I just think E40's corny.

 

[Mantle Drunk]

Ive never heard anyone actually listen to his music and do anything other then laugh. Him and Silckk the Shocker use to have people cracking up in NY complete jokes.

 

[The_Hillsta]

"Open up ya photo album mannnnn and I bet ya find, folks that past away, potnas that been blast away, I miss ya spill some liquor mayne, WHO GOT SOME TISSUE?????"



This shyt was the lead off single on In A Major Way, we was all playin this shyt......You at the red light, nikkaz pull up next to you with blown subs and a lit amp off Da Bumble



You muthafukkaz don't know nothin bout no E-40 ho3

 

[AldavisAlbundyAllah!]

E40 CURRENTLY RAISING HIS THIRD GENERATION, HOW BOUT YOUR FAV RAPPER ?













THIS JUST DROPPED LAST WEEK

 

[Ian1362]

Nah, you just not trying to hear shyt.

I agree that's why I don't listen to E40 records

Even all the guest spots and others posted in this thread, Spice 1, Mac Dre, Rappin 4 Tay, etc can fukk with them and get the vibe. E40 on the other hand sounds like ronnie if he stopped making multi threads, took E and tried to rhyme like chubb rock. Last time I heard him was on that Freddie Gibbs record, his verse is so terrible that I just cut the end of the track off after Gucci.

I'll take a Motion Man record any day over 40

 

[mobbinfms]

They just don't know breh. In the 90s the South, West, and Midwest were a big musical family.

Cats in the South loved Deathrow, Ice Cube & Mack 10,Too Short & E-40, C-Bo, Bone Thugs, Dayton Family, Do or Die, Twista, etc. The West and Midwest loved Scarface, UGK, DJ Screw,Three 6 Mafia, early No Limit, Eightball & MJG, etc.

That's why so many of these artists stayed collabin' and touring in each other's cities.

This isn't true for the bay. At least as to UGK, Screw, Three Six, or Ball and G. Early No Limit was Bay shyt and we fukked with that heavy. I'm talking through like 96 maybe. UGK did get some burn due to being on the Menace soundtrack, but I didn't know anyone with a UGK album.

 

[mobbinfms]

Sick Wid It is a sub-division like Aftermath was/is to Interscope. E-40 is signed to Warner, and has been for a long time. Having a label deal is not independent. In that case Jay-Z was on his "independent bay area grind" with Rocafella Records.

When did he first sign to a major label?

 

[mobbinfms]

I Always looked at E-40 as the west coast version of Ghostface

A lot of brehs especially outside of up North don't rock with Ghost
because they just didn't understand or rock with his style

I put E-40 in that same category

Ghost is universal breh.
Listen to how 40 killed this shyt with Mack 10.
When he started giving directions

 

[H. Selassie]

This isn't true for the bay. At least as to UGK, Screw, Three Six, or Ball and G. Early No Limit was Bay shyt and we fukked with that heavy. I

You mite be right with 3-6 & Ball & G. But Texas and Cali have always shown one another love in the game. Especially The Bay and Houston....

- "Just got back from California, kicked it with B-Legit"- Pimp C on "Murder" (1996)

- "Catch me Dippin to some Screw"- B-Legit on "Come On"( 1997)

- DJ Screw being a big C-Bo fan, vice versa.

- J Prince signing Seagram and Yukmouth to Rap-A-Lot


- Snoop borrowing the phrase "We don't love them hoes" from Big Mike (member of the Konvicts/Geto Boys) in the early 90s. Snoop's from LBC but you get my drift.

 

[mobbinfms]

You mite be right with 3-6 & Ball & G. But Texas and Cali have always shown one another love in the game. Especially The Bay and Houston....

- "Just got back from California, kicked it with B-Legit"- Pimp C on "Murder" (1996)

- "Catch me Dippin to some Screw"- B-Legit on "Come On"( 1997)

- DJ Screw being a big C-Bo fan, vice versa.

- J Prince signing Seagram and Yukmouth to Rap-A-Lot


- Snoop borrowing the phrase "We don't love them hoes" from Big Mike (member of the Konvicts/Geto Boys) in the early 90s. Snoop's from LBC but you get my drift.

I think Bay artists toured in the South and made connections with artists out there. I'm saying that didn't translate to Bay heads listening to certain Southern artists. Obviously everyone listened to Scarface, GB and Kast.

This is all just my experience though.

 

[Xtraz2]

Sick Wid It is a sub-division like Aftermath was/is to Interscope. E-40 is signed to Warner, and has been for a long time. Having a label deal is not independent. In that case Jay-Z was on his "independent bay area grind" with Rocafella Records.

wuts independent to you?

do you consider Too short selling tapes out his trunk in tha late 70s early 80s independent?

E-40 used to do tha same before he came up with sick wid it

 

[raoulduke187]

yes, me

40 Water is a legend

now fukk off you fakkit

 

[Doomsday]

When did he first sign to a major label?

Over twenty-five years ago.

wuts independent to you?

do you consider Too short selling tapes out his trunk in tha late 70s early 80s independent?

E-40 used to do tha same before he came up with sick wid it

Yes once upon a time I don't doubt he was independent. But all that independent talk in his raps and mostly from fans is bullshyt. All the songs that everyone remembers him for and just about everyone who's heard of him is from an era where he was signed to a major label. All the new fans he gained during the hyphy movement came from a smash hit record that was cosigned by Lil John (who was super hot at the time) and had major label promotion and marketing.

It was the number 1 record on 106 and Park and MTV. His second single "U and Dat" was another smash hit record which featured T-Pain, who was the hottest artist at the time. Sway did a mini-documentary on the bay around that time. All eyes were on the SFBA and E-40 capitalized off of it like a major widely recognized artist should. No doubt My Ghetto Report Card had a much larger advance than his other albums.

This logic that E-40 is somehow an independent underground rapper who has mainstream appeal by word of mouth is fabrication. E-40 is a mainstream rapper who happens to be from the bay, that never made music who's quality matched the Jay-Z's, Tupac's, Nas', Nelly's, and whoever else of his era. So he relegated to a somewhat regional and underground presence by default. It's like saying Nelly is independent now because only Saint Louis is listening to him at this point, or that Slim Thug is independent; no, you just fell off.