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Mac Dre is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Blackbyrds and Rappin' 4-Tay. Those roots explain a lot about how Mac Dre arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as E-40, Too $hort, Mac Mall, Suga Free and Brotha Lynch Hung, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Guapdad 4000, Mac Mall, Mistah F.A.B., Getter and Electric Guest, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Mac Dre, reaching back through The Blackbyrds and forward to Guapdad 4000. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Vallejo, California. 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.
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Mac Dre connections
Mac Dre grew out of The Blackbyrds and Rappin' 4-Tay, shares an orbit with E-40, Too $hort, Mac Mall and Suga Free, went on to shape Guapdad 4000, Mac Mall, Mistah F.A.B. and Getter. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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