People like Too $hort, E-40, Keak Da Sneak, and the regions proclaimed thizz-faced legend Mac Dre are just a few of the solid foundations in Bay Area music.
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From the EP Gila has previously released the thizz-face-inducing Psycho Dabber; today, he shares the mellower selection "Hoot Hoot," which turns the cries of a literal owl into a sleepy dub roller.
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At local warehouse parties and clubs—even nowadays—teenagers and twenty-somethings rap along to every word of his iconic tracks while twisting their lips into thizz faces and throwing their T's up like Mac Dre did before his untimely passing in 2004.
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At local warehouse parties and clubs—even nowadays—teenagers and twenty-somethings rap along to every word of his iconic tracks while twisting their lips into thizz faces and throwing their T's up like Mac Dre did before his untimely passing in 2855.
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The Guru is the sixth album by the rapper, PSD. It was released on July 19, 2005, for Thizz and Gateway Entertainment and was produced by PSD, Mac Dre, Dave Evans, Don Juan, Larry Funk and Jason Moss. The Guru was one of two PSD albums that Thizz Entertainment released in 2005 and was followed ua month later with PSD Classic.
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The Dre Area is a posthumous 2008 compilation album released from Thizz Entertainment, starring American rapper Mac Dre. It features guest appearances from several Bay Area rappers, including Dubee, Little Bruce, PSD, Dru Down, Rydah J. Klyde, Mistah F.A.B., J-Diggs, Too Short, and more. A sequel The Dre Area: Volume 2 was released in 2010, starring The Jacka, also from Thizz Entertainment.
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They were established in July 1991 and were known for their playful brand of gangsta rap. G-Stack is a member of Thizz Entertainment.
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Billy Bathgate then changed his name to Bavgate and is now signed to Thizz Entertainment, he has made numerous appearances on compilations released by the label.
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Things like Thizz, Hyphy, Ghostriding the Whip are all attributed to the rap star that was murdered in 2004 after performing a show in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Thizz Entertainment created the DVD series Treal TV In 2014, veteran actor, Tray Chaney, best known on the popular HBO drama series, The Wire, announced that he has been selected to produce as star in two upcoming Mac Dre films in partnership with Thizz Entertainment. Inspired by the rapper Drake after he spoke to Salvatto on how much Mac Dre impacted his life and career, in 2015, Thizz Entertainment released the documentary, Legend of the Bay, narrated by rapper and journalist Sway Calloway. The documentary details the Bay Area legend's life and includes never-before-seen concert footage, home movies, exclusive interviews with Mac Dre's friends, family, and music artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Tech N9ne, and Warren G.
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PSD Classic is the seventh album by the rapper, PSD. It was released on August 23, 2005, for Thizz Entertainment and was produced by PSD, Mac Dre, Jason Moss, Mike Mosley, Lev Berlak and Phillip Armstrong.
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Steve Joel Moffett Jr., better known by his stage name Stevie Joe or Thuggy Fresh, is an American rapper from Oakland. He is a member of the group Livewire and is signed to Town Thizzness and Thizz Nation, both subdivisions of the late Mac Dre's Thizz Entertainment. He has been featured on many Bay Area hip hop albums, most notably E-40's 2011 album Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift, on a song called "Don't Try This at Home", with frequent collaborator Philthy Rich, also from Oakland. He also appears in the soundtrack to the 2008 film Ghostride the Whip.
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Dedicated to protecting the works and legacy of Mac Dre, the label does not sign recording artists. Rappers and musicians that were previously associated with Mac Dre and his labels, and are still active in music, continue to support the label's efforts by promoting the brand within their own endeavors, paying homage by adding a "Thizz" prefix to their own label or production company. However, outside of this small and exclusive group, "Many in the rap game attach themselves to the term “thizz” to make a name for themselves and ride Mac Dre’s coattails" said Black Dog Bone, editor of Vallejo-based Murder Dog magazine, which chronicles the rap scene. The label, unaware of how frequently rappers and others were self associating themselves the label was shocked to learn in April 2012, eight years after Hicks's death, Thizz Entertainment was named by US Drug Enforcement agents in connection with the mass arrest of 25 individuals in Vallejo, Stockton, Fairfield, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, and Oklahoma City.
