Rest in peace Mac Dre

[rollinaround]

According to sources, Vallejo rapper Mac Dre was killed in a shooting and crash in Kansas City Missouri.

Investigators revealed that two men in a car were headed north on Highway 71 near 85th Street earlier this morning when another car pulled up and opened fire.

The driver of the vehicle fired upon went into the southbound lanes and into a ravine. The passenger in the car was killed, but it wasn’t immediately known whether the victim died from the gunshots or the accident.

As of press time, police refused to reveal the victims name and reports suggested the men were from out of town.

Dre was from Vallejo, California. He gained notoriety on the Romp label in an interesting case.

In the mid 1990’s, Mac Dre was accused of being affiliated with The Romper Room Gang, who were accused of robbing a string of banks.

On the back of his What’s Really Going On EP, he acknowledge the Romper Room Family and released a song called “Punk Police.”

He addressed the bank robberies and called out the Vallejo Police Chief by name. A subsequent investigation revealed Dre’s ties to the gang.

He was arrested and charged with bank robbery 1991, when the FBI spotted him riding in a vehicle with one the suspected bank robbers, who was also wired.

He served five years in prison and was released in 1996. Mac Dre, along with such rappers as B Legit, Mac Mall, E-40 and later releases from the Young Black Brotha record label helped put Vallejo on Hip-Hop’s map.

[GrafKix]

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[Larry Flynt]

one of the greatest bay area rappers of all time!
your talent will be missed!
REST IN PIMPIN"




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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
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

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.

Hicks made bigger news in 1992 when Vallejo police caught him preparing to rob a Fresno bank with two friends. Hicks had recorded a song called "Punk Police" that included rhymes like, "Man, can't even find who's been robbin' you blind."

Claiming he was not guilty, Hicks released "Back N da Hood," which he said he had recorded from a Fresno jail. He rapped, "Detective Nichelman I'd like to thank you/You put me on the news and tried to spread the lie/Then record sales jumped to an all-time high."

Vallejo police Lt. Richard Nichelman said Monday that Hicks had a long criminal history but that he was saddened to hear of his death. "It's a shame another young guy lost his life," he said. "I hope he was on the right track."

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[Devilush]

so sad. RIP Mac Dre. :crying:

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http://img17.exs.cx/img17/9493/dre-glasses.jpg

[GrafKix]

http://img46.exs.cx/img46/1518/dre-pill.jpg

[GrafKix]

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/9058/Dre-Pool.jpg Rest In Phame

[GrafKix]

http://img90.exs.cx/img90/7959/dre-yukparty.jpg my nigga

[GrafKix]

http://img92.exs.cx/img92/7051/thizzordie.jpg real treal

[GrafKix]

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[GrafKix]

Mac Dre (34 yrs. old) was from Vallejo,CA. He made his rap debute in 1989 with the Young Black Brotha EP. He has released some 20 lp’s in his career.

[Herbivore]

serious? another thread about him?

[Devilush]

Bay area rapper was slain



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.

Hicks made bigger news in 1992 when Vallejo police caught him preparing to rob a Fresno bank with two friends. Hicks had recorded a song called "Punk Police" that included rhymes like, "Man, can't even find who's been robbin' you blind."

Claiming he was not guilty, Hicks released "Back N da Hood," which he said he had recorded from a Fresno jail. He rapped, "Detective Nichelman I'd like to thank you/You put me on the news and tried to spread the lie/Then record sales jumped to an all-time high."

Vallejo police Lt. Richard Nichelman said Monday that Hicks had a long criminal history but that he was saddened to hear of his death. "It's a shame another young guy lost his life," he said. "I hope he was on the right track."

E-mail Demian Bulwa at [email protected]

[MEDIC1]

RIP MAC DRE...RELAX IN POWER... :sadcrying:

[anarky]

rest in power g..
one of the realest nicest people i ever talked to..

[DiptInButter]

Thizz In Peace Mac Dre

[GrafKix]

R.I.P Andre Hicks aka Mac Dre, Thizzelle Washington, Furly, Mac Drevious, Mac Dammit Man, Genie of the Lamp, Muhammed I E, Pill Clinton, Thizziaveli, Young Black Brotha, Ronald Dregan

[Lovethyneighbor]

Rest In Power.

