Following the release of a DVD titled Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life, West Coast rapper E-40 has continued to speak on an incident featured on the DVD that involved both himself and the late Notorious B.I.G. E-40 spoke vaguely on the incident in 2010 and shared that while Biggie was in town, a few of his associates “got at him” following comments the Brooklyn wordsmith made about E-40 in a magazine interview.
E-40 shed even more light on the incident during an interview with Complex.com this week. He again stated that he took no part in the fake concert that was booked for Biggie in Sacramento and also shared the details of a phone call he received while Biggie was in town.
According to E-40, he received a phone call late at night from a man claiming to be in the same area as Biggie. The man then asked E-40 if he wanted him to do anything to the rapper.
“But a concert was booked that I didn’t book,” E-40 said. “And I wanna tell y’all this. I got a call like 11 at night. ‘40, I got this nigga Biggie Smalls down here woo wopty woo woo. What you want me to do with him?’ You gotta understand. Just being upset cause somebody said they ain’t fuckin with your music that ain’t enough to try to do somebody in. That’s not cool. That’s some bitch shit. That ain’t cool. I got on the phone with dude. I was like ‘I didn’t know you felt like that’…Anyway, to make a long story short, I got him home safe. Got him back to the hotel safe. I didn’t book that concert. That’s the main thing I want to say. But the shit that went down as far as my folks on his head, they was. And I called it off.”
E-40 again explained that the entire incident was brought about due to comments Biggie made during an interview with a Canadian magazine. When asked to rank a handful of West Coast artists on a scale from one to 10, E-40 says Biggie gave him a zero.
“A lot of people know about the Biggie incident,” E-40 said. “When he came to Northern California. Some of my folks was highly upset that he had did an article—I was upset that he did an article in a Canadian magazine…They asked him from a scale to one to 10 what do you feel about these artists. So, he would say Spice 1. I don’t know if it was a three, a four, or a two. Ice Cube, I don’t know what he gave him, but I know he gave me a zero. Right? And I’m a fixture out there on my soil, right? West Coast, and they fuck with me in New York at the time too as well. So, I was like ‘okay.’ Of course I was upset about that. My dudes seen that. Everybody was upset about that.”
E-40 says his cordial interaction with Biggie as a result of the incident led to the rapper giving him a shout out in the album notes for Life After Death.
In an interview with Hip Hop Wired last year, E-40 said his encounter with Biggie in Sacramento was one he didn’t speak on until Biggie’s people brought it to light.
“So [Biggie’s people] hit me, we pow-wowed, got him back safe and that was that, man…you know that I’m so real that I never even spoke on it,” he said. “His folks spoke on that, I never brought it up.”
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woo wopty woo woo we pow-wowed
E-40 is a real ni99a.Nobody fuks with e-40.He too real
Gucci already G Checked dude
fuck the catchphrases listen to the message
what message? all he does is studder
My weebelization I’m bout to call the lebowitz up, you giving up too much info
I would give him a zero as well
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E-40 a g out here huh?
i will give e 40 a zero too. that guy is corny as fuck.
….yet every rapper used his slang…so your saying every rapper in the world is corny then?
Biggie was right to give e40 a zero… I give everyone a chance but e40 is and always will be wack… Biggie for the Win
Lol @ “woo wopty woo woo”. Only E-40 would say something like that. Some of you guys might of forgot how long E-40 has been in the game, and the style and slang he contributed to Hip Hop. I don’t think he is the best, but some of his music is alri
Fuck Biggie!
E-40 WAY Better then that Boring-ass flow Biggie.
fuck biggie n e 40 ITS GUCCI TIME
y’all punks is CRAZY… got weed
e40 = 0
If you don’t think 40 had some of the hardest beats and classic lyrics on earlier albums like federal, in a major way, and the element of surprise than you have no taste in music.