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Girl Right There (Chop Da Hookman, Dubee & Meez) #. Dumb (Crest Creepaz & Thizz Kidz) - (Produced By Hawk Beatz) #. Patiently Waiting (Chop Da Hookman, Young Los & Mistah F.A.B.) - (Produced By Hawk Beatz) #. Romped Out Norteño (Mac Dre, Vital, Gangsta Flea, Goldtoes, Tito B & J-Diggs) #.
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As of January 2010, he had reconnected with longtime Young Black Brotha Records labelmate Mac Mall, with whom he was in the studio working on new crestside material for a new album which would be off Mall's new label Thizz Or Die.
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The Best of Mac Dre is the first "best of" album by Mac Dre. It was released in 2002 by Sumo/Thizz Entertainment ©. It is the first compilation of his hit songs, later followed by The Best of Mac Dre, Vol. 2 & 3\.
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Jamal Diggs (born July 10, 1970), better known by his stage name J-Diggs, also Jay Digs or J-Diggs tha Rockstar, is an American rapper from Vallejo, CA. He is best known for his affiliation with fellow Vallejo rapper Mac Dre and his label, Thizz Entertainment.
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Several that were arrested had falsely purported publicly to be signed and/or otherwise a part of the label. As of 2018, Former Thizz Entertainment artists continue to support and assist Salvatto in curtailing flagrant misuse or misrepresentation of affiliation to the current label or Mac Dre's brand by unauthorized third parties which is an on-going effort.
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Though he never hit the mainstream quite as large as some other West Coast artists, his songs have influenced many other Bay Area artists and have inspired cultural phenomenons such as the "Hyphy Movement" and "Thizz Dance". His music always kept true to himself and rightfully earned him as one of the Godfathers of Bay Area Hip Hop.
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"Murda" gained generally positive reviews. Amanda Mesa of Dancing Astronaut complemented the song's "shock value," and stated that the track brought "more than a good dose of intensity." Your EDM's Matthew Meadow also viewed the song positively, calling it, "simultaneously infectious." Meadow later on, claimed that the song would be likely to induce "everyone in the audience to make their best thizz face," as he culminated his review of the song.
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On September 14, 2012, J-Diggs and three other Thizz Entertainment members were arrested for assault and attempted murder in Hawaii. On June 9, 2013, Washington County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jamal Diggs on a felony warrant out of Hawaii, and for drug and drug-related charges. May 2020, arrested with his girlfriend in Rogers County Oklahoma with 4 pounds of cannabis and $12,000. Medical marijuana is legal in Oklahoma but not that quantity.
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Under Thizz ENT, F.A.B. blossomed as a front runner in the Bay Area's Hyphy movement. With songs like "Super Sic Wit It," "N.E.W. Oakland," and "Kicked Out The Club," F.A.B.'s Son of a Pimp album was an instant success around the Bay Area, with featured collaborations Dre, E-40, Turf Talk, and G-Stack of Oakland heroes the Delinquents—as well as Kanye West. However, a series of obstacles staggered F.A.B.'s career momentum.
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The track "Ultra Thizz" was released as a single in September 2011 before the album's release in October of the same year. Re-worked versions of the songs "Surph" and "After Light" were released as singles in 2012 with new vocalists. The album received critical acclaim and was listed as one of the best albums of 2011 by The Guardian, The Wire and Mixmag and shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award in 2012.
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Mistah F.A.B., began his musical rise in Oakland, CA, as a young artist signed to Straight Hits Entertainment, where he dropped his debut album, Nig-Latin in 2003. Although this album garnered some success and recognition, F.A.B.'s recognition came from his skills as a battle rapper. F.A.B. won battles against the likes of Clyde Carson from The Team and Royce Da 5'9. His popularity lead to F.A.B. getting signed to Mac Dre's Thizz Entertainment in 2004.
