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Rapper E-40's raucous hit Tell Me When to Go with Keak da Sneak, is giving the mainstream a glimpse of the Bay Area's hyphy craze. The music, which is an even rowdier cousin to the South's crunk, is part of a youth-oriented movement that has its own dances, slang, fashion and car culture. "It started out in Oakland and just spread through the Bay Area," says E-40 (Earl Stevens), whose recently released album, My Ghetto Report Card, was produced by crunk king Lil' Jon. "The word hyphy itself means energetic or fired up or just doing the fool. It's a stress reliever. The music makes the kids go silly, go bananas, go coconuts, go stupid. Going stupid can entail anything from frenzied dancing to doing donuts in vintage muscle cars to riding with all the car doors open and the speakers blaring.
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 . Friday April 19 1996, Tupac Shakur graced the airwaves of KMEL Radio's Westside Radio program in San Francisco. Here, in an historic interview he let the entire Bay Area know exactly what he was feeling and thinking at that point in time. For those who weren't up on the backdrop at the time that interview aired, 2Pac had not spoken to anyone extensively since joining Death Row. His album, 'All Eyes On Me' was the album of choice for more then a few headz especially here in the Bay Area. The Bad Boy/ Death Row conflict was at an all time high... No one from the Death Row camp had spoken on co-founder Dr Dre's departure. More importantly, 2Pac had not been through the Bay in what seemd like years...My boy Sway of The Wake Up Show was the person asking the questions..
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