E-40 & Too $hort — History: Function Music

E-40 & Too Short are expected to release a collaborative project in the wake of Method Man & Redman's overwhelming success in the late 1990s, yet their idea is stopped by Jive. Their efforts materialized a decade later, with the release of both from the label: "The History Channel" was born, over time transformed into a collaborative double disc. "Function Music" is one of the two LPs, full of guests, including Tyga, Jeremih, Wiz Khalifa and Ice Cube, and of producers, where the name of DecadeZ is repeated more times than the others by scrolling through the credits.

Over the course of these long sixty-five minutes, E-40 is fine, Too Short is fine, the others do little and bad. You can guess the respective lyrical paths that the two emcees intend to undertake, while the music makes the record much more cumbersome: the set is built for a club crowd, there's not a beat that remains in the memory, and in particular there's a whole series of shoddy and similar drum machines. The first track deceives you that this can be a good record, nothing in the following minutes leads you to validate this thesis. A song with E-40, Too Short and Ice Cube is theoretically a highlight on any album, nevertheless apparently it's not here, and it goes away normally without leaving anything like almost any other song. There's nothing to discuss when it comes to E-40 and Too Short, they're two giants of the game, this work simply doesn't represent at best the quality to which their listeners have become accustomed in their heyday. 4/10.