Surely one of the rap game’s most hard working veterans, Bay Area pioneer E-40 is set to return later this year with another three (!) proper albums.

They’re not mixtapes either, we’re looking at a trio of proper full-lengths, following up last year’s Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1, 2 and 3. ‘Off The Block’ might be E-40 by numbers, but E-40’s good is another rapper’s great, and with a memorable chorus from Oakland crooner J.Banks it’s just another reason why we’re still excited about Earl Stevens after a good two decades of records. [via Rap Radar]