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Track Listing
1. Breakin News - (Patois)
2. Hot
3. I Got Dat Work - (featuring Turf Talk)
4. Quarterbackin - (featuring The Clipse)
5. Married to the Ave
6. One Night Stand - (featuring DJ Kayslay)
7. I Hope You Get This Kite
8. Act a Ass - (featuring Rankin' Scroo)
9. Anybody Can Get It - (featuring Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz/Bone Crusher/David Banner)
10. Gasoline - (featuring Turf Talk/Doonie)
11. Show & Prove - (featuring Goapele)
12. This Goes Out
13. Northern Califoolya - (featuring San Quinn/Messy Marv/B-Legit/EA Ski/Keak Da Sneak/James "Stomp Down" Bailey)
14. That's a Good Look 4 U
15. If If Was a 5th
16. WA La - (featuring The Mossie/Mo Mo)
17. Pharmaceutical Outro
18. Quarterbackin' - (DJ Quick remix, featuring The Clipse)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | B-Legit, Bone Crusher, Clipse, DJ Kayslay, David Banner, Doonie, EA Ski, Goapele, James "Stomp Down" Bailey, Keak Da Sneak, Keek Da Sneak, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Messy Marv, Mo Mo, Rankin' Scroo, San Quinn, The Clipse, The Mossie, Turf Talk | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: E-40, Turf Talk, Clipse, DJ Kayslay, Rankin Scroo, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, Bone Crusher, David Banner, Doonie, San Quin, Messy Marv, B-Legit, Ea-Ski, Keek Da Sneak, James "Stomp Down" Bailey, The Mossie, Mo Mo
(rap vocals); Goapele (vocals).
Producers include: Rick Rock, Ea-Ski, CMT, Kavior, Ova Dose.
Principally recorded at Right Track, New York, New York & The Cosmic Slop Shop, Sacramento, California.
In the first minutes of BREAKIN' NEWS, E-40 observes how he's "still hungry, still rappin'" like he's "still poor," and the immediacy and the frenetic pace of his raps back up this claim. This hunger is especially evident since BREAKIN' is Earl Stevens' (E-40, A.K.A. Charley Hustle, A.K.A. a multitude of other names) eighth record since 1994's "Captain Save a Hoe," the crossover gangsta-novelty single that introduced the world to his uncompromising lyrics and an inimitable, unrelenting, slow-then-quick rapping style.
With a new hardcore flavor-of-the-month rapper emerging almost every minute, it's easy to overlook E-40, but even a cursory glance at West Coast rap history reveals E-40's influence, and BREAKIN' NEWS reminds the hip-hop world why. The California lyricist references cartoons, raps both playfully and thuggishly (often mixing the two within one verse), gives credit to less-visited soul influences like Clarence Carter and Johnnie Taylor, and even possesses the confident vulnerability to work in an earnest flow about his struggles with his weight. One of the best up-and-coming crews, the Clipse, drop by for the powerful single "Quarterbackin'," and an all-star Dirty South rap line-up (Lil' Jon, Bone Crusher, David Banner) represents on the merciless "Anybody Can Get It."
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...A solid West Coast rap album...full of excellently tuneful electro production and E's authoritative, dextrous flow.
Rolling Stone (10/30/2003)
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