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Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), better known by his stage nameMac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hoppioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California.^[1][2] He was instrumental in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Areahip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s.^[3] Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance.^[3] As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally.^[4]

In 2004, Hicks was killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri,^[5] a case that remains unsolved.^[6]

Early life and career[edit]

Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970 and moved to Vallejo area. He would frequent specifically, Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest. In 1989, the outgoing Hicks made waves with a cassette tape featuring the single, 'Too Hard for the F---in' Radio' while still a student at Vallejo's Hogan High School. NPR reflected on his sound in 2013 article as being 'fast and confident' further writing that 'he built upon the bouncy bass that had its roots in the funk era.'^[7] When asked about his childhood, Hicks stated that 'Situations came out for the better most of them, I went through the little trials and the shit that I went through.'^[8] Hicks first adopted the stage name MC Dre in 1984, but altered it to Mac Dre the following year because he considered the name sounded 'too East Coast-ish'.^[9] Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992.^[1]

Conviction[edit]

In the early 1990s, the city of Vallejo experienced a surge in bank robberies. Vallejo police began to focus on the Crest Neighborhood as the source with new found intensity. Hicks was vocal about the actions he saw being taken by the police and incorporated their aggressive surveillance of residents into his music. As gangster rap music consistently grew in popularity, law enforcement officials began to examine the lyrics of local rappers to utilize as evidence in criminal matters.^[10]

Mac Dre Game For Sale Lyrics

On March 26, 1992, at age 21, Hicks was invited by some of his friends to a road trip roughly 3 hours away to Fresno. Hicks had performed in the city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit with a girl. While driving back to Vallejo the car was surrounded by the FBI along with Fresno and Vallejo police. The police stated that while Hicks was at a motel, his friends were allegedly casing a bank but had changed their mind when they saw a local Fresno TV News van in the bank's parking lot.^[11]When questioned by the police, Hicks stated that he did not leave the hotel therefore did not know anything. The police subsequently charged him with conspiracy to commit robbery, although no bank robbery was conducted and Hicks was neither with his friends nor near the location of the purported bank.^[12]He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a deal which included implicating his friends in a robbery that did not occur. The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History.^[13] At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions.^[1] Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years.^[1] It was during his time in prison, that Hicks developed a 'better appreciation for freedom, life, fun.'^[14]

Post Prison Career[edit]

After his release, Hicks wanted to start doing music that was easy to dance to. He and long time friend and fellow rapper, Troy Reddick a/k/a Da'unda'Dogg decided to try to do something different. The duo recorded several songs to pitch for the first time, to major record labels. One song in particular, was sent to various West Coast based representatives of the well known Oakland rapper, Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day but was not selected and it is unknown if the song ever made it to Too Short. In 2019, Grammy winning Atlanta rapper and multi-platinum producer, Lil Jon, with the blessing of Hicks's mother (Hicks was murdered in 2004), would incorporate the same vocals in the single 'Ain't No Tellin' and release thru Geffen Records.^[15] Ironically, Lil Jon's 1998 debut to the Bay Area was thru a song on the same Too Short compilation. Reddick, in a statement to Complex Magazine stated 'Of all the vocals Jon got, he picked some from the record Dre wrote to be released by a major label, and 23 years later Lil Jon has completed his goal!' ^[15]

Hicks continued to release multiple albums independently until his untimely death in 2004 that were wildly popular. In 1998, Hicks relocated to Sacramento to distance himself from the stigma that developed in the eyes of Vallejo law enforcement and founded the a new label, Thizz Entertainment label(now managed by his mother).^[14] In 2000, Hicks's change in sound became the lead in to a popular genre coined as the Hyphy Movement.^[14]

Death[edit]

After Hicks and other Thizz Entertainment members had performed a show in Kansas City, Missouri on October 31, 2004, an unidentified gunman shot at the group's van as it traveled on U.S. Route 71 in the early morning hours of November 1. The van's driver crashed and called 9-1-1, but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound to the neck.^[16]

He was buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.^[17]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

• Young Black Brotha (1993)
• Stupid Doo Doo Dumb (1998)
• Rapper Gone Bad (1999)
• Heart of a Gangsta, Mind of a Hustla, Tongue of a Pimp (2000)
• Mac Dre's the Name (2001)
• It's Not What You Say... It's How You Say It (2001)
• Thizzelle Washington (2002)
• Al Boo Boo (2003)
• Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics (2004)
• The Genie of the Lamp (2004)
• The Game Is Thick, Vol. 2 (2004)

Posthumous studio albums[edit]

• Judge Dre Mathis (2005)
• Pill Clinton (2007)
• Dre Day: July 5th 1970 (2008)

Collaboration albums[edit]

• Supa Sig Tapeswith Little Bruce (1990)
• Turf Buccaneerswith Cutthroat Committee (2001)
• Money iz Motivewith Cutthroat Committee (2005)
• Da U.S. Openwith Mac Mall (2005)
• A Tale of Two Andreswith Andre Nickatina (2008)

