E-40 Teaches You Bay Area Slang | Vanity Fair

On this episode of "Slang School", rapper E-40 teaches you Bay Area slang. From "giggin'" to "guap," E-40 takes us through some of the slang that he grew up with and influenced his music.
E-40 's new album, Practice Makes Paper, is out July 26th.
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[@rudystraight1750]

His finger tip strength is hella strong

[@19kclutch95]

Jayson Johnson You is the most retired goofiest person on this mf app cuz there ain’t just 1 city inna bay you lame 🖕🏿🤦🏿‍♂️💀

[@ensonbo5498]

@Jayson Johnson FASHOO

[@wormoSTEEZE]

lol I noticed that before seeing your comment

[@darkrecluse502]

Nah you jawsin' bruh

[@coolb8122]

E40 gives you the explanations of Bay slang with Bay slang. 👌🏾

[@malcolmsaxton2028]

Foooor-suure ...thizzface

[@pablogonzalea7511]

Haha foreal tho.

[@joshuapeoples6795]

Yadadadamean!

[@JordanReedYT]

Byron Edmond II Fasho!!!

[@dinoman4451]

I Love Slang because it let's thee connect words where the so called proper english does not fit in. jmo

[@nupt9473]

The way he holds the iPad gives me anxiety

[@kairiluv8005]

you a material person huh

[@kairiluv8005]

@TraitorShamer I'm not trust me

[@landolorean51]

But he's holdin on like a hubcap in the fast lane💨

[@kairiluv8005]

@@landolorean51 nice 1

[@iLLWiLL510]

That's 'cause you hella square

[@kapppgjiio8515]

Drake watching this taking notes for new slang words to steal for his songs.

[@Capo_PR25]

Kappp Gjiio Fr tho😂bay area really got the most influence💯🤣

[@swishersweets7095]

Fasho

[@keithg.barnes9018]

As long as he gives credit

[@mrfedy4038]

Facts

[@jelly5289]

They’re literally good friends also “the motto is based out in the bay” lmao

[@cam043]

"Named by Me, E-Feezible Belafonte Belagiano Bellweather" LMFAOO TF!!!! 😂😂 You can't hate E-40 lol

[@donguapo7862]

😂😂😂 he knows hes foolin

[@db_auto_photography4539]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀

[@AQUAPHREESH193]

He beeen spittin that nicknamee loool

[@mcnalga]

That name equals 40 letters lol

[@TheRealRaz909]

nigga's name is earl

[@ceoraaa]

I love how he uses Bay Area slang to explain Bay Area slang

[@chuimalik3076]

😂😂

[@danieloliveras5303]

"I'm everywhere like Air" & "All over the place like space"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@galvatron3290]

Daniel Oliveras Love this one🤣🤣

[@geraldl9582]

Ayoooeeee 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ryanjacobson8004]

Daniel Oliveras but mostly he can be found shopping at the Costco near San Ramon. seen him several times .

[@iplayboiirob_6370]

Yee

[@raenishawillridge5582]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@epearl9346]

The way uncle forty’s holding that iPad sends me into a panic attack

[@Pistons2024]

Erica Pearl haha

[@dustinsavage6134]

Erica Pearl on god the finger strength is impeccable 😭

[@epearl9346]

Dustin Savage Not even a slip of the grip

[@alfonsopaz4896]

Can't be slippin like a transmission

[@deezylightbeam]

@@alfonsopaz4896 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elijahashman9716]

“Hella “ is equivalent to “madd” in New York.

[@imayhaveadhd]

Dam. You smart.

[@jfresher925]

Exactly

[@edh9316]

Use hella in a New York sentence

[@jfresher925]

@@edh9316 yo son it was madd bitches at the snitch 9 concert and hella DMX looking crack heads was there

[@TreDogOfficial]

That's so true

[@PDJ3]

They actually used phrases we really say on the regular lol

[@crooseveltharper]

He forgot “lightweight”

[@frzferdinand72]

I didn't even think they were slang words lmao

[@a14rmdaview40]

C Harper everybody says lightweight though

[@luisgarcia-ru3sq]

I would have changed "to the neck" to "to the face" tho

[@almightyprime162]

@@luisgarcia-ru3sq to the face is for when you smoking, to the neck is for when you drinking or eating, so they could of added "to the face"

[@jr3kg3]

About time y'all had E-40 on here, he's THE KING OF SLANG

[@MiguelFlores-ix3op]

nahh Mac Dre izzz

[@jr3kg3]

@@MiguelFlores-ix3op, I see what you mean, but nahh

[@TMMGamez]

forizzle shizzle J Dog

[@artc1980]

@@MiguelFlores-ix3op Naaaaahh... 40 All Day...

