RIP Mac Dre
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mac dre was a true legend in my book. since i recently tunred 18 i was never old enough to make the shows that were mostly 21+ or 18 +... i was looking forward to seeing mac dre in concert for my first time. he is one of my favorite rappers and will be truly missed.. my thoughts out to his family and all of his close friends. bay area legend... rap legend.. and very very funny man... mac dre will be missed.... rip....
To quote GTstangDver50 " and a very very funny man"
That's one thing I loved about Mac Dre is he could say some funny shit that made you laugh or smirk....but then you think about what he said and was like damn Mac Dre is speaking the truth even though he put a little comedy into it.
I'll be the 1st (well I think) to admit I really wasn't feeling Mac Dre's new style at first. But than It really caught my ear with "Thizzle Washington" and I had to go buy the cd's that I sold again because at the time I wasn't feeling them and traded them in. Mac Dre had some straight mob/hustler music thats for sure, but he also had some shit that said "hey you don't always have to be a hardcore G, selling crack on the corner, packing a pistol, to keep it real and speak the truth" and that's what I loved about the mans music.
Once again RIP to the Mac named Dre.....Dre is doing the the Thizzle dance while Ray Charles plays the piano in heaven right now.
RIP
Nuttkace
That's one thing I loved about Mac Dre is he could say some funny shit that made you laugh or smirk....but then you think about what he said and was like damn Mac Dre is speaking the truth even though he put a little comedy into it.
I'll be the 1st (well I think) to admit I really wasn't feeling Mac Dre's new style at first. But than It really caught my ear with "Thizzle Washington" and I had to go buy the cd's that I sold again because at the time I wasn't feeling them and traded them in. Mac Dre had some straight mob/hustler music thats for sure, but he also had some shit that said "hey you don't always have to be a hardcore G, selling crack on the corner, packing a pistol, to keep it real and speak the truth" and that's what I loved about the mans music.
Once again RIP to the Mac named Dre.....Dre is doing the the Thizzle dance while Ray Charles plays the piano in heaven right now.
RIP
Nuttkace
I WANNA SAY THAT THIS IS HAS PUT ME IN A SPEECHLESS, THE RADIO STATION 95LIVE.COM HAS BEEN FULL THIS WHOLE DAY SINCE I SPOKE WITH DANA AT 9AM.... I BEEN OFF -AND ON ON THE AIR TALKING WITH DIFFERENT RAPPERS.... OUR SERVER IS PRETTY BIG, IT REACHES OVER 75.000 LISTENERS AND IT NOT ONLY REACHES BAY ARTISTS BUT IT REACHES LISTENERS FROM NY, CHICAGO, THE DIRTY, AND WITH A MAJORITY OVERSEAS, THE UK, JAPAN..... FOR THOSE OF U WHO COULDNT LISTEN.... I CANT DO NOTHING, THE LISTENER SLOTS ARE ALL USED..... HOWEVER, FOR THIS WEEK I WILL BE HAVING MAC DRE IN ROTATION, THANKS TOO DANA WHEN WE 1ST LAUNCHED UP IN JAN SHE LACED ME WITH ALOT OF SHIT.... SO ITS MAC DRE RADIO..... ANOTHER THING IS, IM GONNA BE SETTING UP A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FOR OUR LISTENERS TOO THROW SOME EXTRA CHANGE IN THERE.... ALL WILL GO TOO THE FAMILY AND RESPECTED PARTIES.... WEEK IS EARLY.... TOMORROW I WILL HAVE MANY MANY MORE INTERVIEWS, COMMENTS, AND JUST A POSITIVE THING. DUTCH, B-12.... WHOEVER WANTS TOO VOICE THEY OPINION ON THIS SITUATION..... THIS REALLY PUTS ME IN A SPEECHLESS..... IM REALLY JUST LETTIN IT RIDE OUT.....
