Rapper's Ball

"Rapper's Ball" is a song by American rap artist E-40, featuring rapper Too $hort and Jodeci lead singer Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey. It is a single from the lead rapper's 1996 album Tha Hall of Game and is a B-side for E-40's song "Things'll Never Change", featuring The Dove Shack rapper Bo-Rock. The song peaked at #29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart along with "Things'll Never Change", becoming E-40's most successful song as a lead artist until "U and Dat" featuring T-Pain and Kandi Girl peaked at #13 on the Hot 100 in 2006. This song is considered a classic by most west coast rap fans, especially in E-40's hometown Vallejo which is in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. This song is also notable for featuring a diss to Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G. in which E-40 says, "Don't buy an $85,000 car before you buy a house", making reference to Biggie owning expensive cars but still not having purchased his own home. In the video, Tupac Shakur, who makes a cameo appearance, winks at the camera when this line is said. This song is also one of Too Short's successful songs amongst many Platinum Albums Too Short has recorded with other Bay Area HipHop Rap Legend. Later several Top Artists around the Bay would collaborate on the Album The Whole Damn Yay T.W.D.Y. a west coast supergroup formed by Ant Banks and released in 1999. The music video also features another Rap artist from the Bay Area most known for his Raw Gangsta Rap lyrics, Ice-T arriving with Too Short & playing pool with Tupac, albeit doesn't perform.

"Rapper's Ball"
Single by E-40 featuring Too $hort and K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci
from the album Tha Hall of Game
B-side"Things'll Never Change"
ReleasedSeptember 18, 1996
Recorded1996
GenreWest Coast hip hop, R&B
LabelJive, Sick Wid It
Songwriter(s)Ant Banks, Cedric R Hailey, Earl Stevens, Todd Shaw
Producer(s)Ant Banks
E-40 singles chronology
"'Sprinkle Me'"
(1995)		 "Rapper's Ball"
(1996)		 "'Hope I Don't Back'"
(1998)

Chart performance
Chart (1997) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[1] 29
US Hot Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)[1] 26
US R&B/Hip Hop Songs (Billboard)[1] 19
US Rap Songs (Billboard)[1] 4

References
  1. "Tha Hall of Game – E-40 > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
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