3rd Bass legend MC Serch recently hosted another episode of his Serch Says podcast, this time with special guest Too $hort. Toward the end of the interview, exclusively obtained by HipHopDX’s Kyle Eustice, the Bay Area Hip Hop pioneer revealed he’s formed a supergroup with three of his fellow Hip Hop legends — E-40, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.
“During the quarantine, I got a call from Ice Cube and E-40,” Short begins around the 55-minute mark. “Over the years, probably more than the past five years, we’ve been doing kind of these old school concerts. It will be either Snoop Dogg or Ice Cube headlining, or it will be me, E-40, sometimes it’s Bone Thugs, DJ Quik. They usually call it like ‘How The West Was Won,’ ‘West Coast Kings’ or some shit like that and it’s always a big show and it always sells out. It’s like 20, 30,000 people — whatever the size of the arena is — it’s sold out.
“So I get a call during the early part of the quarantine from E-40 and Ice Cube going, ‘Man, we feel like we should do an album. Like me, you … it’s E-40, Cube, Too $hort and Snoop Dogg. And I’m like — E-40 and Too $hort from the Bay, Snoop Dogg and Cube are from L.A. and we like the West Coast foundation. We sat there and was like, ‘Fuck it, let’s do it.’ So, we start coming up with beats.”
Short Dawg said the process has been “easy” since everybody is inside quarantining and all four of them have in-home studios. They’re all able to send beats and verses back and forth with their phones.
“I swear to God we made 25 songs like that,” he says with a laugh. “Them muthafuckas, we never once went to the studio together, them shits, you would never never even know. Them shits sounds amazing. Somewhere just fuckin’ around in quarantine we started a whole new thing, so we bout to run that into the new year as a package deal, kind of like The Supremes and The Temptations and Smoky Robinson and The Four Tops. Motown, keep it going, you know?”
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When Serch pressed Short for the name of the group, he wouldn’t give it up — at least not yet. But considering the tenure of the four MCs combined, it’s going to be something special for all Hip Hop purists.
As Short noted, fans can expect the newly erected supergroup to emerge in 2021. Meanwhile, Snoop is currently prepping his forthcoming solo album Take It From A G and launching a professional boxing league, Cube is embroiled in political controversy, Forty Water is celebrating his 104.2 million Spotify streams and Short is focused on his cannabis endeavor.
Dope! But would have been cooler 20-25 years ago.
This would have been a dream come true 20+ years ago
Why not now as well?
Wack. Ice Cube a lame.
I’m happy to see this but please lose Cube, lost all respect for that clown.
Cube a bonifide legend, fuck off.
Lol @ these old mf’s. They should call they group “The Zimmer Frame Posse” lmao
Dope, it’s about the music and poetry not the age, let’s go.
Westcoast boomers?
We just want slaughterhouse back
Don’t forget eMC
EMC I can take or leave. I bought their album but I’d take a Masta Ace solo album over that group any day. Worddworth is good, Stricklin is ok at best and Punchline was terrible on that album.
Here for Snoop and Cube. Eh for Too $hort. Pass on E-40.
0 out of 10?
The expendables of rap, but they are really just expendable.
I’m an old school head but I even have to admit all 4 of these dudes are washed up. Can’t remember the last time I heard anything good from any of these guys. Not to mention I’ve never been the biggest fan of any of them. Sounds like the most boring super group I’ve heard of.
Well I guess it hard to resoect real old school G’s when u listen to vanilla fucking ice back n the day coming from being a cracker myself ur the biggest film TRISXUIT ever punk goof bitch
Everythangs Corrupt was a quality album
So weren’t a fan of them, that’s why you haven’t kept up with any of their music. You might be an old head, but you’re also outdated with what you listen to.
You can’t even wash they car with your sorry ass.
Yep, this new Meg the Stallion or one of the new dead rappers who couldn’t rap when they were alive is way hotter shit. Never mind that Meg actually makes all of her wack songs on all of these old dude’s beats and that the dead rappers couldn’t rap when they were alive, but whatever.
Snoop’s last 3 albums – I Wanna Thank Me, Neva Left and Coolaid were all great. You probably didn’t listen though because you were stuck listening to something from the 90s.
E-40 is the greatest
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Snoop be careful of the company you keep. Sad to say, but some dogs are hogs. Turning your back on your family when their most vulnerable is unacceptable. At the 11th hour their true colors came through. Embarrassing and sad. Be cautious and be careful my Dog.
This hag all in her feelings. Put the pipe down smoker.
Four OGs….ill take it ! Real gangsta shit ! Im tired of 18 year old singing rappers with shape ups in front of their dreads that look like they wearing hair nets.
I think there will be a few bangers on there. The issue is it will take forever to come out. We will see if it see the light of day.