[@wanderoutdoors6094]

@@artc1980 e40 ripped off Mac Dre. His whole career was based on biting off Mac Dre's vernacular and artistry.

[@nikkiw3734]

😆"That's confirmed like a Don King Perm"😂

[@davieoncork8554]

Read This As Soon As He Said It 😂😂😂

[@less05x12]

He’s holding that ipad in the richest way possible💀

[@abdirahmanaden4784]

😅😆😆

[@tylermorgan8787]

As someone whose father grew up in V-town this is what I was raised on and honestly I don’t realize half this slang is slang lol

[@Ricardo.E.Gonzales]

Tyler Morgan u can say that again

[@serjiomedina3474]

Fashoo

[@priscilla5270]

Maybe because you aint hang around people who used these slangs

[@darrielwilliams2628]

Exactly... I mean the definitions of the slang words were given in other slang words🤦🏾‍♀️

[@AQUAPHREESH193]

Tyler Morgan 707 day it backwards the city with more game den PlayStation helllooooooo wazzupp all Bay playazzz

[@romeochhut3829]

yee YEE. Where my Bay Area homies @? 🧐

[@LastSamurai98]

YEEEEE 707

[@wuhduhhuh]

510 all day

[@jfresher925]

925 in this g thang

[@johndudoy8161]

925 yeeeee

[@yama51092]

510 East Bay

[@burnheal1005]

Someone please convince this man to start a podcast

[@RonaldJames-eo2hc]

They aren't ready for that lol

[@WaltThizzney415]

I’m surprised “slap” wasn’t mentioned, even the word “ratchet” has bay roots, I remember hearing that back in early 2000, bops, rippers, Ehhhh so many not mentioned.

[@WaltThizzney415]

Ichigo Uzumaki I will say noooo more

[@desannii]

I was waiting. For them to have ripper 😭😭😭

[@WaltThizzney415]

“Lit” too I remember that going back to the mid 90s, used in a slightly different context.

[@ysthekid8932]

Right... muthafuckas are barely using “slap” out there.. along with “lit”..another bay word ..and “clean” .. We never fed them “goes” by itself since they wouldn’t get it.. we told them “goes hard”.. also “feeling myself” is being misused like a muthafucka.. i can go on and on and still have so much game left.. haha

[@WaltThizzney415]

ysthekid wet, clean thoooo I love that word

[@Alex-ve6ey]

Exposing our secret language

[@lionheart4529]

@allndadoe510 #REALRICHMOND

[@crooseveltharper]

allndadoe510 bro I’m mean across the country niggas use our slang

[@rayologyxm]

@@crooseveltharper especially guap

[@BCY95]

Lmao

[@kindbud]

bay area whack, norcal whack, straight up jocking socal since forever

[@thezenkibo]

I saw him at the mall in the parking lot once. I just froze, and he did his signature glasses tilt at me. It was awesome!! Been listening to that man for 30 years now!

[@charityspicer4462]

amazing

[@hottchippn8tv488]

Seeing that would be enough to faint I couldn’t handle 🥹 you’re so lucky

[@yOGlo]

That's dope asf !!

[@dumptruckasslover]

I've never seen anybody hold an iPad like that

[@hardfought1842]

Max Avery production was lacking with the pop sockets

[@highginx]

Forty Water does things his own way 🚫🧢

[@StefveoX]

"Jawsin': You know, just shoo-shoo'in". Oh, NOW I UNDERSTAND

[@blackcutlass1]

Pump fakin, wolfin, shammin are also considered synonyms for jawsin😂

[@ashb.9259]

Right! That’s what I said

[@bbyhoodgoth]

😂

[@eliasj.363]

Bruhhhhh 🤣🤣

[@Ninawena]

Means ur lying

[@Stevie_Nickels]

I love his voice

[@itsurgirlcharlene]

Stevie Nickels frr

[@stevienguyen2047]

Maybe that’s why he’s a famous rapper.,

[@jaylenivey]

That's Uncle Fowwwtttyy for yaaahhh!!!

