E-40 & Too Short “The History Channel” Tracklist & Cover Art

    While speaking with Vlad TV, California rapper E-40 revealed that he’s working on a joint project with fellow rapper Too $hort which will be titled E-40 & Too Short: The History Channel.
    Aside from revealing the name of the project E-40 explained that it will consist of two different albums, one album will be geared towards their new school music while the other album will focus on old school music. 
    “First of all the album is called E-40 & Too $hort: The History Channel. We’re doing two albums. It’s two albums we’re dropping on the same day,” E-40 revealed. “$hort was before me so we both seen all the genres, different eras of music. So we got fans that loved the old school music and we got fans that love the new school music. So it’s called E-40 & Too Short: The History Channel. Function music which is for the newer era. So that’s a whole album full of nothing but function music. And then we got mob music and that’s just old school. The old school feel. We tryna make our fans feel like they used to on the mob music one.”
    E-40 also spoke on being considered an underdog in music and shared that he chooses to embrace the underdog title. 
    “I consider myself an underdog, but I don’t care about that. I think it’s better to be honest with you. I like underdogs,” said E-40. “When I see a boxing match I’m like ‘Man, he the underdog. I want him to win.’ You know what I’m saying? Maybe that’s why [I’ve lasted] so long in this industry. If I would’ve just blew up overnight, sold 10 million records I probably would have been out the game. But God made it and he designed it like this and I’m gonna roll with it. This is my path.”
    It’s unclear when exactly E-40 & Too $hort: The History Channel will be released. 
    RELATED: E-40 “The Block Brochure” Cover Art, Tracklist

    While speaking with Vlad TV, California rapper E-40 revealed that he’s working on a joint project with fellow rapper Too $hort which will be titled E-40 & Too Short: The History Channel.

    Aside from revealing the name of the project E-40 explained that it will consist of two different albums, one album will be geared towards their new school music while the other album will focus on old school music. 

    “First of all the album is called E-40 & Too $hort: The History Channel. We’re doing two albums. It’s two albums we’re dropping on the same day,” E-40 revealed. “$hort was before me so we both seen all the genres, different eras of music. So we got fans that loved the old school music and we got fans that love the new school music. So it’s called E-40 & Too Short: The History Channel. Function music which is for the newer era. So that’s a whole album full of nothing but function music. And then we got mob music and that’s just old school. The old school feel. We tryna make our fans feel like they used to on the mob music one.”

    E-40 also spoke on being considered an underdog in music and learning to embrace the underdog title. 

    “I consider myself an underdog, but I don’t care about that. I think it’s better to be honest with you. I like underdogs,” said E-40. “When I see a boxing match I’m like ‘Man, he the underdog. I want him to win.’ You know what I’m saying? Maybe that’s why [I’ve lasted] so long in this industry. If I would’ve just blew up overnight, sold 10 million records I probably would have been out the game. But God made it and he designed it like this and I’m gonna roll with it. This is my path.”

    It’s unclear when exactly E-40 & Too $hort: The History Channel will be released. 

    [April 16]

    UPDATE: E-40 and Too Short have announced the release of their upcoming joint album The History Channel, dropping November 6th. According to HHNM, the pair will unleash the project in two parts: The History Channel: Function Music, which will be “music for the new era,” and The History Channel: Mob Music, which will have an “old school feel.”

    [August 31]

    UPDATE #2: The cover art for E-40 and Too Short’s pair of albums – The History Channel: Function Music and The History Channel: Mob Music – have been revealed.

    mob

    functino

    [September 9]

    UPDATE #3: E-40 and Too Short have revealed the tracklist for their upcoming albums The History Channel: Function Music and The History Channel: Mob Music, due November 6th (Amazon via X).

