willystaley:

Got to talk to the boy 40 Water about his 25 Most Essential tracks for Complex Mag. I have been an E-40 dork since I was, like, 12 years old, so this was a real treat. I also hated on a lot of his mainstream stuff on the internet pretty hard, so it was interesting to see how not-manufactured some of his more manufactured-sounding stuff was. That is the difference between music “journalism” and music “blogging”, though, I suppose.

The order of the tracks is reverse chronological, by the way, and I don’t want to hear about it.

a couple of weeks old.

dope listing of original songs, then songs that sampled it.  (would’ve been dope if they put house tracks that sampled him on there too.)

thanks to erika for the link.