1. you mean the producers who made the beats had some of the hardest beats. 2. he’s wack get your ears cleaned all he does is studder. dudes make no sense
you say dude makes no sense….then WHY THE FUCK does every single rapper in the game right now use words or phrases that E-40 created? you are an idiot sir. Go hate somewhere else
I know he loved out in the bay n is respected I just cant get into the way he raps all the random stutterin n noises nigga sounds like a fuckin beluga whale
your missing out..dudes fuckin crazy good
I totally agree with you… but I’m not saying he’s garbage.
Biggie Was right about one thing the South ultimately did sink Hip Hop This doesn’t include groups like OutKast, T.I, UGK,etc cause that’s talent and passion…but those one hit wonders who can’t hold an album down like Young joc, ying yang twins, plies, etc.
Nope, Puffy killed hip hop. You think that sampling Blondie, Bee Gees, Sting, Tears For Fears and any AOR or disco artist IS THE HIP HOP THING TO DO?
No, New York crowning Biggie their king lowered the standards of New York rap.
kill cassie ventura and kerri hilson
barry em in pet cemerty alive
pay ppl to walk around make sure they dont leave
force feed them
none stop
kill them
throw dogs in their coffens
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gotta chase beyonce bac to texas. crazy chain saws at ya
yea i seen one person throw crazy dog in someones car dog went crazy at thr family
blood all over the windows
next day dog of familys had their heads on going to the devil waters
hey u come here faaaccckkerrr
This nigga is acting if he is some maffia don getting some publicity because he is talking about Biggie. Biggie stayed cool during the whole incident. So fuck you and get rid of those glasses. Do you wann look intelligent?
I’m sure Biggie Smalls was scared out of his mind. If Biggie was so hard he wouldn’t been available for a phone call. He would have had them cats in dirt. Funny how you equate being in the Italian mafia with being something special lol. You don’t have to be an Italian mafioso to be able to get someone murdered. Stop watching movies and put your toes down on the turf. You a typing thug and monitor mobster.
actually the glasses was a bay thing… they wanted to not look like thugs cause they was selling drugs. not like the fake rappers you prob listen to who just rap about it.
on E-40’s glasses…”I just look like this but I’m really about my scratch, see what it is I want the po-po’s to think that I’m just as square as a box of apple jacks” (Lifestyles)
lol Biggie gave this wack fuck a zero. This old lame ass thinks he is good while only in the bay area they listen to his crap
Only people from the east coast like Piggie, so your point is moot.
that true… only ny is biggie god.
Biggie Smalls was an overrated rapper. Puffy has the people on the east coast trained to think, if you you dissing Biggie, then you dissing the whole east coast. Puffy got some game. However, the people on east coast under 30 years old ain’t feeling that foolishness. It reminds of how young white folks down south, ain’t buying into the racists philosophies of their parents and grandparents.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgy7u5D8HqQ
Biggie was right. E40 is fucking wack. In fact you aint a 0 ur a -0.
-0 isn’t a number
Biggie was a wack rapper, who used food metaphors.
Lol
The Bay Area is America’s worst Hip-Hop cultural epicenter. Their music is crappy and repetitive and they still can’t get over Hyphy. No one else in America is down with that movement. Drake will take a DJ Mustard beat for the clubs, but no one is looking to NorCal for production outside of the occaisonal Bay Area co-op. E-40 represents the lowered bar for talent in NorCal. He rhymes fast and off beat and uses a bunch of slang to force people to listen, but who is really running out for that E-40 feature? Has he been on any of Hip-Hop’s big album projects? Has he created a real classic? No. The last classic album out of the Bay Area belongs to the Heiroglyphics (93 Til Infinity) and outside of that, the Bay Area can only produce cookie cutter dreadheadz bouncing side to side to the same Hyphy one-two. It works in the Bay….no one else wants to hear it…
kill yo self bitch. people who ran out there for an E40 feature…. 2pac, LIL WAYNE, Hot boys BABY, Juvenile, Ol Dirty Bastard, Jodeci, Lil Jon , Tpain, Petey Pablo, Busta Rhymes, Mystikal, SNOOP DOGG, YG, TI, CHRIS Brown, 50 cent, Tech N9ne, Ice Cube and ANYONE IN THE BAY. fuck outta here with these fuckin haters
I like the way you think, Fuck The Bay, I really do. Keep informing these ignorant youngsters the real truth.
