While reading The News Tribune today (I have to keep up on my local Tacoma news), I noticed a rather nicely done writeup about the infamous Bay Area rap icon E-40. Naturally it is offering some free advertisement for his upcoming concert, but aside from the blatant plugs, the article is rather good and gives some insight into who E-40 is, why he is claiming he is the king of slang, and the many many contributions he has made to the Hip-Hop game.
As I said, the article is a good read, and for those of you who who have no clue of what E-40 is saying 52% of the time he is talking, the article comes complete with a mini dictionary of popular E-40 slang and its common folk translation. So go ahead and definitely check out the article. It had me laughing so hard. Example:
It’s all gravity: All is well, old chap; variation of “it’s all good,” “it’s all gravy” or “it’s all gravy train.” (Usage: “Aw, man. My bad. I didn’t mean to spill that scalding coffee in your lap.” Response: “It’s all gravity, pimpin’. Ouch!”)
Oh man. Who thought of these examples? They are golden.
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HE’S MAKING A SLANG DICTIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s funny… Those are some jacked up examples though. My bad. I didnt mean to spill that scolding hot coffee on “your” lap. It’ s all gravity. Ouch!/ i shall make it what it really should say. O S*%t. My bad dawg. Iain mane to spill dat hot stuff on yo lap pimpin. It’s all gravity playa.
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