The Ball Street Journal [PA]

Performer: E-40
Artist: Shawty Lo; Turf Talk; Snoop Dogg; The Game; T-Pain; R.City; Akon; Gucci Mane; Bun B; Ice-T; Too Short; Cousin Fik; Kevin Cossom; B-Legit; Suga-T; Bosko
Producer: DJ Fingaz; J.R. Rotem; Johnny Mollings; Matthew Price; L.V.M.; Lil Jon; Rick Rock; Virtuoso; Willy Will; Poli Paul; Droop-E; T-Pain; Bosko
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Two years after scoring platinum success with MY GHETTO REPORT CARD, E-40 returns with one of his most eclectic LPs to date. On THE BALL STREET JOURNAL, the rap vet and foremost emissary of the Bay Area sound lays his unmistakable flow over beats by Lil Jon, Jonathan Rothem, Akon, T-Pain, Drumma Boy, and DJ Nasty, among others. Opening the record by rightly proclaiming himself "The Ambassador," 40 Water goes on to rip a characteristically crunked-up Lil Jon beat alongside Shawty Lo on "Break Ya Ankles" and take a Cali-centric turn on the West Coast gangsta anthem "Pain No More," featuring Snoop and the Game, before really letting his bombastic flow loose over the swelling drums of "Tell It Like It Is." E-40 also passes the mic to guest MCs Turf Talk, R. City, Bun B, Gucci Mane,B-Legit, Too $hort, and Ice T.

As a solo performer, label owner (Sick Wid It Records), and member of hip-hop outfit the Click, rapper E-40 has been representing the often underappreciated Bay Area hip-hop scene since the early 1990s. E-40 is credited with helping the Bay Area hyphy movement (something of a West Coast version of crunk) gain national exposure and is well known for his legendary flow, which incorporates one of hip-hop's most extensive and developed slang vocabularies--a considerable amount of which was created by E-40 himself. His MY GHETTO REPORT CARD was released in 2006 and once again showed why 40 is one of the most respected gangsta rappers in the game.

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