Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: E-40, Too $hort, Pimp C, The Click, Nate Dogg, Ice Cube, Baby, Mystikal, Mack 10, 8 Ball, Jazze Pha, Suga-T, Al Kapone, Pastor Troy, Young Mugzi, Almost High, Jackie Childress, Otis, Shug, B-Legit, D-Shot, R. Scott, Kokane, Levitti. | | Producers include: Tone Capone, Battle Cat, Bosko, Rick Rock, Tone Capone. | | Engineers include: D-Wiz, Bosko, Mark Rains. | | Personnel includes: E-40, Too $hort, Pimp C, The Click, Nate Dogg. | | Producers: Battle Cat, Bosko, Rick Roc, Tone Capone, Outkast. | | Personnel: E-40 (vocals); R. Scott, Nate Dogg (vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Michael Denton; Daniel Romero; Josh Butler; Rick Rock. | | Recording information: Bosko's Chicken And Beats Studios, Los Angeles, CA; DJ Silk's House, Westside, CA; EMI Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Infinite Sound Studios, Alameda, CA; Mizery Studios, Kansas City, MO; Orange Room, Danville, CA; Sound Tree, Atlanta, GA; The Cosmic Slop Shop, Sacramento, CA. | | One of E-40's spottier efforts, Loyalty and Betrayal boasts a good number of highlights, along with some tracks that simply don't work well, and practically every track features a guest. The highlights include the Eightball and Jazze Pha collaboration, "Ya Blind"; the Nate Dogg and Battlecat collaboration, "Nah, Nah..."; and the Click collaboration, "Pop Ya Collar." Clearly not afraid to experiment with different styles and collaborators, E-40 is at his most unpredictable on Loyalty and Betrayal. It doesn't make for one of his better albums, though it does make for an interesting one, so long as you don't mind skipping past the duds to find the highlights. ~ Jason Birchmeier | | If San Francisco rapper E-40 can stay out of jail, he may have a great future as a cartoon character. Most of his raps, when he's not talking about poppin' caps in people's asses, are hilarious. When he ducks the violence and misogyny of his contemporaries he devotes his energies to riotous and potentially tongue-twisting wordplay, which, to ears weary of explicit content, is a vastly more entertaining listen. | | Things start off as they mean to go on from the intro, where a small, background, uncredited Jiminy Cricket-type voice undercuts E's macho pronouncements. "Loyalty and Betrayal" has the usual back-and-forth about who did what to whom, but the arrangement is catchy, and you find yourself humming it after a single listen. This is also the case with "Sinister Mob," which features a great insistent chorus that sticks with you long after you think you've shaken it off. E-40 isn't cute, and he isn't pretty, but he sure ain't all bad. | | If San Francisco rapper E-40 can stay out of jail, he may have a great future as a cartoon character. Most of his raps, when he's not talking about poppin' caps in people's asses, are hilarious. When he ducks the violence and misogyny of his contemporaries he devotes his energies to riotous and potentially tongue-twisting wordplay, which, to ears weary of explicit content, is a vastly more entertaining listen. | | Things start off as they mean to go on from the intro, where a small, background, uncredited Jiminy Cricket-type voice undercuts E's macho pronouncements. "Loyalty and Betrayal" has the usual back-and-forth about who did what to whom, but the arrangement is catchy, and you find yourself humming it after a single listen. This is also the case with "Sinister Mob," which features a great insistent chorus that sticks with you long after you think you've shaken it off. E-40 isn't cute, and he isn't pretty, but he sure ain't all bad. |
Musical Guests | | Too Short | | Pimp C | | Kokane | | Ice Cube | | The Click | | Nate Dogg | | Mystikal | | Suga-T | | Eightball | | Jazze Pha | | Mack 10 | | Al Kapone | | Pastor Troy | | Baby |
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