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Bay Area Icons E-40 & Too Short Doing A “Battle Of The Bay” Verzuz

E-40 and Too Short, the two icons and pioneers of Bay Area hip-hop have signed on to do a “Battle of the Bay”, the Timbaland and Swizz Beatz webcast series VERZUZ.

E-40 and Too $hort released the collaborative double album The History Channel in 2012, and they are also teaming up again in 2021 as part of the new west coast super group along with Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.

The Battle takes place on December 19, 2020 at 8pm Eastern time.

Chad Kiser

Chad M. Kiser is a veteran writer of 15 years with interviews, bylines, and content featured in top media outlets including TMZ, ESPN, Fox News, XXL Magazine, HipHopDX, AllHipHop, The Wall Street Journal, DubCNN, Playboy Magazine, BBC4 Music, VH-1, MTV, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and numerous others. Several of his in-depth interviews have been cited in critically acclaimed books such as "The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form", "Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap", "Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap", "Sounding Race In Rap Songs", "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America".

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