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  • 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
    @rudystraight1750 Před 4 lety +1441

    His finger tip strength is hella
    strong

    • @19kclutch95
      @19kclutch95 Před 3 lety +7

      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
      @ensonbo5498 Před 3 lety +2

      @Jayson Johnson FASHOO

    • @wormoSTEEZE
      @wormoSTEEZE Před 2 lety

      lol I noticed that before seeing your comment

    • @darkrecluse502
      @darkrecluse502 Před rokem

      Nah you jawsin' bruh

  • @coolb8122
    @coolb8122 Před 4 lety +4549

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

  • @nupt9473
    @nupt9473 Před 4 lety +5851

    The way he holds the iPad gives me anxiety

  • @kapppgjiio8515
    @kapppgjiio8515 Před 4 lety +947

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

    • @Capo_PR25
      @Capo_PR25 Před 4 lety +32

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

    • @swishersweets7095
      @swishersweets7095 Před 4 lety +4

      Fasho

    • @keithg.barnes9018
      @keithg.barnes9018 Před 3 lety +8

      As long as he gives credit

    • @mrfedy4038
      @mrfedy4038 Před 3 lety +2

      Facts

    • @jelly5289
      @jelly5289 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @ceoraaa
    @ceoraaa Před 3 lety +171

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

  • @epearl9346
    @epearl9346 Před 4 lety +1063

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

  • @cam043
    @cam043 Před 4 lety +1713

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

  • @elijahashman9716
    @elijahashman9716 Před 4 lety +2551

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

    • @imayhaveadhd
      @imayhaveadhd Před 4 lety +101

      Dam. You smart.

    • @jfresher925
      @jfresher925 Před 4 lety +10

      Exactly

    • @edh9316
      @edh9316 Před 4 lety +20

      Use hella in a New York sentence

    • @jfresher925
      @jfresher925 Před 4 lety +214

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

    • @TreDogOfficial
      @TreDogOfficial Před 4 lety +2

      That's so true

  • @danieloliveras5303
    @danieloliveras5303 Před 4 lety +1494

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

  • @PDJ3
    @PDJ3 Před 4 lety +1040

    They actually used phrases we really say on the regular lol

    • @crooseveltharper
      @crooseveltharper Před 4 lety +138

      He forgot “lightweight”

    • @frzferdinand72
      @frzferdinand72 Před 4 lety +63

      I didn't even think they were slang words lmao

    • @a14rmdaview40
      @a14rmdaview40 Před 4 lety +11

      C Harper everybody says lightweight though

    • @luisgarcia-ru3sq
      @luisgarcia-ru3sq Před 4 lety +37

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

    • @almightyprime162
      @almightyprime162 Před 4 lety +34

      @@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"

  • @nikkiw3734
    @nikkiw3734 Před 4 lety +709

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

  • @jr3kg3
    @jr3kg3 Před 4 lety +895

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

    • @MiguelFlores-ix3op
      @MiguelFlores-ix3op Před 4 lety +5

      nahh Mac Dre izzz

    • @jr3kg3
      @jr3kg3 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @TMMGamez
      @TMMGamez Před 4 lety

      forizzle shizzle J Dog

    • @artc1980
      @artc1980 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @wanderoutdoors6094
      @wanderoutdoors6094 Před 3 lety

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

  • @less05x12
    @less05x12 Před 4 lety +175

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

  • @romeochhut3829
    @romeochhut3829 Před 4 lety +2068

    yee YEE. Where my Bay Area homies @? 🧐

  • @Alex-ve6ey
    @Alex-ve6ey Před 4 lety +769

    Exposing our secret language

    • @lionheart4529
      @lionheart4529 Před 4 lety +12

      @allndadoe510 #REALRICHMOND

    • @crooseveltharper
      @crooseveltharper Před 4 lety +16

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

    • @rayologyxm
      @rayologyxm Před 4 lety +6

      @@crooseveltharper especially guap

    • @BCY95
      @BCY95 Před 4 lety

      Lmao

    • @kindbud
      @kindbud Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @burnheal1005
    @burnheal1005 Před 4 lety +356

