We started hanging out, selling dope, hustling, drinking, partying every Friday and Saturday night. However, just as Dres music career began to take off, Romper Rooms criminal activity began to increase, too: they went from selling drugs and other relatively low-level crimes to robbing pizza parlors and eventually banks. Police said there had been 29 robberies in under eight months. On November 2, Mac Minister and Corleone were indicted on two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Fat Tone and Cowboy. He has a lengthy criminal record in Missouri dating back to 1999, when he was first arrested for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school in Kansas City. One of those names was Papoose, who Detective Babcock remembered from his interview with Elijah Taylor, who said Papoose was the nickname of the person seen driving the stolen black Infiniti. Dre was just straight music. He doesnt recall hearing from Whitmill again. The crime scene spanned several hundred feet and it appeared to Detective Babcock to be a targeted hit. Detective Babcock said the investigation was hampered early by the reluctance of Hicks' travel companions to cooperate. Just like Antwine, Kansas City Police never arrested anyone for Smiths murder and theres no proof that its connected to Mac Dres shooting. His father was murdered when he was just a kid. Hed also been to the show at the Armory and remembered Mac Dre briefly inviting him on stage. He had become Fat Tone the Untouchable. According to Detective Everett Babcock, the lead investigator in the Mac Dre murder, Every shooting that happened [in Kansas City], you would get calls saying, Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it. His name always came up. But when it came to Dres murder, the rumor had legs. "If Andre were here, he'd be shaking his head.". According to Las Vegas police Detective Todd Hendrix, Watkins told his mother and girlfriend that Dow had promised him a meeting with Snoop Dogg. When questioned by the police, Hicks verbalized that he didn't leave the hotel, therefore did not know anything. He tells Detective Babcock that every time something like this happens, he gets blamed and that he isnt worried because he knows he did nothing wrong. Its a story that lives at the intersection of an extremely strange time in hip-hop history. In December of 2011, nearly seven years after Mac Dres death, a number of music publications ran a story about a person claiming to have information about the still unsolved killing. Dude was our Tupac, dude was our Biggie Smalls, says Mac Mall. When guys are incarcerated, they try to come up with these schemes and these stories to try and help themselves. Aside from Thibeaux and Taylor, over a dozen witnesses and informants reported seeing Calvert Papoose Antwine II driving the black Infiniti, with multiple witnesses saying that he even paid to tint the windows in the month before the murder. In an exclusive with The Daily Mail, LaTanya shared that she is homeless as she can't afford an apartment in California. Or did he clear him publicly, but perhaps not privately, amongst his comrades? Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, was later found burning in Richmond. Almost 10 years later, Antwine was murdered in an incident eerily similar to Mac Dres death. [9] It was during his time in prison that Hicks developed a "better appreciation for freedom, life, fun. Whitmill hoped that Mac Dre would actually perform instead of just appear, in order to make up losses accrued over the weekend. As you know, we were really depressed, really hurt and really traumatized by his death and everything. I saw a JT the bigga figga interview where he was saying he got mac dre daughter home +2 2 years ago '19 #182: WestPittsburg 15 K 3 K. kobraman said . Investigators soon discovered he was wanted in Las Vegas, where he later pleaded not guilty. This is where Mac Dres death becomes the catalyst for the shooting deaths of three people, with two others being given life in prison, effectively losing their lives as well. English. They were living in and out of hotels, offering Laurens services as Alana on Craigslist. He didnt recognize the driver, but assumed it was Papoose, because thats who Hill said hed sold the car too. The 34-year-old Vallejo resident, who made more than 20 underground albums, was killed Nov. 1, 2004, during a trip to Kansas City, where he was performing. Detectives were later told that just before the murder, Mac Dre had been waiting to meet up with Whitmill to receive his final payment but Whitmill never showed. It was being driven by a friend of his named Rick Hill. He was the center of his community; a guiding light that acted as a beacon for those closest to him. Dre was reportedly offered a