E-40 Reveals His Bay Area Sports GOATs - Talks Daejon Love Drama | TMZ Sports

Welcome inside the TMZ TMZ sports newsroom. There are some guys that don't need an introduction. E-40 is one of them. We got the legend here in the in the office in the studio with us. E-40, aside from everything, you know, the music and all that stuff. You are, I feel like your career is so intertwined with sports and the sports world, the sports culture. Obviously, if you watch a Warrior game, you've been a staple the entire run, right? When did you get to like 2013, you started sitting courtside and something like that? Yeah. Yeah, right. So you've been there to you've been there the whole I just wasn't courtside. Right. So you were okay. So you've been a building but you you've been there for the whole Dynasty, the whole Steph Curry experience for championships, two different arenas. What an experience. What's let's start right there. What's that been like? It's I'm a Knicks fan. I you get one championship in 53 years and we got so much. Thank you guys. It's like say I deserve that. Thank you. They did that could not be happier for the players. That's one championship and you see how happy the city in New York gets the Knicks fans gets you guys are like just an embarrassment of riches with the four. What's it been like going from a team that wasn't winning and now to do all that you have done. Quite the experience, you know, just seeing, you know, the greats, you know, you know what I love about the Warriors with Stephanie is they made themselves stars. Yeah, like they didn't cut like Draymond Steph and clay the way they came in. It was incredible. Like people when we when we had got Durant they was like, oh, that's cheating. No, it's not. It's not so much cheating. Now that y'all see so many people doing it, right? Right, but it still wasn't cheap back then because them dudes have made they self self-made and then Kev came and joined it and imagine if he would have stayed we would have had a good at least six. You think that we do more sure at least two more. No if ands or buts if they didn't have them injuries, but if is if it was a fifth will all be drawn, right, you know things happen, you know what I mean? And like I said, no just watching it all them years man. It's just a beautiful thing to see the goat. I feel like Steph is top three all time. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I know a lot of people don't say that but I really do there's an argument to be made. Come on, man. Come on, bro. Steph is still with the same team as well. Yeah, Steph overall not just off the court on the court. Everything is a class act, right? You know, no one's never seen I've never and I've been on this Earth for many moons. I've never ever seen anybody play basketball like that, right? Nobody has I mean, no one has I've seen some incredible things and I and it's right in my face because I'm front row for you. So I see everything and I'm like it didn't be such a humble dude. Yeah ain't fake. He real a real family man. He raising mostly daughters, right that make you to me and make you even a stronger man. You know, I mean he got his young son, you know what I'm saying? And so it's like it's he just an incredible class act man. I ain't got nothing bad to say about that. So all that stuff because most people don't know him like you or get the right with all what you see on TV or read about, you know, him being is the good guy. The family guy. That's that's all the real winner. You know how I go. If you poke the bear though, you never know. You might see you right now. He's a killer. I'm like, yeah. Yes, then that's what happens. I kill you on that court boy. You feel me? Yes, sir. Yeah. No, I couldn't I couldn't I couldn't argue with you there. I mean, I do think there's a there's a case to be made about that. The Bay Area has had a hell of a lot of great great like legendary athletes. I mean, I assume you put him number one. What's if you were to give me like a Mount Rushmore like you can do all the sports like four guys who's like that top four guys in the Bay Area. You ready? Yeah, let me hear it. We're gonna go Barry Bonds. Okay. Yeah, I think you got it. That's baseball, right? Okay, we're gonna go football. We're gonna go with Jerry Rice. Okay. We're gonna go basketball. You just said his name. Steph Curry. Okay. Let me think because you know people you tripping. You got hot man. How did you forget this person? What were you gonna go football? You could go you could go Jerry. I got two people. I was definitely gonna say but but isn't Tom Brady from the Bay? He's from the right. He didn't play there. But yeah, that's a little curveball right there. That's not a catch 22. That's a catch 23. That's a tough one. Right? We're gonna call it a tie between Tom Brady. I'm just gonna make my own rules. You make it right. Rules are to be to be made to be broken. Right? So I'm gonna say Tom Brady and Joe Montana for that fourth spot for the Mount Rushmore of the Bay Area Sports. You understand? Right? You can always add it, right? Yeah, five, six, whatever. You know what I'm saying? You got a whole bunch of honorable mentions, but we're gonna leave it at that. You got so many. I gotta ask you about the most viral story. Not just the sports world. Dejan Love. He is the wide receiver for you. You heard about this guy? I've been here. I don't know this guy. You haven't heard about the