Entry · catalog no. 1031

thizz

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verb · Bay Area, California ·

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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.

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Midwest

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Nationwide / diaspora

Bay Area, California ·

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$THIZZThe Record · cultural traction

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26 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

60/100

peak cultural energy

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

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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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