Top 45 E-40 Quotes

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I’m saying are going to pick up on.

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

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.

I talk about things that real street cats can relate to.

In the early ’90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we’d pow wow – a good dude, you know?

Long as the Earth is here, hip-hop’ll be here.

Before me, there was no offbeat flow.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don’t have to be from a certain soil.

I might like the Sacramento Kings. One of my favorite players is Dirk Nowitzki.

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

I had a song back in 1992 talking about ‘It’s all good.’ Then my partner Theo who used to work for 92.3 The Beat in L.A. started saying ‘You know it’s all good’ on the radio and everybody took it back to their soils like that was the new Cali word. But that’s a regular word form the Bay Area.

I will rap circles around anybody.

I just love sports.

I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.

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

I’m the first rapper ever popping his collar.

Any relationship, I’m talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to – both of y’all – it helps.

I did a double CD, ‘The Element of Surprise,’ in 1998. That album went gold.

You feel me’ – that’s straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

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.

It’s nice to have video play, radio play but as long as I can work my virals on the Internet, or yet get it out to where people hear it and can see it anytime, I’m cool.

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.’

I love mayonnaise, but mustard is a must when you’re doing the Impossible Burger.

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.

Me and Master P go way back.

I’m what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

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 paint pictures with my raps.

I would like to work with Dr. Dre.

I didn’t invent the word ‘hyphy’ and I’m not trying to say I’m the king of hyphy.

I’m not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I’m a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.

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.’

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

I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.

I don’t wanna be like everybody else, I don’t wanna rap like everybody else.

I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I’ve done songs with down South artists.

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

Communication, that keeps everything cool. Not holding anything back, you got to tell each other what’s on your mind, that’s really it. Otherwise when one gets mad at one, it can burst and you just let it out and it can just come out wrong.

Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.

I’m definitely underrated. By far.

Some people be game-goofy and words don’t sound right coming out of their mouthpiece. But whenever E-40 says something it’s just solidified.

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.