[@montel0220]

I'm everywhere like air I'm all over the place like space

[@pureluck8767]

Bay Area liberals are very strange people

[@1ms.johnson]

@@pureluck8767 ?? how

[@spaceagent217]

describing slang with other forms of slang that I don't understand lmao

[@ninobrown630]

Cuz you white af 😂

[@cheeto408]

U ain't bay 🤷‍♂️

[@Thegoldenchild415]

🤣😂🤣😂😂

[@ThunderMLG]

I'm german and I know some slang better than you americans lmao

[@Me-gh4qu]

Your caucasian this isn't ment for you to understand. Stick to your proper English, cause you Hella lame.

[@DomHealy]

Shout out to all the people who didn’t understand the slang he used to explain the slang. 😂

[@Pistons2024]

rajpacket101 😂😂😂

[@Butterflywarrior214]

Lmaoooo namssayin

[@vinnysaccount]

Yadidamean!

[@Dop3ritrean]

This makes this Oakland born and bred girl so happy!!! I’m surprised “slap” wasn’t on the list.

[@XerxezsX]

His definition of the slang contains other slangs😂😂😂

[@onesekcbagel5119]

He needs to be a motivational speaker at Bay Area schools tho

[@MsJai_1]

Oooo wee!!! E-40 was the soundtrack of my teen years!!! 🎶Big Timah, timah, 40 Waaaatah....Sprinkle me, mayne🎶

[@illmatic_2]

one of the best rappers ever.

[@eanoworro1028]

"When I was a Young Mustache"

[@ebonyhooper1180]

Lmao I read this as he was saying it😂

[@ranikhan6453]

🤣

[@crossingtheline99]

Half the people in they bay aren’t born and raised here.

[@diobility]

Real talk. Bay Slang spreading to other cities, now.

[@markusray319]

Antioch, Tracy, Stockton, Modesto

[@lionheart4529]

@@diobility #REALRICHMOND

[@endlessly8]

True

[@MSteviie01]

@CALICOTV301 right.. wtf

[@doblaire]

i’ve been waiting almost 4 minutes for him to drop that iPad.

[@CCC303THIZZ]

Mac Dre started a lot of it too Giggin def his word Yadada mean Flight to Boston Bend a corner Dipped in butter Thizz in peace cutthroat

[@Chabon209]

CCC 303 yeah giggin I immediately thought of Mac Dre.

[@MiG287]

Yadada mean was Keak

[@msjazzy6432]

@@MiG287 yup

[@93hahayougotme]

I'm suprised they didn't put yadada mean

[@expansioniskeyrn]

Disrespecting Keak Da Sneak! Mac Dre didn’t start Yadadamean! Get it right smh..

[@baseddog2779]

E 40 is the definition of cool.

[@gabrielrossa5004]

"I can mesmerize a ho by jawzin. Can you make a G look like ten thousand?" -E40 Fonzarelli

[@DunkmanSwatTeam]

YEEE YEEEE BAY AREA!!!!!!

[@a1den912]

Yee yeehaw

[@jabrielgraham806]

He’s got one of the most distinctive voices in rap history!!! 😂😂😂💯💯💯

[@n8rm]

E-40 taught 15 year old me in 95, "purbin and swervin and hittin the curbin". Thank you bro. 👍🏻

[@spazzzonem4052]

How tf you gonna leave out "cutty"

[@LICKMYNYNE]

Didn't even go over YEE!

[@jonisrockin]

they left out hella words like thizz, hyphy, scrape,r yadadamean

[@user-ty1jx1pw7c]

yeee

[@jgault23]

That's kinda specific to Vallejo

[@newhire4915]

Because it's a Crest side term , they hoods don't get along

[@lisadavis1577]

You don’t realize that people outside of the bay don’t know this stuff until you’re watching this 😂

[@jayson8362]

where’s the “ Yadadamean”

[@jaylenivey]

They ain't ready for that yet😪😞one day tho... one day

[@clarissarocha8459]

Macdreeezzyy

[@LloydxMcfly]

naw fr yaaddiiminn

[@88PLR]

“Lit!” Is a Bay Area word 💯

[@Lulbrazy]

PLR 88 dat be a whole whiteboii shii in the bay

[@ysthekid8932]

Also that whole “keep it 100” was started by 40 water himself

[@badcornflakes6374]

@@Lulbrazy You got 1 like for that race biased comment. Lol

[@itsmeeandrea]

Lmfao he'd be a great teacher 😂😂 I could listen to him all day!

