Telly 8. Damon Whitmill could not be reached for comment. In an exclusive with The Daily Mail, LaTanya shared that she is homeless as she can't afford an apartment in California. In the recent years Ive been more accepting of monetizing the legend, the name and Ive formed Andre Lewis Enterprise Company. His album, Back in da Hood, was a result of these recordings, as were several guest verses he recorded for other rappers. In the world of hip-hop, police say, bad blood often means good business. [5], Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto. His name always came up," Babcock said. He was on his way. When he arrived and unlocked the door, he discovered a group of men were standing in the center of the room, rifling through a suitcase. A comprehensive rundown His body was found in a light colored Chevy Blazer at the intersection of 73rd and Indiana, near the Noble and Gregory Ridge area of Kansas City, Missouri. Davila recanted his previous story and told Detective Babcock that he returned to the Atlantic Star after taking his kids trick or treating. According to Mathis' arrest warrant, he later admitted to a friend that he had shot Watkins and Akins to avenge Hicks' killing. "For a while up, for I'd say up to about. [citation needed], Mac Dre moved to the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento in 1998 in attempt to distance himself from Vallejo law enforcement. Mac Dre was an artist ahead of his time. The informant said hed never heard Antwine say it himself but that hed heard his friends, including a man named Taron T-Baby Smith, talking about it. By May of 2005, just five months after Mac Dres murder, San Francisco promoter Andre Mac Minister Dow and Jason Corleone Mathis, a pimp, were trappin in Vegas. Since he cleared Tone of Dres murder, shouldnt we? ". When Detectives first spoke with Davila, he maintained that he saw Mac Dre at the Atlantic Star on Halloween night, but left early to take his kids trick or treating. Nobody touched the Bay Area like Mac Dre touched the Bay Area, and I dont think nobody will. Ghetto Stardom 11. The 35-year-old rap promoter was indicted Nov. 2 in Las Vegas on murder charges stemming from the deaths of Watkins and Akins. The San Francisco Standard. It was being driven by a friend of his named Rick Hill. The hard part for us was we didnt really get a chance to grieve or mourn privately, because once he got killed he became an even bigger public figure., Freeway Tearfully Reflects On The Jacka's Passing: 'His Death Affected Me', Travis Scott Accused Of Punching Sound Engineer During $12K NYC Nightclub Rampage, T-Pain Reveals He Got Paid When Other Artists Used Auto-Tune: 'It Was Nuts', Rich The Kid Says He Was Once Signed To TDE, Dr. Dre & Big Sean Shower Michael B. Jordan In 'Creed III' Praise, OTF Rapper Doodie Lo Wins $11M Lawsuit Against Ex-GF Over Child Sex Abuse Claims, 50 Cent Accused Of Confronting Ex-Drug Lord At His Home Over $1B Power Lawsuit. I dont remember the exact details. He also provided names for the supposed shooters. We started hanging out, selling dope, hustling, drinking, partying every Friday and Saturday night. However, just as Dres music career began to take off, Romper Rooms criminal activity began to increase, too: they went from selling drugs and other relatively low-level crimes to robbing pizza parlors and eventually banks. Now a resurfaced 2010 interview with Dre's baby mama Lisa Johnson, 53, who raised three girls by the Death Row Records producer single-handedly, reveals the star's two 'secret' daughters LaToya and Ashley Young. Detectives told Taylor that it seems strange that someone he didnt know would pull up alongside him for no reason and then give him a ride. His father was murdered when he was just a kid. Friends with Mac Dre, Davila had been the one entrusted to pick him up from the airport when he arrived in Kansas City. 190 beefs with every Damu & Stevenson Village Crip. This racial disparity is evident when watching A&Es The First 48, a reality television show that follows various homicide detectives in the first two days after a murder. He was a member of the infamous 51st Street Crips, even allegedly earning a leadership position after a turf battle with a gang member and convicted killer Rashawn Long, a former 51st Street boss. After dropping his first three albums, between 1989 and 1991, Dres career began to pick up the pace. Hicks had performed in that city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit a woman he knew there. (Despite multiple attempts to reach out, Piersey could not be found for comment). Parts of it are right, parts of it are wrong.. The police say that while Mac Dre was getting busy in a local motel with his lady friend, his accomplices were out casing a Fresno bank with plans