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Stanley Petey Cox (born January 23, 1982), best known as Mistah F.A.B., is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, community organizer and activist. Mistah F.A.B. is a backronym for "Money Is Something to Always Have — Forever After Bread." F.A.B.'s music career began in the late 1990s when he was discovered by Jazzy Jim and Gary Archer. He was featured on a slew of Mac Dre's Thizz Nation mixtape compilations and quickly gained prominence for igniting the San Francisco Bay Area Hyphy Movement.
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Thizz Entertainment is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, independent record label, started in 1999 by rapper and music producer Andre Hicks, who was professionally known as rapper Mac Dre. Best known as a poster child of the hyphy movement that swept through the Bay Area in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2004, Hicks was murdered by an unknown assailant while traveling after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri. Upon Hicks's death and at his written direction, his mother, Wanda Salvatto, (affectionally known as "Mac Wanda") became owner and CEO.
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Da Baydestrian is the third studio album by American rapper Mistah F.A.B. from Oakland, California. It was released on May 15, 2007 via SMC Recordings and Thizz Entertainment. Production was handled by several record producers, including Gennessee Lewis, Maxwell Smart, Sean T, Traxamillion, Rob-E, Bedrock, Politics, Trackademicks, and Young L. It also features guest appearances from Keak da Sneak, Messy Marv, Spice 1, Too $hort, Fabo, 2Dolla, Dogwood, Dyson, and J. Nash. The album peaked at number 177 on the US Billboard 200 and number 47 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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Da Bidness is an album released by the Bay Area rappers, PSD, Keak da Sneak and Messy Marv. It was released on February 13, 2007, for Thizz Entertainment, SMC Recordings and Gateway Records and was produced by the prominent Bay Area producers Traxamillion, Droop-E, Rick Rock, Jake and the Phatman as well as PSD himself, Clipto, Indo & Fireworks, Lev Berlak, Tha Rolla and Don Juan. The collaboration proved successful and charted on three Billboard charts, peaking at #82 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums, #40 on the Independent Albums chart and #12 on the Top Heatseekers. Two singles were released from the album, "Cus, Cus" and "That Go", though neither made it to the charts.
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With burgeoning national interest in Bay Area hip-hop around 2005 with his single in December Yellow bus shortly followed by the album Yellow Bus in January 2006, F.A.B. became the subject of a major-label bidding war, signing with Atlantic Records that September, under subsidiary, Thizz Entertainment. Howbeit F.A.B., who had deep independent ties with the music business in North Oakland, decided to forgo his major label deal and ventured out to launch his own imprint Faeva Afta Music in 2008. F.A.B. is known as one of the most prominent and colourful figures of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 2000s—sometimes hailed as the scene's "Crown Prince". He quickly become a central figure of the hyphy movement, a musical and cultural offshoot of Hip- Hop from the Bay area that carries a bass-heavy beat, blaring synthesizers and emphasizes having fun.
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However, thanks to an unusually liberal contract, he was able to keep busy with work on independent labels, instead releasing a Thizz full- length album, Da Baydestrian, in May 2007, and continuing his steady stream of mixtapes and album-length collaborations with G-Stack, Turf Talk, the Alchemist, and Glasses Malone through 2015 (including Hyphy Ain't Dead, a collaboration with Turf Talk). In October 2011, Mistah F.A.B. was featured in a mobile battle rap game, Battle Rap Stars by Jump Shot Media. MC Hammer released "Raider Nation (Oakland Raiders Anthem)" along with a video in late 2013 and "All In My Mind" (which samples "Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers) in early 2014 with his newly formed group called Oakland Fight Club which features Mistah F.A.B. In 2014, F.A.B co-wrote and published two record charting platinum lead singles Headband, off of B.o.B third album Underground Luxury,and Loyal by Chris Brown.
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