Yes, he was featured on 2 Pac’s opus All Eyes on Me and The Last Don.
BTW…I’m sitting in Oakland International Airport so I can talk that Town Biz….
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Numbers Dont lie Right ????
Notorious BIG aka Chris Wallace Millionaire Dead @26. 2 Albums Over 15 Million Sold
2pac Shakur Millionaire Dead @ 26 Over 100 Million Sold
Earl E40 Stevens Millionaire Alive @ 46 20 Albums Released . Millions Sold And Still Going.
PERIOD
you hatin bitches.
fuck outta here
E-40 has sold at least a million in every decade he’s been involved.
His second album ALONE got his first million, then the next two another. Remember, this is still the pre-2k era.
“My Ghetto Report Card” from 2k6 went Gold, while “Ball Street Journal” was real close(~450k), so let’s take it another rough million, as (obviously) the former wasn’t sold exactly 500k units. (But even if we are not that generous, he still has another 2 or 3 albums from that time, so …)
Speaking about nowadays, his 4-part “Revenue Retrievin” series alone sold overall 960k, and we haven’t even included the Block Brochure series, whose first instalment alone sold ~70+k in first week …
And that’s coming from somebody who hasn’t listened a whole E-40 album in his whole life. Nevertheless, the point remains the same: doing your research before making such claims is always useful.
sales say nothing about quality, dumb fucker. E40 is average
E-40 hasn’t sold millions.
“Yo E40 I gotta hit on Biggie what you want me to do? Boogety woogety woogety wamp wamp do bamp”. I’ll tell you what you clueless, hyphy rappers should do: start reading Hooked on Phonics, because your English is as terrible as your rapping.
You are an idiot. “woo wopty woo woo” is just like that yadda yadda crap, which means he just left something out to get to the point.
btw, GTFO of Hiphopdx, because if you feel that way about rap, I have no idea were you even read this story to begin with.
East vs. West = The West won
Let me guess…Youre from the west coast,right? Smmfh
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“Nevertheless, the point remains the same: doing your research before making such claims is always useful”
E-40 went platinum once, In A Major Way. He’s gone gold 3 other times which I guess one might find impressive, but looking over his discography, there are a handful of other albums that didn’t sell. His most recent albums debuted in the 100’s. Once again, he hasn’t sold millions. Hope this was useful.
So, you have to sell millions or records to be good? Rappers are ranked on the number of albums sold. This is people’s way of thinking, which is why Hip Hop has went to shit.
Who ever put this is dumb ass fuck doesnt matter if his records dont sell there are tons of underground rappers that are dope and dont even go gold just like there are garbage ass rappers who cant rap that go 5x platinum you sound so dumb smh
Who gives a shit if his slang got propagated…he’s still whack as shit. I could only ever tolerate “Sprinkle Me” and “Tell Me When to Go”. Notorious B.I.G. and E-40 shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath. Biggie held the entire game in his hands and if he had lived he be Jay-Z right now. E-40 has been in the game for 20 years and is still considered a B-rated rapper at best. Bay Area niggaz are myopic…you’re the only ones who like your shit. Trust me, I’ve lived everywhere and I know. You won’t even hear it in L.A.
killyoself fuck boy….. i lived everywhere you bitch. stay oyal to ur soil ….Definition of a fuck boy!!!!
You should have listened to “Tired of getting stepped on”.
E40 is a better rapper than biggie tupac waswas the best rapper biggie was a 0 rapper i rate him
Its sad how brothers are quick to kill another brother for words expressed in a magazine interview…..yet, Trayvon’s killer is out here acting crazy without any static. All of these so called goons are our worst enemies.