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Yo what's good evil streets family you know the vibes we sliding back through with another episode big shout to all the day ones holding memberships and everybody subscribed y'all the backbone of this whole operation the reason we still growing and eating anybody trying to push their music brand or whatever business shoot that email to evil streets media at gmail.com and we could chop it up make moves happen salute to everybody sending them cash app blessings too and if you trying to throw support to the channel hit evil streets tv on cash app every dollar get reinvested right back into this thing a'ight y'all let's dive into this street chronicle the rise and fall of MACDRAE Thiz Entertainment and MACDRAE San Francisco California MACDRAE Thiz Entertainment implicated an ecstasy ring that's what them BET headlines was screaming back in 2012 and just like that the alphabet boys ran down on a whole bay area empire word to the indictment paperwork over 25 heads connected to Thiz Entertainment the imprint MACDRAE built brick by brick from nothing got rounded up them agents confiscated damn near 45,000 ecstasy tablets four pounds of that hard a half pound of dope and around 200k in what the feds labeled dirty cash out in the trenches though that just proved MACDRAE and his peoples was really in motion this is another example of the partnership that exists between the DEA and the Vallejo PD to keep our community safe and cut down on the violence tied to the drug game that's what Vallejo police chief Robert Nitchalini said clearly gassed up about being part of the task force that collapsed a whole enterprise the US Attorney for the Eastern District of California got props too for running point on the prosecution that DEA led investigation exposed a whole network of Crestside hustlers out in Vallejo pushing product not just on the local tip but stretching it cross state lines for bigger profits and check it some of them dudes moving that work were also spitters repping the Thiz brand but look Thiz wasn't just some fabricated industry label it grew out the mud straight from the infamous romper room gang a clique known throughout Vallejo for putting in real pain don't get it twisted by the name it might've came from some kids TV show but the romper room gang wasn't on no nursery rhyme energy they was into everything robberies bodies whatever brought them dollars from the late 80s into the 90s they controlled it but eventually the Vallejo police and them federal agencies linked up and dropped the hammer most of the squad caught federal cases and pulled long stretches behind that lifestyle Thiz entertainment officially launched in 99 promoting Bay Area artists mostly from the Crest the name itself Thiz was hood terminology for MDMA better known as ecstasy the label wasn't trying to hide what it represented either a lot of their records straight up celebrated popping and flipping Thiz pills this was way before Molly became mainstream in hip hop while most labels were cappin these cats were really living what they rhymed according to the complaint the Thiz crew was dropping albums and distributing weight simultaneously real double hustle Detective Brad Rose from the Sack Sheriff's office said they were rappers first but them narcotics were paying serious the feds claim they were trafficking ecstasy powder hard dope oxy and tree across state lines shipments landed everywhere Oklahoma City Jamaica Queens ATL Milwaukee the romper room legacy had gone nationwide this whole saga right here kicks off a little crazy said extreate general Shakim Bio when Gucci first put me on to this MAC drake cat he was excited Gucci a Queens native from South Jamaica had a gift for hyping situations up always moving calculated like most dudes out of Queens he thought he had all the angles mapped out till he slipped up on his way back from Miami he forgot he had an HK 10mm in his luggage TSA scanned it and boom the feds caught the scent later one of his packages got intercepted too Gucci didn't even get to touch it but Uncle Sam touched him he caught a 20 piece for his troubles he was in USP Lompock when it was still MAC security said Shakim that facility was wild back then ain't no games being played Gucci was chilling telling Shakim about this San Francisco dude with crazy bars Shakim wasn't paying it no mind till Gucci mentioned that the legendary prince from the supreme team who was also locked in Lompock cosigned MAC drake as superficial that hit different next thing you know MAC drake had a track featured on black hand entertainment's black gangster soundtrack the same one tied to Donald Goyne's story that supreme was pushing before the feds got him again MAC drake real name Andre Lewis Hicks was born in Oakland on July 5th 1970 but slid over to Vallejo in the late 90s making the country club crest his stomping grounds drake got into rap in the early 80s he started off as MC drake in 84 but he wasn't feeling that whole East Coast sounding name so by 85 he switched it to MAC drake when he dropped too hard for the fn radio he wasn't just dropping a track he was sending a message this was his lane his style his turf MAC drake stayed 10 toes down as an independent artist no big labels no national radio just grind too short even said drake was just made to be independent his first label romp records was a salute to the romper room crew he ran with hip hop imitating life in real time while drake kept it music