Turf Talk was unfazed.

Turf Talk is nothing if not brash; at the beginning of his 2004 debut album, "The Street Novelist," he bragged about going platinum.

Like his older cousin, the hip-hop veteran E-40, Turf Talk is a flamboyant rhetorician.

While some rappers strive to sound conversational, as if they're delivering the unvarnished truth, Turf Talk never lets you forget that each verse is a performance.

Turf Talk is not credited on "Get Ya Weight Up"

"Got Rich Twice" featuring Turf Talk followed.

Whereas Quasimoto drifts back in time, Turf Talk rushes furiously forward, propelled by gleaming digital beats.

And Turf Talk himself probably doesn't care: he's planning to come up from the basement as soon as possible, anyway.

If Turf Talk succeeds, lots of people will wonder where on earth he came from.

Turf Talk is uncredited in "This Goes Out"