MUSIC “A mack is different from a pimp,” Mac Mall tells me. “A pimp would starve without a woman. But a mack is a master of creativity. He can manipulate any situation.”
As a “third-generation mack” from Vallejo’s notorious Crestside hood, Mac Mall knows whereof he speaks. “Mack” is an age-old term in the Bay, lending itself to the region’s premier blaxploitation film, The Mack (1973). Yet, Mall reveals, “There ain’t gonna be anymore rappers named ‘Mac’ out of the Crest” because the title has accrued too much tragedy. The very first rapper in both the Crest and Vallejo itself was the Mac, Michael Robinson, who was murdered in a case of mistaken identity in 1990. But the immediate catalyst for the name’s retirement was the murder of André Hicks, a.k.a. Mac Dre, who was gunned down Nov. 1, 2004 in Kansas City.
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According to Mistah F.A.B., whose breakthrough disc Son of a Pimp (2005) came out on Thizz, Snoop himself is fan.
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