Debut album for Earl Stevens, The Click rapper with the moniker E-40, who debuted a couple of years earlier with a good quality EP. The Vallejo MC realizes a project of 14 tracks and about an hour of listening, self-produced and distributed with his Sick Wid' It Records. The production, provided by E-40 and Studio Ton, mirrors the typical Bay Area sound, close to mobb music, with great relaxed funky rhythms, slow drums, good melodic samples and light-hearted synths. Collaborate on the record, The Click's B-Legit, E-40 Jr., Kaveo, Little Bruce and Mugzi, no one surpasses Stevens here. The rapper brings typical gangsta themes to the table, spitting thug bars, braggadocio, on murders, women, money, and drugs, narrating his lyrics with a slow and fluid flow, inventing his own fresh and original style by combining some of the slang of his area. The entire LP is solid, breathes the Too Short legacy and is a good debut for E-40, managing to break through the hip-hop chart: two years later, the album is released by Jive Records, which takes away three of the weakest cuts and about ten minutes of listening, slightly strengthening the album and giving it greater replay value. 7.5/10.
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