A few weeks back—when we spoke to E-40 about his 25 Most Essentials Songs—40 revealed that despite being roughly the same age as Too $hort, he feels like he grew up on $hort Dawg. Of course, this shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, just like 40 Water, Too $hort is a legend and one of the most influential Bay Area rappers ever. Over the years, the two West Coast pioneers have collaborated together on numerous tracks (like "From the Ground Up"), but despite their best attempts, they've never made an album together. Fortunately this year they plan to change all that with their upcoming collaborative effort, The History Channel. We got on the horn with $hort to talk about how the album came together, why their label Jive Records wouldn't let them do this album years ago, and the deal he made with the current Complex coverboy Wiz Khalifa.
On The History Channel album with E-40
“We’re about halfway through recording the album, maybe a little bit further than that. If we don’t get it out on the market by the end of this year, it’ll be out by the top of next year. But we’re definitely going to drop some singles and videos this year. It’s a project that we wanted to do ten years ago. We both were Jive Records artists at the time, but Jive just did not want any parts of that album and we couldn’t figure out why.
