Why E-40 is a Top 3 Emcee To Me
In early 1995, I was nine years old, going on 10, and for some reason, I was up late on a Friday night listening to the radio. I lived in Fort Wainwright, Alaska at the time, and the radio station that I was listening to that night, played hip hop uncensored late, and sometimes albums in their entirety. This particular night that I was listening, this channel played the latest album from E-40 at the time, "In A Major Way." Before that particular night, I had never heard of 40. I was young and my parents were pretty strict on me about listening to music with cursing in it. So the only way I heard hardcore, explicit hip hop, was through my big brother in his room. I think the only hip hop song that I knew by heart at that time was "All I Need," by Method Man. Moving along, that night, the radio station played, "In a Major Way," by E-40 in its entirety. I remember sitting in my room (I had just got my own room at that point, so listening to MY OWN