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I CANT STRESS ENUFF, FOR ME AND ALOT OF MY LISTENERS THAT IM VERY HAPPY THAT MAC DRE AND E-40 ENDED UP DOING A TRACK..... ALOT OF FANS ARE GLAD OF THAT..... THIS IS A VERY POSITIVE MOMENT FOR HIP-HOP AND BAY RAP AS A WHOLE.... EVERYONES COMING TOGETHER.... THE FEELING IS REAL LEGIT.... WE DO HAVE THE SCOTTY FOX MIX.... SO IT WILL BE POSTED UP SOON ENUFF.... ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, GET AT US........ R.I.P TOO ANDRE HICKS.....
PEACE
SLY
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I CANT STRESS ENUFF, FOR ME AND ALOT OF MY LISTENERS THAT IM VERY HAPPY THAT MAC DRE AND E-40 ENDED UP DOING A TRACK..... ALOT OF FANS ARE GLAD OF THAT..... THIS IS A VERY POSITIVE MOMENT FOR HIP-HOP AND BAY RAP AS A WHOLE.... EVERYONES COMING TOGETHER.... THE FEELING IS REAL LEGIT.... WE DO HAVE THE SCOTTY FOX MIX.... SO IT WILL BE POSTED UP SOON ENUFF.... ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, GET AT US........ R.I.P TOO ANDRE HICKS.....
PEACE
SLY
He was not only my friend but a person in this game that I looked up to and wanted to be like! This is fucked up and painful to me cause he was not suppose to go so early mane!!!! Why?? R.I.P. to my folks and the best part about this is that he's now in a better place!
I love you dawg!!! May the lord be with you!!
I love you dawg!!! May the lord be with you!!
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S.SAVAGE and S.SAVAGE
here it is
just found this on a kc news site..it was put up 20 minutes ago so about 10:50 Pacific time
RIP MAC DRE,MAC DREEZY.THIZZELLE WASHINGTON,RONALD DREGAN,MD..........."i'm lookin saucy,sumbody get a camera" always one of my faves.......
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Posted on Tue, Nov. 02, 2004
Underground rapper killed in shooting on Kansas City highway
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A San Francisco Bay area underground rap star, who police say was also a member of a gang of robbers, was killed when a gunman shot into a van in which he was riding.
Andre Hicks, 34, known as Mac Dre, was killed about 3:30 a.m. Monday when another vehicle pulled up beside the driver's side of the van he was in on U.S. 71 and began shooting, police said.
The van swerved across the highway median, across the southbound lanes and down a steep embankment. Hicks was thrown from the van, but police said he died from the shooting.
The driver crawled from the wreckage and walked for help.
Hicks had performed at a concert in Kansas City, Kan., Friday night and stayed in the area during the weekend.
Police were trying to determine a motive, Capt. Vince Cannon said. Witnesses did not hear Hicks arguing with anyone and officers do not believe the shooting stemmed from road rage, Cannon said.
Hicks recorded more than a dozen albums, with the first released in 1989.
In the early 1990s, police began investigating Hicks and several associates who were suspected of being members of the Vallejo, Calif.'s Romper Room Gang, which was suspected in a string of bank and business robberies.
Hicks was eventually charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit bank robbery after he and several others were arrested while preparing to rob a bank.
"We were on his tail for a long time," Vallejo police Lt. Rick Nichelman said.
Hicks recorded raps mocking law enforcement, often naming specific officers, including Nichelman, who was a lead investigator on the case.
Nichelman said some of the lyrics reportedly were recorded over the phone while Hicks was in jail awaiting sentencing. Hicks was released from prison in 1996.
Hicks was the second California rap artist fatally shot in Kansas City this year, police said. Ramone C. Davis, 31, of San Diego, died March 22 when a man tried to rob him of 10 pounds of marijuana, police said. A 27-year-old Kansas City man was charged in the case.
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com
just found this on a kc news site..it was put up 20 minutes ago so about 10:50 Pacific time
RIP MAC DRE,MAC DREEZY.THIZZELLE WASHINGTON,RONALD DREGAN,MD..........."i'm lookin saucy,sumbody get a camera" always one of my faves.......
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Posted on Tue, Nov. 02, 2004
Underground rapper killed in shooting on Kansas City highway
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A San Francisco Bay area underground rap star, who police say was also a member of a gang of robbers, was killed when a gunman shot into a van in which he was riding.