    Someone please convince this man to start a podcast

  • @tylermorgan8787
    @tylermorgan8787 Před 4 lety +545

    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
      @Ricardo.E.Gonzales Před 4 lety +13

      Tyler Morgan u can say that again

    • @serjiomedina3474
      @serjiomedina3474 Před 4 lety +12

      Fashoo

    • @priscilla5270
      @priscilla5270 Před 4 lety +1

      Maybe because you aint hang around people who used these slangs

    • @darrielwilliams2628
      @darrielwilliams2628 Před 4 lety

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

    • @AQUAPHREESH193
      @AQUAPHREESH193 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @dumptruckasslover
    @dumptruckasslover Před 4 lety +417

    I've never seen anybody hold an iPad like that

    • @hardfought1842
      @hardfought1842 Před 4 lety +5

      Max Avery production was lacking with the pop sockets

    • @highginx
      @highginx Před 4 lety +1

      Forty Water does things his own way 🚫🧢

  • @thezenkibo
    @thezenkibo Před 4 lety +232

    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!

  • @StefveoX
    @StefveoX Před 4 lety +111

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

  • @Stevie_Nickels
    @Stevie_Nickels Před 4 lety +230

    I love his voice

  • @WaltThizzney415
    @WaltThizzney415 Před 4 lety +409

    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
      @WaltThizzney415 Před 4 lety +12

      Ichigo Uzumaki I will say noooo more

    • @desannii
      @desannii Před 4 lety +16

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

    • @WaltThizzney415
      @WaltThizzney415 Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @ysthekid8932
      @ysthekid8932 Před 4 lety +35

      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
      @WaltThizzney415 Před 4 lety +2

      ysthekid wet, clean thoooo I love that word

  • @montel0220
    @montel0220 Před 4 lety +174

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

  • @XerxezsX
    @XerxezsX Před 4 lety +40

    His definition of the slang contains other slangs😂😂😂

  • @Dop3ritrean
    @Dop3ritrean Před 3 lety +11

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

  • @spaceagent217
    @spaceagent217 Před 4 lety +781

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

    • @ninobrown630
      @ninobrown630 Před 4 lety +78

      Cuz you white af 😂

    • @cheeto408
      @cheeto408 Před 4 lety +61

      U ain't bay 🤷‍♂️

    • @Thegoldenchild415
      @Thegoldenchild415 Před 4 lety

      🤣😂🤣😂😂

    • @ThunderMLG
      @ThunderMLG Před 4 lety +7

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

    • @Me-gh4qu
      @Me-gh4qu Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @eanoworro1028
    @eanoworro1028 Před 4 lety +45

    "When I was a Young Mustache"

  • @DomHealy
    @DomHealy Před 4 lety +224

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

  • @MsJai_1
    @MsJai_1 Před 4 lety +25

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

  • @onesekcbagel5119
    @onesekcbagel5119 Před 3 lety +26

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

  • @baseddog2779
    @baseddog2779 Před 3 lety +20

    E 40 is the definition of cool.

  • @illmatic_2
    @illmatic_2 Před 4 lety +147

    one of the best rappers ever.

  • @doblaire
    @doblaire Před 4 lety +41

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

  • @jabrielgraham806
    @jabrielgraham806 Před 4 lety +11

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

  • @DunkmanSwatTeam
    @DunkmanSwatTeam Před 4 lety +76

    YEEE YEEEE BAY AREA!!!!!!

  • @LALAMAYA
    @LALAMAYA Před 4 lety +5

    We need a part 2!!

  • @92118
    @92118 Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @spazzzonem4052
    @spazzzonem4052 Před 4 lety +199

    How tf you gonna leave out "cutty"

    • @LICKMYNYNE
      @LICKMYNYNE Před 4 lety +25

      Didn't even go over YEE!

