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.