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Mac Dre. Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. [1] He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. [2] Hicks is considered one of the movement's key ...
Thizz Entertainment is a Sacramento-based, originally independent record label, started in 1999 by rapper and music producer Andre Hicks, who was professionally known as Mac Dre, a poster child of the hyphy movement that swept through the Bay Area in the 1990s and early 2000s. The label was relocated to the S.F. Bay Area shortly after his ...
This is the discography of American rapper, Mac Dre. In the late 1980s, he released three albums with what TIME Magazine called "the raunchiness typical of West Coast rap". [ 1 ] In the 1990s, he received a five-year sentence but managed to record two albums over the phone. [ 1 ]
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founder of Death Row Records. Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1984, and later ...
Rapper, CEO. Years active. 1995-present. Labels. Thizz Entertainment, Thizz Nation. Jamal Diggs (born July 10, 1970), better known by his stage name J-Diggs, also Jay Digs or J-Diggs tha Rockstar, is an American rapper from Vallejo, CA. He is best known for his affiliation with fellow Vallejo rapper Mac Dre and his label, Thizz Entertainment.
The Best of Mac Dre II. (2004) The Best of Mac Dre is the first "best of" album by Mac Dre. It was released in 2002 by Sumo/Thizz Entertainment. It is the first compilation of his hit songs, later followed by The Best of Mac Dre, Vol. 2 & 3. Though Mac Dre was killed by gunshot on November 1, 2004, his Bay Area legacy lives on through his music.
Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics. (2004) The Genie of the Lamp. (2004) Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics is the ninth studio album by Vallejo, California rapper Mac Dre, [5] released three months before his murder in 2004. It most notably features "Get Stupid," which has been described as "perhaps the defining song of the hyphy movement."
The Game Is...Thick, Part 2 is the eleventh and final studio album by Bay Area rapper Mac Dre released on October 19, 2004. The album was released just 13 days before an unknown assailant shot and killed Hicks while driving on a freeway in Kansas City, Missouri.