Cousin Fik peeps the old bay and the new bay on new single

Sic Wit It rapper Cousin Fik, who a lot of you may know from his feature appearences on the latest E-40 albums, is gearing up for the release of his upcoming album "Sickest Nigga Healthy". As for that he called out Decadez to provide him with the minimalist and bassy beat to his new single "Old Bay New Bay". The track is a nice little piece of music for people who like the electronic sound of the new bay. Cousin Fik's rhymes are always worthwhile listening to, he sure has some wit and style, although on this one, he sounds kinda monotonous. Enough babbling though, check the video:

E-40 strikes with a great line-up for his new videos

Vallejo native and bay area legend E-40 has been known for a work-a-holic not only since he dropped a three-disc album called "The Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil" earlier this year. Combined with the four-disc set of "Revenue Retrievin" from 2010 and 2011 he has released 140 songs within the last three years and shot numerous videos also. While you can surely argue about the necessity of dropping so much music in that short time, I can assure you that his two new videos will be pleasing the quality rap fan. Therefore he has been reaching out to some of the sickest artists in the scene.

Today, E-40 presented his new single "Catch A Fade" on facebook, featuring his son Droop-E and the westcoast's new ambassador Kendrick Lamar. Watch it below.



Just last week he sent another banger through youtube, the gritty horror-visual of "Zombie" featuring Sacramento's finest Brother Lynch Hung and the fastest tongue in hip-hop Tech N9ne. You can find it below.



E-40 also announced that he's gonna "shoot videos for 93% of the songs on all 3 BLOCK BROCHURE albums". Again, you can discuss whether that is really needed, but as long as he keeps dropping heat like this, most of you should be fine.

And don't forget, the duo album "The History Channel" with long time partner Too $hort is said to be dropping later this year.

Never-ending story: Stupid beefs - Messy Marv goes at Too $hort

While the culture of battleing and writing diss tracks as well as bangin on wax has ever been a huge factor in hip-hop and certainly helped it to let it grow, you can't question that the rap history has experienced a lot of senseless and stupid verbal duels.

This time around, we can certainly say that someone picked the wrong one. The Boy Boy Young Mess (smh) better known as Messy Marv attacked bay area legend Too $hort via twitter out of nowhere. Claiming him fake, whack and whatsoever, Messy clearly tried to start something. Plain stupid, when the attacked person is not playing the ball back. In his player manner, Too $hort just said he doesn't know where this comes from and that he still respects Mess and invited him to meet up in Oakland or anywhere in the bay to squash issues.


As you may know, Mess is said to be very abusive with drugs, especially cocaine, within the last years and thsi surely was an influence on this topic. While Mess' music started to become worse with every mixtape he dropped since 2007, he managed it to keep his name in the streets, also by beefing with the likes of San Quinn or his former fellow group Click Clack Gang. Too $hort on the other hand went a away a bit from the club bouncer hip-hop and got back to his more funky side of music and dropped two decent EP's, proving that Short Dog is still one of the most entertaining rappers to ever touch the mic.


This beef seems to be nothing but a pathetic promotion move of Messy Marv and now he even leaked a diss track towards Too $hort, called "Class Of '84 (Fuck Too $hort)". As I said, Too $hort is not the one to be beefing with and I don't think we will ever see a response track to this, but he doesn't have to do it. Bay area veteran JT The Bigga Figga took Too Short's part and dropped "Take One", calling Messy Marv a hypocrit. The quality of JT's track is questionable but the move itself shows how much love Short Dog still got.

Check both track below:





So let's see who's next on Messy's list, he will surely continue with the immaturity. In this case, he is really a "Young Mess"...

Snoop, E-40 and Wiz invading cd stores near you!

Yessir, just a little reminder. Today is the release date of three (well four) new records of some of the hottest rappers to hold the mic right now.
Be sure to support the artists and buy

E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Overtime Shift

Featuring production from Droop-E and the appearences of Devin The Dude, B-Legit, Guce, Bosko and many more.

E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Graveyard Shift

Featuring production from Droop-E and appearences of B-Legit, Bun B, Slim Thug, T-Pain, Turf Talk and many more.

Snoop Dogg - Doggumentary

Featuring production from Fredwreck, Battlecat, The Gorillaz, Kanye West, David Banner and more, plus appearences of Too $hort, E-40, T-Pain, R. Kelly, Bootsy Collins, John Legend, Wiz Khalifa and many more.

Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers

Including the #1 hit single "Black and Yellow" and the appearences of Too $hort, Chevy Woods and Curren$y.