deal to snitch, but he refused, telling the prosecutors to go fuck themselves. A separate informant told detectives on March 3, 2006 that he had heard about Antwine bragging about being paid to kill Mac Dre while incarcerated at CCA Leavenworth. Will we ever find out the truth about the murder of Mac Dre? Dre was ultimately sentenced to five years, and on March 12, 1993, he was sent to Lompoc federal prison. She thought hed take care of her. Hicks, who grew up in Vallejo's hardscrabble Country Club Crest neighborhood, first gained radio airplay as a teenager with a song titled, ironically, "2 Hard 4 the (expletive) Radio." The van then reportedly swerved across a grass median and four southbound lanes, crashing into a ditch. He was born in Oakland, California, on July 5, 1970. But on March 13, 2006, Antwine finally admitted to detectives that he had been in possession of the black Infiniti used in Mac Dres murder. It wasnt like he was the greatest rapper in town, but he would be getting into a lot of trouble with the law and so he had this sort of edgy thing with his music. The first time Antwine was mentioned in the documents was on December 10, 2004, when an unnamed person told police that their cousin stole the black Infiniti and then later sold it to Antwine in June or July, of 2004. However, the streets had their own opinion. For whatever reason, Mac Dre decided to stay in Kansas City that weekend and agreed to perform at a VIP Halloween party at the former Atlantic Star on 95th and Hillcrest on Sunday night. The police say that while Mac Dre was getting busy in a local motel with his lady friend, his accomplices were out casing a Fresno bank with plans of a robbery. Will we ever know why he was actually killed, and by who? He specializes in writing about prison and street culture. Whitmill called off the limousine service and called Davila to see where Mac Dre was. During the interview, they begged her to cooperate, even promising to help her get her life back on track, but she refused. Gray said he was inclined to look into the case because Mouton claimed to know Dow from growing up in San Franciscos Western Addition. He was once charged with the murder of 17-year-old Shameka Posey and her unborn child, but he was released 9 months later after charges were dropped due to uncooperating witnesses. Several months later, Watkins denied in a rap song that he had killed Hicks, but "the rumor was that he admitted it," Babcock said. Both Yukmouth and Keak Da Sneak left Kansas City the next day without being paid the full amount they were promised for performing. Dre got jumped into The Crest. It seems hard to believe that Mac Dre could end up lying dead in a muddy ditch for more than an hour after crashing in such a violent way. Before he left, Davila arranged to have Piersey meet up with Mac Dre in the morning with the white van to help with transportation to his first scheduled events: a radio appearance and a record signing at a local music store. In his first interview with detectives taken the day after the murder, Whitmill states that he lost money. According to reports, Tone had been shot around twenty times with an AK-47 and he laid slumped over in a blue 1992 Toyota Tercel. 2004 JT The Bigga Figga, Mac Mall & Ray Luv - Black Wall Street Compilation (V2) According to reports, Corleone had rented a house there, and hed been pimping 21-year-old Lee Danae Laursen, from Payson, Utah. J-Diggs was one of Dres closest friends. After dropping his first three albums, between 1989 and 1991, Dres career began to pick up the pace. In 1992, after a surge of local business and bank robberies began taking place by a crew referring to themselves as The Romper Room Gang, knowing Dres affiliation with the crew, police began dissecting his lyrics, hoping to find clues to the robberies. Along with dozens of bullet holes, police also found that the drivers side of the van had been rammed by the other vehicle during the shooting. When he [Mac Dre] came to The Crest for the first time, he just got addicted. Responding officers found shell casings for two separate weapons, multiple 7.62X39 Wolf shell casings, as well as two .45 Caliber spent shell casings. "She wouldn't stand for it," Hendrix said. It appeared as if the van had spun sideways, slid around and went off the road, crashing into a muddy ditch.