Andre Hicks, 34, known as Mac Dre, was killed about 3:30 a.m. Monday when another vehicle pulled up beside the driver's side of the van he was in on U.S. 71 and began shooting, police said.
The van swerved across the highway median, across the southbound lanes and down a steep embankment. Hicks was thrown from the van, but police said he died from the shooting.
The driver crawled from the wreckage and walked for help.
Hicks had performed at a concert in Kansas City, Kan., Friday night and stayed in the area during the weekend.
Police were trying to determine a motive, Capt. Vince Cannon said. Witnesses did not hear Hicks arguing with anyone and officers do not believe the shooting stemmed from road rage, Cannon said.
Hicks recorded more than a dozen albums, with the first released in 1989.
In the early 1990s, police began investigating Hicks and several associates who were suspected of being members of the Vallejo, Calif.'s Romper Room Gang, which was suspected in a string of bank and business robberies.
Hicks was eventually charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit bank robbery after he and several others were arrested while preparing to rob a bank.
"We were on his tail for a long time," Vallejo police Lt. Rick Nichelman said.
Hicks recorded raps mocking law enforcement, often naming specific officers, including Nichelman, who was a lead investigator on the case.
Nichelman said some of the lyrics reportedly were recorded over the phone while Hicks was in jail awaiting sentencing. Hicks was released from prison in 1996.
Hicks was the second California rap artist fatally shot in Kansas City this year, police said. Ramone C. Davis, 31, of San Diego, died March 22 when a man tried to rob him of 10 pounds of marijuana, police said. A 27-year-old Kansas City man was charged in the case.
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com
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VALLEJO
Rapper Mac Dre slain in Kansas City
There had been rumors of his death -- but he was killed in a freeway shooting
When Wanda Salvatto heard Monday that her son was dead, she didn't trust the news. After all, Andre Hicks -- better known as Vallejo rapper Mac Dre -- had been slain three times before, according to rumors. But at 4 p.m., Salvatto learned the latest buzz was true: Hicks, 34, was gunned down early Monday in a freeway shooting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was performing at a concert, police there said. No motive was immediately revealed, but Hicks' death -- like his life -- seemed to befit his lyrics, as well as the rumor-filled lore of hard-core rap and the history of Vallejo's vaunted hip-hop scene. "V-Town" produced stars like E-40, Young KYOZ, Mac Mall and Coolio Da Unda Dog, but its music scene also has been linked to, and touched by, violence. Police say Hicks was once part of Vallejo's northside Romper Room Gang, which was suspected of committing a series of bank robberies and pizza parlor stickups in the early 1990s. When his career was interrupted by a five-year prison stint for conspiring to rob a bank in Fresno, Hicks released a single he recorded on a jailhouse phone, taunting the police officers who put him behind bars. But Salvatto said her son's story had changed after his 1996 release. He recorded album after album -- more than 20 in all -- and recently broke through on hip-hop radio stations, including KMEL, which Monday mourned Hicks by playing his tunes and airing pained calls from fans. Hicks moved from Vallejo to Sacramento for a "fresh start" about four years ago, his mother said. He started a record label, Thizz Entertainment, and dreamed of hiring and mentoring teenagers he could steer away from the trouble he knew so well. His albums -- like this year's "Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics" -- began mining political themes. "He wouldn't want his legacy to be that," Salvatto said of her son's legal problems. "He got through that and had been living a healthy, clean life. ... He started in the streets, and he got himself out." "The part that hurts the most," she said, was that Hicks was killed after years of trying to reclaim his career after prison. "He was about to blow up again. It took him to this point to catch up. But he was determined." Kansas City police officer Darin Snapp said investigators weren't sure who had killed Hicks or why. At 3:30 a.m. Monday, Hicks was the passenger in a white van heading north on Highway 71 through Kansas City when someone in a second vehicle opened fire. "The driver said he heard shots and started ducking," Snapp said. The van swerved across a grass median and four southbound lanes, then crashed into a ditch. The driver ran down the highway to a store to call 911, Snapp said. Paramedics found Hicks dead from a gunshot wound. Snapp said investigators were looking into Hicks' performance schedule to find out whether he could have met his killer there. Bay Area rappers are popular in Kansas City and often perform there. Hicks was a successful rapper while he was still in high school. He first found the radio airwaves with a song titled, ironically, "Too Hard for the Radio." It spoke of Vallejo's "Romper Room kickin' on Leonard Street/Mac Dre full of the Hennessy." He soon lost his friend and fellow rapper Michael Robinson -- a.k.a. The Mac -- who was shot dead in Vallejo while sitting in his car with his pregnant girlfriend. Hicks' most recent album pays tribute to Robinson. Hicks is "one of the pioneers of Bay Area rap and one of the guys who put Vallejo on the map," said Ryan Miller of Alameda, who operates rapbay.com, an online music seller that received a flurry of interest in Mac Dre on Monday.
