Does anyone know who influenced/inspired E40?

[croatia]

Title

[King Lance]

good question... probably someone from the Bay


From 93 to the late 90s he was only working with rappers from the Bay Area

[DetroitSkills]

Who

[Atone]

Probably some toy he had as a kid that spoke really fast and made no sense 90% of the time

[Chazi]

Who

[Atone]

E40 has one of the most annoying voices in hip-hop.

fixed

[Atone]

Who

Wow, E-40 is the bay area version of Jay Z. Around that time they were getting equal amounts of radio play as well.

I'm surprised people don't actually now him.

1st of all....E-40 isn't even the bay area version of Nelly, more like..the bay area version of...maybe, idk, what rapper do i choose to ignore alot...ummm, fuck, idk, but, E-40 is nowhere near a Jay-Z, the dude sounds awful and honestly, the only song i ever really liked him in was "Candy" by Snoop Dogg from Blue Carpet Treatment, and that just may have been due to the girl in the song with that sexy ass accent she had every time she said Water, idk, but, i've never enjoyed a full E-40 song

[Atone]

By the way, E-40 keeps it 3 thow wow wazer wow zing zing dawg za bing bong...whatever, in this interview with Nuardwar, this may answer your questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tthNGitJv3o

[DƎRDYPK]

I did OP, I did

[Elision]

I know Tech N9ne taught him (and Tupac) how to construct rhyme schemes and patterns, they talk about it in spotlight. And that they're close friends, so it's safe to assume there's some tecca in there. definitely a lot of mac dre inspiration though no doubt, he's basically a fat version of dre with a sharper sound. which makes sense since they're both from the same area and era.

[Atone]

the fuck are you talking about Atone?

watch the fucking video, he says he keeps it 3 thow wow da bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay in da hiz houze fo shizzle

but for real tho, watch the video, he talks about inspirations, motivations, and a few times he asks if we under dig....

it's sad how inner city children grow up and still can't construct an actual sentence without making up a million phrases, schools are failing hard here, i feel bad for E-40 and his obvious speech impairment

[DetroitSkills]

yikes

[DƎRDYPK]

E-40 was on a Twizler song before

[Elision]

it's sad how inner city children grow up and still can't construct an actual sentence without making up a million phrases

all words and phrases are made up, we're just agreeing what the vocal sounds mean when we make them. and you know that. not sure what/who you're referring to with this post but so long as your brain efficiently receives the message my brain is trying to send you, the syllables in which i use to get there shouldn't bother you as much as they seem to.

[Atone]

E-40 was on a Twizler song before

i edited E-40 outta my version