    • @jonisrockin
      @jonisrockin Před 4 lety +34

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

    • @user-ty1jx1pw7c
      @user-ty1jx1pw7c Před 4 lety

      yeee

    • @jgault23
      @jgault23 Před 4 lety +6

      That's kinda specific to Vallejo

    • @newhire4915
      @newhire4915 Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @KB-yi8pq
    @KB-yi8pq Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @jeplarson6519
    @jeplarson6519 Před 4 lety +3

    thank u 40 water. truly a blessing

  • @lisadavis1577
    @lisadavis1577 Před 4 lety +13

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

  • @itsmeeandrea
    @itsmeeandrea Před 4 lety +51

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

  • @MGTOW_GHOST
    @MGTOW_GHOST Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @xCOBRAxVENOMx
    @xCOBRAxVENOMx Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @yakuzamoons
    @yakuzamoons Před 4 lety +13

    E40 could do a whole season of slang episodes

  • @jayson8362
    @jayson8362 Před 4 lety +66

    where’s the “ Yadadamean”

  • @n8rm
    @n8rm Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @gabrielrossa5004
    @gabrielrossa5004 Před 4 lety +40

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

  • @darcsun9766
    @darcsun9766 Před 4 lety +17

    "A young Mustache"😂😂😂

  • @forevershampoo
    @forevershampoo Před 4 lety +4

    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

  • @briankendalll2093
    @briankendalll2093 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @88PLR
    @88PLR Před 4 lety +61

    “Lit!” Is a Bay Area word 💯

    • @Lulbrazy
      @Lulbrazy Před 4 lety +2

      PLR 88 dat be a whole whiteboii shii in the bay

    • @ysthekid8932
      @ysthekid8932 Před 4 lety +14

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

    • @badcornflakes6374
      @badcornflakes6374 Před 3 lety

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

  • @sososanchez3512
    @sososanchez3512 Před 4 lety +40

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

  • @hurricanehuong
    @hurricanehuong Před 4 lety +20

    YAAAAAAY AREAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @MissShaneice
    @MissShaneice Před 4 lety

    love this! hella dope

  • @Y0uDaRealMVP
    @Y0uDaRealMVP Před 4 lety +47

    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 👌

  • @sunnypatchkid3588
    @sunnypatchkid3588 Před 4 lety +7

    “Hella” was my uncle favorite saying 😂😂

  • @XxMissAnnoyedxX
    @XxMissAnnoyedxX Před 3 lety +6

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

  • @beemocha
    @beemocha Před 4 lety +1

    He’s so cool! 😎 gotta love E-40 🙌🏾
    I didn’t know people still said “fasheezy”

  • @beatsbykana
    @beatsbykana Před 4 lety

    so many gems in this video man fr

  • @kingcee9042
    @kingcee9042 Před 4 lety +17

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

  • @josephhughessr5369
    @josephhughessr5369 Před 4 lety +18

    Legend. Nuff said

  • @TheMisslily21
    @TheMisslily21 Před 4 lety

    LOVE THIS

  • @rachelhennessy9666
    @rachelhennessy9666 Před 2 lety

    Love it so much! Don’t forget cut, in the cut, that’s cutty…

  • @crossingtheline99
    @crossingtheline99 Před 4 lety +525

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

  • @USDAselect
    @USDAselect Před 4 lety +11

    Underground legend

  • @ezekielgallardo7168
    @ezekielgallardo7168 Před 4 lety

    Hella dope

  • @thatsmaney8943
    @thatsmaney8943 Před 4 lety

    Love to c 40 wata still winning. I grew up on his music.

  • @JesusSanchez-mq4kg
    @JesusSanchez-mq4kg Před 4 lety +37

    Bay area on the map 😏

    • @Ricardo.E.Gonzales
      @Ricardo.E.Gonzales Před 4 lety +2

      Jesus Sanchez been on bro

    • @jaylenivey
      @jaylenivey Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @bradleymartin9066
    @bradleymartin9066 Před 4 lety +7

    YEEE!!

  • @pacemenoyt505
    @pacemenoyt505 Před 4 lety +1

    the way u speakin GOT ME BENT bruh😆 can somebody gimme any examples of using 'Hella' word please😄😁😁 This guy on the video so coool

  • @leme9006
    @leme9006 Před 4 lety +2

    Love his laugh😂

  • @CCC303THIZZ
    @CCC303THIZZ Před 4 lety +129

    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
      @Chabon209 Před 4 lety +5

      CCC 303 yeah giggin I immediately thought of Mac Dre.