    Mob Music

    1. We Are Pioneers
    2. Sheesh
    3. Fire Fighter (feat. Knotch)
    4. Whip Out
    5. Money Motivated
    6. Ballin’ Is Fun (feat. B-Legit)
    7. Ride With Me
    8. Do You Remember? (feat. Kurupt)
    9. Street Money
    10. My Stapler
    11. I Don’t Work For Nobody
    12. Ask About Me (feat. B-Legit)
    13. If We Ain’t Fuckin’
    14. Gang of ‘Em (feat. Beeda Weeda & Rankin Scroo)
    15. Knockin’ A Bitch
    16. Pancherellos
    17. Stressin’

    Function Music

    1. This Shit Pound
    2. Slide Through (feat. Tyga)
    3. Smoke That Shit
    4. Let’s Have A Party (feat. Cousin Fik & Knotch)
    5. Dump Truck (feat. Travis Porter & Young Chu)
    6. Singles
    7. Entrepreneur
    8. Bout My Money (feat. Turf Talk)
    9. Say I (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
    10. Workin’ the Trunk
    11. West Coast Shit (feat. Ice Cube)
    12. One Foot (feat. Sugafree)
    13. Check That Bitch
    14. Everyday
    15. Lemme See You Twerk (feat. Dolla Will & Decadez)
    16. Toasted
    17. Cali (feat. Wifey & DJ Upgrade) 

    RELATED: E-40 “The Block Brochure” Cover Art

    162 thoughts on “E-40 & Too Short “The History Channel” Tracklist & Cover Art

    1. Gotta hand it to E-40. He more than gives his fans new music. The Block Brochure series had alot of filler, but it was still pretty good.

    2. Shit, E-40 always had my respect. I mean, this brother dropped 3 albums in the same day. That’s like, 60 songs. He ain’t giving a fuck about other shit, he’s all about music. I don’t care what nobody says, he’s one of the G.O.A.T. to me

      1. Word Fam!! E-40 is one of my favorites of all time also. He stay consistent he’s experimented with new sounds but nothing that strayed too far from his core.

        I bought all three albums of The Block Brochure as well as his last two double album sets. I got all of his albums minus Mr. Flamboyant and the greatest hits album (no point since I have all of them LOL plus I can make a better compilation of songs I like from the collection on my computer)

    3. If this album is ever done and if it ever sees the light of day, i’m pretty sure it will go down as the wackest album ever made.

      1. We still Hyphy out here boi!

        And whatever you think Hyphy is…….its not.

        Unless you live in northern california, you WILL NEVER understand, plain and simple

        Tupac started that hyphy shit in Oakland and it spread like a wildfire.

        its in our bloodline bitch

    4. I dont think you can call any of his songs filler. He makes a ton of songs, experiments with different beats, and puts them out for his fans to buy. He works under a different business model than your average artist, who you as fans, sit and wait years for albums to be finished, only to build expectations up so high that it will never live up..and so on.. he just makes his music. he continues to give fans music to listen to, without all the publicity stunts, arrests, beefs and arguments (in fact, if you notice, every other artist gives him credit and no one messes with him). Its just a different model completely. He has a following of fans that will continue to buy his music and enjoy it. I have seen this guy do the same thing for many years, rising above all the bs that other artists create for themselves, bought himself a house on the hill, put his kids in the nicest area possible, and at the end of the day, his music is love it or leave it! Respect where due though..

    5. Good idea but I still have a bad feeling that on the mob album there’ll be autotune and sugar sweet modern r&b hooks. That wrecked a lot of songs on Block Brochure eg cutlass, This is the life etc. Needs to bring back the real hook singers and the vocoder.

    6. lol The old and not relevant channel!

      These dudes had there prime. they now nobody’s

      I mean too short is 50 years old and still rapping about being a pimp. grow the fuck up!!!!

      1. shut the fuck up Too Short is a legend and if he wants to rap until he is dead then why not. I rather listen to that then 2 chains and lil wayne. You know there are people in there 30’s and 40’s that still listen to rap.. Function was a dope song. Kid shut the fuck up and show some respect the pioneers of this shit. They started this shit and this the thanks they get…smh.

      2. Also Filmore Slim was pimping in his 60’s so wtf you talking about. You cant be from America. Foreigners ned to stay in there place and quit speaking on shit they dont know.

      3. real shit 2short and 40 water are legends, they could rap til they old and grey and ill still be bumpin they shit as long as they not conforming to the new bs. MOB MUSIC tho

      4. FOOL……40 and short clock more mail then you’ll make in your life.

        Especially if you waste time hatin online.

        lol man the world is full of funny ass people i swear to god

      5. agree with the original post. grandpa too short still rapping about fucking chicks. i bet you he pops the viagra before he does. lol

        and too short and 0 water aren’t shit.

    7. Meanwhile, HHDX still haven’t reviewed the The Block Brochure series. I know its matter of editoral decision, but I hope y’all won’t miss this one too …

    8. “still better than C4 and Take Care”

      Those two albums have sold millions. Too Short and E-40 won’t even go gold. Wise up pal.

      1. ^ sales determines how many people like the album. so higher sales = higher popularity = better album. and soulja boy went platinum with a quality dance move that everyone and their momma was doing, so stop the hate.

    9. “The Block Brochure series had alot of filler”

      That’s for sure. Even the beats weren’t that good.

    10. “Do you know how many records Too Short has sold. 11 million”

      He’s been around since 1983. Of course he’s sold more. The better question is has Too Short ever sold 631,000 copies in the first week?

    11. hahaha. grandpa too short and grandpa e-40 are going to flop harder than ginobli with both these albums. two irrelevant 80s/90s niggas with a tiny ass fanbase. odd future and kendrick lamar are the new faces of the west.

    12. youngsta:

      c4 and take care >>>>> grandpa e-40 and grandpa too short’s careers

      Lil dumb azz nigga don’t know shit… Skinny jeanz cuttin off circulation to tha brain

    13. “Since when does sells = quality”

      So then based on your logic every album that has ever gone platinum sucks.

    14. Cause for some reason if Too Short goes wood that’s impressive, but Drake does 1.5 million, and suddenly the quality is poor, it’s not rap, his voice makes it hard for you to concentrate in the bathroom.

    15. Damn its a lot of fuckin haters out here. wow!!! and they say dumb shit like if a album sells more that means its more popular and a better album than the rest. Really? Vanilla Ice sold 7 million, so I guess his album was one of the greatest huh? Niggas man… niggas

      1. ^ he’s obviously talking about ANY album that has gone platinum, u stupid fuck ass hater! there’s bound to be at least ONE album that u like that has gone platinum.

      2. MMLP, CHRONIC, EFIL4ZAGGIN, E 1999 ETERNAL, TICAL, BLUEPRINT 1,2,3, TM101, RELAPSE, RECOVERY, ART OF WAR, ALL EYEZ ON ME, 7 DAY THEORY, TRU 2 DA GAME, UNPREDICTABLE, must i go on

    16. “album sells more that means its more popular and a better album than the rest”

      That’s exactly what it means. Don’t get it twisted. There are albums that haven’t sold that are good, but in terms of how you separate artists, you measure their sales/popularity. If those things didn’t matter, then Billboard wouldn’t exist. This site probably wouldn’t exist. XXL. The Source. Countless rap websites.

    17. “Vanilla Ice sold 7 million, so I guess his album was one of the greatest huh?”

      Doesn’t matter if his hits go down as some of the greatest, or if he was just a product of that time. Fact is, he sold millions, and was popular.

    18. Only a hip-hop forum would you have so many people defending the argument that sales=quality.

      Outside of a pop music forum of course.

      And as wack as Vanilla Ice was as a rapper, he is still a better performer than most of the rappers in the mainstream right now. That’s how bad things are at the moment

    19. hahafck all of you guys, i am so fuckin pumpd for this shi to come out. nobody does i better the 40..do you guys relize that once these 2 albums drop, it will be 40’s 5th album of the year?…either u luv 40 or hate hiim, and i looooove his music

    20. If this was 1995 maybe they would go platinum, but these niggas decide to release a joint album in 2012?!?! You are late, bastards.

    21. @ F*ck The Bay:

      How are they supposed to dress? I don’t see nothing wrong with they gear plus who gives a f*ck what another man is wearing!!! Go look at some women.

    22. man i’m looking forward to this one! i have the blessings of feeling true music and leaving these two guys for a while and now coming back and tuning in. They have stepped their game up in a tremendous way

    23. E-40 & Too $hort still out here doing it mayne! Can’t wait for this album. They should have already been on vol. 5 tho..haha jk. But on some real shit you niggaz thats hatin’ on these too Rap/Hip-hop legends need to wake yo game up. this is coming from the same niggaz that made “freaky tales” & “Captain Save a Hoe” that right there is a slapper from the 80s till infinity and thats a fact.

    24. “sales does not equal good music”

      So if we go back and look at the albums that sold close to or at least 1 million first week, are you going to argue that most of those sucked because they were being pushed onto the public?

    25. There are albums that haven’t sold that are good, but in terms of how you separate artists, you measure their sales/popularity. If those things didn’t matter, then Billboard wouldn’t exist. This site probably wouldn’t exist. XXL. The Source. Countless rap websites
      ++++++++++++++

      NAW

      JUST U WOULDN’T B HERE TRYIN 2 “SEPARATE ARTISTS”

      & WE COULD GET BACK TO THE MUSIC

      1. ^ you want me to shove pennies down my anus? nah, i’m going to save those up. i guess that’s what you like to do. shoving coins down your ass.

    26. My little friend is back speaking on things he knows nothing about. Artists have been separated based on sales for decades. Where have you been? Oh wait. Don’t tell me.

      1. LIKE I SAID

        WE’VE BEEN MAKING MUSIC 4 A CENTURY W/O UR SALES & POPULARITY BULLSH!T & WERE AND STILL R WORLD RENOWN

        THE ROOTS R ON JIMMY KIMMEL BECAUSE OF THEIR SKILL NOT SALES FIGURES OR POPULARITY

        NOW IF U FCUKBOIS WOULD KINDLY GTFOH WITH ALL THAT SILLY SH!T

        WE CAN GO BACK TO MAKING MUSIC AND ENJOYING IT & REWARDING OUR MUSICIANS

        U CAN GO READ A TEEN BEAT MAGAZINE & FOLLOW POP MUSIC & TWEET HEADLINES

        WE’VE ALWAYS REWARDED OUR GREATS

    27. lets be honest..e-40 and too short dont really care they wont sell..they know they wont, but theyre making music because they want to…enough said

    28. hahaha! these grandpas acting like they’re young and shit hanging out at a club. they’re probably in the senior section with 50+ old strippers showing off their sagging wrinkly bodies. lol, and the other one looks like they’re acting gangsta in a retirement home.

      these niggas need to stop before they embarass themselves. hang it up now before they become hip hop’s next laughing stock.

    29. E-40 and Too Short may have released 15+ albums, but none of them are better than Ja Rule’s universal classic, Pain Is Love.

    30. I love how these bitch ass kids talk about”they too old” and “they should retire” shit.All of your favorite rappers out right now,have bit $hort or 40’s shit in one way or another.Who was really pimpin in songs before short?NOBODY you weak ass niggas.killyoself.Why do I wanna hear a bunch of modern copycats when he’s the o.g. and real deal?

      1. who the fuck cares about who started what? grandpa too short and e-40 should reitre period. they had their time, now they should let the new breed of rappers have their shine. stop being a bitter old bitch!

      1. come visit me i have a treat for my biggest fan. ima put my **** all up in your ****** ass.. then make u clean it. with your mouth.

    31. Ja Rule can record himself taking a shit and it will still be better than 99.9% of anything that’s out right now. The other 0.1% is PIL2.

