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It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.
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I'm glad I'm setting an example for the younger generation so in the future they can say, 'Look how long E-40's rap career was. Look how long he stayed relevant.'
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I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.
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As long as I've got my life, health and strength, and I'm in my right mind? I'mma get money.
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You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That's how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.
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I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.
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As you get older, you start trying to eat a little bit better, and just do a little better.
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When I was in the marching band, I used to take my snare drum and turn it over and use my drumstick and scratch on the other side. That was just being creative.
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It's nice to have video play, radio play but as long as I can work my virals on the Internet, or yet get it out to where people hear it and can see it anytime, I'm cool.
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There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.
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I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
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I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.
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A lot of people - they might think I fell off, but they don't know I'm eating. I'm on the West coast, eating. It's just they don't hear about me because they don't see me on the TV. But I'm still around.
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I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.
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I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.
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The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.
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I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I've done songs with down South artists.
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Some people be game-goofy and words don't sound right coming out of their mouthpiece. But whenever E-40 says something it's just solidified.
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The 'Day Shift' songs are things that would unfold during the daytime. 'Night Shift' is what would unfold during the nighttime. So, that's how I put that whole thing together. I did both all on one album budget.
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People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.
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In the '80s, I wore these glasses because I was trying to look like a square to outsmart the po-po, you feel me? It was what we call 'throw off methods.' So I wear little glasses.
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Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.
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I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.
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Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.
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Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.
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I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.
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I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.
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I had every major label in the world - I mean, any label that dealt with rap music wanted to sign me. I ended up going with Jive Records because I liked everything about 'em.
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My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.
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When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.
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My momma was working very hard, doing three jobs... she just worked her butt off, man. On the weekends she started to play this song called 'Living for the Weekend.'
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I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.
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