of a robbery. He died alone in Kansas City, thousands of miles away from his home in Sacramento; thousands of miles from the streets of Vallejo and San Francisco, where thousands of people still cling to his every word. Photos courtesy of Kansas City Police Department / Patrick Johnson. And now, as I travel throughout the world, I see people recognize him for the flavor that he brought to hip-hop. Jeffrey Vandergrift, a radio host at San Franciscos Wild 94.9, is still missing, and there has been no activity on his cell phone or credit cards. Taylor was interviewed by Detective Babcock nearly a year later at the Wyandotte County Jail, where he was being held on theft and robbery charges and outstanding warrants. The source of the story was Alonzo Washington, a Kansas City activist who has led numerous anti stop snitching campaigns, including one he did after Mac Dres murder, titled Hip to give Tips., I received a tip about a gun that was connected to the murder of Mac Dre, Washington tells me in August 2020. The 22-year-old friend of Watkins was shot 13 times. But on March 13, 2006, Antwine finally admitted to detectives that he had been in possession of the black Infiniti used in Mac Dres murder. Hes a large, personable man with graying hair and has been with the department since 1995. [20] Local rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins was alleged to have been responsible for the murder, but no evidence ever surfaced, and Watkins himself was shot dead the following year.[21]. She'd been shot in the head two days after Dow and Mathis were indicted, authorities said. According to KCPD, witnesses said they heard gunshots before seeing a silver Dodge charger leaving the scene. He told Detective Babcock in 2004 that he spoke with Mac Dre while in a limousine in front of the club. The tragedy of this thing is that assuming [Laursen] was killed as retribution for being a witness, thats three people dead over a financial matter over an amount of money that wouldnt pay for a weekend in Vegas, says Babcock, the Kansas City detective who cleared Fat Tone of Mac Dres murder. Whitmill hoped that Mac Dre would actually perform instead of just appear, in order to make up losses accrued over the weekend. He hoped to sell enough tickets to double his money in a single night. He was the one everyone knew about over there.. It was the first and last time Whitmill would ever attempt to throw a concert and he was able to book three of the Bay Areas biggest acts for a show on Halloween weekend: Yukmouth, Keak Da Sneak, and Mac Dre. A cosmic wrong that forever threw the world off balance for those who knew him best. Dows attorney said his client adamantly maintains his innocence., Were going to keep fighting it, DeMarco said, but I am hopeful that he will ultimately be vindicated., Michael Barba can be reached at [emailprotected]. And would they have killed Tone if he wasnt? Mathis "said he shot Watkins, then chased Akins into the street and shot him while he was on the ground pleading for his life," the warrant alleged. Six months later, police say, a San Francisco rap promoter nicknamed "Mac Minister" and a friend avenged Hicks in Las Vegas by firing 33 assault-rifle rounds into two Kansas City men -- including Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins. He pled guilty in 2008. Whitmill told Detective Babcock that hed hoped the Halloween party would help make up the monetary loss from the show at The Armory. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. About the Author: Mike Enemigo is Americas #1 incarcerated author, with over 25 books published and many more on the way. It was an exceptionally violent scene. Police investigators say Hicks, 34, was shot in a financial dispute, but the rumor mill said something sexier: that a West-Midwest rap war had flared and that a notorious Kansas City rapper dubbed "Fat Tone" had taken out Hicks. Vallejo rapper Andre Mac Dre Hicks slaying last year in Kansas City has been linked to the killings of three other people, in Las Vegas and the Bay Area, and two San Francisco men have been. Mouton testified under an alias, according to Gray. Mac Minister was a suspect in the murder of a call girl from Utah named Lee Danae Laurson. It wasnt like he was the greatest rapper in town, but he would be getting into a lot of trouble with the law and so he had this sort of edgy thing with his music. Dow remains on the lam, sought on a no-bail warrant issued after the indictment, and may be featured soon on TV's "America's Most Wanted." This is where Mac Dres death becomes the catalyst for the shooting deaths of three people, with two others being given life in prison, effectively losing their lives as well. Mac Dre left only 30 minutes after hed arrived and by the end, Robinson