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. In 1992, after a surge of local business and bank robberies began taking place by a crew referring to themselves as The Romper Room Gang, knowing Dres affiliation with the crew, police began dissecting his lyrics, hoping to find clues to the robberies. Mac Minister was a suspect in the murder of a call girl from Utah named Lee Danae Laurson. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. Prosecutors used lyrics from the Young Black Brotha EP to help establish guilt in his case. It wasnt like he was the greatest rapper in town, but he would be getting into a lot of trouble with the law and so he had this sort of edgy thing with his music. In the years after Mac Dres murder, Detective Babcock began to hear rumors that Damon Whitmill, the promoter who paid to fly Mac Dre to Kansas City, might have also paid to have him murdered. 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. 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. It was also Whitmill who scheduled the club appearances and shows for the weekend. Or did he clear him publicly, but perhaps not privately, amongst his comrades? Calvary Baptist Church. If Andre was alive he would definitely be capitalizing and making as much money as he could.. She is also a single mother to four children and spoke to the Daily Mail about her . Friends with Mac Dre, Davila had been the one entrusted to pick him up from the airport when he arrived in Kansas City. They told me how they emulate Mac Dre with a Mac Dre skit to start their show., Nas Celebrates Career Longevity In Stylish '30' Video, Joey Bada$$ Gets Cozy With Rumored Girlfriend Serayah In 'Show Me' Video, Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg Drop New Song Following Boosie Badazz Smoking Challenge, Photograph courtesy of Mac Dre's Facebook page, For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion, ,Wanda Mac says. He had been performing in the city, and he and other Bay Area rappers enjoyed second-home popularity there. It was the first and last time Whitmill would ever attempt to throw a concert and he was able to book three of the Bay Areas biggest acts for a show on Halloween weekend: Yukmouth, Keak Da Sneak, and Mac Dre. San Francisco police records show his true name is Antoine Cantrell. 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. One of the largest contributors to this was his use of the word thizz and his embracement of the drug in his music, where he began rapping about it as common as most rappers rap about smoking blunts. Dre began rapping as a teen in 1984, some say under the name MC Dre, before changing it to Mac Dre in 1985 to represent the player and pimp flavor of his neighborhood, rather than the east coast style of MC. According to fellow Crest-Sider and Dre associate Mac Mall, it all started with Michael Robinson. Michael The Mac Robinson, a rapper with a pimp persona, who both Mac Dre and Mac Malls names pay honor to, was one of the Crests first musical successes who provided the mold for the younger kids in the neighborhood before he was ultimately shot and killed in 1991. Since he cleared Tone of Dres murder, shouldnt we? The flip side of that was how bad you would feel when you couldnt get a case solved and you would have to tell the victims family that there was nothing new. I did seen Mac Dre on the turn knock out a cat three times his size. Detective Babcock said the investigation was hampered early by the reluctance of Hicks' travel companions to cooperate. Taron T-Baby Smith was shot and killed on the morning of June 12, 2010. Mr. Stinky said this incident helped lend credence to the numerous rumors that Fat Tone had gotten into a confrontation with Mac Dre that weekend, even though he says it never happened. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a plea deal for the conspiracy charge. He said that Davila had approached him for help writing a letter to detectives. According to reports, Corleone had rented a house there, and hed been pimping 21-year-old Lee Danae Laursen, from Payson, Utah. We pleaded with her to get out of there so she wouldn't be harmed.". According to Las Vegas police Detective Todd Hendrix, Watkins told his mother and girlfriend that Dow had promised him a meeting with Snoop Dogg. Hed also been to the show at the Armory and remembered Mac Dre briefly inviting him on stage. Po kliknut na tlaidlo Spravova nastavenia zskate alie informcie a mete spravova svoje voby. "[6] 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. 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 he finally got a chance, he was able to do his own thing that he really wanted to. Only, Dre quit rapping about robbing, and instead began rapping about partying; he wanted to make music you could dance to. Hes a large, personable man with graying hair and has been with the department since 1995. Mouton testified under an alias, according to Gray. Here are the main Damu & Crips in Carson/Barson. Dre made numerous references to The Romper Room, and in one song he rapped about a harrowing credit union robbery. He went through a lot.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-2','ezslot_3',156,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-2-0'); Mac Dres name pays homage to another one of Vallejos musical legends, Michael The Mac Robinson, who was only able to release two EPs under Strictly Business Records, before being shot to death in 1991. Corleone and Laursen had evidently gone back to the Bay Area. (Despite multiple attempts to reach out, Piersey could not be found for comment). The 21-year-old prostitute - a possible witness to the killings of Watkins and Akins was shot and killed Nov. 4 in Fairfield. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. In 2003, when Fat Tone was 22, he was shot while riding in a car through the Westport area of Kansas City with, interestingly, Dre associates Messy Marv and Killa Tay. He was once charged with the murder of 17-year-old Shameka Posey and her unborn child, but he was released 9 months later after charges were dropped due to uncooperating witnesses. Hicks claimed he was rapping about attempts to "wake up the neighbors. Mac Dre was one of the first rappers unfairly targeted and prosecuted for crimes they never committed. Little youngsters between the age of fourteen and twenty-one. Life So Far 17. And I delivered it to the police. Mac Dre Fans Also Viewed . I think Dre for five years was very hungry and had a lot to think about. Whitmill told Detective Babcock that Mac Dre didnt show up at the Armory until 30 minutes after he was supposed to finish performing, causing Whitmill to have to rent the venue for another hour. During the past few months, Minister had befriended Fat Tone, who, by now, J-Diggs had publicly cleared in the murder of Mac Dre, promising to help him with his rap career by introducing him to various rappers and other VIPs in the rap game. 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. A dark-colored SUV was seen speeding away. There was fourteen of us, remembers Romper Room member and Dre collaborator Coolio Daundadogg. Meanwhile, another car a white Pontiac Sunbird had been seen speeding from the scene. Young claims she is homeless and has been living in her car amid financial trouble Credit: Latanya Young/Facebook. [19], 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. I think someones got it misconstrued. Hicks' funeral took place on November 9, 2004, at the Mt. [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. The Mandalorian, March 1. Mac Dre and three friends flew from Sacramento to Kansas City, with a quick layover at LAX, on October 27, 2004. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. At around 2:30 a.m, the white van was traveling northbound on Highway 71 just south of 75th street, when a dark sedan pulled along the drivers side of the van and unloaded upwards of 30 bullets from two seperate guns: an automatic rifle and a .45 pistol. Damon Whitmill could not be reached for comment. [15] The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History. He was 34. Know Your City! He would have easily adapted to the age of social media. Suspecting the crew, police kept them under surveillance. A day later, a white 2000 Pontiac Sunfire convertible was found burning in Vallejo. On May 23, in the early morning hours, Minister, Fat Tone and Cowboy left the MGM, where Tone and Cowboy had been staying. I lived that case for I dont know how many years.. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Smith was also mentioned as having been seen with Antwine in the black Infiniti numerous times in the months leading up to the murder. Will we ever find out the truth about the murder of Mac Dre? Diggs goes into some detail about the story on his song Rompaugraphy, and his interviews confirm he and his crew were in Kansas City head-hunting after Dres murder. 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