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December 12, 2007: Too hard for the fuckin radio: the Mac Dre WFMU special
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time | |||
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| MAC DRE |
various including >
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 Instrumental of I Need An eight (12") + Lt. Joann West press agent for the Vallejo Police Dept (VPD) April 1998 over 500 locked grooves + JT the Bigga Figga intro off 'Stupid doo doo dumb'
+ Too hard for the fuckin radio Young black brother The Album +
+ Young Playah "What's Really Going On?" (Strictly Business 1992)
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| Mac Dre |
Lets All Get Down
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Stupid Doo Doo Dumb | Romp | 1997 |
Mac Dre, the popular longtime Northern California rapper was shot and killed in Kansas City after leaving a club where he had just performed and whose life was full of drama But that final incident for this uniquely talented and influential Vallejo rapper, who headed the Thizz Entertaiment company and cultural movement and was instrumental in kick-starting the Bay Area's hyphy movement, was only the latest in a lifetime filled with news headline incidents including being recording a hit record over the phone from the county jail, being indicted in a string of organized bank robberies by the "Romper Room Gang," and consequently spending four years in the federal penitentiary. This WFMU special is an uncensored (MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME), web-only broadcast focusing on the music of Mac Dre plus some interviews with him and also with the authorities involved in the case against him that got him sentenced to five years in the pen (four of which he did). One of the interviews in this special was with Mac Dre when he was in Lompoc Penitentiary, CA in 1996. Note that this is not in anyway an inclusive piece on the late rapper (didnt even include Thizzle Dance or anything off the Rompilation). There is so much more on Mac Dre (interviews and music) that there could easily be another Mac Dre special.
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| Mac Dre |
punk police
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What's Really Going On? | Strictly Business | 0:18:05 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre |
Get Some Get Right
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1992 | the song in whose lyrics he mentions how he was "born in the O" - Oakland, CA before his mom, Wanda, moved him (for safety) to the then new/safe outer Bay suburb of Vallejo | 0:22:35 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre |
Back N Da hood Recorded live from the Fresno County jail over the phone (Strictly Business) 1992
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Recorded live from the Fresno County jail | strictly business | 1992 |
 Amazingly this release recorded with very limited time over the public phone at the Fresno County Jail -but more amazingly and surprisingly to many it became a hit and cemented Dre's position as a loved outlaw status - someone wronged by the cops
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0:25:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Mac Dre & Khayree |
Interview by Billy Jam on KUSF San Francisco
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1991 | very early Mac Dre and Khayree interview and performance on KUSF radio station 1991 Sept 15 - Note Coolio mentioned is Vallejo Coolio not the SoCal artist on Tommy Boy around same time | 0:30:56 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre & Young Ray Luv | 1991 | the roots of Yay rap right here including early early Ray Luv who around this time would also associate with another soon to be major rap figure named Tupac Shakur | 0:35:41 (Pop-up) | |||||||
| Mac Dre & Khayree |
Times Are Getting Crazy (live acoustic version)
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unreleased | 1991 | 0:39:52 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre & Khayree interview cont | 1991 | 0:43:58 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Mac Dre |
California Livin
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Strictly Business | 1991 | 0:54:11 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre |
Times are getting crazy
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1991 | 12" studio version of song also performed live acoustic style in previous 1991 interview | 0:58:45 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Thizzelle Washington |
TREAL TV excerpt
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Thizz Films /Romp/Sumo/City Hall | 2003 | Treal TV excerpt hosted by Thizzelle Washington (aks Mac Dre) in one of his numerous later career alter-egos - during the THIZZ years. (Note: "thizz" is a word - one of many coined by Mac Dre (he refers to others in this bit) and refers to getting buzzed on Ecstacy. At Mac Dre's funeral, as they lowered his coffin into the ground, people were tossing X pills among other things out of love for the man | 1:03:41 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Mac Dre and Da Looie Crew |
Fonky Situation
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"Spread Yo' Hustle" Compilation | Swerve | 1997 | 1:06:24 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Andre Nicatina feat Mac Dre |
Andre N Andre
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Bullets Blunts N Ah Big Bankroll | Nicky Rose I.N.C. | 2004 | Andre Nickatina's album "Bullets Blunts N Ah Big Bankroll" featuring Andre Hicks (Mac Dre's real name) | 1:11:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Mac Dre and Da Looie Crew |
I need an eight
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stupid doo doo dumb | Romp | 1997 | Mac Dre and Da Looie Crew "I need an eight" from the album Stupid Doo Doo Dumb and also on 12" | 1:15:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Mac Dre |
Mac D-R-E
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Johnny Z and Young Dru present 707 The Sequel | Rated Z Records | 2003 | 1:16:56 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Mac Dre |
"What's really going on?"