had regretted hosting the event. The hard part for us was we didnt really get a chance to grieve or mourn privately, because once he got killed he became an even bigger public figure.. July 5 Rapper #4. Detective Babcock also spoke with several jailhouse informants that Davila had allegedly been communicating with while awaiting trial at the Leavenworth Detention Center. Bussey said that his client did not wish to provide the sample, saying that Whitmill was afraid that his DNA would be put in a database for comparisons to other crimes. They also learned that the blue Tercel Tone was found in had been given to Ministers 28-year-old girlfriend by a Berkeley activist, and they found footage of Laursen buying ammo in a gun shop for the gun Corleone was known to carry on May 14 about a week prior to the murders. For Whitmill, it was a last ditch effort to avoid losing a couple thousand dollars over a failed weekend (at least if you go by his first statement to the detectives). He doesnt recall hearing from Whitmill again. According to the police reports, Davila told Patterson that on the night of the murder, he was with Mac Dre at the Atlantic Star. The Mandalorian, March 1. For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion,Wanda Mac says. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to The Cell BlocksPrivacy PolicyandTerms of Use. He was the first person to show my neighborhood that we dont have to sell crack anymore. For whatever reason, Mac Dre decided to stay in Kansas City that weekend and agreed to perform at a VIP Halloween party at the former Atlantic Star on 95th and Hillcrest on Sunday night. He also noticed that the Infiniti now had tinted windows. On that day, hed decided to hitch a ride to Fresno with two friends so he could meet up with a girl hed met while performing a show two weeks earlier. Piersey claimed that he never heard a sound from Mac Dre. Hes worked in the East Patrol Division, the Domestic Violence Unit, the Homicide Unit, the Mounted Patrol, the Generalist Squad and the Assault Squad, where hes currently a supervisor. Soon, Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond, said Fairfield police Lt. Tony Shipp. "She wouldn't stand for it," Hendrix said. Another informant from Leavenworth shared a similar story with Detective Babcock. The sedan violently rammed the drivers side of the van in between taking shots at it. And according to Missouri state court records, Smith and Antwine were arrested together less than six months after Mac Dres murder, on March 7, 2005. Young shared that as a result of this she is forced to live in her car . The crime scene spanned several hundred feet and it appeared to Detective Babcock to be a targeted hit. On November 4, just two days after Minister and Corleone were indicted, Fairfield police responded to reports of gunfire in a quiet neighborhood. However, rumors persisted that Fat Tone actually released a song admitting to the crime although its never been found. He'd been shot about 20 times and was slumped over the front seats of a blue 1992 Toyota Tercel, according to grand jury testimony. People wanted answers. Although Mac Minister maintains his innocence, the judge decided to uphold his life sentence in 2010 after Dows lawyers argued that mistakes were made during trial. Laursen, meanwhile, ended up in the Bay Area, where she lived out of hotels at times and offered her services -- as "Alana" -- over the Craigslist Web site, police say. Later that night, Dre, Diggs, and Curt played dice in their motel room and hung out with girls. [14] When they arrived, they found Laursen dead of a gunshot wound to the head. They were living in and out of hotels, offering Laurens services as Alana on Craigslist. Some people wanted to sell drugs, and do all that, Sleep Dank says. Whatever happened, happened, you know what Im saying?, Sleep Dank says. For the Bay Area artists, Kansas City became like a second home, a tour stop that guaranteed sold out shows and fan adoration. He would often frequent the Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest. This is an excerpt from a court opinion published in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit describing what happened next: Five or ten minutes later, an officer heard some yelling and looked into the holding cell to find George lying face down on the floor, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and Antwine sitting on a bench a few feet away. Salvatto, Hicks' mother, said she doesn't know what to make of the killings and finds it hard to believe that they are connected to her son's death -- although she has noticed that "people like to be tied to the drama." Prosecutors used lyrics from the Young Black Brotha EP to help establish guilt in his case. Davila and