Sharp on All 4 Corners: Corner 1

by E-40

Overview

Maybe his breakthrough hit "Tell Me When to Go" was a threat, as the Bay Area slang king known as E-40 has kept a brutally prolific release schedule since 2011. It was then he released a quadrilogy of albums with Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift, Night Shift. Overtime Shift, and Graveyard Shift all landing within the year, then The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1 landed in 2012, kicking off a series that would drop no less than six albums over the next two years. The 2014 release Sharp on All 4 Corners: Corner 1 sets in motion another quadrilogy that uses The Block Brochure's two-year roll-out plan, but E-40 fans should check their already beat-up wallets, because this one balls hard. The abundance of minimal techno beats and hyphy lyrics found here all fall within E-40's comfort zone, and yet, he attacks these cuts with the punch and and the throwback nastiness of 2006's My Ghetto Report Card. Then, there's "Red Cup" with T-Pain, B.o.B., and Kid Ink helping to bring the Bay Area strip club anthem into 2014 as lyrics like "She can make some Guess Jeans stretch like polyester/Call me Lord Bobby, I'ma bless her with the scepter" say all there needs to be said. Rounding it all out are a couple ambitious numbers that border on experimentation ("Paint the Picture" is a ghostly take on cloud rap while the crooked "2 Fingers" sounds like a Zapp album malfunctioning) and in the end, E-40's unwieldy discography becomes frustrating primarily because these high points can get lost in the woods. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	12/09/2014
Label:	Heavy On The Grind
UPC:	0852020002775

Tracks

1. Programmin
2. Can't F*ck With Me
3. Money Sack
4. Red Cup
5. Knockin' at the Light
6. Choices (Yup)
7. Three Jobs
8. Paint the Picture
9. Straight Mobbin'
10. 2 Fingers
11. Playa
12. 707
13. Same Since '88
14. Family

Album Credits

Performance Credits

E-40   Primary Artist
B.o.B   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Ezale   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Willie Joe   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Cousin Fik   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Stresmatic   Primary Artist
Suge   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Lil' Boosie   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
T-Pain   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Turf Talk   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
B-Legit   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Nef the Pharaoh   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Vell   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Adrian Marcel   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
VT   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Kid Ink   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Otis & Suge   Primary Artist
Otis   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Too $hort   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
YV   Primary Artist
Mistah F.A.B.   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Mistah F.A.B.   Composer
VT   Producer
Rick "RJ" Alexander   A&R
Mike Free   Producer
Rick Rock   Producer
Poly Boy   Producer
Stunna June   Producer
Ted Digital   Composer,Producer
Michael Denten   Mastering
Cousin Fik   Composer
E-40   Composer
Earl Stevens, Jr.   Executive Producer
Migui Maloles   Mixing Assistant,A&R
Stresmatic   Composer
Tha Bizness   Producer
Tone Bone   Producer
Decadez   Producer
Sam Bostic   Producer
Clinton Sands   Producer
Earl Stevens   Executive Producer,Composer
YV   Composer
Kristo   Producer