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Mac Dre. Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. [1] He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. [2] Hicks is considered one of the movement's key ...
Andre Dow (known by his stage name Mac Minister) is a former American rapper. Mac Minister was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted, allegedly responsible for the murder of Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins in Las Vegas, Nevada, in retaliation for the murder of Bay Area hip-hop icon Mac Dre. After a 10-month manhunt, Mac was apprehended by ...
Mac Dre was a rapper of many monikers, a natural comedian with an incredible work ethic, and an artist who forever changed the course of Bay Area hip-hop. From recording verses through a phone while serving time for a robbery charge to bringing phrases like "thizz," "go dumb," and "ghost ride the whip" into the lexicon, Dre left an indelible ...
This is the discography of American rapper, Mac Dre. In the late 1980s, he released three albums with what TIME Magazine called "the raunchiness typical of West Coast rap". [ 1 ] In the 1990s, he received a five-year sentence but managed to record two albums over the phone. [ 1 ]
The film also tells the darker side of the hyphy movement's history, namely the impact that the untimely death of Mac Dre in 2004 had on the movement. [ 4 ] The documentary reflects how hyphy is "an energy, a feeling" and something "that you feel inside," sampling from some of the genre's top hits and using archived footage to create a vivid ...
Young Black Brotha. (album) Young Black Brotha is the 1993 debut LP by Mac Dre, not to be confused with an earlier Mac Dre release, Young Black Brotha (EP). The album contains several new recordings as well as most of the tracks from the rapper's previous EP, What's Really Going On?, and three tracks from the sessions for Back N' Da Hood ...
The Best of Mac Dre II. (2004) The Best of Mac Dre is the first "best of" album by Mac Dre. It was released in 2002 by Sumo/Thizz Entertainment. It is the first compilation of his hit songs, later followed by The Best of Mac Dre, Vol. 2 & 3. Though Mac Dre was killed by gunshot on November 1, 2004, his Bay Area legacy lives on through his music.
Jewell Caples, once dubbed "The First Lady of Death Row Records," has died, ET can confirm. She was 53.In a statement to ET, Caples' manager, Timothy Beal, said, "Jewell was a very special woman ...