[GrafKix]

everyone needs to go get "The Game is Thick" Mac Dreezy comes hard.

[Mistery]

WORD

this fo is sick as fuck with his rap....to bad those damn kansass ppl have to keep killing our bay rappers...ths is the second one this yea...fuck kansass

[properone.b4f]

REST IN POWER :king:

[?$?]

:innocent:
Dre the lyrical kingpin
kickin rymes that got you feenin
Cause everytime you hear the name
Rymes have you feenin like base cocaine

Rest in Power Mac Dre! :innocent:

[c. clarence]

rest in power... mac dre, one of the sickest rappers out tha bay.
fuck KC.

im out of this world
not the run of the melon
my name is furl
im tha owner of tha buildin
im a stoner and im chillin wit 2 bitches like that
i pimps and i macks
drivin benzes and 'lacs...

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[GrafKix]

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Thizz iz what it iz. yadididimean

[METAL MOUTH]

Here's a couple flix that were sent to me ya'll should do your part to pay tribute to this Bay Area Legend Mac Dre if ya'll have pix post em or email me em and ill post on here & on my site

R.I.P Mac Dre

www.MetalMouthProducitons.com

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Do your part and get some shyt up on the walls for him

For info on his death and regular pictures of him hit this link
http://metalmouthproductions.com/modules.p...viewtopic&t=967 (http://metalmouthproductions.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=967)

[WhiteOx]

whats homies best song ?

[ENO ELPMIS]

yockamundo, thizzmarquee RIP

[roadpig]

i dont know if its his best,
but i like "i need an eighth"

his 'stupid doo doo dumb'
album is my favorite.

[beelkaemoney]

what happened to homie???

[headsh0tz]

Originally posted by beelkaemoney@Nov 4 2004, 06:05 AM
what happened to homie???
Quoted post


shot after a show in kansas.

[cheezburger]

didn't he have a track on the war2 video. Him and somebody else. Or am i mistaken?....

[RocktroOner]

peace dreezy

[GrafKix]

Once the rains stops im fenna put some shit up.

[HaRMFuL]

R-I-P-2-M-A-C-D-R-E! My homie away from home.

[Grimes]

RIP Macaframalama

[rollinaround]

It is sad that all the youngins will forever relate THIZZ with Mac Dre as he passes...personally, he should be remembered for his hard ass oldschool shit...newjacks just don't know................>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[AM Stop]

http://gooeygraphics.com/Images/photos_SummerJamMerced_MacDre.jpg
SO DO I YOU BEEZIE!!!!!!



http://img47.exs.cx/img47/9058/Dre-Pool.jpg

THIZZLE CRIBS!!!!!!!

MAC MOTHAFUCKN DRE IN DA MOTHA FUCKN BUILDN!!!


T H I Z Z Z Z Z Z N IN THE WASHHOUSE!!!!

[Mistery]

Graffix...Mac Dre isnt the one who said Ya da da Mean....thats some guy who starts with liek a S or somehitng...... wen they have Mac Dre's funeral my firends and i are all gunna go to it and give our Thizz's to Mac Dre so he can Thizz even in heaven

[GrafKix]

obviously you dont listen to mac dre or have seen treal t.v. if you think Mac Dre doesnt say Yadidimean. because he does very frequently. As for who started it, i believe it was Keak Da Sneak. YA DID I MEAN

[anarky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/namerocc/today/2102.jpg

[ModelCitizen]

One of my favorites from my birthplace of northern cali. He personified struggle. Life's a bitch and then you die.

MAC DRE REST IN PEEZIE

[!@#$%]

[the two mac dre threads have been merged for clarity.]


R.I.P.

[GOAT AT A GAS STATION]

..See I'm like a couple hours from KC MO. So I was trippen like what, Mac dre is whaaaaa.....Kc-MO aint no cheap wall fabric, smell me??? Somethin happen that night and Cuddies is knowin...

