Bay Area emcee ‘Rappin’ 4-Tay’ has just made his return back into the rap game. The veteran rapper has just released his 11th official, studio solo album, ‘Still Standing’. 4-Tay has almost a quarter of a century in the game since he first appeared in 1988 on Too $hort’s album ‘Life Is… Too $hort’. Then after the interruption of a ten month prison sentence, he released his first solo album ‘Rappin’ 4-Tay Is Back’ in 1991. Since then the San Francisco native has released eleven albums including a group album ‘Derty Werk‘ with T.W.D.Y. in 1999 of which he was an original member.
4-Tay is probably best known to most for the hits ‘Playaz Club’ and ‘I’ll Be Around’, and for his collaborations with the late, great Tupac Shakur on such hit tracks as ‘Only God Can Judge Me‘. In 1995 4-Tay was featured with two tracks on the soundtrack to the hit movie ‘Dangerous Minds’.
The last installment from Rappin’ 4-Tay was 2007s ‘The World Is a Ghetto’ and when speaking to AllHipHop about the content of the new album and the progression of his life, he says ‘”There’s no more shoot ’em up bang bang, yellow tapes, and chalk lines, but I’m still keeping it gangsta as well. I speak about the trials and tribulations that’s been put in front of me: life, fatherhood, being in the rap game as well and dealing with those wicked streets out there.”
4-Tay has lined up a number of influential artists on ‘Still Standing’ including Treach of Naughty by Nature, Mac Mall, Montell Jordan, Skee Lo, Mistah FAB and others. ‘Still Standing’ is available in stores now.