Damn, I wish I was in the U.S. to get my hands on these records for a fair amount of cash. You can expect a review on these records soon on Love For The West.

Check these videos if you're still not sure that these belong in your cd collection:

Clyde Carson is back with "What Would I Do" [Video]

Oakland's own Clyde Carson is back with a new video called "What Would I Do". The former member of The Team proves that he hasn't lost anything and that it may have been a mistake to go on a major label. Dropping such quality independently could've made him one of the biggest artists in the bay. But enough talking, check the video:


What Would I Do from Clyde Carson on Vimeo.


The song will be included on his upcoming project "Something To Speak About" due out this spring.

E-40 - My Lil Grimey Nigga (Video) - Overtime Shift & Graveyard Shift tracklist

Holy shit, this came outta nowhere! E-40 is back with his new single AND video "My Lil Grimey Nigga" to gear up his two (!) upcoming solo albums "Revenue Retrievin: Overtime Shift" and "Revenue Retrievin: Graveyard Shift".

As to that, he chose the same formula as for his last year's video smasher "Weed Man", since Federation's band member Stressmatic is featured on the hook once again. E-40 proves that he keeps it real with this one, so please support tha godfather of the bay and buy the double record on March 29th. Check the video AND the tracklist for both albums below.



Tracklist:

Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift
1. Mr. Flamboyant 2K11
2. Drugs (feat. B-Legit)
3. Hillside
4. Gunz
5. Slow It Down (feat. J. Stalin & Decadez)
6. Me & My Bitch
7. Beastin
8. My Money Straight (feat. Guce & Black C (of RBL Posse))
9. I Love My Momma (feat. R.O.D. & Mic Conn)
10. I Am Your (feat. Droop-E & Laroo T.H.H.)
11. In The Morning (feat. Beeda Weeda & Work Dirty (of DB'z))
12. Punkin' Em Out
13. Born In The Struggle (feat. Dr. Cornell West & Mike Marshall)
14. Fuck Em'
15. Rear View Mirror (feat. B-Legit & Stressmatic)
16. Lookin' Back (feat. Devin The Dude)
17. Stay Gone
18. Movin' Organized Business (M.O.B.)
19. Tired Of Sellin Yola
20. Click About It (feat. The Click, Harm (of Da Rich), & Bosko)

Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift
1. Barbarian
2. Serious (feat. T-Pain)
3. Graveyard Shift (feat. Cousin Fik & Choose Up Cheese)
4. My Lil Grimey Nigga
5. Yankin' (feat. Hot (of DB'z) & Laroo T.H.H.)
6. Concrete
7. Club On Lock (feat. Matt Blaque & Laroo T.H.H.)
8. Fried (feat. Tech N9ne & Marty James)
9. Back & Forth (feat. Turf Talk, Cousin Fik, & Stresmatic)
10. Bad Bitch (feat. Stressmatic & Droop-E)
11. Takin 'Em Back
12. My Shit Bang
13. The Streets Don't Love Nobody (feat. Turf Talk & DB Tha General)
14. 43 (feat. B-Legit)
15. That Candy Paint (feat. Bun B & Slim Thug)
16. E Forty
17. Trapped (feat. Mike Marshall)
18. Spooky (feat. Bosko)
19. Don't Try This At Home (feat. Philthy Rich & Stevie Joe)
20. Tuff Times (feat. Bosko & Netta B)

These two albums guarantee to bang in your trunk and to hit you up with some real lyrics. Beats will be produced by Droop-E, Rick Rock, Daywalk and more. Once again: Go get these records on March, 29.

Tonight: Hyphy & Bay Slaps on Hertz 87.9

I know I'm a little lazy lately with my blog and I promise I will change that soon again. For today I got another radio feature to announce. In tonight's "The Breaks" you can listen to one hour of the craziest hyphy music the bay area has been putting out. Back then when there was the Hyphy Movement and it was all about heavy bass drums, cracking synthesizers and weird melodies - this is the topic of tonight's feature on Hertz 87.9.

Broadcast starts at 22.00 CET (13.00 PST) you just need to click on the button at the sidebar which says "Live Stream". I hope you enjoy the show!

