E-40, Bay Area rap legend

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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When it comes to hip-hop from the Bay Area, E-40 is quite possibly the greatest of all time. His distinctiveness has kept him relevant for three decades now, from mob music in the 1990's to hyphy slaps in the aughts to new music today. E-40 joins us to talk about his new record, Practice Makes Paper. We'll pull up some deep cuts from R&B singer Saint Charles, who 40 more intimately knows as his Uncle Chuckie. Chuckie was a huge inspiration for E-40 growing up. E will also take us to the root of his passion for music. Plus, he'll talk about his college days at Grambling State University. Did he win the school's talent show? Only one way to find out. Listen up!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.6	It's Bullseye.
0:21.6	My guest this week is the rap legend E40.
0:25.8	If you're from the Bay Area, like I am, you know him as one of, if not the greatest, cultural
0:33.0	forces in music of the region.
0:35.7	Certainly in hip hop.
0:37.1	He became that way because of an utterly unique style.
0:40.5	Here's one of his first breakout singles, Rapper's Ball.
0:43.6	I put my back in and they never been a side and I was having the all the way before the
0:48.8	rap game.
0:49.8	Who I've been taught.
0:50.8	Thought you things for she's who's member.
0:53.6	Err, Bretton, Danneo, the boy.
0:55.0	E40 named himself the ambassador of the Bay.
0:58.4	That's what he is.
0:59.4	He was born and raised in the small town of Vallejo in the East Bay and he's brought
1:03.9	the culture of the Bay Area to the world.
1:06.4	Graham she would have called him an organic intellectual, fiercely independent and unlike
1:11.4	anyone or anything else.
1:14.1	Reminds me of the Bay Area itself.
1:17.0	Forty's distinctive style overflows with language.
1:21.0	His bars are stuffed to the gills with words both real and imagined.
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