Practice Makes Paper

Practice Makes Paper is the 26th studio album from Bay Area rapper E-40. The album, which has been delayed from December 2018 and February 2019 release dates, is the second installment of the Definitions trilogy which began with September 2018’s The Gift of Gab.

E-40 announced the album’s new release date and updated cover art via Twitter on June 14th, revealing a star-studded feature list including A$AP Ferg, Scarface, and Quavo, among others.

A connoisseur of slang, E-40 helped popularize the use of the word paper in rap to refer to money. So it’s only fitting that the album cover for Practice Makes Paper features 40 on a custom 40 dollar bill. The album’s artwork could have been inspired by a line from one of E-40’s early hits, 1995’s “Sideways”:

I'm realer than a hundred dollar bill with the line across
― E-40 (Ft. B-Legit & Mac Shawn) – Sideways