
Hyphy music acts as an accelerant to the indigenous Oakland culture, which is marked by vehicular abuse (spinning figure eights, ghostriding, scraping), wild dancing, and for some, chemical overindulgence (" thizzin'" or being wacked out on X), and generally acting a fool.

2010 - Damien Morgan, Hip Hop Had A Dream: Vol.2009 - Joe Lambe, "Illegal drugs such as Ecstasy showing up as cartoon-shaped pills in KC", The Kansas City Star, 28 June 2009:ĭealers there call Ecstasy Thizz and market it to minors, the DEA warned."We've got thizz!" Alexis shot me a look to see if it was okay that she'd mentioned it. Sims, Skeletons, iUniverse (2008), →ISBN, page 23:

Next door's for Jell-O shots, and next to that's where you get your thizz." 2008 - Jody Gehrman, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, Dial Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:.Hyphy (derived from "hyperactive") is also bass-heavy hip-hop music that celebrates things such as " thizz" (the drug Ecstasy) "scrapers," which are large, late-'80s domestic makes like Buick LeSabres and Oldsmobile Cutlasses and oversize sunglasses, called "stunner shades."

2006 - Paul Farhi, " Ghost-Riding: Brake-Dancing With Zip Under the Hood", Washington Post, section C, pDecember 27:.To do the "thizzle dance," then, is to dance around while making the " thizz face" - a Bay Area variant of the Jamaican "screwface" that mimics the facial gesticulations of a person on Ecstasy. Thizzin'", East Bay Express, 2 November 2005: English citations of thizz Noun: "(US, California, slang, African American Vernacular) MDMA Ecstasy"
