{"product_id":"e-40-block-brochure-welc","title":"E-40 - BLOCK BROCHURE: WELC |","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecording information: Mega Million Studio; Street Symphony Studio; The Orange Room; The Retro Room Studios.\n\u003cbr\u003eMuch in the same way he released his 11th and 12th albums in 2010, and his 13th and 14th albums in 2011, E-40's 15th, 16th, and 17th albums were all released on the same day. That may look prolific, but The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1, 2, or 3 -- or the three-CD set that boxes them all -- is proof that almost every E-40 mixtape you've seen is a bootleg and that in 2011, \"getting paid\" is at the top of the rapper's list. The second volume, like the first, seems to start mid-mixtape as the off-kilter \"I'm Laced\" ignores the massiveness of the project. It just doesn't feel big enough as an opener, but the glorious backseat number, \"Tryna Get It\" with Twista and T-Pain does, and two numbers later, it's like the old-school returned with a full clip as Spice 1 and Celly Cel join for the superior gangster number \"The Other Day Ago.\" Minimal bass and scrappy attitude turn \"Function\" into a five-star pusher anthem, while \"Zombie\" finds Tech N9ne's love of monsters and E-40's endless bag of slang-filled punch lines combining for that special brand of horror hyphy that was explored on 2011's great Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift. Speaking of which, when compared to the Revenue Retrievin' onslaught, which was sorted into thematic sets (Day, Night, etc.), these unwieldy Block Brochures come off as a hyphy data dump, leaving all executive production up to the listener. ~ David Jeffries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2012-03-26\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2012-03-26\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"E-40","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45221901205619,"sku":"W9BCJH-8B7W-FN","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0500\/7837\/files\/e-40-block-brochure-welc_az4pn.jpg?v=1783824004","url":"https:\/\/www.lovevinylrecords.com\/products\/e-40-block-brochure-welc","provider":"Love Vinyl Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}