rapper that represents the yay area. 707 and 510, although most people dont know it cause he doesnt show it off, he currently lives in danville,ca-925.
by layla2 April 5, 2006
Allow me to be the myth buster here. Pop yo collar was being said in Vayayo way before 40 said it on an album. Probably the first to say it on an album was either the Young D Boys or someone from Young Black Brotha (Mac Dre, Mac Mall, etc.). Scrilla has been used all over the bay for hella long, and I seriously doubt he was the first to use it on an album. My guess is that JT the Bigga Figga was the first to do so, but I can't vouch for that. I'm almost certain Cellski was the first to use cheddar and cheese, though I can't say much about the origins of Broccoli and lettuce. The origins of the Yay Area are kind of iffy as well, though unlike some friends of mine, who think Norteno rappers were the first to put it down on a track, I think I heard it come from E-40 first.
On the other hand, he was almost definitely one of the very first to start using the "-eezy" verbiage, which derived from "-izzo" as in "a hizzo, a hizzo should I save her?". He also has spawned other similar dialect modifications such as what's crackulatin or crackalackin. E-40 is also responsible for bringing the word flashin to the masses. Before he started using it, I recall it only being used by friends from Oakland and never on a track.
One of the very first E-40isms to become part of the bay area dialect was Captain, referring to a sucker that breaks himself for a hoodrat.
Which brings me to my next point. While E-40 was probably best known for Captain Save-A-Ho amongst his bay area fans, and sure Hurricane was one of the best known tracks of The Click, but technically it was not his song, and regardless neither was as popular as "One Love", "Rappers Ball", "From the Ground Up", or "I Hope I Don't Go Back", all of which got significantly more air time outside of the bay area.
E-40 reps Vallejo first, 707 second, The Bay Area third, and Northern Cali fourth. I've never heard him show a preference for the east bay (510) over any other part of the bay.
Finally, E-40 is a rapper. He is not a so called hip-hop artist or what have you. Very little hip-hop came from the bay. Certainly some of the most creative and imaginatively lyriced (yes I used lyric as a past tense verb, so what?) rap came from the bay, but the only significant hip-hop has been The Pharcyde, Blackilicious, and Mr. Lif. E-40 goes to a studio where original tracks are produced on Korgs, beat machines, and pro tools, and no DJ!! and therefore is NOT HIP HOP! Even back when a DJ played a more prominent role in his music, the original beats with roots in freestyle music (aka latin hip-hop, where samplers and beat machines and the producers who run them are the foundations of the beat) define 40's music and place it firmly in the rap category.
One more thing, cats in the bay was hyphy before E-40 gave it to the world, but someone would have to be pretty hard headed to deny that his name has damn near become synonymous with it.
On the other hand, he was almost definitely one of the very first to start using the "-eezy" verbiage, which derived from "-izzo" as in "a hizzo, a hizzo should I save her?". He also has spawned other similar dialect modifications such as what's crackulatin or crackalackin. E-40 is also responsible for bringing the word flashin to the masses. Before he started using it, I recall it only being used by friends from Oakland and never on a track.
One of the very first E-40isms to become part of the bay area dialect was Captain, referring to a sucker that breaks himself for a hoodrat.
Which brings me to my next point. While E-40 was probably best known for Captain Save-A-Ho amongst his bay area fans, and sure Hurricane was one of the best known tracks of The Click, but technically it was not his song, and regardless neither was as popular as "One Love", "Rappers Ball", "From the Ground Up", or "I Hope I Don't Go Back", all of which got significantly more air time outside of the bay area.
E-40 reps Vallejo first, 707 second, The Bay Area third, and Northern Cali fourth. I've never heard him show a preference for the east bay (510) over any other part of the bay.
Finally, E-40 is a rapper. He is not a so called hip-hop artist or what have you. Very little hip-hop came from the bay. Certainly some of the most creative and imaginatively lyriced (yes I used lyric as a past tense verb, so what?) rap came from the bay, but the only significant hip-hop has been The Pharcyde, Blackilicious, and Mr. Lif. E-40 goes to a studio where original tracks are produced on Korgs, beat machines, and pro tools, and no DJ!! and therefore is NOT HIP HOP! Even back when a DJ played a more prominent role in his music, the original beats with roots in freestyle music (aka latin hip-hop, where samplers and beat machines and the producers who run them are the foundations of the beat) define 40's music and place it firmly in the rap category.
One more thing, cats in the bay was hyphy before E-40 gave it to the world, but someone would have to be pretty hard headed to deny that his name has damn near become synonymous with it.
E-40 is sic wit it: "No not me, not 4-0, I beat a bootch down wit a 2x4; now every fuckin day is a holiday-celebration; when a bitch is actin crabby means shes on her menustration" lmfao
by Lafre September 13, 2006
by jessicaisbomb March 18, 2008
A San Francisco Bay-Area based rapper.
Very innovative for his time (1991-Present), although he has been releasing several lackluster albums as of late.
Very innovative for his time (1991-Present), although he has been releasing several lackluster albums as of late.
"E-40 is the purveyor of 'savage ebonics'."
by Magmeezie August 29, 2003
E-40 in the 1990s:
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist
Pushin more weight than Atlas
Got a partner by the name of 2Pacalypse
The seven-oh-seven my roots go hella far back to Floyd Terrace
I pull a forty out of my ballcap
And den I flush it down my esopha-garus
The group that I'm with The Click
Suga, D-Shot, Legit
Family orientated
Game Related, it's the sh-t
Killing motherf-ckers off crucial
Sittin em down neutral
Running through these lyrics as if I was fibered
Like Metamucil
E-40 after the 1990s:
Straight from da bay, posted in tha 'A'
'Bout to hit tha club; we been mobbin' all day
Drinkin' some rusty, dyin'-off Patron
VIP status, strapped wit' my chrome
Look around tha club, what do I see?
Everybody rockin' from side to side to tha beat
Snappin' they fingers, bouncin' to tha groove
All by they self; that's the new move
N-gga, where I'm from, we like to go dumb
I'm soakin' up tha game; I'm seein' how it's done
I ask shawty what they call it
She said tha Pool Palace
Straight from Bank head
I said you good at it
Do what cha do, you and ya crew
They even got playas and thugs doin' it too
The mo' that I drank, the more it's lookin' smooth
It's nothin' to a boss
I can do tha sh-t too
It's evolving, just backwards.
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist
Pushin more weight than Atlas
Got a partner by the name of 2Pacalypse
The seven-oh-seven my roots go hella far back to Floyd Terrace
I pull a forty out of my ballcap
And den I flush it down my esopha-garus
The group that I'm with The Click
Suga, D-Shot, Legit
Family orientated
Game Related, it's the sh-t
Killing motherf-ckers off crucial
Sittin em down neutral
Running through these lyrics as if I was fibered
Like Metamucil
E-40 after the 1990s:
Straight from da bay, posted in tha 'A'
'Bout to hit tha club; we been mobbin' all day
Drinkin' some rusty, dyin'-off Patron
VIP status, strapped wit' my chrome
Look around tha club, what do I see?
Everybody rockin' from side to side to tha beat
Snappin' they fingers, bouncin' to tha groove
All by they self; that's the new move
N-gga, where I'm from, we like to go dumb
I'm soakin' up tha game; I'm seein' how it's done
I ask shawty what they call it
She said tha Pool Palace
Straight from Bank head
I said you good at it
Do what cha do, you and ya crew
They even got playas and thugs doin' it too
The mo' that I drank, the more it's lookin' smooth
It's nothin' to a boss
I can do tha sh-t too
It's evolving, just backwards.
by Raspberry Necessary 35 March 7, 2022