his homies man they stayed active my crew was like any crew said Jay digs one of the homies came with a lick a sweet inside job at a pizza spot and we hit it first one worked so we kept it pushing that was the life rap on wax hustling the streets MAC drake wasn't playing no character he was the game the romper room pizza parlor licks spree that ran wild through the bay ended up getting spotlighted on a 1992 episode of unsolved mysteries at first the young boys were hitting mom and pop pizza joints but that wasn't enough so they leveled up and started hitting banks they were from that real life school of hard knocks and in their world progress meant bigger scores now MAC drake yeah he did his dirt in the street selling work but the romper room kept him off them heists when them pizza moves were really bringing in stacks Dre had already dropped his single so we told him straight up fallback said Jay dig you're the rapper bro stay out the mix let us handle this street biz you just get us in the game off that rap ish the crew put that robbery money to use funneling thousands into Dre's studio grind buying mics beat machines keyboards whatever he needed to boss up with the music but even though they kept Dre out the mix the boys and blues still had eyes on him NPR said some of Dre's tracks on his romp records label made the feds feel like he was dropping confessionals one track even painted a credit union stick up like a movie scene Dre was taking reality rap to new levels where NWA yelled F the police Dre got personal name dropping the detective who was pressing him he came raw on punk police spitting punk police with a one track mind man you can't even find who's been robbing you blind with gangster rap booming and Dre wiling on wax the cops started studying lyrics like it was homework trying to turn bars into evidence they were bragging about it on a rap CD said lieutenant Joanne West at a Vallejo pd presser it's kind of brazen like they thought they couldn't be touched but that's hip hop loud raw and unfiltered then on March 26 1992 at just 21 Mack Dre got hemmed up by the feds along with Fresno and Vallejo pd they said him and the squad scoped out a bank to hit but changed their mind when they spotted a news van in the lot when questioned Dre kept it G and said he didn't know anything still they hit him with conspiracy to commit bank robbery even though no bank ever got touched feds play foul and if you're in the picture you're guilty by proximity Dres people said he wasn't involved but the system didn't care his bars and his homies was enough we always been a hood where we hold each other down we from a city that don't got much said Mac mall Vallejo rapper and Dres homie even words like cutthroat that's love where we from Mack Dre got hit with five years fed time because he wouldn't fold refused the plea refused to snitch took it to trial got convicted but that bid lit a fire he started writing more recording from inside and building his plan with his moms and through them prison walls word traveled Gucci caught wind of the name the legend was just getting started Mac Dre knocked out four years on that fed time and came out with a whole new lens on life he started seeing the little things in the free world different like fun isn't just wiling out or running the streets after touching down from USP Lompock Dre made up his mind he was done with the street life he was gonna pour everything into the music and that's exactly what he did when he hit the bricks in 96 Dre went straight to work building Thiz Entertainment from the ground up he was grinding independent dropping albums constantly networking with Bay Area talent putting that whole region on the map with his sound and his energy nobody could touch his work rate he was hungry blessed and focused all at the same time by the early 2000s Mac Dre had become a legend in the Bay Area and beyond his independent hustle inspired a whole generation of rappers to do it themselves his music was bumping everywhere from the streets to the clubs and every Vallejo cat was repping that Thiz brand hard but with success came unwanted attention the feds never stopped watching and when they finally moved in 2012 it was brutal over 25 people locked up including Mac Dre himself the empire that took so long to build came crashing down in one day but yo here's the thing about Mac Dre's legacy man it can't be erased can't be locked up can't be taken away what he did for independent hip hop what he did for the Bay Area what he did for culture is permanent his music still bumping harder than ever before his story still inspiring cats to do their own thing to build their own empires from nothing Mac Dre showed the world that you don't need a major label deal to change the game to feed your family to build something that lasts forever that's the realest lesson right there that's why we still talking about him why his name still rings bells from coast to coast the rise and fall of Mac Dre is a testament to the power of passion persistence and pride even when the system came down heavy even when they took away his freedom they couldn't take away what he created the blueprint he left behind the movement he started that's immortal that's eternal and that's what separates Mac Dre from the rest he didn't just rap about the struggle he lived it documented it and made millions of people feel it through his art Mac Dre rest in power forever a legend a pioneer and the realest independent artist this game ever seen