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'passionweiss_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',108,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-medrectangle-3-0'); The drivers side of the van had been found with more than 30 bullet holes and a man was found shot to death nearby, having been thrown from the vehicle upon impact from the crash. ovldacch prvkov ochrany osobnch dajov, Informcie o vaom zariaden a internetovom pripojen, naprklad vaa IP adresa, Aktivity prehadvania a vyhadvania poas pouvania webovch strnok a aplikci Yahoo. Salvatto, Hicks' mother, said she doesn't know what to make of the killings and finds it hard to believe that they are connected to her son's death -- although she has noticed that "people like to be tied to the drama." His body was found May 23 in an unfinished housing development in Las Vegas. He said no, and then they both left. Dre became famous for his Thizz Face his version of the Stank Face. It has a double meaning that the music is so nasty, you gotta squint your face, says Davey D. According to Mac Mall, though Dre transformed his music from gangsta to fun, he could turn his gangsta on in a second if needed. [9] Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years. Oddly, the promoter had never been named. Curating the best of The Standards top-notch reporting, every Saturday. When the detective asked for a third time if Whitmill made any money on the first show, he once again changed his story, saying that he did pretty well, profiting nearly $6,000. They told me how they emulate Mac Dre with a Mac Dre skit to start their show., Nas Celebrates Career Longevity In Stylish '30' Video, Joey Bada$$ Gets Cozy With Rumored Girlfriend Serayah In 'Show Me' Video, Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg Drop New Song Following Boosie Badazz Smoking Challenge, Photograph courtesy of Mac Dre's Facebook page, For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion, ,Wanda Mac says. Born In 1970. Or maybe Tone was cleared by Diggs and Babcock because he didnt personally pull the trigger, but maybe he had something to do with it, such as send his goon, Cowboy? The registered owner: Lee Danae Laursen. He next called 41 Action News, the local television station, and told them he saw two black males between the ages of 20 and 30 ditch a black Infiniti behind his house, get out and then get into a faded blue van with tinted windows, before leaving. Over 1,200 documents from the Kansas City Police Department help shed light on one of hip-hops biggest mysteries. The two San Francisco men were indicted on murder charges early this month. Yukmouth would later tell VladTV that they did get paid, and he also minimized the issue. The Kansas City rapper, 24, was shot 20 times. She was completely snowed by Mathis [Corleone]. [2] 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. His album, Back in da Hood, was a result of these recordings, as were several guest verses he recorded for other rappers. A few feet away, 22-year-old Jermaine Akins -- a friend who was a fugitive from federal cocaine-selling charges -- also lay dead after being shot 13 times. On the first day, according to surveillance notes, the group cased a Bank of America in downtown Fresno by driving around the block in circles. Prosecutors used lyrics from the Young Black Brotha EP to help establish guilt in his case. Mac Dre: Legend of the Bay: Directed by Zachary Butler. For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion,Wanda Mac says. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), gave a tip to KCPD that helped solve the killing of four-year-old Erica Green. His problems were behind him when he was killed, Salvatto said, and he talked about mentoring teenagers to keep them flying straight. However, police pulled them over two hours later on a deserted stretch of road near Los Baos. Warren G, Wiz Khalifa, Tech N9ne, E-40, Berner, Too $hort, DJ Quik and Wanda Mac are among the people interviewed for Legend Of The Bay, whichdocuments the late rappers rise to fame and his influence with his compilations and the Thizzmovement. This is not a mere recanting of testimony, Robert DeMarco, an attorney for Dow, wrote in a court filing from late April. But when it came to Hicks' death, he said, the rumor had legs. And now, as I travel throughout the world, I see people recognize him for the flavor that he brought to hip-hop. "This is the greatest thing that has happened to him," Safire said, referring to the marketing and appeal of violence in gangsta rap. Be sure to follow Mike and The Cell Block on social media at @mikeenemigo and @thecellblockoffocial. The timing of it is uncanny.. Las Vegas police began investigating the murders and learned through Tones mother and girlfriend that he was there to meet Snoop Doggy way of a promise from Mac Minister. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. After the show, Dre, Keak Da Sneak, The Jacka, Messy Marv, Yukmouth, and other artists attended an after-party. Keak Da Sneak would later tell VladTV it was he and Mac Mall who had an altercation, but with each other,and they are both associates of Dre. The right side of the victims neck was up against a small tree.. At the same time, police were looking for the culprits in a string of robberies that targeted Vallejo pizza shops. No matter how long youve been a fan, there appears to be an endless supply of deep cuts and mixtape remixes to keep Bay Area rap historians satiated for decades to come. However, police still felt they had enough evidence to pull Mac Dre and friends over and charge the crew with conspiracy to commit bank robbery. She also said hed paid to get the windows tinted and assumed some girl had rented it for him. We pleaded with her to get out of there so she wouldnt get harmed.. For legal purposes, Im not sure what to say. A family member of the victim had tried calling KCPD with information, but Washington says that he was shrugged off. Maybe hes part of a larger group of people called The Romper Room Crew, but he aint robbing no banks. And Davey D isnt the only one who feels this way. Young claims she is homeless and has been living in her car amid financial trouble Credit: Latanya Young/Facebook. But it wasn't long before rumors started to fly about a rap war -- and "Fat Tone" Watkins. According to Mathis' arrest warrant, he later admitted to a friend that he had shot Watkins and Akins to avenge Hicks' killing. Antwine pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to death. The informant told Detective Babcock that Davila called Piersey, the driver of his van that was transporting Mac Dre, to find out their location for Whitmill, who then sent the shooters to attack the van, resulting in Mac Dres death. [10] Vallejo police began focusing on the Crest Neighborhood as a source of the crime. Associated With. I put that on everything. The Supreme Court refused to reinstate the death penalty. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. It took several years for Wanda Mac to deal with her son's passing and his status as a rising rapper who became more famous upon his death. Early on May 23, a security guard found the body of the 24-year-old Watkins in a housing development under construction in southwest Las Vegas. First Name Mac #5. Young has been working for DoorDash and Uber Eats as a delivery driver and fears losing her rental car as she has missed payments in the past. Before his death eight years ago, Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre frequently used the term "thizz" to describe the feeling of being high on ecstasy. Thats just what they do. The tipster declined and later saw both Antwine and the other man burning their clothes in an alleyway visible from their house around the time of the murder. A culture of distrust exists between the Black community in Kansas City and the majority white police force that has been tasked to protect them. 2020 Passion Of The Weiss, LLC. By May of 2005, just five months after Mac Dres murder, San Francisco promoter Andre Mac Minister Dow and Jason Corleone Mathis, a pimp, were trappin in Vegas. While still incarcerated, Mac Dre re-released Young Black Brotha as his debut album in 1993, featuring a number of songs with vocals recorded through a jail phone. Following Mac Dre's murder in 2004, Wanda Salvatto described how she and his daughter went into seclusion to mourn privately, but his increased popularity and fame made the healing process . The victim was lying on his back, with his left leg out straight and his right leg bent at the knee, Detective Babcock wrote in his crime scene report. That cant be true, Davila says. Mac Dre was sentenced to five years for refusing to accept a plea deal. He took the tip to KCPD and the case was solved not long after. However, that didnt stop Fat Tone from facing deadly consequences over the unfounded rumors and on May 23, 2005, seven months after Mac Dres killing, Fat Tone and his friend, Jermaine Aikens, were murdered in Las Vegas in what is widely believed to have been retaliation for Mac Dres death. After that night, the black Infiniti was gone. In January 2021, Davila told me that he wouldnt directly comment on his statement to Detective Babcock. Dow is now trying to have his convictions overturned, citing new evidence that a witness who testified against him fabricated his testimony. In a February 2021 interview, the Kansas City rapper Mr. Stinky said that he threw a show at the Atlantic Star the night before Mac Dres murder, which only added to the confusion later on. 