my nikka 40 belafonte aka e-40 really won :wow:

[Taadow]

A lot of folks still haven't caught on to the game Earl spit back in the 90s...

Bruh...

- flippin' your ol' school
- pawning your wedding ring for re-up money
- The Chlamydia Test
- "...but if the DA get a hold of this tape, they might build a case..."
- "I dip my shells in battery acid"
- "I send my breezy to the store to make groceries..."
- "some of y'all ain't never seen a Blue Check"

 

[the_FUTURE]

here's hoping this thread don't jinx shyt.

 

[newworldafro]

Keshia Knight Pulliam got an older twin?

Successful Black relationships started here in the bay

 

[Bunchy Carter]

This is the talent show song 40 and Legit did at Grambling:



Grambling is my Alumni

 

[Raheem95]

been together for 25 years and this is a girl who saw his vision and believed in him


he had a similar deal with Jive that Master P had


one of last real nikkas left


that's my west coast bay area GOAT & R.I.P. Mac Dre

his interview


How is being independent good for you?

40: I have what they call a distribution deal. Normally it's 75/25, meaning you get 75% and the distributor gets 25%. Then they hold reserves of 25%.

75% of what?

40: It depends on what they retail for — it could be $12.01. Basically, profit-wise, you get the bigger bulk. Look at me. Compared to you only getting 13 points — which is a percentage, and they do less than that nowadays.

What does 13 points mean?

40: It's like $1.30 [per album]. But there's still deductions and stuff from that. After everything gets taken out, far as recording costs, your manufacturing costs, all that. At the end of the day all recording costs must be recouped. And videos. With a major, or with any company, if the video costs $100,000, you split the cost. Funding your own project is probably the best way because you get to see everything.

But there's perks and amenities to being on a major label. They'll push you. If they commit to it, they'll push you. Sometimes you'll be sitting your ass there for years. You could get tour, they could put that money in radio. It depends on how much they commit to you.

Don't get it twisted. I don't want all the majors out there mad at E-40. They already know I'm a vet in this. I've been on majors and I'm not talking bad. I did what I was supposed to do with major labels. I love Jive Records for everything they've done for me, Warner Brothers. The CEOs, everything. I have no complaints, no gripes.

I'm saying far as me — as a OG that already been through that — I started off independent. I'm back independent. I'm trying to get the bulk of the bread and do my thing. I got more freedom. Nobody in my ear telling me how I should do a record. I just do 'em. I already know how to make records. I know how to make hit records. I know how to make ghetto anthems. Ain't nothing changed with me.

When we signed with Jive Records [in 1994] a lot of people were like, "Man, they got a $3 million deal! Woo, they got $3 million!" You don't get $3 million up front just like that. No. As a matter of fact, it was worth way more than that over the years. But I already had money. I owned a couple houses. Stayed on the golf course, had Lexuses and Rovers. I was already having it. So I didn't want they advancement like that. I like to see the backend. And that's what I seen.

 

[Beegio]

The Bay invented relationships

 

[At30wecashout]

Some people get so lucky, meanwhile the rest of us out here getting burnt just trying to get a date, much less start a relationship.

 

[Raheem95]

@stomachlines

@2:30 E-40 talks about his son and mentions his wife. You can tell his wife is a real one, a lot of women I meet from the Bay be laced with hella game.

but thecoli told me that women in the Bay Area are ugly and ratchet a'f

 

[I love Latina women]

Some people get so lucky, meanwhile the rest of us out here getting burnt just trying to get a date, much less start a relationship.

ain't that the fukkin' truth

 

[At30wecashout]

ain't that the fukkin' truth

Yea, worst part is I might miss out in life because past bad experiences has made me far more likely to cut communication at the first sign
of bullshyt, when life don't work like that. They been together forever and you know they been through some shyt. Oh well

 

[I love Latina women]

Yea, worst part is I might miss out in life because past bad experiences has made me far more likely to cut communication at the first sign
of bullshyt, when life don't work like that. They been together forever and you know they been through some shyt. Oh well

i feel you, bruh
it's hard too when you already ain't got a lot of circles of friends so then meetin' a woman through a mutual friend is non existent
and then the days of hollerin' i'm learnin' now don't even exist like they use too

 

[At30wecashout]

i feel you, bruh
it's hard too when you already ain't got a lot of circles of friends so then meetin' a woman through a mutual friend is non existent
and then the days of hollerin' i'm learnin' now don't even exist like they use too

This right here is the very important part, too. Thats why I am getting my money up and getting my fitness right. The type of women I wanna attract are typically not gonna be
the hoodrats my current friends know

 

[I love Latina women]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/in-t...-best-like-scarface-nas-jay-z-etc-etc.444024/

 

[I love Latina women]

This right here is the very important part, too. Thats why I am getting my money up and getting my fitness right. The type of women I wanna attract are typically not gonna be
the hoodrats my current friends know

bruh, i feel you so much on this shyt!
all my close friends are now married and now i'm the odd man out
so when they do shyt, they hang out with other couples and shyt
meanwhile i'm at home, eatin' a whole pepperoni pizza by myself and listenin' to willie hutch
i need to work out too. i ain't really worked out in years and i've put on weight. not a lot but enough

 

[CinnaSlim]

I watvhed his Unsung episode. Pretty good.