Mac Dre

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mac Dre
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1970(1970-07-05)
Age	54
Date Of Death	2004-11-01
Birthplace	Oakland
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Mac Dre Biography

Mac Dre is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on July 5, 1970 in Oakland, California, United States. He was born Andre Louis Hicks and was the founder of Thizz Entertainment. After a dispute with a Kansas City club promoter, he was attacked and killed.

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Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hop pioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California. He was instrumental in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. 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. 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.

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.

He had a daughter named Drane.

Mac Dre Net Worth

Mac Dre is one of the richest Rapper from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mac Dre 's net worth $1.5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His 1989 debut album, Young Black Brotha, was his first independently recorded album.

From 1996 to 1998, he was controversially held in prison for being a part of an attempted bank robbery.

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.” 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.” 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”. Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992.

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Who is Mac Dre Dating?

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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 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. Ironically, Lil Jon’s 1998 debut to the Bay Area was through 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!”

Facts & Trivia

Mac Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mac Dre celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.

Why was Mac Dre in jail?

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. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a plea deal for the conspiracy charge.

Who was with Mac Dre when he was shot?

However, that didn’t stop Fat Tone from facing deadly consequences over the unfounded rumors and on May 23, 2005, seven months after Mac Dre’s killing, Fat Tone and his friend, Jermaine Aikens , were murdered in Las Vegas in what is widely believed to have been retaliation for Mac Dre’s death.

Is Mac Dre really dead?

November 1, 2004

Does Mac Dre have a daughter?

Andrea Hicks

How many times did Dr Dre get shot?

Others included Dre being shot four times in the leg, his house catching on fire during a wild party, and a flashback of his younger brother in the fight that ended his life. At a public Q&A, the film’s director F.