He rose to higher mainstream popularity in 2006 with his single " Tell Me When to Go", which was produced by Lil Jon.Įarl Stevens was born in Vallejo, California. Beginning in 1998, he began collaborating with mainstream rappers outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Initially an underground artist, his 1995 solo album In a Major Way opened him up to a wider audience. He has released 26 studio albums to date, appeared on numerous movie soundtracks, and has also done guest appearances on a host of other rap albums.
He is a founding member of the rap group The Click, and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. His 2019 Practice Makes Paper featured Migos’ Quavo, Schoolboy Q, Rick Ross, Ty Dolla $ign, and over a dozen more stars lined up to stand in the shadow of the good-natured, all-business master-a fitting testament to his intergenerational influence and importance in hip-hop history.Earl Stevens (born November 15, 1967, better known by his stage name E-40) is an American rapper. On his 1993 solo debut, Federal, he introduced wider audiences to his jokey, squalling, expressive flow, then leveled up on his eclectic 1996 classic, The Hall of Game, where his ease and confidence kicked in on tracks like “Rapper’s Ball” and the 2Pac-assisted "Million Dollar Spot.” In the ensuing decades, he was embraced by the Southern regionalists who’d taken crunk to the world like Lil Jon and T-Pain, collaborated with Akon and Gucci Mane, and, more than once, released multiple albums in the same year. In the ensuing years, he became both a mogul, distributing records by his local peers, and one of the first Bay Area rappers to earn a major label deal. It wasn’t necessarily an answer to the sounds coming from New York-it was just self-made artists like E-40, who recorded with his family members in the venerated group The Click, doing their own thing. Born Earl Stevens in 1967, he grew up in Vallejo, CA and helped define the late-’80s Bay Area underground alongside Too Short, giving the West Coast its first true hip-hop scene. Few, if any, rappers have made the music seem so alive and kept progressing the art form for as long as E-40 has.
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