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In a rap world increasingly populated by monotoned players and smoother-than-smooth R&B crooners, E-40's deft delivery and playful wordplay remain a real breath of fresh air. Grit & Grind has a few too many tracks; still, it's definitely front-loaded with talent, from the opener, "Why They Don't F**k Wit Us" (punctuated by organ lines and a female chorus), to the second track, "The Slap," with a barrage of rhyming riffs that finds him worrying a batch of suffixes like a dog with a bone. The productions, most by Rick Rock, are fleshed-out and never reliant on the usual West Coast clichés.
CONDITION : PUNCHED UPC
TRACK LISTING
1 Why They Don't F**k Wit Us 4:06
2 The Slap 4:03
3 Automatic / Fabolous 4:42
4 Rep Yo City / East Side Boyz 5:13
5 It's All Gravity 4:20
6 7 Much / Kokane 3:27
7 Mustard and Mayonnaise (Intro) 0:58
8 Mustard and Mayonnaise 3:47
9 My Cup / Suga T 3:46
10 Whomp Whomp 3:51
11 Lifestyles 3:58
12 'Til the Dawn / Bosko 4:38
13 End of the World 4:47
14 It's a Man's Game 3:41
15 Pimps, Hustlas (Intro) / James "Stomp Down" Bailey 1:06
16 Pimps, Hustlas 4:00
17 Fallin' Rain 3:47
18 Roll On / Afroman 5:34
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