E-40 Quotes

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E-40

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 15, 1967

I feel like I'm a voice of hope.

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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 really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.

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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 always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

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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 feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.

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When you do mixtapes, a lot of times your fanbase can say, 'We've been getting this for free for so many years, his new album is about to drop, we've listened to it, and we're not going to buy it. We'll download it for free.'

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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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For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

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Sometimes all your fanbase wants you to do is stay within your envelope and do you because that's what they love you for.

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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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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 used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

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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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When I do listen to music a lot of times I listen to old school music, I'm talking about Earth, Wind & Fire, I'm talking about the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays. It just eases my mind.

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I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

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I paint pictures with my raps.

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I'm the most humblest guy you can ever talk to or meet.

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I was a little bit ahead of my time.

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