Once the show was booked, Mac Dre reached out to an old friend in Kansas City to see if he wanted to hang out and provide transportation for his crew over Halloween weekend. [2] 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. It seems hard to believe that Mac Dre could end up lying dead in a muddy ditch for more than an hour after crashing in such a violent way. "For a while up, for I'd say up to about. According to agents, the gang was responsible for 13 robberies, netting around 1.5 million that they claimed was used to invest into Dres rap career. The white van allegedly belonged to Savino Davila, a 27-year-old man who prosecutors say was at the head of a drug trafficking organization that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas between 2000 and 2006. Less than a month later, on March 26, Mac Dre was arrested for conspiracy to rob a bank. Born Andre Hicks on July 5, 1970, in Oakland, California, he was raised in Vallejo, California in the Country Club Crest neighborhood, often called The Crest, or Crest Side by its residents. The front desk clerk would later report seeing four males and three females leave the hotel sometime after 3:30 a.m. Nearly an hour passed before police arrived at the accident. Gary Edwin, who performs under the name DJ Fresh, was working as the sound man and DJ for the show that night. In any case, Yukmouth and Keak would later admit to Vlad that the atmosphere in Kansas City was tense.. 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A notorious ecstasy enthusiast, Dre began rapping about the drug and coined the term thizz, a slang word for ecstasy, and he pioneered the hyphy movement. The KCPD have never arrested or charged anybody with the murder and the high profile nature of the killing has continued to generate rumors and theories among hip-hop fans and true crime aficionados. Later that night, he said that he was following his white van as the driver, Harold Piersey, took Mac Dre back to The Sheraton after leaving IHop. Though Dre affiliate Keak Da Sneak is credited with creating the word hyphy, a combination of the words hyper and fly, it became a style of music and dance that became synonymous with Bay Area hip hop, and with its gritty but danceable hard-hitting sledgehammer beats, and Dre with his flashy showmanship and sense of humor, he became a perfect ambassador to lead the movement. Detective Babcock saw four bullet holes near the back seat on the passenger side. So listening to that, it kind of opened up my eyes that maybe I do need to do this. Their motives for justice and truth are almost never pure and their voluntary statements should be taken with a grain of salt. One of those informants was Gary Patterson, who told Detective Babcock that he became friends with Davila while they were housed together in 2007. Get away from here. According to DJ, hip-hop historian, and co-founder of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition Davey D, There was a point when the Vallejo police arrested forty-odd people and they looked at music lyrics around Romper Room or the Compilation album [a Dre-led compilation of Crest-Side rappers] as part of a way to round up folks.. 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. By 1992, Mac Dre had recorded a number of EPs and began his first independent label, Romper Room Records. Mac Dre Is A Member Of . He was the center of his community; a guiding light that acted as a beacon for those closest to him. Several months later, Watkins denied in a rap song that he had killed Hicks, but "the rumor was that he admitted it," Babcock said. 190 East Coast Blocc Crip, 190 is the largest hood in Carson, always have been hated by a lot of hoods & very well known. Servin' Game 10. According to the police records, Detective Babcock ran into Bussey 10 days later, on Nov. 22, outside of the KCPD headquarters. Laursen, meanwhile, ended up in the Bay Area, where she lived out of hotels at times and offered her services -- as "Alana" -- over the Craigslist Web site, police say. Thats a tip I took from him.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_0',157,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0'); Even if its a controversial statement outside of the Bay Area, Mac Dre belongs on top five greatest MC lists. He remembers first meeting Mac Dre in 1986. San Francisco police records show his true name is Antoine Cantrell. She had information that could be very damaging, says Hendrix. Now a resurfaced 2010 interview with Dre's baby mama Lisa Johnson, 53, who raised three girls by the Death Row Records producer single-handedly, reveals the star's two 'secret' daughters LaToya and Ashley Young. ". In exchange for his testimony, he was let out a few weeks after Mr. Dows trial, said Gray, managing attorney of a San Francisco DA unit that investigates police shootings and other use-of-force incidents, called the Independent Investigations Bureau. At the same time, police were looking for the culprits in a string of robberies that targeted Vallejo pizza shops. There, Laursen was seen in a gun shop nine days before the killing, where she bought ammunition similar to that used to kill Watkins and Akins, according to grand jury testimony. Taylor then told detectives a story that they arent certain they believe. But instead of introducing the men to the rap superstar, he and an accomplice allegedly took them to a deserted cul-de-sac and riddled them with bullets from an AK-47. When Mac Dre reached out in early October, Davila offered to have his cousin, and good friend, Harold Piersey drive Mac Dres crew around on Halloween weekend. Mac Dre was still lying in the mud, covered only with a tarp, when KCPD Detective Everett Babcock arrived at the scene the next morning. He had become Fat Tone the Untouchable. According to Detective Everett Babcock, the lead investigator in the Mac Dre murder, Every shooting that happened [in Kansas City], you would get calls saying, Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it. His name always came up. But when it came to Dres murder, the rumor had legs. He made the men drop everything and then told them to leave. 