BET’s popular show titled American Gangster is coming back soon. According to reports DJ Vlad is scheduled to narrate a episode based on Mac Dre. “Mac Dre went on one of the robberies cause he wanted to see a girl in Fresno and he stayed in a hotel there. He ended up getting hit with a conspiracy charge because he refused to rat on his friends and ends up doing years,” DJ Vlad Said. “Thizz Entertainment provided a lot of the footage. With American Gangster, the main thing is access and getting people to talk about what had happened. It’s pretty serious subject matter.”
Mac Dre, born Andre Hicks, was a Bay Area rapper who is considered the creator of the Hyphy and Thizz style’s of music. The rapper put out a controversial compilation titled The Rompilation, which featured a number of Bay Area rappers. A track on the album led to Mac Dre’s arrest, after the Vallejo Police Department connected lyrics in one of the songs to a string of credit union robberies. According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, The Romper Room Gang was also responsible for a series of pizza parlor robberies, narcotics sales, vehicle theft, drive-by shootings and other violent acts. They hit a total of 8 different credit unions and were suspected in 27 more. The dollar loss from the 35 robberies was in excess of $1.4 million dollars. Mac Dre and 53 other members of The Romper Room Gang were eventually arrested and Mac Dre himself served six years on a conspiracy to commit bank robbery charge.
The episode is being filmed and will appear with the new season of American Gangster this November…
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