''The Mail Man'' is an

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by American rapper

E-40 Earl Tywone Stevens Sr. (born November 15, 1967), better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. He is a founding member of the rap group The Click, and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released 26 studio albums to date, a ...

. It was released by

Sick Wid It Records Earl Tywone Stevens Sr. (born November 15, 1967), better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. He is a founding member of the rap group The Click, and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released 26 studio albums to date, a ...

in 1993 on LP's and

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's. The album features production by Mike Mosley, Sam Bostic, Studio Ton and E-40. It peaked at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 131 on the ''Billboard'' 200.((( The Mail Man > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))
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was produced for the song, "

Captain Save a Hoe "Captain Save a Hoe" is an early 1990s song by American rapper E-40 featuring hip hop group The Click. It is the lead single from E-40's EP ''The Mail Man'' (1993). It is E-40's breakthrough hit and one of his most well-known songs. It has been fe ...

", featuring

The Click The Click was a hip hop group consisting of 4 members from Vallejo, California. The group's members are E-40 (Earl Stevens), his cousin B-Legit (Brandt Jones), his brother D-Shot (Danell Stevens), and his sister Suga-T (Tanina Stevens). Toge ...

. Also released as a

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on the same single, "Practice Lookin' Hard", was produced as a music video and features

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s by

Boots Riley Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971), is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial ...

2Pac Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the b ...

Celly Cel Marcellus James McCarver, better known by his stage name Celly Cel, is an American rapper from Vallejo, California. He released his first single, "Lifestyle of a Mack", on his independent record label Realside Records in 1992. He released his debu ...

and

Spice 1 Robert Lee Greene, Jr. (born July 2, 1970), better known by his stage name Spice 1 (an acronym for "Sex, Pistols, Indo, Cash and Entertainment"), is an American rapper from Hayward, California. He began releasing albums in 1992. Career Jive Re ...

. "Ballin' Out of Control" was later re-released on E-40's 1998 double disc set, ''

The Element of Surprise ''The Element of Surprise'' is the fourth studio album by American rapper E-40, released August 11, 1998, on Jive and Sick Wid It Records. The album features production by Ant Banks, Bosko, Mike Mosley, Rick Rock, Sam Bostic, Studio Ton & Tone ...

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d ''The Mail Man'' in 1994 with an alternate track listing.

Track listing

Original Sick Wid It release

Jive Reissue

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

External links

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