Take his word "manish", which, if context and are to be believed, describes "a young man who is acting like a grown man." It's been part of E-40's vocabulary for the better part of his career, but it's still evolving today.
Instead, he morphs them to levels of absurdity that would make Dr. While he's clearly a thesaurus fiend, E-40 hardly limits himself to existing words or the laws that bind them. His catalog is built around sputtering, intertwined streams of obscure street slang and SAT words. But he makes it his goal to stretch these topics well past their logical extremes through a sheer love for the elasticity of language. In terms of subject matter, E-40 rarely transcends the typical gangsta tropes: loyalty, betrayal, neighborhood pride, hustles both legal and illegal, substance-abuse capacity, sexual exploits. In a recent interview with Complex Magazine, Ice Cube compared E-40's style to "that graffiti that you can't read but you know it's dope." It's an acquired taste that alienates some East Coast rap purists, but it's also earned the California rapper a fair share of acolytes on his home turf and across smaller markets. On his 13th and 14th albums, he bends rhythm to his will and strings run-on sentences into long conversations with himself. E-40 raps fast in a cracking and permanently quizzical tone, often teetering on Porky Pig levels of exasperation. "Unique people love the way I speak," he boasts in "E Forty," from Graveyard Shift.
It's an unorthodox approach, but E-40 has never been much for orthodoxy. The new third and fourth installments in his Revenue Retrievin' series of albums, called Overtime Shift and Graveyard Shift, follow last year's Day Shift and Night Shift like their predecessors, both were released separately on the same day. Seuss proud.įor more than two decades, hip-hop veteran E-40 has made his trade in reality raps and linguistic experiments. On his 13th and 14th albums, E-40 morphs words using levels of absurdity that would make Dr.
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