It got to come out of nowhere like a real contractual hit you understand me? Like a “contract” hit if you get my drift. But, the thing is that a hit record most of the time shouldn’t have to be forced. I can’t be mad at the label either for trying to get their artist to make a great single. So I’ve been through what some of these artists is going through where the label is searching for that single. But the last album that I had put out, I put out a song with them in ‘08 called “Wake It Up,” and I liked the song, but my fanbase, they just wasn’t used to me doing that kind of music. I got with Warner Records, they gave me freedom too. So when I was with Jive Records, they gave me a lot of freedom. How has being independent helped you, especially since you’ve been in the game for so long? A lot of rappers have been catching heat for their music not sounding the same after they’ve gotten signed to a major deal. You mentioned being independent, so I guess that’s a benefit. Somebody is going to like something, so I gave them twenty songs on the Graveyard Shift and twenty songs on the Overtime Shift. So you just got to stay within your jurisdiction and envelope and find that happy medium to the point where everybody, you know what I mean. You come with just one particular way of your sound, and then the only people that’s going to fall in love with it is a small hand full. At the end of the day, somebody is going to find something that they like. So you got to give them a variety of music. It’s so many different areas and people got different acquired tastes. It used to be regional, the south, the west coast, east coast, mid-west, now it’s just worldwide. Ain’t no liaison or nothing understand me, so why not. You know, some people love to do mixtapes five and six mix tapes a year, I want to put out you know four albums and make sure that there documented with a barcode and they’re real albums and I get paid on them. Even after I’m done with albums I go right back in there and continue. You know put it this way, I like to record a lot of music. I know you released last year’s project separately, but why did you choose do so? You did it again this time around instead of a double disc, which I would think would be easier for you. Thank you.This is the follow up to the Revenue Retrievin’ series. Please keep up your posts and I will continue to read them. I read a lot of useful posts around here. Your post here is very informative and gives me more insight. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable Go Super to learn "Used to Do vs Be Used to" from this lesson Quizzes Jason: Thanks so much, man! Can I get you to give me a high five and say “English, baby!” Jason: Well, sometimes they call the night shift “the graveyard shift,” and I was wondering if you could talk about why they call it that.Į-40: I think it’s from twelve to eight? Anytime after twelve a.m? You see what I’m sayin’? So, that’s what it is, up all night, tryin’ to get my money orders right. Wiping down cabinets and what have you, you know, so. My mama used to work at Maggie’s Hamburgers and I’d be back there moppin’, mopping the floor, you know. Jason: Did you work the day shift and the night shift at your different jobs then?Į-40: Yeah, I did. As soon as I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979. You know, when I was young I was just a little hustla, rap was always my thing. I had a paper route, I worked at Mickey D’s. And so I had to be, like, the daddy of the house. My daddy and my mama divorced when I was eight years old. Did you have a day job before your music career got started?Į-40: My mama was a single parent. Jason: You’ve been in the rap game a long time. You know what I mean? Revenue retrievin’ day shift are those things that jump off in the daytime, revenue retrievin’ night shift are things that jump off at nighttime. What is the day shift and the night shift?Į-40: First of all, revenue retrieving means chasing money. You released two albums earlier this year. Jason: Welcome to English, baby! I’m Jason, here with E-40. We talked about how this affects his music. Before he was a famous rapper, entertaining his fans at night, E-40 worked both the day shift and the night shift at different jobs. If you work the day shift, you work in the daytime. Jason: If you work the night shift, you work at night. Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used. Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.