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Mac Dre (Andre Louis Hicks) was born on 5 July, 1970 in Oakland, California, U.S., is an American rapper (1970–2004). Discover Mac Dre's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 34 years old?

Popular As Andre Louis Hicks
Occupation Rapper · record producer · songwriter
Age 34 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 5 July 1970
Birthday 5 July
Birthplace Oakland, California, U.S.
Date of death 1 November, 2004
Died Place Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
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1970

Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California.

Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto.

They then moved to the Vallejo area.

He would often frequent the Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest.

1984

Hicks first adopted the stage name MC Dre in 1984, but altered it to Mac Dre the following year because he considered that the name sounded "too East Coast-ish".

1988

Hicks recorded his first three extended play (EP) recordings as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992.

The city of Vallejo began experiencing a Surge in bank robberies in the early 90s.

Vallejo police began focusing on the Crest neighborhood as a source of the crime.

Hicks was vocal about the actions he saw being taken by the police and incorporated their aggressive surveillance of residents into his music.

Hicks claimed he was rapping about attempts to "wake up the neighbors."

As gangster rap music consistently grew in popularity, law enforcement officials began examining the lyrics of local rappers to utilize as evidence in criminal matters.

1989

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.

1992

On March 26, 1992, at age 21, Hicks was invited by friends on a road trip to Fresno.

Hicks had performed in that city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit a woman he knew there.

While driving back to Vallejo, the car was surrounded by FBI agents and Fresno and Vallejo police officers.

The police said that while Hicks was at a motel, his friends were allegedly casing a bank but had changed their mind when they saw a local Fresno TV News van in the bank's parking lot.

When questioned by the police, Hicks said that he didn't leave the hotel, therefore did not know anything.

The police subsequently charged him with conspiracy to commit robbery, although Hicks was not with his friends at the time.

After he refused a plea deal for the conspiracy charge, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years in federal prison.

The conviction hinged on a gun linked to the bank robberies found in his apartment months before his arrest, and a recording where he was heard to say "Shoot out the surveillance cameras".

The trial was listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History.

At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions.

1996

Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years.

It was during his time in prison that Hicks developed a "better appreciation for freedom, life, fun" as well as coordinating to release a compilation record on his newly formed Label.

After his release from Lompoc Prison, Mac Dre and longtime collaborator Coolio Da' Unda Dogg (Troy Reddick) recorded tracks to pitch to major record labels.

One song was sent to representatives of fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected.

1998

Mac Dre moved to the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento in 1998 in attempt to distance himself from Vallejo law enforcement.

There, he founded his independent label Thizz Entertainment, which is currently managed by his mother Wanda Salvatto.

2000

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.

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 2000s, Dre's change in sound became influential in the hyphy movement.

2004

On November 1, 2004, Hicks was killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri, a case that remains unsolved.

After Hicks and other Thizz Entertainment members had performed a show in Kansas City, Missouri on October 31, 2004, an unidentified gunman shot at the group's van as it traveled on U.S. Route 71 in the early morning hours of November 1.

The van's driver crashed and called 911, but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound to the neck.

Local rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins was alleged to have been responsible for the murder, but no evidence ever surfaced, and Watkins himself was shot dead the following year.

Hicks' funeral took place on November 9, 2004, at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.

He was given a public open-casket viewing, and then buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

2013

In 2013 National Public Radio (NPR) noted his sound 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."

2019

Atlanta rapper and producer Lil Jon, with Salvatto's blessing, incorporated Dre's vocals into his 2019 single "Ain't No Tellin".