60. r/CaliBanging. The case centered on an alleged 2005 murder plot that involved Dow luring the victims to Las Vegas under the promise of meeting Snoop Dogg, court records show. People wanted answers. There was a drought, in terms of the Bay Area, says Davey D. I mean, people were putting out records, but it didnt have the national attention that it did [before]. Detective Babcock met with Antwine numerous times in the years after the murder and he repeatedly denied having any involvement. Instead, Mac Dre showed up late again, only stayed for 30 minutes and then left without performing. He had been performing in the city, and he and other Bay Area rappers enjoyed second-home popularity there. This overrepresentation of Black victims and suspects makes the white officers look like heroes. Hes been accused of many other shootings and robberies, though none of them have ever been proven. Crestside 12. Laursens dad claims she was forced into prostitution by Corleone, who, according to reports, would escort her into various Las Vegas hotels hiding an AK-47 under his clothing. The father had rescued his daughter once, in March or April, but she voluntarily returned to Corleone in Vegas shortly after. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. A dark-colored SUV had been seen speeding away; shortly after, Cowboys Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond. At one point, DJ Fresh said he mentioned to Mac Dre that if he told people to get off the stage they might listen to him since they were his fans. Detective Babcock said the investigation was hampered early by the reluctance of Hicks' travel companions to cooperate. Local crews opened up the show, according to DJ Fresh, including 40 Kal, who introduced Whitmill to the West Coast artists. Several months later Fat Tone would release a song where he denied having any involvement in Mac Dres murder. And according to Missouri state court records, Smith and Antwine were arrested together less than six months after Mac Dres murder, on March 7, 2005. However, police still felt they had enough evidence to pull Mac Dre and friends over and charge the crew with conspiracy to commit bank robbery. But its no wonder why the police didnt find the car. The informant said hed never heard Antwine say it himself but that hed heard his friends, including a man named Taron T-Baby Smith, talking about it. [8][bettersourceneeded] Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992. In March 2006, Bell told detectives that Antwine and Smith had been bragging about the murder, saying that Smith had told him that hed been paid $10,000 to perform the hit. "Every shooting that happened (in Kansas City), you would get calls saying, 'Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it.' In March 2014, local news reported that Antwine had been found dead in an upside down SUV riddled with bullets. They wanted to know who did this. In an interview with Kansas Citys The Pitch from 2005, Detective Babcock said that hes convinced that Fat Tone did not kill Mac Dre. O tom, ako pouvame vae informcie, sa dozviete viac v naich zsadch ochrany osobnch dajov a zsadch pouvania sborov cookie. Dows attorney said his client adamantly maintains his innocence., Were going to keep fighting it, DeMarco said, but I am hopeful that he will ultimately be vindicated., Michael Barba can be reached at [emailprotected]. So much so that Babcock summonsed Tone to Kansas City police headquarters for an interview. Anthony Fat Tone Watkins was a large figure, literally and figuratively. Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs . And like most of the other Bay Area rappers, he had a large fan base in Kansas City, Missouri. Fat Tone was West Coast-friendly, DJ Fresh says. By 2004, Kansas City and The Bay Area shared a mutual affection towards each others burgeoning hip-hop scenes, acting as the conduit to California for fledgling midwest rappers looking to gain access to a portion of the rap community previously unavailable to them. "The tragedy of the whole thing is that, assuming (the woman killed in Fairfield) was killed as retribution for being a witness, that's three people dead over a financial matter over an amount of money that wouldn't pay for a weekend in Vegas," said Babcock, who would not elaborate on the alleged dispute except to say that Watkins was not a suspect in Hicks' death. The white van allegedly belonged to Savino Davila, a 27-year-old man who prosecutors say was at the head of a drug trafficking organization that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas between 2000 and 2006. There was white paint all along the passenger side of the car, suggesting that it had been used to ram a white vehicle. Hes worked in the East Patrol Division, the Domestic Violence Unit, the Homicide Unit, the Mounted Patrol, the Generalist Squad and the Assault Squad, where hes currently a supervisor. Laursens murder remains unsolved. Gray said Mouton was a federal informant who faced up to 40 years in prison at the time of his testimony in a trafficking case involving a minor. The junior Antwine was born in 1981, only two years before his father murdered the Jones Brothers. Never one to miss an opportunity to capitalize on his gangsta, his next album cover was a picture of him ina hospital bed giving the middle finger. He was a member of the infamous 51st Street Crips, even allegedly earning a leadership position after a turf battle with a gang member and convicted killer Rashawn Long, a former 51st Street boss. His album, Back in da Hood, was a result of these recordings, as were several guest verses he recorded for other rappers. Investigators soon discovered he was wanted in Las Vegas, where he later pleaded not guilty. [15] The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History. The police say that while Mac Dre was getting busy in a local motel with his lady friend, his accomplices were out casing a Fresno bank with plans of a robbery. He would later tell Detective Babcock that Whitmill was angry after Mac Dre left without performing. (Despite multiple attempts to reach out, Piersey could not be found for comment). In the world of hip-hop, police say, bad blood often means good business. July 5 Rapper #4. Davila brought Mac Dre to his hotel, where they hung out and listened