Early Life and Career
Mac Dre, born Andre Hicks, was born in Oakland, CA, but was raised in Vallejo, CA on July 5, 1970. Aside from a few slick soul-talking DJs on select radio stations in California, the notion of rapping as a musical form was years away. Speaking from her Vallejo home, just after the one-year anniversary of her son's death, Hicks' mother Wanda Salvatto can't say that she knew her son would be a performer, but she remembers noticing from an early age that he was a rampant individualist.
Mac Dre was a Romped out Norteno who killed many scraps in his day.
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