"40, man, when ya gonna go and put it down?" So, actually, what I did, I said, "Ok, we're gonna do it for real this time, no lolly-gaggin', no bullshittin', let's make it happen." So, of course I'ma have the fah sheezies, and the playa-hatas, and a lot of the words that a lot of the people are sayin' nowadays across the country which was founded at the Mecca of the game, which was the bay area. Everybody hollerin' at me, on the street, I been hearin' about this dictionary. Now ya smell me on this one, right? You know I'm the king of slang, right? So what I did, basically it was pretty much a street demand. So, you also got another project coming out. It was gonna be November, but I moved it back 'cause I didn't wanna get caught up in the four quarter madness, ya smell me? I'm not gonna be on everything song, but I'm gonna have guest-appearances on there, so I'ma treat it as if it's my album, ya smell me? It's a good package. And I got the soundtrack that's gonna go right along with it. Showin' moms and pops stores that delt with us in the past. We had to crawl before we walked, woulda took us to the point in our career, now, you know, to be straight-up established and everything, and lettin' everybody know that we didn't just blossom over-night.
Documentary, pretty much talkin' about, you know, my climb up the ladder.
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I got the Charlie Hustle, the movie of the self-made millionaire. (Laughs)Īnd you got a lot of projects poppin' off now, right? You got the movie comin' out. You can spit a 16-measure verse, now, on somebody else that was already established's track, that's already in the game, and get a phat-ass deal now, equivalent, ya smell me? but it's all gravy. Yeah, 'cause I remember reading, when that happened, that was one of the biggest signings of someone who was virtually unknown, like independent.Įxactly. Ya see? That's a thousand there, fifteen hundred there, that's twenty there, ya know I mean? Like that. The marbles was there, and everything, but when we got at Jive, we put it down on a national level, where, when you pull up on Sound-Scan, you're gonna see a lot more zeros than when we were just doin' it ourselves. Smell me? So, we got with Jive and got major distribution. And I'm kinda glad, 'cause it forced us to do our own thug-thizzle.
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But, during that time, when we were looking for a deal, it didn't really crack off. You had Digital Underground, you had $hort, and you had some other Bay Area groups that had got signed to a major. And, at the time, where we started in our situation, they weren't really checkin' for Bay Area rap. Straight home-made, home-grown, from the ground up. And then you had kind of a big thing where Jive picked you up. Speaking of your first album, when you first started out, you were just on your own label, Sick Wid It. They wasn't expecting it, it came at them, just straight back-to-back rumbles. Like, Federal, where when everybody says, "Your first album, that's the one." So I took it back to that.
We all know that, you know what I mean? On this one, I took it all the way back to where I first started at, which was Federal, you know what I'm saying? The album I first came up with, where everybody really grew up on. It's just like, when you least expect it. So what's the science behind the title, The Element of Surprise? Back to back knocks on there, twenty-four rumble. The new single's "Ground Up" featuring me, Too $hort, K-Ci, and JoJo. Gonna be platinum, right around the corner. it's been nothing but love, nothing but love. A crazy throwing down of slang, with E-40 talking about everything from his lyrics - a west coast game spitter standing up against the freestyle skill-flexing MCs that were dominating the scene in the late 90's, his independent roots, his movie, and the cartoon he was working on at the time called Patrick the Possum. And as you can guess from our super cheesy poses in our photo (hi, TRUNKS!), this was a fun interview. This interview was done way back in 1998.