E-40's 'Book of Slang' - Anyone ever come across this?

jtplatnum · Mar 8, 2013

When I was a kid I remember seeing a few advertisements in Sick-Wid-It's liner notes talking about E-40's upcoming 'Book of Slang'...I waited on it for a bit, but like most advertisements in liner notes in those days, I never saw it. I assumed it was a dead project.

Apparently, it actually WAS released as a supplement to Murder Dog magazine sometime in 2003. My questions - have any of you actually seen it in person or online? I've checked ebay and have done a bit of googling but I really can't seem to find anything on it...Hell, I can't even find an IMAGE of the advertisement online...

Any info would be appreciated

n3rd · Mar 9, 2013

Man I remember all the ads, and him talking about it around the time that double album came out.

I never saw it or head about it coming out. Who/what told you it was released?

jtplatnum · Mar 9, 2013

He's pretty good at promoting what he's working on and I haven't heard him talk about this in YEARS...he also doesn't seem the type to 'give up' on a project if you know what I mean...he probably just found it really difficult to come up with enough definitions for a book and probably had some trouble finding a publisher that would have cared...

This article says it was set to come out on July 22, 2003: http://allhiphop.com/2003/06/10/e-40-finished-book-of-slang/
This article says it came out in Murder Dog Magainze (last paragraph): http://www.enotes.com/e-40-reference/e-40