RIP Andre "MAC DRE" Hicks
July 5, 1970 - November 1, 2004
VALLEJO
Rapper Mac Dre slain in Kansas City
There had been rumors of his death -- but he was killed in a freeway shooting
When Wanda Salvatto heard Monday that her son was dead, she didn't trust the news. After all, Andre Hicks -- better known as Vallejo rapper Mac Dre -- had been slain three times before, according to rumors. But at 4 p.m., Salvatto learned the latest buzz was true: Hicks, 34, was gunned down early Monday in a freeway shooting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was performing at a concert, police there said. No motive was immediately revealed, but Hicks' death -- like his life -- seemed to befit his lyrics, as well as the rumor-filled lore of hard-core rap and the history of Vallejo's vaunted hip-hop scene. "V-Town" produced stars like E-40, Young KYOZ, Mac Mall and Coolio Da Unda Dog, but its music scene also has been linked to, and touched by, violence. Police say Hicks was once part of Vallejo's northside Romper Room Gang, which was suspected of committing a series of bank robberies and pizza parlor stickups in the early 1990s. When his career was interrupted by a five-year prison stint for conspiring to rob a bank in Fresno, Hicks released a single he recorded on a jailhouse phone, taunting the police officers who put him behind bars. But Salvatto said her son's story had changed after his 1996 release. He recorded album after album -- more than 20 in all -- and recently broke through on hip-hop radio stations, including KMEL, which Monday mourned Hicks by playing his tunes and airing pained calls from fans. Hicks moved from Vallejo to Sacramento for a "fresh start" about four years ago, his mother said. He started a record label, Thizz Entertainment, and dreamed of hiring and mentoring teenagers he could steer away from the trouble he knew so well. His albums -- like this year's "Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics" -- began mining political themes. "He wouldn't want his legacy to be that," Salvatto said of her son's legal problems. "He got through that and had been living a healthy, clean life. ... He started in the streets, and he got himself out." "The part that hurts the most," she said, was that Hicks was killed after years of trying to reclaim his career after prison. "He was about to blow up again. It took him to this point to catch up. But he was determined." Kansas City police officer Darin Snapp said investigators weren't sure who had killed Hicks or why. At 3:30 a.m. Monday, Hicks was the passenger in a white van heading north on Highway 71 through Kansas City when someone in a second vehicle opened fire. "The driver said he heard shots and started ducking," Snapp said. The van swerved across a grass median and four southbound lanes, then crashed into a ditch. The driver ran down the highway to a store to call 911, Snapp said. Paramedics found Hicks dead from a gunshot wound. Snapp said investigators were looking into Hicks' performance schedule to find out whether he could have met his killer there. Bay Area rappers are popular in Kansas City and often perform there. Hicks was a successful rapper while he was still in high school. He first found the radio airwaves with a song titled, ironically, "Too Hard for the Radio." It spoke of Vallejo's "Romper Room kickin' on Leonard Street/Mac Dre full of the Hennessy." He soon lost his friend and fellow rapper Michael Robinson -- a.k.a. The Mac -- who was shot dead in Vallejo while sitting in his car with his pregnant girlfriend. Hicks' most recent album pays tribute to Robinson. Hicks is "one of the pioneers of Bay Area rap and one of the guys who put Vallejo on the map," said Ryan Miller of Alameda, who operates rapbay.com, an online music seller that received a flurry of interest in Mac Dre on Monday.
RIP Andre "MAC DRE" Hicks
July 5, 1970 - November 1, 2004