First solo effort realized by Earl "E-40" Stevens, Bay Area pillar. The music is credited to E-40 Click Production with co-producing handled by his brother Dannell "D-Shot" Stevens, Stevens' cousin Brandt "B-Legit" Jones (part of E-40's rap group The Click), Al Eaton, and Bobby Ford. The rapper surprises everyone from the title track with a crisp smooth delivery, a worked breath control and a rapid rapping technique that few other ones have at the moment. The rhythm is simple, regular drum machine skinny, deep piano and male sample looped tight in the background. The other pieces are honest and made up of essential funky samples (James Brown, George Clinton, Bob James) realized by the production of The Click, but not at the level of the opening one. 7/10.
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