Damn most of them comments…I think it will be good they should call it TALES OF TWO CITY…
Too Short is from Oakland, E40 from Vallejo.
Cube from LA” an Snoop from Long Beach so it couldn’t be a Tale from 2 Cities.
WE WILL NOT FORGET “SHAVED ICE” traitorous actions! If Snoop wants to hitch HIS brand to that??? Well, GOOD LUCK w/THAT!!! START SAVING YOUR MONEY ? SNOOP, YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT!
STFU white boy, culture vulture Officer Vlad
They had a super group….it was called WESTSIDE CONNECTION
That was Cube, Mack, and and dub.
Westurn Union was supposed to be the next super group. „Mr. West“ was dope as well as „All night“
Damn, I see so many negative comments ?
So many negative comments cuz they dont know what real music is. They want 18 year old kids who sing with auto tune, make gun and car noises with their mouths, and wear a giant shape up in front of their dreads looking like a fuckin hair net. Thats what hip hop has become. Fuck all that, I support the OGs. Bring on this album !
This is what we call creative consciousness, in a cv-19 era! Big up to them all!! How can some of you hate when you neva been in da game!? SMMFH
Snoop Doggy Dogg Can Eat A Big Fat Dick!
Big words, coming from a small minded ignorant person like you.
This album will be released on the same day as Dr. Dre’s new stuff.
This will be epic. Fuck all the rooster riding haters who try and clown on the town, yay area and 707. La Leezy put rap on the map in the West and to put Nocal and Socal factors on the same album will be legendary. Half of the new Dum Dum rappers like Muzzy need to wash they colon and the East Coast penis lickers like .50 piece and Gaaay-Z are all in their hormones. Makin your hood look weak while your crash test dummies leak. Lastly wait till they run a train on Martha Stewart’s old crusty hole that will be on pay per view.
Cube and $hort always sound good together. Never liked his mix with E-40 on the tracks over the years, and I have no idea how Snoop fits in He’s the odd one because he’s from another era a little bit after them. We’ll see how this sounds.
Because there all from California. Los Angeles & the Bay Area you must not he from the state to know how big that is
What the fuck are y’all dumb ass talking about. Those are 4 west coast legends!!! Hell yeah day shit gone blend…
Truthl
Don’t like the songs that E-40 and $hort have done over the years is all. I can’t remember anything Snoop did with any of these dudes, so I’m wondering how it’ll sound.
The E-40 and Too $hort albums in 2012 were career highlights for both of them in my opinion.
40 and Snoop’s first solo albums dropped in the same year (1993) so they’re from the same era. Yes 40 had some locally released EPs before that and stuff with The Click, but nothing widely released. All four worked together a lot in the late nineties so it’s not a weird fit at all.
No, they didn’t. That was his mainstream shit. E-40 had been out since the late 80s in the Bay. Hell, I remember him buzzing for years before he got his Jive deal just like $short had been out since the mid 80s.
Then need to add ICE T! Get rid of snoop. Haha
Uh oh…Return of the West Coast baby!
HELL YEAH….. Can’t wait y’all,shit’s gonna be fire like my mufuckin weed…
Shiiit where’s Rappin fortay at?
Wrapping his lips around a glass dick and holding the other man’s belt loop
I want a group with SNOW, Vanilla ICE, Fred Dust, and the skinny ICP guy that shit would be DOPE
DJ quik should make the beats for them
These guys are known for watering down their lyrics. I’m skeptical. 40 will be the only one that is most persistent. But even he’ll lag every now and then.
Well, forgot Cube. He may be okay. But he’s watered down now also.
Back UP!!..Culture Vulture Serch is a “Legend”?
Miss me
Your nana is a legend at giving head. The whole team call her hoover mouth. You are a low key cross dressing no name nobody.
album of the century? maybe. BOO YA !
Run-D.M.Senior Center
I will be bumpin this while I raw dog your mama’s stretched out booty hole.
Anybody that thinks this group is not going to be fire is remedial
Will they have matching outfits?
Yes produced by Dope Era clothing from Oakland
They bout to fuck it up yo
These cats sure do have a lot to say cause Ive never heard of any of you, but you cats seem to think you’ve been somewhere and done some things while these GIANTS were treading over anything and everything your lil mediocure under developed bag of rags you call a mind ever accomplished. And if it WAS anything different your names would be up there. So sit back and rest your neck cause there filling with shit and y’all Makin it stink round here with the bullshit thats falling outs your mouths.
These playas were makin moves when the haters on here were swimming in their sus daddies nut sack. They think these arched eyebrow rappers are the shiznit while the OGs are washed up. Well let me tell you little bitches these four old mother fuckers will still lay pipe to your ugly ass mama and have your buck toothed sister walking the track while you are hiding your sus head in the pillow in the guest room.
Best Shit I read all day!!!! LMMFAOOOOOO