    32. i swear man, yall are ignorant..who cares if these guys are old? they created so much of rappers of todays style and lingo…who do you think came up with the words po-po (police), captain save a ho,fo shizzle (thats right, snoop dogg didnt come up with tht either)..i mean, its ignorant just to say that you wont listen tothese niggaz because they are “old”..who cares? i mean i don’t care how old you are if you can drop some good music, ill listen to it

      1. That’s a troll. That’s the new thing on the ‘net, act like a weirdo by saying something outlandish to get a response instead of having a normal conversation.

      1. Nah nigga, Ja Rule will never get faded by anybody. He will be here forever. You’re just jealous that Ja Rule is the hottest nigga in the industry.

    33. Man I’m excited this is coming out, E-40 is one of my favorite artists and Too Short has been someone I bumped a lot also. If it’s anything like E-40’s last albums it should be enjoyable.
      I must say though I’m not so much of a fan of this multiple album on the same day formula 40 been on these last few years. I love that he is supplying so much material (especially since he doesn’t do mixtapes) but he should just make these as one double cd album. The true 40 fans buy all the discs (or mp3 albums) anyway so why put it out as two separate albums. It must be a numbers thing but either way I’m grabbing them

      1. @ Tizz

        So why you’re excited?

        These lame fucks been 45 years or something and still rapping about selling crack and pimping bitches?

        This is the problem with rappers they dont know when to retire. They just grow the fuck up! Do you hear some metal dudes or rockstars still singing about satan who are 45 years old? No! Why? They are adults now!

    34. Typical Too Short lyrics: suck my dick bitch, make money bitch, im a pimp, i pimp bitches, i fuck bitches. So great! 50 years old and still talking about hoes. And E-40 get rid of those riduclous glasses. It aint cool.

    35. “Do you hear some metal dudes or rockstars still singing about satan who are 45 years old?”

      They call the devil by another name now. Mitt Romney.

    36. Eminem faded Ja, not 50, and since Ja has been back inside the big house, he’s learned to let the past go and focus on the future. Has been today, presidential hopeful tommorow.

    37. “THE ROOTS R ON JIMMY KIMMEL”

      Good for their wallets, but doesn’t change the fact that if they had sold more maybe better opportunities would have come along.

    38. THEY SHOULD GET WEEZY, GUCCI, WAKA, 2 CHAINZ, SOULJA BOY, JUSTIN BIEBER, NAS, LUPE FIASCO, AC/DC AND OTHER TALENTED ARTISTS ON THEIR PROJECT OR IT’S ALREADY A FLOP, I’M SORRY… BUT STILL THEY ARE MUCH BETTER GRANDFATHERS IN HIP HOP GAME THAN RAKIM OR SO.

    39. AND THE COVERS ARE GREAT. SUCH AN ARTISTIC COVERS WITH MILLIONS METAPHORS IN IT, IT’S LIKE DA VINCI’S PAINTINGS OF RAP. I’M JUST TRYING TO FIND HOLY GRAIL.

    40. “If I wouldve just blew up overnight, sold 10 million records I probably would have been out the game”

      No you fat retard. You’d probably be a superstar instead of a regional hero.

    41. Why are these stuck-in-the-past ass niggas releasing an album anyway??? Can’t they see they ain’t hitting no more?? And I ain’t talking about record sales, I’m talking about QUALITY. Their music has been trash since 2000

      1. i dont really care if these guys sell 20 million albums in a week or 5,000 albums in a week…i also dont care if these guys are 8 month year old babies or 90 year old great grandfathers..if they make good music, ill listen to them..40 is a real man, and one of the reasons you might not like him is because he uses his own lingo

        “i may speak a different languange but i aint scottish, i got more friends in jail then i do in college”

      2. Who the fuck do u listen to , (f da Bay), who do u think u r disrespecting two pioneers of westcoast and rap in general.Thats the problem wit cats nowadays , short attention spans and no respect for anything.There will be no rappers who could every dream of having as much influence and longevity as these two mc,s. Love them or hate them u have to respect them.

