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E-40 is once again set to change the game with the release of 3 simultaneous new studio albums on the same day titled " Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil Vol. 1, 2 and 3." These will mark the Northern California Ballatician's 17th, 18th and 19th albums. (This album is Volume 2).Much 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.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 I'm Laced 3:00
2 On the Case 3:37
3 Function 4:19
4 Tryna Get It 3:07
5 Street N*gga 3:11
6 The Other Day Ago 3:52
7 This is the Life 4:10
8 Everything 4:30
9 My Life 3:31
10 Grey Skies 3:44
11 With the Sh*t 3:26
12 Hittin' a Lick 4:55
13 This Sh*T Hard 3:14
14 Scorpio 4:34
15 Red & Blue Lights 4:22
16 Zombie 3:50
17 Memory Lane 4:40
18 I Know I Can Make It 5:27
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