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strictly business | 1992 | 12" | 1:22:39 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Mac Dre |
life's a bitch
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from Stupid Doo Doo Dumb track opens with collage of news clips on the controversial artist and his so called involvement in crimes as part of the Romper Room gang. A longtime fan of Too $hort (check out the influence on Mac Dre's early work and also on the track "My Chevy" where he raps about listening to Short and Pooh) he samples $hort's infamous "biaaatch" on this track. And on the brand new December 2007 Too $hort album (Get Off The Stage) Mac Dre is indirectly included when $hort uses the word "thizzed" and the Pack (guests on album) mention Mac Dre - as so many Yay Area releases seem to do and will continue to do in the future. | 1:27:40 (Pop-up) | |||||||
| Mac Dre interview from the pen by Billy Jam | 1996 | Interview with Mac Dre (March 20, 1996) from Lompoc Pen by phone - recorded for Hip Hop Slam / Pirate Fuckin Radio (radio show Billy Jam did in the mid nineites that broadcast on Free Radio Berkeley and other pirate stations around the US at the time) and a couple of print publications | 1:34:31 (Pop-up) | |||||||
| Mac Dre |
all damn day
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Whats Really Going On? | Strictly Business | 1992 | 1:45:22 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Mac Dre |
"Retro Dance Record"
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"the game is thick part 2" | Thizz/Sumo/City Hall | 2004 | Mac Dre 's "the game is thick part 2" ablum and its cover was a tribute to an earlier release by his late potna The Mac | 1:49:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Thizzed Out (BillyJamrizzle mix) | 1:52:11 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
| All it takes Mac Drizzle | 1:52:52 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
| Mac Mall and Mac Dre feat E40 |
Dredio
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Da US Open | 2005 | Mac Mall as Mall McEnroe & Mac Dre as Andre Macassi feat E40 "Dredio" "Da US Open" (2005) (Thizz/City hall) | 1:54:31 (Pop-up) | |||||
| thizz nation | 1:56:25 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
| Mike Van Winkle (Dept. of Justice) + Sgt Bob Lewis (VPD) |
phone interivews
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1998 | phone interview with Mike Van Winkle, Dept. Of Justice, Sacramento office April 1998 as part of an investigative report Billy Jam wrote as a San Francisco Bay Guardian cover story - two phone interviews back to back with both Justice Dept's Van Wiinkle and Sgt. Bob Lewis, (Vallejo Police Dept) - both of these interviews and the one at show's opening with Joann West of VPD were all for 1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian cover story titled "Cops and Rappers." Thanks to JH Tompkins as editor. These two interviews were trying to determine the use of rap lyrics as part of the Task Force's investigations | 2:01:15 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Mac Dre |
the romp ya'll
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2:09:31 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Mac Dre |
My Chevy (with Mac Mall) phoner
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2:11:39 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Mac Dre |
wit the M.A.C.
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2:15:06 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Mac Dre/Mac Mall feat J-Diggs & Rydah J. Klyde |
Murder I wrote
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Da US Open | Thizz/Sumo/City Hall | 2005 | in this musical outing Mac Dre becomes "Thizzie Marley" - one of maybe a hundred aliases | 2:20:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Mac Dre |
Stupid Doo Doo Dumb
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1996 | 2:23:16 (Pop-up) | |||||||
| TREAL TV |
varous exceprts
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Thizz Films | 2003 | Treal TV excerpts 2003 (Thizz Films /Romp/Sumo/City Hall) | 2:28:25 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Mac Dre |
I got a...
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Da US Open | 2:33:48 (Pop-up) | |||||||
| Mac Dre | 2:37:10 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
| Mac Dre |
donkey
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2:38:36 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
| Nothin Correctable |
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2:49:29 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
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