Whitmill had never met each other, with the latter telling Detective Babcock (in the police report) that Mac Dres transportation was provided by some guys in Kansas.. Police found drugs and multiple firearms, including an AR-15 assault rifle the same type of weapon used in Mac Dres shooting. A judge heard arguments over the issue on Friday and continued the matter to Sept. 23 for further discussion. A dark-colored SUV had been seen speeding away; shortly after, Cowboys Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond. Young, 38, said in an interview with the Daily Mail published on August 4 that she's living out of an SUV rental in Tarzana, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene, police said. Keak Da Sneak would later tell VladTV it was he and Mac Mall who had an altercation, but with each other,and they are both associates of Dre. They were greeted at the airport by Davila, who picked the group up in his Escalade. On top of that, Mac Dres crew of over 20 people rushed the stage mid-show, creating a security concern, and causing everything to get shut down. When speaking with detectives in the weeks after the murder, DJ Fresh, who was the soundman and DJ that night, remembered Fat Tone briefly hopping on stage after being invited up by Mac Dre. Donald Morrison read through thousands of pages of documents provided by the Kansas City Police Department to shed light on one of hip-hops biggest mysteries. Early on May 23, a security guard found the body of the 24-year-old Watkins in a housing development under construction in southwest Las Vegas. By 1992, Mac Dre had recorded a number of EPs and began his first independent label, Romper Room Records. For two days, more than 35 officers and FBI agents followed the group as they picked up girls, shopped for shoes, and even bought deodorant from Walmart. From an early age, Mac Dre gravitated towards a section of Vallejo called the Country Club Crest, an out-of-the-way neighborhood long known to outsiders as a hotbed of drug crime and violence. Mike Enemigo is Americans #1 incarcerated author, with over 25 books published and many more on the way. Dre was loving, Dre was funny, Dre was a comedian, man. While Mac Dre merely rapped about the lavish life of a major cocaine dealer Davila actually lived it. The Clark County District Attorneys Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. Sleep Dank, a Vallejo rapper and friend of Mac Dres, was born and raised in the Country Club Crest. Bell told detectives hes not sure what to believe, considering that everyone said that they had something to do with the murder at some point. All Rights Reserved. "Mac Dre"s been dead for eight years, but he has a mother left, nieces left, a daughter," she said. In the years after Mac Dres murder, Detective Babcock began to hear rumors that Damon Whitmill, the promoter who paid to fly Mac Dre to Kansas City, might have also paid to have him murdered. It was supposed to be in someones house, buried under something. Mac Dre told Davila he was annoyed because the event wasnt organized and because there were other local rappers performing. It was an era marked by Mac Dres prolific post-prison recordings, where he created a dense body of work in such a short period of time that I once referred to him as the West Coast Max B. After being featured on an episode of Americas Most Wanted, Dow was arrested in San Francisco in March 2006. They were told that theyd get the rest of the money wired to them later in the week. [2] Antwine pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to death. Mac Dre had been enjoying the success of his most recent album, The Game is Thick, Part 2, and Davila was happy for his friend, looking forward to spending more time with him over the weekend. Detective Babcock interviewed numerous witnesses from that night including members of Whitmills family and many reported seeing a similar series of events: Mac Dre showed up late around 11:30 p.m. and the show eventually shut down due to people crowding the stage. Laursens dad claims she was forced into prostitution by Corleone, who, according to reports, would escort her into various Las Vegas hotels hiding an AK-47 under his clothing. The father had rescued his daughter once, in March or April, but she voluntarily returned to Corleone in Vegas shortly after. The Disney+ spin-off first premiered back in 2019 . 