With huge hooks suitably stripped down and sharp production, and an infectious abundance of hometown pride, the Bay Area's hyphy movement took over the urban party just as the South's crunk sound began to wear out its welcome somewhere in the middle of 2006. Coming from a label as big as TVT, Hyphy Hitz is a surprisingly aware collection, covering enough of the big names and adding the proper amount of underground heat to be considered informed. Besides that, it's a heck of good time, working just as well as a party starting mixtape as an overview. Three verses into the opening Yadadamean from the A'z and the listener is introduced to the kind of slang slinging that's so important to hyphy. "Yididi-scray, yididi-thick/Pow bow candy strips inside of the whip" goes the track, while "going dumb," showin' your "thizz face," wearing your "stunner shades," and the rest of the basic lingo is dropped throughout the disc in choruses that are as catchy as they are screwball. Godfather E-40, who has been promising to publish his own hyphy dictionary for years, is well represented in guest appearances and by his own Gouda. The man who coined the term by turning the word "hyper" into "hyphy," Keak da Sneak, is also heavy on the track list and in the addition of the late Mac Dre, the popular Federation, and the MVP of 2006, Mistah FAB, makes the lineup all-star. You could ask for some Too Short or any number of upstarts, but you can't deny the collection is one of the first necessary hyphy comps to appear outside the underground world of mixtapes. Go forth and get dumb. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi

1		Yadadamean
2		Get on My Hype
3		Super Hyphy
4		I Gott Grapes
5		Getz Ya Grown Man On [The Remix]
6		I'm a Fool wit It
7		Take You Down
8		Grind
9		Feeling Myself
10		Go Dumb
11		Hyphy Juice
12		Stunner Shades
13		Get Stupid [Remix]
14		Super Sic wit It
15		Big Payback
16		Everybody Knows My Name
17		Same Thang
18		Allndoe
19		Gouda
20		Stewy