[@XxMissAnnoyedxX]

E40: Casually sneaks the term “double entendre” in a sentence then continues to speak only using Bay Area slang

[@Y0uDaRealMVP]

I live in the bay and I use all these terms and never really knew only people in the bay use them... besides like hella and some other ones, shout-out San Leandro 👌

[@ryandecastro4644]

Cal Erickson San Leandro boyz we out here

[@ysthekid8932]

One ☝️ love to the Dro

[@gabrielsanchez1644]

San Lee 👌🏽

[@slimb232]

A people be forgetting how close the dro is to the town

[@darcsun9766]

"A young Mustache"😂😂😂

[@yakuzamoons]

E40 could do a whole season of slang episodes

[@92118]

I love how he defines slag words with more slang lol 🙌 Yay Area!!!

[@sososanchez3512]

And that's confirm like a Don King perm.. Yo...lol

[@akekestory493]

Right 😂😂😂

[@hurricanehuong]

YAAAAAAY AREAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@tr0nd15c]

Word up to the 408. “Tell me when to go? Tell me when ta go! Tell me when ta go!!”

[@perryproductionsports4759]

tr0nd15c Milpitas Here but currently in Alabama smh

[@samuraigvng8963]

Crazy cause In the bay we use some of these words so much that I didn’t even know they were area specific slang lmao

[@JesusSanchez-mq4kg]

Bay area on the map 😏

[@Ricardo.E.Gonzales]

Jesus Sanchez been on bro

[@jaylenivey]

@@Ricardo.E.Gonzales We never get our shine tho😤😤😤 They stay disrespecting us and biting our sauce hella hard og!!

[@KB-yi8pq]

Yay Area Represent! E-40 is a Bay Area legend. 🙌🏽💪🏽

[@forevershampoo]

Some people have a really limited understanding of language and they can't freak the slang and get confused God bless 40water putting them on

[@xCOBRAxVENOMx]

E-40 is one of a king, he gone forever be my favorite rapper.

[@jeplarson6519]

thank u 40 water. truly a blessing

[@sunnypatchkid3588]

“Hella” was my uncle favorite saying 😂😂

[@swankylegg]

0:17 THE YAY 0:29 CATTIN' OFF 0:44 SMELL ME 0:54 HELLA 1:11 FOR THE F 1:21 GUAP 1:32 FASHEEZY 1:59 THE V 2:06 TUCKED OFF 2:31 GASSED 2:55 TO THE NECK 3:23 JAWSIN' 3:32 GOT ME BENT 3:42 FASHO

[@awesomedez]

I need a dictionary for his dictionary 😁

[@msjazzy6432]

Look up E-40 book of slang. Might help you..

[@miles3908]

“when I was a young mustache”

[@LALAMAYA]

We need a part 2!!

[@USDAselect]

Underground legend

[@kingcee9042]

#fortywater out here on every KZbin channel.. 🎯👑👑👑👑👑🎯💯 bout time they recognize game 👍

[@seanmartin8121]

My mount rushmore for bay is 1.Mac dre 2.E.40 3.Tooshort 4.Spice 1 5.Yukmouth Now if we talking biggest artist i think its E40 G.eazy Tooshort Mac dre Keisha cole

[@josephhughessr5369]

Legend. Nuff said

[@person2757]

Been living in the Bay Area for my whole life, only ever heard “Hella”, “Fasho”, and “Gassed”

[@mattb8754]

In reality "hella" is the only widely used bay area slang word in that whole list.

[@GoldenGod69]

In the East Bay, we use everything he said in the video

[@bryanalstoncoxing]

Smell me, gassed, fahsheezy, got me bent, fasho are ones I’ve heard a lot

[@JahRandom]

I feel bad for all you who are watching this and can't understand the slang he uses during the definitions of the slang...and still don't know what it means...lol. Ya'll gotta get up! Fasheezy!

