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Andre Hicks was born in Oakland, Californiaand moved to Vallejo at a young age. In the early 1980s, Hicks began his rap career under the stage name "Mac Dre", and by the middle of the 1990s his music had gained wide-spread popularity throughout the Bay Area thanks in part to the independent music distributor: .Mac Dre recorded his first three album...
After his release from prison in 1997, he released Mac Dre Presents the Rompalation. In late 1997 and early 1998 he recorded his second album Stupid Doo Doo Dumb. It was released April 28, 1998. Following those albums, Hicks met with Executive Producer Bernard Gourley and recorded the album Rapper Gone Bad with production help from Tone Cappone, Le...
On November 1, 2004, Hicks was a passenger in a vehicle driving on a freeway in Kansas City, Missouri when a gunman shot at his vehicle. The driver crashed and was able to get to a phone to call 911 but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound. It was announced in December 2011 that a tipster had came forward with information rega...
"T.I.P HOMIE U WIT DRE NOW" and "Thizz in Peace" were among the messages on Castaneda's MySpace page. Thizz refers to Thizz Entertainment, the record label Hicks founded in the late...
Sep 10, 2013 · The multiple arrests last year in an alleged national drug ring marked an infamous milestone for a San Francisco Bay Area success story. Thizz Entertainment, once the purveyor of the Bay’s trademark hyphy music, used the famous local label to sell Ecstasy – along with cocaine, pot and heroin – across the U.S., according to federal ...
Jun 21, 2023 · After March’s special DJ mix paying tribute to 36 years of incredible women rappers, DJs and producers from the Bay Area, my latest mix for KQED concerns a decidedly more male-dominated subject: Thizz Entertainment, the record label founded by Mac Dre in 1999.
Apr 25, 2012 · Federal agents arrested several musicians from San Francisco in connection with a nation-wide drug trafficking ring on Tuesday. The musicians were rappers who were working for a famous music label in the Bay Area called Thizz Entertainment.