Tracklist:
01 Mistah F.A.B. – Sideshow (Remix) ft. Too $hort & Keak Da Sneak
02 Dem HoodStarz – Bullshit ft. E-40 & Turf Talk
03 Keak Da Sneak – Super Hyphy
04 Mac Dre & Mac Mall – Giggin’ ft. Rydah J. Klyde
05 The A’z – Yadadamean
06 Messy Marv & Guce – So Hood ft. Clyde Carson
07 E-40 – Wet ft. Ya Boy & Cousin Fik
08 D-Lo – No Hoe (Remix) ft. E-40, Beeda Weeda & Jacka
09 Drino Man – Fuck Your Vans (Remix)
10 Traxamillion – Skrape
11 Mistah F.A.B. – Ghost Ride It
12 Federation – Stunna Glasses ft. E-40
13 The Team – It’s Gettin Hot
14 Too $hort – Dum Ditty Dum ft. The Pack
15 J-Diggs – The Thizzness ft. Mac Mall & Rydah J. Klyde
16 Messy Marv & Mitchy Slick – Diego To The Bay

Droop-E - Hungry [Video]

Droop-E is back with a new video off his "BLVCK Diamond Life" mixtape. This time he comes around with a critical song and video dealing with the problem of discrimination and homelessness. The song features a nice sample from Sade's "When Am I Going To Make A Living".

Check the video:

E-40: "Revenue Retrievin" video collection

Big video drop today!

For his last two albums, E-40 dropped a bunch of videos for his fans to enjoy. To gear up up towards his upcoming to albums and to remember you how great the last ones were, I made a collection of all his videos from the two "Revenue Retrievin" records. So get your glasses right, uuugh!

"Bitch" feat. Too $hort / "Over The Stove"


"Undastandz Me"


"The Weed Man" feat. Stresmatic (of Federation)


"Lightweight Jammin'" feat. Clyde Carson & Husalah


"Dem Boyz" feat. Y.V.


"Outta Control" feat. Dem HoodStarz & Mistah F.A.B.


"It's Gotta Get Better" feat. Mike Marshall & Suga-T


"Nice Guys"


"Can't Stop The Boss" feat. Snoop Dogg, Too $hort & Jazze Pha


"He's A Gangsta" feat. Jacka & Kaveo


"Spend The Night" feat. Droop-E, The DB'z, Laroo & B-Slimm


"The Server"


That's the full package so far! Shouts out to E-40 for puttin so much work in it.

E-40 is a workaholic with two new albums

Just got this from dude's facebook account:

E-40 plans on releasing two new parts of his successful "Revenue Retrievin" albums on February 8th, 2011! The new ones will be entitled "Overtime Shift" and "Graveyard Shift" (as you can see on the artwork above) as a follow-up to this year's "Day Shift" and "Night Shift".

I'm not sure if I like the idea of putting it out as another two "Revenue Retrievin" albums, I think he could be more creative with that - but as long as the music is slapping in the manner of Day & Night Shift I'm 100% down with it!
Support real artists and stay tuned for more information soon!

Si-Chill

Review: E-40 - Revenue Retrievin

Released on March 30th 2010, "Revenue Retrievin" is the second double disc of Bay Area legend E-40 after his 1998 effort "The Element Of Surprise". This one though, was released as two seperate discs: "The Day Shift" and "The Night Shift"

Since the parted company with Warner Bros. after his last album "The Ball Street Journal" he stated that he recorded over 60 tracks with his son Droop-E alone. Other producers on this LP include Rick Rock, Jazze Pha and Daywalk. It was obvious for him to give his fans a large amount of that now that he's back at the independent route and please them with nothing else but modern day mob music.

That's what this album is: A bass'd out, upgraded version of what "40 Water" always has done. His lyrics are way improved compared to his last 2-3 records and his flow is partially back at its weird "flamboastin" style. Many people claimed this to be "just another Hyphy record" but it's far more than that. The Hyphy topics are not important on this CD and although the music is filled with rattling basses, heavy synthesizers and freaky, sometimes psychedelic melodies, it feels more like the "old" E-40 is back.

He starts off with "Back In Business" and proves that he hasn't lost anything.
"In order to do some right you gotta do some wrong / Got hella shit goin on / The dusty, the dirty, the smirk / I ain't paranoid I am prepared I ain't nervous / When you cookin birdies in the kitchen / Can't be slippin like a transmission gotta be on your peezin toes / It's hard to make a honest livin when your kids ain't got no clothes"
The beat is somehow like the definition of a subwoofer and comes dangerous with the sample. Droop-E did a major job on this one.

I can't go into every track, that would take several hours, but what I have to say is that 40 even brought the guest appearences back to their best - maybe besides Snoop Dogg and Clyde Carson. Mistah F.A.B. is still able to show his unique and hilarious style on "Outta Control":
"40 the ambassador and Fabby is the prince / I shake your hands but hold up pimpin' please no finger prints / Bossy, flossy, groovyer than groovy / A walkin reality show a box office movie"
and Dem HoodStarz prove why they were considered a dynamic duo before Scoot Dog went to jail last year on the same track.

