E-40 Albums: Revenue Retrievin' Poll Shift

oooooh

Ghetto Report Card, then Element of Surprise, then Day Shift

inclined to go with Grit & Grind here honestly

I only have In a Major Way and My Ghetto Report Card (and the RR series) from 2 decades of this dude, which is a massive failing on my part.

G&G is really consistent (unlike, say, the latter half of My Ghetto Report Card) and also features my fave E-40 track/video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHHJsd1Ppo4

Would rate In a Major Way second probably, since it's sort of the template/canonical album. Hall of Game has a bunch of good songs on it but it's uneven. Loyalty & Betrayal, Grit & Grind, and Breakin' News I kind of consider as a troika - they have a similar sound that I love, it's just that G&G has the best rhymes/tunes of the bunch. Seems like everyone's familiar with the post MGRC stuff, plenty of opinions on those to go around I assume.

voted for Element of Surprise

other great G&G tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfHWH0oVJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6_r5gfH2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfHWH0oVJA

"Whomp Whomp" does not appear to be on youtube for some reason

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ylhBDysbI&feature=related

only have My Ghetto Report Card... eagerly awaiting results..

three of ILM's favorites (this is from Breakin' News):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBw00MnP-Q

I used to listen to In A Major Way and Hall of Game all the time, but I haven't heard anything between those and Ghetto Report Card.

Yeah, I need to familiarize myself with his mid-period catalog, too.

My top three:

In a Major Way
Graveyard Shift
My Ghetto Report Card

it feels too easy to say my ghetto report card, but my ghetto report card

mid-period is my favorite so I guess I'll just continue to litter this thread with youtubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMNzd75PVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGmIMijeHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT07SztzKug&feature=related

Have to wait til I get home to listen to all of them :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5DRYav77IM

Yeah I made the poll end over a month long so we could jam records we havent heard yet.

"in a major way" is the obvious classic, but i voted grit & grind cuz i love rick rock.

such a great discography

my ghetto report card is not that great imho

2nd half has a distinct fall-off

smebbin thru the park one daaaay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZAI1rrfYA

Up for grabs between Ghetto Report Card and Graveyard Shift for me

last third of Report Card sucks, but the first 2/3 are so so so good

he def has more consistent albums than that one, weird to see it touted so much

it's not surprising or anything, it was his highest charting album/had his biggest national hits/rode a whole hyphy media frenzy/etc.

report card was the first e-40 album i ever heard and it honestly turned me off for a while

it's a cd, not an aphrodisiac

this is an e-40 thread, you wanna maybe slang that shit up a little more and see if it makes it all the way to a zing?

lol

I can still remember the first time I heard E-40: riding around in SF in 1995, Chuey Gomez playin "Sprinkle Me" on KMEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hnYnf2lyk4

I think the first E-40 song I heard was "Big Ballin With My Homies", which kind of pissed me off like... who's this dude fucking up "Posse"?

Straight up delayed my E-40 fandom for a few years until I heard "Automatic" and "Rep Yo City" and realized he was that one awesome dude from the "5 on It" remix

huh I hadn't heard that before. hadn't heard him do this weird Mixalot impression either, def unusual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aiUkKzHHQ

^LIQ from that album is awesome. Heavy vocoder slap

on this album, he was also paying homage to rodney o & joe cooley (look at me with hot boys) & too short (earl that's your life).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIFZffOlI-k

I really wish I'd have picked up his 90s albums when they were all over the place, they seem to be a little hard to track down now.

only have My Ghetto Report Card... eagerly awaiting results..
― mmmm, Tuesday, 28 February 2012

^this

unless there's a lot of lurkers voting (lol yah right) it seems like MGRC is an obvious shoo-in.

sorta wrong tho imho

In A Major Way or Element of Surprise for me.

The RR series are still too new for me to really be able to stack against some of these other classics.

I feel like a songs poll would be more beneficial/fun and turn up some real gems. Even on his worst albums there are still a handful of slaps, the results would be so varied.

I agree, but since a tracks poll isn't likely to pull too many voters I've been kinda treating this thread like the de facto "underappreciate E-40 jamz" thread

I'd do it even if we only got like 8 voters! Run it in concurrence with the Abba poll as there probably won't be too much overlap.

1. I've Got Five On It (Remix) 80 first place votes, 10000000 points, ILX knows the hits.

the return of the asian e-40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDWbWyEPpc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_phyh6nEx0

asian e-40 is one of the best people on the internet

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zr7wKZ519a8/T2tqwidpeqI/AAAAAAAACy4/nP4ynG5OAsg/s400/e-40-tracks.jpg

excellent primer to promote informed voting: http://blog.djmatthewafrica.com/2012/03/yay-game-e-40-mix.html

http://distilleryimage5.instagram.com/959aba08898711e1989612313815112c_7.jpg

Thats great.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The Ball Street Journal (2008) 1

o_O

lol how does Ball Street Journal, his de facto worst, have a vote over all of these legit really good ones like fuckin Breakin News

sayin' ^^^^^^

i can't remember if i did but if i wasn't the one who voted then i would've voted for it too.

i like the other albums but i feel sorry for ball street journal which will surely in several years time be critically reappraised as actually pretty good. I mean have you guys heard THE AMBASSADOR? HOOD BOY?

yeah ball street journal had joints but still fewer than the rest

Daniel Mondon recently spent an entire day on twitter filibustering about how track 15 on Ball Street Journal is the greatest song of all time. it was weird.

lol that's not even one of the better songs on the album!

not gonna lie, "the ambassador" is great though. wasn't "got rich twice" on there too? pretty dope, but iirc the crossover singles on there were like kinda shitty retreads of the my ghetto report card singles

the one with akon was pretty bad

"earl" feat ice-t & "alcoholism" feat b-legit !

i was going to mention earl, great track. The t-pain song is pretty good too imo. The one with akon is probably the worst thing on the album

i don't even remember that album coming out or hearing anything about it at the time. i just remember 'oh e-40 has a new single with akon and it's terrible' and being able to easily avoid it after one listen.

iirc it was basically a dump job on warner's part, kinda dropped in late november with no real promotion. only reason i even remember it dropping is bc my roommate is the east coast's most ravenous 40 fan and had it preordered

also "Break Ya Ankles" and "Poor Man's Hydraulics" were jams. Still prob his worst album.

it was super disappointing.

b-legit is always legit tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gClMbkvXqdE

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