Great post. of all the names I heard it called, haze was the most common, 2002 - 2006 was prime time for me, we would pay 90$ for an eighth that weighed less than 3 grams usually. crazy expensive but the shit was so much better than anything else. still searching for the expression that will match it.
It was after the towers came down: I had just graduated highschool a few months prior, and was always on the lookout for dank bud. A friend of mine from middle school who was into beats production and amatuer rapping put me onto my first taste of the purple haze, that piff. (If I can remember correctly, highschool was a bit of a blur).
He had moved and was living across the river, and through this network of local rappers and producers I made other piff connections. The prime piff was in such demand, that is cost 20 or 25 dollars for a .8 or .9 of a gram in 'Crime-bridge' area, eventually commanding $30 for a less than a gram. Guys were making a killing off this. Because of my heavy habit I smartened it out and would cop 1 or 2 zones at a time. My guy(s) would call me from nyc saying they were coming into town with that piff, and essentially an auction or bidding war would ensue. Over the years different batches and crosses of so called piff haze would be distributed, and it got to the point where if you wanted the real piff, you had to make sure that is was 'official.' At some point, sour diesel took over the market and official piff became harder and harder to attain. My producer friend ended up moving to manhattan to pursue his career.
Anyways, a poster in this forum or another mentioned that the piff is nl5xhaze, which I have heard before in the past and I consider could be conceivably true.
Now that I think of it, I still have these guys contact info..maybe I should make an inquiry..
