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Andre Louis Hicks better known by his stage name Dre, was an Americanrapper and record producer based in Vallejo, California. He was instrumentalin the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement on the Bay Area hip-hopscene that emerged in the early 2000s. Hicks fueled its popularity intomainstream by releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and baselines thatinspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent recordlabel, Thizz Entertainmrnt, Mac Dre recorded dozens of albums and gavelocal aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums.Mac Dre served time after he was sentenced to five years in federalprison for refusing to implicate his friends in a robbery that did not occur.During this time, he recorded an album over the Fresno County Jail inmatetelephone which made him want to make music that was easy to danceto. The Oakland-born rapper and producer was famous for coining thephrase “feeling myself” and introducing the world to the “thizzle” dance.It has been 12 years since M