story though? Or you have seen? Here and there. I've been hearing about a fake dude, a dude that tried to play like, act like he was a 49er. Yeah, if he don't know water, if he don't know 40 water and he's playing 49er. If I never heard him or met him. He's not a player. Yeah, he's not. They should have asked me. Before they gave him the money or whatever. It's all the scam and ----. They should have said, hey, let me call 40. The Bang Bang Niner Gang guy. You understand me? Yeah, he's gonna know. Probably 40 gonna know. Yeah, they say, I mean, and he's in some trouble now, but they say he took like 1.3 million dollars. He's 26 women. Yeah, see, they let him finesse him. Right. They should have called water. I would have been like, I don't know this mother****er. You understand? Yeah, he ain't met me. If you didn't hear of him, then it's not a thing. For your Niners. We got the season's kicks off in like a week here. Yeah, a lot of talented players. What's, what are you feeling? What's the, what's the prospects for this season? They've gotten close, but. So I talked to all the competitors. Fans, the fans. Okay. The competitive teams. Not even competitors. **** that. Yeah, they just rival. Rival. Right. You know, I'll be like, I say, but loved ones. I got cousins, family, you know, all siblings. Not siblings. Siblings. We all run with 49ers, but I got family members that love the Raiders as well. Okay, and I'm like, but family, doesn't it seem like we're always in the Super Bowl or, you know, in the playoffs, you know, and they, oh, they go, they go so bad. They get upset. They get so bad. See, I'm from the era where we play. So did people really? Sincerely, I got to say this. If you let me get this off. Can I get this off real quick? Go ahead. For sure. So I'm from the era and I'm upset with some of you young people and some of you older people. Y'all know we from the era of throwbacks. Y'all know this. We used to wear throwback jerseys. I had a Washington Redskins burgundy starter outfit that went with my burgundy Cougar with the gold tips. Everything that was chrome was gold with Zenith and Vogues back in the 80s. That's how we used to do it. We wear the fit to match whatever you understand me, whatever it is. And then in the 2000s as well, we wore people jerseys and I'm from the Bay. We didn't care about what team it was what it was on a couple of videos. I had on Raider gear, but I had on 49er gear one video. I had on Raider gear, but I had on San Diego Charger gear. So ******* what? I had San Diego. I'm not even a San Diego Charger. Right? Oh people get mad at you. Man. They do. You know, this is the this is the narrative because I know look, I know I'm somebody I'm something very special. I'm very different. I'm an interesting guy and I know I'm a people's person and I know I'm a walking house party. So I'm you know, people love me, right? So it's like who wouldn't want E-40 to be the representative of their team, right? You know what I mean? So it's like I'm a I don't have nothing against the Raiders. My primary team is the 49ers. They like people that came up to me mad because you know, all it take is a couple of suckers to get on the internet and they really but I don't know how these people engage and believe that maybe like you used to be a diehard Raider fan when you get to die hard. Y'all hate it. Let's stop this. I was never a diehard Raider fan and I'm from Vallejo. I'm not from Oakland or San Francisco. I'm from the v707 a small a small city with true talent with a lot of game involved. So anyway, anyway, bang bang nine a game partner. There it is from because I know you got to run a 40 from NFL to college. You are doing something really really cool on Friday night Stanford home opener against University of Miami. They're one of the best teams in the country. It's the 20th anniversary of my ghetto report card. You are going to perform at halftime. Yeah, amazing. And and now I hear to that that the the guy the best player that Stanford has ever had apparently wanted. He's a big fan of Andrew Luck is a big fan of e40 wanted you there makes the call and boom Friday night. We're going to make that happen. We just it's emotion like the ocean. We have a good time out there. I'm very very very excited to do this performance. Yeah, we're going to cut up man. Let's go Stanford. Let's go baby. Is it hard if it's a big big venue? Obviously when you're talking about a football stadium, is that hard? Is that challenging to perform? What's the capacity in there? It's got to be 70. Human body, right? You think of like a basketball arena? You're like, that's only 20. It's like three times more. Right? It's crazy to think of that. I can't wait to get up in there and do my thing. The bigger the audience the bigger. I want to perform and make it groovy like a drive-in movie, man. We're going to turn that thing out just that we're going to show up and show out. You know what I'm saying? I can't wait to do it. I can't wait to watch him. We're not going to be there. Obviously. We'll we'll watch that though on TV, man. Thank you for coming brother. I appreciate you. My guy. But you know what? We got to do the no fingerprints backwards handshake. What do we do? How's this? Like this? Like that. And then you go. Okay. When you do it. So you go like that. Then you pop your. Like that. Okay. There you go. One more. Ready? Yeah. Like thank you for you. And you do know that.