Federal is the debut studio album by American rapper E-40.
[1] It was released in 1992 by Sick Wid It Records.
It peaked at number 80 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
[2] Jive Records reissued Federal in 1995 with an alternate tracklist and tracks 7, 11 and 13 missing.
Spin called Federal a "historic, self-released debut [that] invented a hustle, a sound, a new rap language.