BY JAKE PAINE • JULY 30, 2019

After nearly 60 combined years in the game, E-40 and Scarface just released a landmark collaboration less than a week ago. From 40 Water’s brand-new 26-track Practice Makes Paperalbum, “Watch The Homies” offers O.G. wisdom from the breakout stars of The Click and The Geto Boys, respectively.

The 2019 Vallejo, California and Houston, Texas collaboration has legs. Although these two MCs have a host of close mutual associates including Tupac Shakur, Spice 1, and Yukmouth, they have not properly worked together despite all the years in the game. In a fresh conversation with Cece & Romeo at Los Angeles, California’s KDAY, E-40 recalls the turning point and the major outcome.

“I always wanted to do something with them,” 40 says before the 2:00-mark of a Practice Makes Paper guest-list that includes Method Man, Redman, and Scarface. “I been knowing Brad Jordan since 1992. I used to be in Houston all the time with Lil J and them,” he says of Rap-A-Lot Records founder and Geto Boys creator J. Prince. “So [about] six months ago, I was like, ‘Brad, we been knowing each other since 1992. What we gonna do? We pot’nas and everything; it’s nothing but love, but we ain’t done a record together. What’s wrong with us?’ He said, ‘Earl, when you coming out here?'” When promoting his Sluricane pre-mixed cocktail brand, 40 Water hit H-Town. “He pulled up. Once he did his verse, he was like, ‘Earl, you inspired me to rap. Man, I ain’t been doin’ nothin’ but being a vegan and golfing.'” 40 laughs talking about Scarface’s health transformation and love of the links.

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