Dont know if this was posted but RIP
Also Tuesday, a man was shot and killed while attending a slain rapper's memorial service.
Police responded to reports of gunshots at the site of a service for Andre Hicks, a 34-year-old rap artist known as Mac Dre who was shot to death a year ago in Kansas City, Kan.
About 150 people were at the event. Michael Clint Banks, 21, was shot and later died at an area hospital. No arrests had been made. Andre Hicks, a rap artist who went by the name of Mac Dre.
Hicks, 34, was killed in November 2004 in Kansas City when another vehicle pulled up beside the driver's side of the van he was in and began shooting. He had recorded more than a dozen albums, with the first released in 1989.
In the early 1990s, police began investigating Hicks and several associates who were suspected of being members of the Vallejo, Calif.'s Romper Room Gang, which was suspected in a string of bank and business robberies.
Hicks was eventually charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit bank robbery after he and several others were arrested while preparing to rob a bank.
He recorded raps mocking law enforcement, often naming specific officers, including the lead investigator of the bank robbery case.
His mother, Wanda Salvatto, said her son changed after being released from prison in 1996. He started a record label, Thizz Entertainment, and began writing songs with political themes.
"He wouldn't want his legacy to be that," Salvatto told the San Francisco Chronicle of her son's legal problems. "He got through that and had been living a healthy, clean life. ... He started in the streets, and he got himself out."
Hicks was the second California rap artist fatally shot in Kansas City last year. Ramone C. Davis, 31, of San Diego, died March 22 when a man tried to rob him of 10 pounds of marijuana, police said. A 27-year-old Kansas City man was charged in the case.
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