[@JayB-zb3qg]

“Like a Pregnant lady, I come with an album every 8 or 9 months”

[@playboyjorge6212]

San Jose Bay Area 💯

[@FPOAK]

Cattin' off is a j-cat reference.

[@adminmars7003]

I’ve always loved how he referred to himself as “Young Mustache” lmao 😂

[@jaimesmith2266]

😂😂😂😂

[@Mone333Williams]

Aka young grasshopper

[@lexica510]

East Bay ALL day!

[@Christof708]

All day sitting in traffic, lol

[@jaylenivey]

The most Yay part of the Bay fasho... Shout out all my 510 natives😈😈😈

[@etiquette8470]

No disrespect to a bay legend E40 but chop a chop is the real legendary figure chopping it.. Free Mac minister!

[@Isaac2.]

He forgot a lot more words, our slang list is long lmfao!

[@williamhornabrook8081]

E40 has the most entertaining way of speaking of any artist. UK has some good slang but I think the Bay Area slang is a bit more iconic.

[@jegszilla]

LA gon take this slang 😂

[@dapluug]

maybe if yall would stop moving over here we wont say em as much😂

[@xxTonganxFreshxx]

KALI DA P dead homies lol

[@gabrielsanchez1644]

LA: “WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!”

[@1ms.johnson]

fr

[@briankendalll2093]

I saw you years ago outside a Vacaville Denny’s. Glad to witness your success. In a Major Way still bumps my Lexus

[@mayabeyer7463]

Yay Area 🔥

[@reece4051]

Us in Sactown use the exact same slang its coo how influential the bay is

[@chavela2235]

Bay Area rep lesgoooo

[@MGTOW_GHOST]

I’m diggin his personalized chain. Much love big homie ✊🏾

[@Willonlybeme]

#E40 I need you to be narrator....give #40 his own series it dont matter the subject he gon make it hella dope

[@jmeditation]

Let's not forget that Mac Dre, Suga Wolf, Reek Daddy, Young Lay and so on and so forth played a part in the creation of all this Vallejo linguistic gasoline... yadada mean ?!

[@4raxx20]

Now yall needa have Mozzy on to show the progressions of the slang as he is the seed of 40 Water wen it comes to the up & coming Sac/Yay Area Artist carrying on the slangacy for the new school

[@franciscocharco2291]

Traxx fr when he said one up top ahky some stocky in the choppy fat wally for brodowski off uh oxxi “

[@forgetfulfunctor1]

E40 is the undisputed GOAT of slang and slingo

[@samuraiphilosphic6187]

Others include: wolfin’,cattin’, burnt,outta pocket, function, and hella others

[@peezyface]

Tyler Chaffin sellin wolf tickets. Haven’t heard that in years.

[@iwannaseeit1979]

Put that on my mama Put that on errythang I love

[@matteuspittmann2720]

Bro I don’t know of an area like the bay. People in Oakland, Vallejo and Richmond I believe genuinely can’t come back to English because the slang is so heavy 😂

[@RobertH-gv4xc]

He didn't even get to half of the slang words said out in the bay

[@daveking7943]

On god

[@markusray319]

Cause we made it all up. Basically if it’s out there, we started it.

[@videosurfah]

Like boosie

[@danielleon4159]

4real Cutthoat on the real

[@boloyoung9537]

E40 breaking down slang. Never heard of that before

[@mrbobbymonroe6730]

Look for me everywhere like Air Im all over the place like space. GLEEFAA

[@Twizzledoc187]

E-40 make any word sound slick! I can see myself asking him for a photo with him and his response would probably be “yuuurrrppp”

[@NalaBalenciaga]

E40 sound like he got jell-o fallin out his mouth.

[@FilmaticProductions]

Didn't you get blocked by E-40 for saying this on IG?

[@NalaBalenciaga]

@@FilmaticProductions lol who knows I don’t follow e40 so I wouldn’t know if he blocked me or not nor would I care

[@otropedo6094]

E40 he's real og.. He need to make a book or do a read along and add his slang to the story

[@bradleymartin9066]

YEEE!!

[@kambo_king1280]

San Jose got all the fine colors in the crayons box! Yellow, white , black and brown! Yee!!!

[@Fromthewiggidy]

Shout out the whole bay

[@anushkazumale7735]

I’m Southern Californian and I got most of these