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![]() On Connected and Respected, that calculus has been altered. ![]() E-40 was the gun that shot a BANG! flag B-Legit was the jet-black truncheon in a dark alleyway. ![]() Historically, B-Legit, with his deep, plainspoken lilt, has played the straight man to E-40’s antic, vibrating energy. He remains a gifted rapper and a witty lyricist, but he’s human-and, for E-40, that wasn’t always the case.įortunately, he and B-Legit (whose own Tryin’ to Get a Buck and The Hemp Museum are critically underappreciated) have a chemistry forged by time and consanguinity. ![]() Either the ravages of age or an understandable ebbing of interest has turned his voice, once volcanic, into something more viscous. But thirty years of rapping has dulled his powers. He was a thrilling listen: a line’s meter and syllables had little bearing on those of the next, so every verse had a breathless, acrobatic quality. At his peak, E-40’s verses ebbed and flowed like Napa River tides and had the carefree, unencumbered sway of a Hillside sideshow. E-40 wasn’t the first Bay Area rapper (that was probably Motorcycle Mike) and he wasn’t its first homegrown star (that was Too $hort), but the slang maven with the quicksilver voice is its arch-stylist.
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