96. [2] Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. Gray said Mouton was a federal informant who faced up to 40 years in prison at the time of his testimony in a trafficking case involving a minor. He was the center of his community; a guiding light that acted as a beacon for those closest to him. At the time of the killing, San Francisco promoter Andre "Mac Minister" Dow, his friend Jason Mathis and call girl Lee Danae Laursen were in Las Vegas, according to police. [9] Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years. According to Davey D, Dre had nothing to do with it, he says. It took severalyears for Wanda Mac to deal with her sons passing and his status as a rising rapper who became more famous upon his death. In his interview with Babcock, Thibeaux said that he grew up with Whitmill in Kansas City and that hed heard him bragging about sending people to kill Mac Dre over a failed concert arrangement. We pleaded with her to get out of there so she wouldn't be harmed.". Born and raised in Kansas City, Davila shared a close relationship with local hip-hop artists and was a regular at shows and studio sessions around town. But Whitmill was a first-time promoter, and likely might not have known the amount of organization it takes to plan an event of this magnitude. On the way back to Fresno, the car was pulled over and surrounded by officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as Vallejo police. I thought about my life and how I ended up talking to them and realized that it wasnt me and that I wasnt raised that way, Davila told me in a January 2021 interview. To be fair, there are pieces of Davilas story that dont quite add up. He called Whitmill back and told him and then Mac Dre ended up dead. Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 - November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. [12], On March 26, 1992, at age 21, Hicks was invited by friends to a road trip to Fresno. He claimed to have sold the car to Fat Tone on the day before Halloween. Dre, born Andre Louis Hicks, would drop the word in his breezy, synth-filled songs, helping foment the hyphy movement of the early 2000s, and even renamed his Vallejo-based record label Thizz . He had become Fat Tone the Untouchable. According to Detective Everett Babcock, the lead investigator in the Mac Dre murder, Every shooting that happened [in Kansas City], you would get calls saying, Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it. His name always came up. But when it came to Dres murder, the rumor had legs. Aside from Thibeaux and Taylor, over a dozen witnesses and informants reported seeing Calvert Papoose Antwine II driving the black Infiniti, with multiple witnesses saying that he even paid to tint the windows in the month before the murder. I just couldnt be responsible for putting another man behind bars. I put that on everything. He was later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in 2008 (for the murder of Fat Tone and his friend, Jermain Watkins) and is serving a life sentence in a Nevada State prison. He started a video blog series in the early 2000s called Treal TV, that features some of the best footage of Mac Dre available. They wanted to know who did this. If you trace the trail of police reports, you arrive at this summary of the facts: on the night Mac Dre was murdered, he was supposed to do a club appearance. Prosecutors charged Diggs and Curt with attempted bank robbery and Dre with conspiracy. Patterson told Detective Babcock that Davila was trying to leverage information he knew about the Mac Dre murder to make a deal for leniency in his upcoming drug conspiracy case. Davila seems to feel guilty for the role he played in his friends death and has tried to find ways to tell detectives since getting arrested in 2006. Meanwhile, another car a white Pontiac Sunbird had been seen speeding from the scene. Taron T-Baby Smith was shot and killed on the morning of June 12, 2010. According to Whitmills interview with Babcock, Mac Dre missed his radio appearance and showed up late to the record store signing at Much Music and More on October 29. Cancers. The van then reportedly swerved across a grass median and four southbound lanes, crashing into a ditch. The victim was lying on his back, with his left leg out straight and his right leg bent at the knee, Detective Babcock wrote in his crime scene report. A separate informant told detectives on March 3, 2006 that he had heard about Antwine bragging about being paid to kill Mac Dre while incarcerated at CCA Leavenworth. He made the men drop everything and then told them to leave. Calvary Baptist Church. Losing consciousness for a brief moment, Piersey claimed to have lost his cell phone in the crash and tried climbing out of the embankment, where he noticed another car aggressively charging towards him. Hicks was vocal about the actions he saw being taken by the police and incorporated their aggressive surveillance of residents into his music. In an interview conducted this past January, Davila denies ever speaking about his case with other inmates. Born in Oakland, CA #34. According to reports, Tone had been shot