Rip ANDRE HICKS-
And fuck yall beezalez that gottem...

-FISH HEAD STEW...In the B with Sopat-
"THIZZ OR DIE YOU BEEZY!!!"...

[101north]

the funeral is tuesday in fairfield.

[GrafKix]

Public? if so, where in fairfield and what time?

[Mistery]

graffix..i do listin to him and all that stuff..bu ti said he wasent the that said it....like as in the first person to say it...ge tit..o well....RIP... .Fairfield????..y out in that crap land?.....it should b up in vallejo

[AM Stop]

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/9058/Dre-Pool.jpg
R I P-ANDRE $MAC DRE$ HICKS WE Stil slapn Yo gift 2 gab shit..


FUCK KMEL THEY DONT NOE SHIT ABOUT MAC DREEZZAY..I HATE 106 KMEL DONT NOE SHIT ABOUT THE REAL BAY SHIT... period!! AM OUTTA HERE!! NO TYME TO CHOP IT UP...!! CUT THE CRAP KMEL!!!

[101north]

i am not sure where in fairfield, but this is for the public and on wed. its for the family. its from noon till 5:00. get there early cause its going to be crazy.

[justamac]

just sittin in da shade sippin yukon jack and lemonade
RIP MAC DRE....from the whole SQUAD....

[c. clarence]

good mac dre songs:
-boss tycoon
-california livin
-feelin myself
-punk police
-da unda dogs
-indo, smoke and money
-i need an eighth
-life's a bitch
-mac dre's the name

just to name a few...

[ENO ELPMIS]

ah the memories, i remember being a fifth deep dropping mac dre lines on a bitch callin her a beezy n shit, it was all good till i told her i was gonna cum all over her face, then she knocked me in the grill and i was too full o the liq to do shit about it,moral of the story: stick to tha scrip and youll get yo flight ta boston, deviate and its gon end up costin.
thats how mac dre influenced my life at that instant.
peace dreez im gonna miss ya
ya did i mean?

[CACashRefund]

RIP Mac Dre
Bump for the homie.
I remember hearing about rumors about his passing that weekend, but I was just like whatever and on Monday I get the paper and in the Bay Area Section there it was.
Damn that nigga came sick with it.

[X THIZZ OR DIE X]

RIP MAC DRE
ive been seein hella rip mac dre tags keep up tha work

[ENO ELPMIS]

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[justamac]

Fuck kc, MAC DRE will never die. The BAY reigns supreme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Orangesoda]

Mac Dre......... very good indeed very lyrical as well
but you cant blame kc for that shit blame the niggas
who did that shit Mac Dre is just as big out here in
Kansas City as he is out were the bay is beleave that!
Rest in Power!

________________________
i can bust you a rap, anything else not my job!

[CACashRefund]

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http://img217.exs.cx/img217/7969/mac26gl.jpg

http://img217.exs.cx/img217/465/mac8hn.jpg

Rest In Peace

*Not my pics taken of the frisco thread, props to lunch box.

[Dertychucks]

Get Loud Feat. Bad Business
this shit also slaps




















you beezy

[Dertychucks]

when does that Treal TV 2
come out the first one was sick

[GraffLegend]

http://photos22.flickr.com/34131004_ad8cb777e0_b.jpg
Thizz or Die

[REKON HUF]

T.I.P. MAC DRE.
I wish you were still here.
so you could show the world what real hip hop shit is.
you had infinite bars.
nobody can fuck with dre's flow.
THIZZ IN PEACE ANDRE

[eat_smallkids]

THIZZ OR DIE U BEEZIE!!!!!!!!

[lawlrus408]

http://http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s17/YOUNGMOSS_2007/mac.gif

[lawlrus408]

RIP

[lawlrus408]

MAC

[lawlrus408]

DRE

[tha chronic]

all damn day hoe...

[thehaze]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GKzcQ225Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GKzcQ225Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GKzcQ225Y

[Friends_In_Low_Places]

simple n plain nuthin but game if you aint up on it mac dre is the name-rip mr furly

[SalinasValley_831]

R.I.P Mac Dre

[evenonerism99]

rest in peace MAC DRE