Real name Earl Stevens, E-40 has proven to be a business maven in addition to an OG Bay Area rap star. One of his ventures includes a private label wine called Earl Stevens Selections. His brand offers several varieties of wine, from Moscato to Sweet Red. The wine is from California and is available nationwide.
He’s been selling his wine since 2014. Forty joins other rappers, including Diddy (Love) and Jay-Z, that expanded into the world of wine and spirits. On the music front, E-40 is a west coast legend, working with Too Short, 2Pac, Kendrick Lamar, and others. He is an originator of the Hyphy movement.
Pusha T’s verse on Kanye West’s “Runaway” helped cement his solo career during the early stages of his post-Clipse period. According to label executive and artist manager Steve Victor though, Push was so close to missing out on Ye’s highly acclaimed album that spawned the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
During a recent interview with Idea Generation, Steve recalls when the former Clipse member almost ditched MBDTF recording sessions in Hawaii. Steve explains that Push wasn’t impressed with Ye’s creative process.
“There’d be periods where we would be in Hawaii for like two or three weeks and no work would be getting done. So for someone like Pusha, it’s like, ‘What is this? This doesn’t make sense,” Victor recounted. “We were supposed to go out there one time and he was like, ‘Tsk. I’m not going, man. This ain’t it.’ I was like, ‘Nah, we have to go! [Kanye’s] process is his process.’ He was like, ‘I’m not going.’”
After Push left the Island with no intentions of returning, Victor arrived in Hawaii and Ye reached out to him specifically requesting for Push.
“We’re talking and he’s asking me questions about the Clipse and so on and so forth,” he recalled. “I’m like, ‘Yo, we should X, Y, Z.’ And he’s like, ‘That’s a great idea.’ So I get back and I call Pusha and I’m like, ‘Yo, I just had this conversation with Kanye. Ye wants you to come out here ASAP so we can figure this out.’”
Kanye West has always been known to create multiple versions of tracks
‘Hurricane’, a hit single from Kanye West’s newest album Donda, features two of the hottest artists in the world, Lil Baby and The Weeknd. This hit single, which was actually released the same day as Donda, would go on to peak at #1 on the Billboard US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs in 2021.
According to Genius, “Hurricane” has seen over TEN unreleased versions, with verses from Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Big Sean, 6ix9ine, KayCyy, and Ant Clemons.
The song was first previewed by Kanye in an Instagram post on September 14, 2018. It was later previewed on September 27, 2018, in a tweet featuring a caption that would tease the original release date of Ye’s scrapped album, Yandhi, but was titled “80 degrees.”
As many of us know, Kanye and his team are well-known for tweaking and changing songs, even during an album rollout.
The difference between the scrapped “80 degrees” song and the Dondaversion is Ant Clemons was removed from the hook and instead added The Weeknd. There are also more drums and deeper production technicalities in which long-time collaborator and producer of Kanye, Mike Dean knows.
Mike Dean even took to Twitter multiple times to engage with fans on which production/verse/blends sounded better.
The Donda version of the song also featured an all-time verse from Lil Baby, who was actually flown out to Wyoming to work with Kanye on Donda, and info would later surface that he would be featured on “Hurricane.”
The official track was played at the first public listening party for Donda, which took place at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021.
To listen to the different versions and dive deeper into the evolution of ‘Hurricane’, click the links below.
Lil Uzi Vert extends further on the origin of his moniker
Lil Uzi Vert backs up his 2016 revelation about the background story about his stage name in an interview with VIBE that “some guy” gave him the name Uzi. “Some guy was just like ‘you rap fast, man,” the Eternal Atake rapper explained. “Like a little machine gun’ and from that moment I was Lil Uzi.”
During a recent live stream with Mr. Beast, M0e TV, and Devin Nash though, Uzi specifically says that “some guy” was actually a “crackhead.”
“I got named by a crackhead,” the rapper said. “He said you rapped fast?” one of the streamers asked, before Uzi replied, “Yeah, yeah he’s a good guy.”
Southside has had a career full of impactful production
Founder of the Production collective 808 Mafia, Southside, names “Married To The Game” by Future, as his favorite beat he’s made.
In a career that spans over a decade, narrowing down — to just one — you would think this to be a difficult decision. Not for Southside. “Married To The Game” was released in 2016 by Future, on DJ Esco’sProject E.T.
The music video for Jhené Aiko’s “The Pressure” was directed by Childish Gambino in 2014.
