www.hardknock.tv Hard Knock Tv's Nick Huff Barili sat down with the ambassador of the Bay: E-40. The interview starts out with E-40 speaking on longevity and giving advice to all the MC Fly By Nights to remain HUNGRY and HUMBLE!
"All the MC fly-by-nights gotta understand that if you do catch a hot song and you blossom, you must remain hungry and humble," he said. "Key words, words to live by. You must remain hungry and humble, so you stay hungry, you gotta stay on the gas pedal. You gotta stay all gas, no brake pads. And you gotta stay humble. You can't get bigheaded, start burning bridges, start high-siding on people that helped you get to where you at. That's how I've always paced myself, and I love everybody who helped me, I remember everything. I'm just grateful, because I'm before rap."
After a snippet of 40water performing Yay Area Nick ask 40 if he thinks the Bay Area including Too-Short, Hieroglyphics, Living Legends and himself get their due props from laying down the blueprint for moving units independently.
"You know, some of the people who take a page out of our book - I'ma keep it 1,000 - never really spoke on it, but real cats out there know that the Bay specializes in independent music, doing it themselves, selling tapes out of the trunk of their cars," he continued. "But I don't hold no grudges against nobody. Certain people went further. I'm not a griper. I been living a great life and I've been doing my thing. My name is carved in the history books. But we will never probably get our props, our serious recognition, until probably one of us passes away. Then they'll be all, 'They was this, they was that.' That's how they do it. But at the same time, we here. We ain't gon' stop."
From there E-40 mentions that he has a collaboration album coming with Too Short coming out this year titled The History Channel. Growing up listening to 40 one of the lines that stood out was "Sometimes it's cool to floss But don't buy an eighty-five thousand dollar car Before you buy a house" from Rapper's Ball. 40 talks about the difference between being rich and wealthy and that from a young age his mentors told him to get himself a piece of the earth! Some soil, even if it was just a fixer upper. (Yup cause I'm tired of being a renter all my life!). 40 drops some more knowledge saying "The biggest chances you can take is not taking chances at all, so you have to stay rolling the dice." (He means that metaphorically not literally lol didn't you watch the TLC Waterfalls video!)
Before we let 40 go we had to ask him about one of the stand out tracks from his new album Revenue Retrievin' Overtime Shift called Fuck Em, where he talks about Set Trippin Ass DJ's, Radio Programmers, Janky Promoters, etc. Among other things he said that he is a story teller and that its not just about lyrics and punch lines and if yall don't know its not cause he is rapping too fast, it is cause yall squares a listening to slow!
Interview contains snippets from "Bitch", "Yay Area", Candy, Sprinkle Me and Fuck Em.
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24 май 2011
