E-40

E-40 (a.k.a. Charlie Hustle and 40 Water, to name a few) is a Bay Area rapper who, along with family members The Click (D-shot, B-Legit, Suga T), has put Vallejo, California on the hip hop cultural map. He releases records with considerable regularity through his independent record label, Sick Wid It Records. While he has never achieved substantial mainstream success, he is considered to be one of the foremost originators of hip hop slang. Some of his more famous contributions to the hip-hop lexicon include po-po (police officers), Script or Skrilla (money) and yola (a corruption of yayo, another word for cocaine), as well as the concept of adding "-izzle" or "-eezy" to the end of words, popularized by other mainstream rappers such as Snoop Dogg.

External links

• http://www.e-40.com/
• E-40 Lyrics