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Donald Morrison read through thousands of pages of documents provided by the Kansas City Police Department to shed light on one of hip-hops biggest mysteries. He was "Fat Tone the Untouchable." The Disney+ spin-off first premiered back in 2019 . He wanted more from me. Typical fed tactics. At the time of Dres upbringing, The Crest was an area that suffered from poverty, gangs, violent crime, and other results of the crack epidemic. Soon, Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond, said Fairfield police Lt. Tony Shipp. All I know is that I thought they should have been able to go get that gun., Hed found success solving Kansas City cold cases in the past. She is also a single mother to four children and spoke to the Daily Mail about her . When he finally got a chance, he was able to do his own thing that he really wanted to. Only, Dre quit rapping about robbing, and instead began rapping about partying; he wanted to make music you could dance to. "I told him we expected retribution," Babcock recalled. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. Join. The complete story of how, why and who killed one of the greatest rappers of all time is laid out in more than 1,200 never before seen documents requested from the KCPD. "For a while up, for I'd say up to about. ZaRio Releases New Video She Dont Know Love. "[11] As gangster rap music consistently grew in popularity, law enforcement officials began examining the lyrics of local rappers to utilize as evidence in criminal matters. Ghetto Stardom 11. Hes a large, personable man with graying hair and has been with the department since 1995. He didnt hear about the murder until the next morning. According to Tones mother and girlfriend back home, he hit for several thousand dollars at the table, but he was irritated with Minister who he says kept asking him for cash and jewelry in exchange for the Snoop Dogg introduction. They claim Dre was the ringleader and used his lyrics in court to help support their case. The tragedy of this thing is that assuming [Laursen] was killed as retribution for being a witness, thats three people dead over a financial matter over an amount of money that wouldnt pay for a weekend in Vegas, says Babcock, the Kansas City detective who cleared Fat Tone of Mac Dres murder. I couldnt do it. Dozens of tips recorded by KCPD feature some variation of Fat Tone and Mac Dre getting into an altercation. But Davila spoke with more people than just jailhouse snitches and in 2008, he shared a version of events with Detective Babcock that could have solved this case more than a decade ago had he decided to follow through with his statement. When I was able to tell the families that their loved ones killer had been brought to justice. Mac Dre was still lying in the mud, covered only with a tarp, when KCPD Detective Everett Babcock arrived at the scene the next morning. Because a city this offbeat deserves a newsletter with some On March 26, 1992, with the assistance of a wired informant, VPD and federal authorities followed Dre, along with rappers and Romper Room members Simon Kilo Curt Curtis and Jamal J-Diggs Diggs to Fresno, where Dre had recently performed with rapper Ice Cube. It was an exceptionally violent scene. Then, according to Davila, the driver of the infiniti side-swiped the van. He later appealed his sentence, saying that prosecutors unfairly argued that putting him to death would be cheaper to taxpayers than housing him on death row. "He was proud he was a suspect.". Along with his other admissions, Mouton wrote in a sworn declaration that hes actually from Hunters Pointa district on the other side of San Francisco. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Fat Tones reputation as a gangster was notorious. For doing so, however, Dres respect and legacy as a real one only grew. "Mac Dre"s been dead for eight years, but he has a mother left, nieces left, a daughter," she said. Cowboy had been shot about 13 times by the same gun and laid a few feet from the car. Thats a tip I took from him.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_0',157,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0'); Even if its a controversial statement outside of the Bay Area, Mac Dre belongs on top five greatest MC lists. Although he denies it, two jailhouse snitches claim he asked them to vouch for a version of events that doesnt include his phone calls with Whitmill. "The tragedy of the whole thing is that, assuming (the woman killed in Fairfield) was killed as retribution for being a witness, that's three people dead over a financial matter over an amount of money that wouldn't pay for a weekend in Vegas," said Babcock, who would not elaborate on the alleged dispute except to say that Watkins was not a suspect in Hicks' death. He said, Im watching myself. Several months later, Tone released a song denying anything to do with Dres murder, but according to Babcock, The rumor was that he had admitted it. In the end, Babcock, who claims Dre was shot over a financial dispute, cleared Fat Tone for the murder. 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