to music. Taron T-Baby Smith was shot and killed on the morning of June 12, 2010. He incorporated his sense of humor into his music, in part by creating characters, such as Ronald Dregan and Thizzelle Washington. He wore a large afro, and big, oversized stunna shades, and he created the Thizz Dance, a funky dance that holds no specific rules. From an early age, Mac Dre gravitated towards a section of Vallejo called the Country Club Crest, an out-of-the-way neighborhood long known to outsiders as a hotbed of drug crime and violence. Coldest thang was Diggs started pimping Mac dre daughter when she turned 18. A few feet away, 22-year-old Jermaine Akins -- a friend who was a fugitive from federal cocaine-selling charges -- also lay dead after being shot 13 times. Sleep Dank looked up to Mac Dre. They then moved to the Vallejo area. There was fourteen of us, remembers Romper Room member and Dre collaborator Coolio Daundadogg. Yukmouth would later tell VladTV that they did get paid, and he also minimized the issue. He later appealed his sentence, saying that prosecutors unfairly argued that putting him to death would be cheaper to taxpayers than housing him on death row. When they finally left, Mac Dre got in the back of the van and instructed Piersey to drive them to his hotel. Detectives told Taylor that it seems strange that someone he didnt know would pull up alongside him for no reason and then give him a ride. Along with dozens of bullet holes, police also found that the drivers side of the van had been rammed by the other vehicle during the shooting. He wears a pair of glasses in most photos and his muscular physique reflects the time spent weight lifting during his period of incarceration. When he [Mac Dre] came to The Crest for the first time, he just got addicted. Mac Dres birthday July 5 has been dubbed Dre Day by his family, friends, and fans. Hicks claimed he was rapping about attempts to "wake up the neighbors. Residents said they heard gunshots and saw a white Mercedes speed away at Ninth and Howard streets. The witness admitted that he made up statements about having an incriminating conversation with Dow that prosecutors used to bolster their case. A comprehensive rundown Ive really owned Thizz Entertainment and that business. Before he left, Davila arranged to have Piersey meet up with Mac Dre in the morning with the white van to help with transportation to his first scheduled events: a radio appearance and a record signing at a local music store. His mom didnt want him out there, but he didnt want to go home, Sleep Dank says. Hes the one that kept us all together. A day later, a white 2000 Pontiac Sunfire convertible was found burning in Vallejo. The new evidence is the latest chapter in a protracted legal saga involving numerous attempts by Dow to fight his conviction. But newly unearthed booking records show he was actually in jail from Nov. 28 to Dec. 7, 2005. According to the TV show American Gangster, however, there was an altercation between associates of Dres, and local rapper and thug Fat Tones, though this has not been supported by witnesses. Its single, Too Hard 4 the Fuckin Radio, recorded while Mac Dre was still a student at Vallejos Hogan High School, lets the world know of his unwillingness to compromise for mainstream appeal, a promise he kept throughout his career. But a local news crew had caught wind of the robbery over the police scanner and had prematurely gone to the bank. Or maybe Tone was cleared by Diggs and Babcock because he didnt personally pull the trigger, but maybe he had something to do with it, such as send his goon, Cowboy? I met with Drake in San Francisco we sat down and he talked with me about how Mac Dre impacted his life and his career, what hes doing and the big impact that Mac Dre had when Drake was a young boy, Wanda Mac, Mac Dres mother, says during an interview with allhiphop. Andre Louis Hicks, better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hop pioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California. Mac Dre was sentenced to five years for refusing to accept a plea deal. It appeared as if the van had spun sideways, slid around and went off the road, crashing into a muddy ditch.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'passionweiss_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',108,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-medrectangle-3-0'); The drivers side of the van had been found with more than 30 bullet holes and a man was found shot to death nearby, having been thrown from the vehicle upon impact from the crash. He was "Fat Tone the Untouchable." When Detectives first spoke with Davila, he maintained that he saw Mac Dre at the Atlantic Star on Halloween night, but left early to take his kids trick or treating. Slaying victims Watkins and Akins were in Las Vegas for a Snoop Dogg concert at the Palms and were staying at the MGM Grand. The show at the Armory took place on a Friday. One song was sent to representatives of fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. Young, 38, said in an interview with the Daily Mail published on August 4 that she's living out of an SUV rental in Tarzana, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. His body was found in a light colored Chevy Blazer at the intersection of 73rd and Indiana, near the Noble and Gregory Ridge area of Kansas City, Missouri. This version of events was meant to take the blame off Davila, while still providing enough answers to hopefully strike a deal to get out of prison early. Dozens of tips recorded by KCPD feature some variation of Fat Tone and Mac Dre getting into an altercation. He believes the victims were driven to the neighborhood where they were killed roughly 80 minutes later. Soon, Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond, said Fairfield police Lt. Tony Shipp. "He said, 'I'm watching myself.' [3], On November 1, 2004, Hicks was killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri,[4] a case that remains unsolved. If you trace the trail of police reports, you arrive at this summary of the facts: on the night Mac Dre was murdered, he was supposed to do a club appearance.

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