Disc 11. Yay Area 2. Tell Me When to Go - (featuring Keak Da Sneak) 3. Muscle Cars - (featuring Keak Da Sneak/Turf Talk) 4. Go Hard or Go Home - (with The Federation) 5. Gouda - (featuring B-Legit/Stressmatic) 6. Sick Wid It II - (with Turf Talk) 7. JB Stomp Down - (skit) 8. They Might Be Taping 9. Do Ya Head Like This 10. Block Boi - (featuring Miko/Stressmatic) 11. White Gurl - (featuring Bun B/Pimp C/Juelz Santana) 12. Getthef***On.Com Part 1 - (skit) 13. U and Dat - (featuring T-Pain/Kandi Girl) 14. I'm da Man - (featuring Mike Jones/Al Kapone) 15. Yee - (featuring Too $hort/Bud'da) 16. Getthef***On.Com Part 2 17. Just F***In - (with Bosko) 18. Gimme H*** - (featuring Al Kapone/Bosko) 19. She Say She Loves Me - (featuring 8Ball/Bun B) 20. Happy to Be Here - (featuring D.D. Artis)
Label: Reprise Release Date: 03/14/2006 Original Release Date: 2006 Recording Mode: Stereo Producer: Lil Jon; Rick Rock Recording Type: Studio Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Personnel: E-40 (rap vocals); Stressmatic, Miko, Kandi Girl, D.D. Artis, 8Ball, Keak Da Sneak, Al Kapone, Mike Jones , Pimp C, B-Legit, The Federation, Too $hort, Turf Talk, Juelz Santana, T-Pain, Bosko, Bud'da, Bun B (rap vocals). Having helped bring ghetto slang like "It's all good" and "fo'shezzy, fo'shizzle" to the mainstream (and all the way to the 'burbs in some cases), West Coaster E-40 has earned his place among hip-hop's groundbreakers. His 2006 album, MY GHETTO REPORT CARD, produced by Lil John and Rick Rock, is evidence that 40's innovative musical style continues to influence the genre both musically and linguistically. The veteran rapper invites a host of guests, including Bay-area talent The Federation ("Go Hard or Go Home") and R&B crooner T-Pain ("U and Dat"), to contribute to MY GHETTO REPORT CARD. And while the platinum-selling MC delivers his own laid-back flow over thick bass kicks and catchy hand-claps, he also introduces the "hyphy" movement to a national audience. Basically the Bay Area's version of crunk, hyphy is a jittery, fast paced, synth-powered strain of hip-hop that will keep the clubs bouncing and the heads nodding as long E-40 has anything to say about it.
Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he mix of witty rhymes and hooky beats makes for hip-hop with a highly developed pleasure principle." Q (p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sheer energy means it bears repeated listening." The Wire (p.55) - "[A] thrilling testament to the Bay's weirdness....MY GHETTO REPORT CARD shows flashes of E-40's considerable brilliance." XXL (Magazine) (p.137) - "Always loyal to his soil, E-Feezy makes it clear from jump that he's ready to carry his hometown on his back and introduce hyphy to the masses." Mojo (Publisher) (p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] relentless, profane and insistently exciting record."
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