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^sfbg. 'San Francisco Bay Guardian - News'. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
3. ^ ^ab'An Oral History of Hyphy'. Complex. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
4. ^Van Nguyen, Dean (June 2, 2014). 'Vallejo rapper Mac Dre pioneered the hyphy movement'. WaxPoetics. Wax Poetics, Inc. Retrieved March 17, 2018. But no one touched the Bay area like Vallejo's Mac Dre. Responsible for recording dozens of records, unearthing new local talent, building a rap empire, and pioneering a whole new homegrown counterculture, Mac Dreezy changed the landscape of the Bay Area forever and earned legendary status among Bay Area locals.
5. ^'Rapper Mac Dre Killed In Kansas City'. Billboard. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
6. ^Gray, Madison (2011-09-13). 'Top 10 Unsolved Hip-Hop Murders'. Time. ISSN0040-781X. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
7. ^Harmanci, Reyhan; Walter, Shoshana. 'Federal Drug Case Ensnares The Home of Hyphy'. NPR. National Public Radio. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
8. ^530NorCal. 'Mac Dre - Ghetto Celebrities Pt. 2'. Youtube. Retrieved 2013-04-16.^{[better source needed]}
9. ^530NorCal2. 'Mac Dre - Ghetto Celebrities Pt. 1'. youtube. Retrieved 2013-04-16.^{[better source needed]}
10. ^Harmanci, Reyhan; Walter, Shoshana. 'Federal Drug Case Ensnares The Home Of Hyphy'. NPR. National Public Radio. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
11. ^Billy, Jam. 'Hip-Hop History Tuesdays: Mac Dre Details Police Role In His 5 Year Prison Sentence: March 1996 Rare Radio Interview from Lompoc'. amoeba.com. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
12. ^Billy, Jam. 'Hip-Hop History Tuesdays: Mac Dre Details Police Role In His 5 Year Prison Sentence: March 1996 Rare Radio Interview from Lompoc'. amoeba.com. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
13. ^Drake, David; Insanul, Ahmed. 'The 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History'. Complex. Complex Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
14. ^ ^abcHorowitz, Steven. 'An Oral History of Hyphy'. Complex. Complex Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
15. ^ ^abShifferaw, Abel. 'Lil Jon Shares New Track 'Ain't No Tellin' Featuring Mac Dre'. Complex. Complex Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
16. ^Bulwa, Demian (2011-06-24). 'Rapper Mac Dre slain in Kansas City'. SFGate. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
17. ^'Andre Mac-Dre Hicks (1970 - 2004) - Find A Grave Memorial'. Retrieved 9 March 2015.

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Mac Dre (Talking)
Serving fat game that you'll never imagine
boy I can talk a cat off a fish wagon
or sell an Eskimo ice at a high price and get him twice
man I not that nice, and games my merchandise
I grime rhymes like bass rocks a '89'
lacing young playas getting ready for shady times
no shady rhymes you're garented to love it
and since I got so much of it, its gonna cost to dub it
so get ya scrilla, ya fetti, ya scarth, and yo mail
and holla at me folks, I got game for sale

Game 24h

[Verse 1]
Mothafuckas jock me cuz I'm dope when I be flowing
suckas try to stop me, but im honking keep on going
im simply not the type that likes to kick it with a square
I kick it with the bitch cuz filthy rich cuz im gone play here
time and time again man niggas always ask me
why do hoe's jock you when you spit raps so nasty
I look them in the eye and I reply to the question
game is to be thought so let me teach yo ass a lesson
bitches love niggas who can pop a lot of shit
sprung off the tongue so they jock for the dick
I never met a broad who didn't like the way I laced her
poured this hoe some game and served this pimpin as a chaser
fools can't understand about the shit I teach in a verse
rapping about that bitch and how she reached in her purse
it takes a true playa to really recognize
its all about the money not the shit between the thighs
suckas love pussy more than money cuz they show it
they eat it and retreat and they even pay for it
I truly don't know why those fools be salting up the game
real niggas pimp but you don't here me man
I know this mothafucka who won't hesitate to hit a bitch
a right to the jaw is what I saw when he got with his bitch
showing no mercy for those hoes who be flossing
acting like they all that when they only good for tossing
I feel the same way about those bitches that be faking
Hoes aint shit unless they bringing home the bacon
and if its like that then I act like I love the ho
but when im not with her man I dicking down another ho
playas know that I flow is nothing but that real shit
fuck those faking broads man get you a real bitch

[Chorus]
I don't be bull shiting with the game that im spittin
so pay attention to this game that you getting
its kind of foul but some say wow
but I be serving it real the only way I know how

[Verse 2]
As I put don't this demo know you when you I hear no
sucka shit out these lips but I bet you'll hear mo
styles and techniques shit to catch freaks
if ya lacking macking homeboy you best beat
I serve it the right way, those broads who like Dre
im giving baby action if im thinking she might pay
I might play, with the body and soul
and have her doing every got damn thing she told
I manipulate than stipulate
the rules then I use every grip she makes
im a playa in this game but professional
and if you aint shit bitch im going to let you know
then im gone let you go ho cuz I don't need ya
take them, break them, shake them
is a pimp's procedure
simps they feed ya be glad they g'd ya
im going to seet back and analyze and read ya
peeps potentials read percentiles
then run a player check on your freak condenses
no time to play games with broads who say thangs
its realer and I tell the bitch the shit the Dre brings
Is realer then Swiss cheese
im out to get geez, if you aint with it
punk bitch then get these nuts in your mouth
no more no less
you fucking around with that pimp playa crest

[Chorus]

(Talking)
Spittin that real shit ya know
Mac who
Mac-mothafucking-Dre
Crest Side, For my folks, my real folks
young Sugawolf-mothafucking-Pimp
im fresh out the mothafucking federalies
and my folks is giving me love on this album
I got to turn this out for you cudie
I got to do this for you cudie
young Dubee you big ol' pimp you
love you folks
lets get rich, pimp a bitch
and kill a mothafucking snitch