E-40 trumpium my benevioulum

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Big L made a slang decoder on his single “Ebonics” in 1998 but Vallejo’s E-40 was already five full acrobatic albums ahead with his own personal language. “Fuck my (trumpium?) smile my (benevioulum?)” guessed one E-40 lyric transcriber, and so observe the talent of the man at work—if ‘fuck’ [...]