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Oakland rapper Too Short has announced that he will be releasing several new projects this year, including a long overdue collaboration with a fellow Bay Area legend, and a "Too Short Adventure" book. "I'm working on some new music, a new Too Short album the Too Short/E-40 album," he said in a recent interview...

A Colorado man was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man outside of an E-40 concert in 2009. Terry Lamaire Gaines, a 24-year-old, was convicted of shooting a 27-year-old named Michael Allen Davis in a parking lot after the show in Colorado Springs...

E-40, the Bay Area's most successful veteran rapper, is hardly slowing down with age. In fact, he's picking up steam. The MC has just announced that he is issuing two brand-new volumes of his 'Revenue Retrievin'' series in the form of separate full-length albums...

Following last year's successful event, the upcoming Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Festival is slated to be a doozy. The lineup for this year's concert has been announced, with Black Star, E-40, Murs, Slaughterhouse, Immortal Technique, Bun B, Nipsey Hussle, Lil B and more slated to perform during the fest...

E-40 and Too Short, two legends of Bay Area hip-hop, are finally joining forces for their first collaborative record. The album builds on numerous tracks that the two have bodied together throughout the years but marks the first time that fans will hear an entire body of work featuring both rappers in tandem...

The rap world is notable for producing slang that becomes a staple in the American lexicon, and a few emcees are making it their duty to document their unique phrases. EnglishBaby.com, a site devoted to teaching users how to learn vocab words and English phrases, has enlisted Bay Area's E-40 and Tech N9ne to participate in its Celebrity English Lesson series to define bits of slang...

Suga-T, the sole female member of Bay area group The Click, has been missing from the game for a minute following her strong debut 17 years ago. But she's ready to pick back up the mic. The California native, whose real name is Tanina Stevens, is currently prepping the release of her new mixtape 'The Return of Suga: The Best is Yet to Come,' on August 2, in anticipation of her official studio rele

Medical marijuana advocate Ken Estes is a controversial figure to some, but to members of the Bay Area rap scene, he is a hero. The wheelchair-bound activist has worked to reform marijuana laws for more than 20 years, battling the U.S. Government and appearing in segments on CNN and FOX news programs, before attempting a new tactic; using music to get his message out to people...

While E-40's beef with Biggie Smalls is well-documented, the Bay legend never really explained his side of the situation that lead to Biggie being "banned" from the Bay Area, until recently. "I think that they had got him hella perkin' out there," 40 said, explaining that the inciting statements Biggie made about him were likely taken out of context...

The "Bay Area Ambassador" himself, rapper E-40 will give fans a double dose of his music by dropping two albums on the same day. The albums titled 'Revenue Retrievin' Day Shift,' and 'Revenue Retrievin' Night Shift' will serve as the 13th and 14th albums for the Vallejo, California native...