E-40

Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good. ”

A lot of people - they might think I fell off, but they don't know I'm eating. I'm on the West coast, eating. It's just they don't hear about me because they don't see me on the TV. But I'm still around. ”

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. ”

When I was in the marching band, I used to take my snare drum and turn it over and use my drumstick and scratch on the other side. That was just being creative. ”

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. ”

It's always a dream come true to do music with your pops. And your son. ”

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent. ”

I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall. ”

In the '80s, I wore these glasses because I was trying to look like a square to outsmart the po-po, you feel me? It was what we call 'throw off methods.' So I wear little glasses. ”

I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40. ”