Entry · catalog no. 1031

thizz

/ /θɪz/ /THIZ

verb · Bay Area, California · 2000s

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To get loose and go all the way up — to dance hard and lose yourself in the music of a hyphy night. As a noun, the feeling itself. It first named the ecstasy pill that fueled the scene, then widened to the whole state of being turned all the way up.

“Once the DJ went dumb, the whole lot was out there thizzing.”

Origin & Attribution

Coined by Vallejo's Mac Dre, godfather of the Bay Area hyphy movement, who built it into his early-2000s sound and renamed his label Thizz Entertainment in 1999. His 2002 album Thizzelle Washington carried it across the Bay and beyond.

1999

Mac Dre renames his label Thizz Entertainment

2002

Thizzelle Washington album released

2000s

Central to the hyphy movement

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

The West

Bay Area, California · 2000s

Spoken by

Bay Area hyphy scene

$THIZZThe Record · cultural traction

▲ Steady

27 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

50/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

First used

1999

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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Mac Dre, "Thizzelle Washington" — album · 2002

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Mac Dre / Thizz Entertainment — Bay Area hyphy record

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