Entry · catalog no. 0710
fetti
/ /ˈfɛti/ /FEH-tee
noun · Bay Area · 1990s
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1.
Money, cash — a Bay Area word for it.
“Can't make no moves this weekend, I'm low on fetti.”
Origin & Attribution
Bay Area Black slang of the early 1990s, most plausibly from 'feria,' the Mexican Spanish slang for money that circulates through California — with 'confetti' likely helping the shape along. E-40 and the Vallejo school carried it onto record in the mid-1990s and it settled into the permanent Bay lexicon alongside scrilla and guap.
early 1990s
Current in Bay Area street speech
1996
E-40 works 'fetti' into 'Record Haters' on Tha Hall of Game
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The West
Bay Area · 1990s
Spoken by
Bay Area rappers and street speech
$FETTIThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady33 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
62/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
1993
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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E-40, 'Record Haters,' Tha Hall of Game — 1996
song · verified
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+ Cite a sourceComplex, '50 Greatest Bay Area Rap Songs' — documented lyric
journalism · documented
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