around twenty times with an AK-47 and he laid slumped over in a blue 1992 Toyota Tercel. Court documents identified the brothers as drug dealers and Antwine was said to have worked with them. Instead, Mac Dre showed up late again, only stayed for 30 minutes and then left without performing. The 34-year-old Vallejo resident, who made more than 20 underground albums, was killed Nov. 1, 2004, during a trip to Kansas City, where he was performing. Salvatto said she had never even heard of Dow or Mathis. He didnt recognize the driver, but assumed it was Papoose, because thats who Hill said hed sold the car too. Theres little incentive to leave a tip when the police cant be trusted to look into it, Washington said. The vehicle? In an interview with Kansas Citys The Pitch from 2005, Detective Babcock said that hes convinced that Fat Tone did not kill Mac Dre. Andre Louis Hicks, better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hop pioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California. His Las Vegas attorney, Keith Brower, was not available for comment. Jailhouse snitches are notoriously unreliable. Demian Bulwa oversees the news operation, including metro, politics, business, sports and investigative reporting, and co-hosts the "Fifth & Mission" podcast. Some, when approached, even pretended they didn't know Hicks. He was named to the position in 2020 by Boudin, a progressive prosecutor who lost his seat in a contentious recall election earlier this week. And things quickly began to unravel when Mac Dre arrived. Andre Dowknown as Mac Ministerwas convicted at trial in 2008 on two counts of first-degree murder in the shootings of Kansas City rapper Anthony Fat Tone Watkins and his friend Jermaine Cowboy Aikens. Gray grew up in the neighborhood and said he didnt know Mouton. After he was shot and wounded in 2003, when he was 22, his next album cover showed him sitting up in a hospital gurney flashing a middle finger. When he died, a certain momentum was killed with him and he left a void thats still yet to be filled. Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. The prosecutor also said that the death would be painless, which defense for Antwine argued was untrue and manipulative to the jury. Corleone and Laursen had evidently gone back to the Bay Area. The informant told Detective Babcock that Davila called Piersey, the driver of his van that was transporting Mac Dre, to find out their location for Whitmill, who then sent the shooters to attack the van, resulting in Mac Dres death. In the early 2000s, hed begun gaining popularity for both his music and his rap sheet in equal measure. Just hours before the killings, Hendrix said, MGM Grand cameras recorded Dow leaving the hotel with Watkins and Akins. However, numerous witness statements say this never happened and police were never able to confirm it. By 2004, Mac Dre was a god in The Bay and respected nationwide. According to authorities, just minutes later, at around 3:30 am (which would now be November 1), while Dres van was heading northbound on U.S. 71 Highway (now known as I-49), a stolen Infinity G36 pulled along the drivers side of the van and unloaded shots into it from an assault rifle. Coldest thang was Diggs started pimping Mac dre daughter when she turned 18. He would later tell Detective Babcock that Whitmill was angry after Mac Dre left without performing. One song was sent to representatives of fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected. While the tips regarding Fat Tones culpability continued to flood in, Detective Babcock was convinced that he had nothing to do with it and started spending his time on more credible theories. She thought hed take care of her. Dr. Dre, born Andre Romelle Young, was called out by his 38-year-old daughter, LaTanya Young, who is currently living out of her car. He even rented a limousine to transport Mac Dre to and from the Atlantic Star. Laursen was pronounced dead at the scene from a head wound. But its no wonder why the police didnt find the car. Fat Tone was a large figure, literally and figuratively. And his music was good. A day or two before the Snoop Dogg show, Tone and his goon, 22-year-old Jermain Cowboy Watkins, a fugitive from a federal cocaine charge, arrived in Vegas. Along with dozens of bullet holes, police also found that the drivers side of the van had been rammed by the other vehicle during the shooting. Before his death eight years ago, Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre frequently used the term "thizz" to describe the feeling of being high on ecstasy. He said that one day after July, the black Infiniti pulled up alongside him as he walked down the street, near 52nd and Paseo, in Kansas City. 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