Lest one forget, E-40's repertoire is not all weed steez and hyphy house parties: on "He's a Gangsta," Earl Stevens is going hard on the street stories, the bar raised by the menacing presences of Kaveo and the Jacka. But he doesn't want you to forget his filthy flow, either—every other cadence mimics the brap-brap-brap of machine guns popping, narrating the guns-out tale of the video, which uncomfortably involves human branding.
