In 1993, E-40 made his solo album debut, Federal, a nine-track LP/14-track CD produced by Studio Ton and released by Sick wid' It in association with SMG (Solar Music Group), a regional distributor. The EP was co-produced by Mike Mosley and Al Eaton. Along with collaborations with Wiz Khalifa, K Camp, and Suga Free, in 2022 he formed the supergroup Mount Westmore with Too $hort, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg.īorn Earl Stevens on November 15, 1967, in Vallejo, California, E-40 made his rap debut in 1990 on Let's Side, an EP by the Click. The Gift of Gab arrived in 2018, followed by 2019's Practice Makes Paper which hit number 32 on Billboard's Top Hip-Hop/R&B Albums chart. It had no bigger champion than E-40, who continued to crank out multiple full-length projects on an annual basis, including 2010's Revenue Retrievin', 2012's The Block Brochure, and 2016's six volume The D-Boy Diary. Concurrently, the Bay Area rap scene, invigorated by the hyphy sound it cultivated, grew in popularity. The breadth of the tracks on which he is featured, including Lil Jon's platinum "Snap Yo Fingers" (2006) and Big Sean's multi-platinum "I Don't Fuck with You" (2014), is another representation of the esteem in which he is held. Each release proved highly influential, not only on the West Coast but also in the South. Through the 2000s, he added to his major-label discography with albums that regularly debuted within the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop chart, highlighted by 1996's Tha Hall of Game, 1998's The Element of Surprise, and 2006's My Ghetto Report Card, all three of which went gold. Among the first Bay Area rappers to sign to a major label, E-40 went platinum with his first release for Jive, 1995's In a Major Way. Throughout his career, E-40's entrepreneurial spirit has cultivated a flourishing scene in communities such as Oakland and his native Vallejo. Synonymous with Bay Area rap, E-40 built a devoted regional following prior to gaining national exposure with flamboyant rhymes peppered by slang inventive and extensive enough to warrant a lexicon.
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