The Click

Biography

A Bay Area family affair, The Click is a four-member hip-hop posse from Vallejo, CA, headed up by rapper E-40 (Earl Stevens) and including his brother D-Shot, sister Suga T, and cousin B-Legit, who grew up in the same household. Though he first achieved solo success, E-40 actually began his career with the group, which was formed in 1986 as the Most Valuable Players and performed at a Grambling State University talent show. The response encouraged the group to rename itself and get down to business, and they released a single called “The King’s Men.”

Meanwhile, E-40 – earning his nickname of Charlie Hustle - followed the path of many other successful entrepreneurs, selling tapes from the trunk of his car in the late ’80s. (He did so, however, while also managing a family run clothing store and working a day job at an oil refinery). E-40 started his own label, Sick Wid It Records, that put out a couple of Click cassettes and the group’s official debut, Down & Dirty.

In 1993, the perseverance paid off as E-40 landed a guest spot on Spice 1‘s 187 He Wrote and got the attention of Jive Records, which signed a distribution deal with Sick Wid It. After the 1994 success of The Mail Man, E-40‘s first album for the label, Jive released Click’s major-label debut, Game Related, the following year. But thanks to E-40‘s solo career, plus the solo outings of Click’s three other members, it was six years before a follow-up saw the light of day. Money & Muscle, which was finally released in the summer of 2001, saw the group once again serving up heavy bottomed West Coast G-funk with occasionally lighthearted lyrics, such as “Hector da Ho Protector,” a direct descendant of E-40‘s 1994 hit “Captain Save a Ho.”

	Discography
	Let’s Side	Sick Wid’ It Records	1990
	Down And Dirty	Jive	1993
	Game Related	Jive	1995
	Money & Muscle	Jive	2001
	Guest Performances
	Captain Save A Hoe E-40 - The Mail Man	Jive	1994
	Fuckin’ They Nose E-40 - Charlie Hustle: Blueprint Of A Self-Made Millionaire	Jive	1999
	Game Suga T - Gettin’ It	Pushin’ Hits	2000
	Nigga Shit E-40 - Loyalty And Betrayal	Jive	2000
	Curb Service The Mossie – Point Seen Money Gone	Sick Wid’ It Records, Bayside Entertainment	2001
	We Came Daz Dillinger - Who Ride Wit’ Us Vol. 1	DPG Recordz	2001
	Click About It E-40 – Revenue Retrievin’: Overtime Shift	Heavy On The Grind Entertainment	2011
	Compilations
	Gotta Have Game Phat Beach (The Soundtrack)	Blunt Recordings	1996
	Why You Wanna Funk? High School High (The Soundtrack)	Big Beat	1996
	On The Grind Original Gangstas (The Soundtrack)	Noo Trybe Records	1996
	Struggled & Strived Dangerous Ground (The Soundtrack)	Jive	1997
	Let’s Get Drunk Rappers To Riches	SMG Solar Music Group	1997
	We Came To Rock Ya Body Boss Ballin’ 2: The Mob Bosses	Shot Records	1998
	Hurricane Sick Wid’ It’s Greatest Hits	Sick Wid’ It Records	1999
	We Came To Rock Ya Body D-Shot Presents Boss Ballin Greatest Hits	Shot Records	2000
	So High Obstacles (The Soundtrack)	Shot Records	2000
	Let’s Get Drunk Nuthin’ But Slap! 4	Demolition Men	2007