in hip-hop: what does "on my grizzly" mean? what are the origins of this phrase?

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I've heard this phrase in a couple of songs, e.g. Ghostface on the Theodore Unit song "Smith Bros." : "What up cousin this is Most High Wizardry / Gots to watch niggas so I stay on my grizzly." Also Mr. Fantastik on the King Geedorah album: "Expeditiously I be on my grizzly / Feds try to creep me somehow always miss me"

As best as I can tell it means "on my grind" (is this true? if so what does that mean exactly? hustling?) but no idea where it originated or what the full connotation is. the "official rap dictionary" has no listing for the phrase.

thanks.

― Amar Pai, Friday, 4 March 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

yamaha grizzly

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 4 March 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dm-productions.com/bonanzafilm/a.danhaggerty_3.jpg

haggerty grizzly

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, grind + izza slang = grizzly

Trying to make sense out of the shit Ghostface says is pretty much a lost cause, though. Lucky you had another reference or I wouldn't have bothered at all.

"Dociousaliexpifragalisticcalisuper
Cancun, catch me in the room, eatin grouper.."

― Austin (Austin), Friday, 4 March 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about what Ghost could have meant on "Buck 50" when he says "Supercalifragilisticexpialadicious Dociousaliexpifragalisticcalisuper", and I concluded that he was literally and symbolically expressing the longest 'word' backwards and forwards.

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Dude, you're a genius.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.autorice.com/catalog/images/w220grille.jpg

― ffirehorse, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

but maybe that's 'whiteboy' logic

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

You can actually trace "grizzly" back to "Under Mi Fat Thing" from Yellowman's '85 album Galong Galong Galong, where it meant "game", as in staying on top of your game.

― ppprrrrllllxxx, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

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