    • @MiG287
      @MiG287 Před 4 lety +10

      Yadada mean was Keak

    • @msjazzy6432
      @msjazzy6432 Před 4 lety

      @@MiG287 yup

    • @93hahayougotme
      @93hahayougotme Před 4 lety +2

      I'm suprised they didn't put yadada mean

    • @expansioniskeyrn
      @expansioniskeyrn Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @Willonlybeme
    @Willonlybeme Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @Karakikon
    @Karakikon Před 4 lety +2

    love e40!!!!

  • @mattstevens6720
    @mattstevens6720 Před 4 lety +1

    E40 Bloody legend love the music og WST SIDE

  • @tr0nd15c
    @tr0nd15c Před 4 lety +8

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

  • @samuraigvng8963
    @samuraigvng8963 Před 4 lety +6

    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

  • @Blanca7C
    @Blanca7C Před 4 lety +2

    Legend.

  • @leehughes5733
    @leehughes5733 Před 4 lety

    Love E 40's bay patois we use gassed over hear in the U.k the same over in the yay I new a few fasheezy !! . And that's cofermed more than a don king perm you get me ! Defo keep this on my phone library fasho ! . Stay blessed my G I'm out peace . ✌🧢🎧🇬🇧💯

  • @miles3908
    @miles3908 Před 3 lety +6

    “when I was a young mustache”

  • @chavela2235
    @chavela2235 Před 4 lety +5

    Bay Area rep lesgoooo

  • @fearlesssfcappuccino
    @fearlesssfcappuccino Před 4 lety

    YES. !!!! Best. find. ever!!

  • @QuakeBeatZ
    @QuakeBeatZ Před 4 lety

    40 Giving the slang away!!!!!

  • @mayabeyer7463
    @mayabeyer7463 Před 4 lety +7

    Yay Area 🔥

  • @elijahashman9716
    @elijahashman9716 Před 4 lety +3

    “ It’s Confirm like Don King Perm”.

  • @MickeyIsIcky
    @MickeyIsIcky Před 4 lety +2

    Dudes laugh makes me happy.

  • @carsonjamesiv2512
    @carsonjamesiv2512 Před 4 lety

    LEGEND!!!

  • @JayB-zb3qg
    @JayB-zb3qg Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @adminmars7003
    @adminmars7003 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @1904.Lowridaz
    @1904.Lowridaz Před 4 lety

    1:43 why this part got me cracking up lmaoo fasheezy for sure

  • @larryabeyta7582
    @larryabeyta7582 Před 3 lety

    u see the allway gotta be someone to keep the fire light

  • @BillykOTW
    @BillykOTW Před 4 lety +4

    Yee!! Yee!!

  • @mattb8754
    @mattb8754 Před 3 lety +8

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

    • @GoldenGod69
      @GoldenGod69 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @bryanalstoncoxing
      @bryanalstoncoxing Před 3 lety

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

  • @MeEmma123
    @MeEmma123 Před 4 lety

    this made me so happy

  • @amel734
    @amel734 Před 3 lety

    🔥🔥

  • @rome8934
    @rome8934 Před 4 lety +6

    Man i wish i knew all these words when i was a young mustache

  • @divisiononesocial3249
    @divisiononesocial3249 Před 4 lety +3

    We using newer words now in the Town, but this good for the square bears who tryna use our demonstration for their administration. Lil sample

    • @MattchuBoiSwag
      @MattchuBoiSwag Před 4 lety +3

      Bay Area stay on their toes. We always on the next wave g. That's why everyone's slaps be using our bass patterns and 808s

  • @robertbeightler1473
    @robertbeightler1473 Před 3 lety

    I knew hella would come up

  • @forgetfulfunctor1
    @forgetfulfunctor1 Před 4 lety +1

    E40 is the undisputed GOAT of slang and slingo