      3. I could care careless how many records u sell. If u do then u might as well listen to beiber or timberlake.Rap ain,t pop and these n****s r the farthest things from it. The thing is that ,the new mc,s don,t last for long and alot of them don,t do their homework. They need to study up on public enemy, scarface, rakim, ice cube, daddy kane, krs one and above the law.Nipsey , dom, gibbs and fiasco r tight though.

      4. I’m from Cali. Not a huge Bay fan but gotta love too short and e40. For those that dont know. Bay Area Music is it’s own Culture and the people up in the Bay are very prideful of it. They hustle hard and rep there own. They dont need to go main stream to make money and look down on other main stream rappers. I’m not a fan of much of their music but it is what it is. They dont need the rest of the country to buy their music to survive.

    42. as long as e 40 and 2 short have their own fan base, they will always be making music…honestly at first, i hated e 40, hated his weird flow, but then i heard some songs where he really brought it and let me tell ya, the nigga can bring it…he is one of those rappers that takes time to get into and he really grows on you..he may not sell millions of albums, but this guy really has a huge fan base from fans everywhere in the world, not just the bay area

    43. iight i peeped all tha comments, and its treal to say opinions are like assholes everybody got them,but these days tha average listener is not ya ordinary listener,take someone thats just a fan of e40 but not short,or vice versa, would still buy this album because they are fans of either or now someone whos not a fan of e40 and 2 short aint gonna support, just plain and simple but might listen if one of there favorite artists is on there but still just 99.9 percent chance they will buy it, these days there is something called
      the net so because of that most people will download for free because thats how people do, and they wont pay for nothing,just saying that you gotta give these 2 dudes congrats for putting an album together,
      whether you like them or not they took the time out their life to make music,so if you like it support or if you dont like it dont support, but whether hate or love,respect that there are still artists taking time out of there lives putting music out there
      for you to like or not like

    44. Took time out of their lives? lol This is their job, dumb fuck. Obviously they aren’t doing it for free. I respect both their grinds, but Too Short is getting a lil old for this, and E-40 is burning out fast by throwing albums out there like he’s dying or something. Slow down and perfect the music more, and just maybe the sales would reflect that.

    45. No Ja Rule? What’s up with these bitch ass niggas not featuring the mighty RULE on their albums? Afraid of being outshined?

    46. i really can’t wait to hear that song with tyga on it. tyga’s gonna smoke these grandpas on their own song. lol

    47. It’s a shame Too Short didn’t let JT The Bigga Figga get on this album. JT defended Too Short, when that other rapper was dissing Short Dawg. The song JT did was called “Take One” and it stopped all that disrespect toward Sheezy.

    48. This boy is a beast!!! 6 albums in one year DAmn!!! oh Boy!! mustard and mayonaise fo shiggity!! Fuck dem haters at Rock the Bells!!! the west killed it!! Yo 40 water is Ant Banks still making any albums?

    49. What happened to these guys?when you see these guys together you expect to hear what they did on too shorts “you nasty” album with the “just like dope song.As for E-40 this guy has really been putting out some gay ass sissy shit lately…..what happened to “CHARLIE HUSTLE” man?those were the real slaps!keep putting out this trash and i will stop buying your music on a real note!

    50. the bay in the house “east oakland yea that’s rite” from oakland to vallejo. i think it was a good idea for short in 40 to drop a albulm together, the town (oakland) has been waiting on this project for quite some time. i have faith in too short in 40 album i think it’s gonna knock but to you cats out there that wanna hate in speak down on these two dudes like ja rule is all that.. if ja rule was so hot, why is he not still in the rap game? thas cause he came in went he didn’t last in the music industry but only for a short time.. no music sells, no support from is fans, so that should prove who’s better it’s the same dudes yall talking bad on, short in 40.. and b4 i end this i bet they will both screw you square niggas wives or girlfriends in have them in they song the next day.. ja rule broke u squares broke in the same boat why these dudes is millionairs still making hella money so call how you want it..

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