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"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

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  • "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. (en)
  • «Rapper's Ball» — пісня американського репера E-40, записана з участю та Too Short. Сторона Б: «Things'll Never Change». Сингл посів 29-ту сходинку чарту Billboard Hot 100. Довгий час композиція була найуспішнішою у репертуарі E-40. Проте в 2006 р. «U and Dat», записана з участю T-Pain та , потрапила на 13-те місце чарту Billboard Hot 100. Для реклами платівки Tha Hall of Game зняли два відеокліпи: «Rapper's Ball» (у відео також присутні Тупак, Ice-T та ) і «Things'll Never Change». (uk)
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  • E-40 featuring Too $hort and K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci (en)
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  • Things'll Never Change (en)
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  • Rappers Ball.jpg (en)
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  • Rapper's Ball (en)
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  • Hope I Don't Go Back (en)
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  • Things'll Never Change (en)
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  • Ant Banks, Cedric R Hailey, Earl Stevens, Todd Shaw (en)
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  • «Rapper's Ball» — пісня американського репера E-40, записана з участю та Too Short. Сторона Б: «Things'll Never Change». Сингл посів 29-ту сходинку чарту Billboard Hot 100. Довгий час композиція була найуспішнішою у репертуарі E-40. Проте в 2006 р. «U and Dat», записана з участю T-Pain та , потрапила на 13-те місце чарту Billboard Hot 100. Для реклами платівки Tha Hall of Game зняли два відеокліпи: «Rapper's Ball» (у відео також присутні Тупак, Ice-T та ) і «Things'll Never Change». (uk)
  • "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 (en)
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