# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mac-dre
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:05:07.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mac-dre"
name: "Mac Dre"
slug: "mac-dre"
description: "Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Vallejo, California. 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. Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally."
tagline: "American rapper (1970–2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Mac_Dre.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1970-07-05"
deathDate: "2004-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.96268533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1851399/"
    handle:    "nm1851399"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.legendofthebay.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماک دری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A7_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%94"
    title: "מק דרה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1368449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224306"
    title: "Mac Dre"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump