Their relationship consisted of intermittent drug sales in and around gas stations and parking lots near the Crest, where Lott had grown up. After their first meeting — a confidential informant for the DEA introduced them — Nehring appeared to conduct his business with Lott alone. Nehring, on the other hand, knew a lot about Lott. In fact, Lott bragged on this particular August day, the silver Mercedes he had driven to meet Nehring once belonged to Hicks. Lott told friends and acquaintances that he owed his success to Hicks and Thizz, he was busy in the music studio and he entertained visitors at his upscale Hiddenbrooke home.
But Lott was not the man Nehring described in his notes. A man accused of killing Whitemon, a small-time marijuana dealer, would walk away unscathed. And friends and former associates said the status Lott claimed to have — as a successful music executive — fell away.
Longtime Bay Area hip-hop producer Khayree recorded new raps from Hicks over the phone from inside prison, releasing another album on cassette while Hicks remained behind bars. Eventually, Hicks decided to give himself some distance from the Romper Room Gang. One of his largest contributions to the new reigning hip-hop vernacular and crossover scene was the same word he gave to his record label: thizz.
Already emerging as a more popular street drug, Hicks popularized the word and the experience, transforming the tone of the local hip-hop scene from hard and gangster to more wild, fun and carefree. Hicks had just left his concert in Kansas City, Mo. Tattoos, decals, shirts and more bearing his likeness proliferated. His birthday, July 5, became known as Dre Day, an annual holiday that drew hundreds to the Crest.
Under new leadership, Thizz Nation expanded. Imprints such as Thizz Latin launched, and Nelson, also known as Kilo Curt, recruited many from the Crest to record under the Thizz umbrella. Ken Weaver of the Vallejo Police Department.
They started singing about it in their lyrics. In Vallejo, detectives already believed some Thizz rappers had made the transition from rapping about Ecstasy to selling it. Their big break came in , when Steve Davison, a Thizz rapper known as PSD, was caught at the Sacramento airport with 6, Ecstasy pills hidden in his pants.
Nehring, the undercover agent, was called to the scene. At the time, Vallejo detectives already were following Lott and other Thizz associates. They began working with the DEA and other agencies on an undercover operation that extended as far as Wisconsin. Using a confidential informant, Nehring got an introduction to Lott as a potential customer in August Soon, he and Lott began meeting and talking regularly on the phone to schedule drug transactions, with agents monitoring the rapper and his associates, many who still lived in the Crest and other Vallejo neighborhoods.
Over the next two years, Lott unknowingly led the DEA into the heart of the local drug operation, in which he played the role of disorganized middleman. The pills turned out to be a mixture of caffeine and dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant, according to court records.
But Nehring did not ask for a refund and continued placing orders, soon over the phone. After Nehring placed an order for 4, tablets, agents intercepted Lott making a series of harried phone calls, hoping to find a supplier on short notice. Ramirez made frequent trips to Vallejo, Houston, Las Vegas and Atlanta and had his girlfriend ship gift-wrapped packages containing marijuana and Ecstasy to addresses in Oklahoma and New York, according to court records.
Ramirez had no hip-hop credentials. Nor did Ung Duong, charged with supplying Ramirez and ultimately Lott with the Ecstasy Lott sold to the undercover agent. More: A look back at the hyphy movement. Listed among the 25 defendants preparing to go trial, Lott is No. This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof. Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website.
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