Ya Boy goes hard on "Wet" even though he still claims himself a rockstar but you can't deny lines like "Say we ain't the dopest, nigga whatchu smokin? / Gotta be da sherm, if it ain't money then it's not in my concern / Money to blow, matter fact money to burn / See her money is mine but my money ain't hers" and he handles a hell of a hook on the psycho-like gangsta track "Knock 'Em Down Music". That is the track where even Turf Talk can shine with his weird-as-never flow and insane sounding voice as he raps:
"He was a friend of mine, then he changed up / He used to be a Crip, now we flamed up / They say I'm loco, crazy, a lunatic / Serve these monkeys with the whole banana clique" (I should post the whole verse but I go with this only). Cousin Fik has two nice appearences on both track as well.

San Quinn may have a strange voice but his lines on the minimalistic-electric "Power Up" are sharper than ever: "Energy of the Hennessey / I spit H1N1, you'll never be as sick as me / ... / If I had a piss test it'd put me in the penetentiary".
Keak Da Sneak is stupid on this track but yet again in a positive way.

E-40's cousin B-Legit "makes love to the block and kisses the corner" on "I Get Down" which sounds crumbling and droning, just typical for a nice Droop-E production.
Too $hort has a funny as always verse on "Bitch" which contains the obvious sample but sounds just as relevant as you need. "You see the shadows, you hear the sounds, but you don't do nothing you just turn back around like a bitch / feelings hurt ready to cry, you can't believe everything she said was a lie"
Even though I just quoted a lot of lines (and I still haven't mentioned 40's best efforts) there are way more lyrical experiences worth checking for and this is just an example of how entertaining this album is. Musically you'll find a lot of which you think it might sound similar in the first place, but you'll recognize it's anything but a monotonous record. E-40's delivery helps much to avoid such an impression. I'm going to list a few of his funniest lines below:

"I'm a boss, but I drink like Hasselhoff" (Power Up)
"I'm feeling like I'm 'posed to be and sober is my enemy, Bailey's and Landy - that's the remedy / Money and power that's a friend of me / Chain lickin like a Mini-Me / Campaignin like a Kennedy / They ain't got no idea where this finna be" (Wet)
"Sometimes I wonder was I planned, maybe / Or was I a accident mayne, a oops-baby" (Streets Keep Callin Me -> awsome hook by Krizz Kaliko)
"I got a million dollar mouthpiece, she got a million dollar vagina / I throw a bitch in the sky and break her 'fore she hits the ground / They call me send-a-bun, send a snow bunny just like a tax" (Attention)
He takes a little shot on the new generation as well:
"I take it back to the 80's when I was servin your momma, the reason why you're crack babies / Which I don't really like to brag about, I had style before they brought 'swagger' out" (Dem Boyz)

This album is not only heavy bass 'bay slap' music, you can also find more instrumental kind of songs. A very appropriate example would be "Let Go And Let God" which is a family collaboration between soul singer Lenny Williams (E-40's father), 40 himself and his son Droop-E on the boards.

This double album is a really great entertainment and the music doesn't sound rushed even though you get so much of it (2:42h of music - no (!) skits, not even an intro or outro). Plus the music is very proper recorded and mixed, it requires a good stereo to unfold its true value. Support the ambassador of the Bay, buy "Revenue Retrievin".

E-40 is "The Server" in new video

The ambassador of the bay is back with his new single "The Server" off his upcoming double disc "Revenue Retreivin': The Day Shift / The Night Shift". E-40 recorded about 60 songs within the last year as his son Droop-E revealed in a current interview with baycentrik.com (read/listen here). The album is set to drop on March 30 via Sick Wid It / EMI records.

Check the video below:

New E-40 album "Revenue Retrievin' " coming in November

Yes you've read correctly, the amabassador of the bay, the crazy tongue twister from "Vallejo Califoolya", the one and only E-40 will be back in November to release his new album Revenue Retrievin'. Quite exactly one year after his last release on Warner Bros. "The Ball Street Journal", 40 Fonzarelli is free of any label regulations again.
There is not much information on this album besides a supposed track called "Get Money" featuring Young Jeezy and B-Legit.

Check the cover artwork:

You can also a check a recent interview with E-40 on the blog of SubMerge Magazine:
http://submergemag.com/featured/revenue-retrieval/894/

Be on the lookout for more information soon.

Si-Chill