Released March 26, 2012 Length 1:11:40 Release date 26 March 2012 | Recorded 2011–2012 Artist E-40 Label Heavy On The Grind | |
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Producer Trend, DJ Fresh, T-Pain, Sam Bostic, ReeceBeats, Droop-E, Scorp Dezel, THX, Aaron Harris, Mike Mosely, Rick Rock, Willy Will, Fastraks, C-Ballin, JohnG, Haze, Nonstop Da Hitman The Block Brochure Welcome to the Soil 2
(2012) The Block Brochure Welcome to the Soil 3
(2012) Genres Hip hop music, West Coast hip hop, Gangsta rap, Hyphy Similar E-40 albums, West Coast hip hop albums | ||
The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 2 is the sixthteenth studio album by American rapper E-40. The album is part of a trilogy that was released on March 26, 2012. The other albums in the trilogy include The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1, and The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 3. E-40's last four albums were released in pairs; Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift were released in 2010, and Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift and Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift were released in 2011.
Contents
The album has 18 tracks, along with 2 bonus tracks, and it features YG, Twista, T-Pain, Spice 1, Celly Cel, JT the Bigga Figga, C-Bo, Tech N9ne, Brotha Lynch Hung, Cellski, Andre Nickatina, T-Nutty and Suga-T among others. In addition, Butch Cassidy and Dorrough are featured on the two bonus tracks.
The album's first single is "Function", featuring YG, Iamsu! and Problem, released on February 17, 2012. It peaked at #1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and #62 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #42 on the Rap Songs chart. The music video was released on March 6. A video for "Zombie" featuring Tech N9ne, Kung Fu Vampire & Brotha Lynch Hung was released on May 11, while one for "I'm Laced" was released July 6, 2012.
Two commercials were released in March 2012 to promote the Block Brochure album series. The second volume scored a 68/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally positive reviews". It is the lowest of the three volumes.
Commercial performance
The volume debuted at #58 on the Billboard 200, and at #9 on the Hot R&B/Hip-hop albums chart. As of April 18, 2012, the album has sold 13,000 copies in US.
Notes
Songs
1I'm Laced3:01
2On the Case3:38
3Function (feat YG - IAmSu & Problem)YG - Iamsu! - Problem4:19