The music for Jhené Aiko‘s “The Pressure” from her debut studio album Souled Out, features her going through multiple relationship situations and the trials and tribulations of life in the video by going through scenes that fade to black into a new situation. Childish Gambino didn’t make a cameo in the music video but you can see some of his cinematic tastes in it.
Childish Gambino and Jhené Aiko collaborated on a few creative projects during 2012-2014, they collaborated on “Bed Peace” and “Pink Toes,” and Jhené made a cameo in his music video for “Telegraph Ave”.
Watch the Childish Gambino directed music video below.
Big Sean says the word “ass” a total of 106 times in his song ‘Dance (A$$)’.
Big Sean released his stripper anthem single ‘Dance (A$$)’ on September 20, 2011, under GOOD Music. ‘Dance (A$$) was the third single and 7th song off his debut studio album Finally Famous. The song sampled MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and Big Sean says the word “ass” a total of 106 times in it.
The remix was released on October 18, 2011, and featured Nicki Minaj, along with her in the music video.
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Read the lyrics to Big Sean’s Dance (A$$) below.
Big Sean A$$ lyrics
(Chorus) Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass Stop, now make that motherfucker Hammer time like Go stupid, go stupid, go stupid Do it boi, do it boi, boi, boi Drop it, drop it
(Verse 1) Wobbledy wobbledy, wo-wobble wobble I’m stacking my paper, my wallet look like a Bible I got girlies half naked, that shit look like the grotto How your waist anorexic and then your ass is colossal? Like woo Drop that ass, make it boomerang Take my belt off, bitch I’m Pootie Tang Tippy tow, tippy tay, you gon’ get a tip today Fuck that, you gon’ get some dick today I walk in with my crew, and I’m breaking they necks I’m looking all good, I’m making her wet They pay me respect, they pay me in checks And if she look good, she pay me in sex Bounce that ass, it’s the roundest You’re the best, you deserve a crown bitch Right on that ass
(Chorus) Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass Stop, now make that motherfucker Hammer time like Go stupid, go stupid, go stupid Do it boi, do it boi, boi, boi Drop it, drop it
(Verse 2) Okay stop, drop it, drop it You got everybody in here, oh my goshing Bad bitches I’m your dada, white girls go Gaga When the sticks out they bust it open like ya ya’s a Pinata Bitch look down, tell me what’s up Girl you talk too much, shut up I got that mad dick, you know it always nut up And it got an attitude, no wonder why it’s stuck up Pop it then backflip, yo gymnastics got me ecstatic Your whole crew look like a pageant I’m dropping cash tips and some taxes Girl you got me about to pass out I’m wondering if cupid gave you ass shots ‘Cause I’m in love with that ass
(Chorus) Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass Stop, now make that motherfucker Hammer time like Go stupid, go stupid, go stupid Do it boi, do it boi, boi, boi
(Bridge) Whoa, white girls, black girls, tall girls, fat girls Shake that ass shake that ass, shake that ass Shake that ass, shake that ass, shake that ass Short girls, small girls, skinny girls, all girls Shake that ass shake that ass, shake that ass Shake that ass, shake that ass, shake that ass And I want all of that
(Chorus) Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass, ass, ass, ass Ass, ass Stop, now make that motherfucker Hammer time like Go stupid, go stupid, go stupid Do it boi, do it boi, boi, boi Go stupid
Isaiah Rashad named his debut studio album ‘Cilvia Demo’ after his 1995 Honda Civic.
On January 28, 2014, Isaiah Rashad released his project Cilvia Demo under TDE. During a now-deleted interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, Rashad talked about his hometown Chattanooga, TN, his ’95 Honda Civic which he named Cilvia, moving to Los Angeles, his inspirations, almost selling drugs, moving to LA, and more. He described how he named his debut critically acclaimed project after his old hooptie, his 1995 Honda Civic.
Isaiah Rashad had previously rapped about the car on his 2012 song “Gusto” saying “I just ride around in my Bentley, it’s a Civic” and on 2013’s Part III saying “I probably made a baby off in that Honda Civic, After I dropped my baby off in that Honda Civic”.
In a 2014 feature with Pitchfork, Isaiah Rashad told them, “I like to write in the car.”, which he refers to his 1995 Honda Civic.
You can see the same car in his music video for the project’s 5th track Ronnie Drake ft. SZA.
