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 arrested in the killing of a pregnant woman, although the charges were dropped. "She was completely snowed by Mathis. But Dre had that gangster side, too. Born in Oakland, CA #34. The informant said hed never heard Antwine say it himself but that hed heard his friends, including a man named Taron T-Baby Smith, talking about it. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a plea deal for the conspiracy charge. Dre began rapping as a teen in 1984, some say under the name MC Dre, before changing it to Mac Dre in 1985 to represent the player and pimp flavor of his neighborhood, rather than the east coast style of MC. According to fellow Crest-Sider and Dre associate Mac Mall, it all started with Michael Robinson. Michael The Mac Robinson, a rapper with a pimp persona, who both Mac Dre and Mac Malls names pay honor to, was one of the Crests first musical successes who provided the mold for the younger kids in the neighborhood before he was ultimately shot and killed in 1991. In January 2021, Davila told me that he wouldnt directly comment on his statement to Detective Babcock. 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. While driving back to Vallejo, the car was surrounded by the FBI, Fresno, and Vallejo police. Based on all my investigations, it seemed to suggest that the statement that Davila gave Detective Babcock was only partially true. ". 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. Prosecutors charged Diggs and Curt with attempted bank robbery and Dre with conspiracy. Taylor then told detectives a story that they arent certain they believe. Mac Dre left only 30 minutes after hed arrived and by the end, Robinson had regretted hosting the event. Davila brought Mac Dre to his hotel, where they hung out and listened to music. Dre is the king of The Bay.. 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. Mohave 13. Six months later, police say, a San Francisco rap promoter nicknamed "Mac Minister" and a friend avenged Hicks in Las Vegas by firing 33 assault-rifle rounds into two Kansas City men -- including Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins. "Mac Dre"s been dead for eight years, but he has a mother left, nieces left, a daughter," she said. Dre was reportedly offered a deal to snitch, but he refused, telling the prosecutors to go fuck themselves. Detectives spoke with dozens of witnesses and suspects over the years; they spent an untold amount of money and manpower to solve this case and yet theyve never even released a suspect name. In January 2021, DJ Fresh said he doesnt remember Whitmill at all and that he normally doesnt remember people if he only worked with them one time. However, police pulled them over two hours later on a deserted stretch of road near Los Baos. He said that one day after July, the black Infiniti pulled up alongside him as he walked down the street, near 52nd and Paseo, in Kansas City. San Francisco police records show his true name is Antoine Cantrell. Hes worked in the East Patrol Division, the Domestic Violence Unit, the Homicide Unit, the Mounted Patrol, the Generalist Squad and the Assault Squad, where hes currently a supervisor. Friends with Mac Dre, Davila had been the one entrusted to pick him up from the airport when he arrived in Kansas City. They pulled up early so they could participate in typical Vegas activities, like girls and gambling. Young shared that as a result of this she is forced to live in her car . In exchange for his testimony, he was let out a few weeks after Mr. Dows trial, said Gray, managing attorney of a San Francisco DA unit that investigates police shootings and other use-of-force incidents, called the Independent Investigations Bureau. He hoped to sell enough tickets to double his money in a single night. Ive really owned Thizz Entertainment and that business. "We relive the death all over again." . The Disney+ spin-off first premiered back in 2019 . Hicks was vocal about the actions he saw being taken by the police and incorporated their aggressive surveillance of residents into his music. They claim Dre was the ringleader and used his lyrics in court to help support their case. In any case, Yukmouth and Keak would later admit to Vlad that the atmosphere in Kansas City was tense.. Detective Babcock learned that the black Infiniti had been stolen out of a garage in Belton, Missouri the previous July. The eldest daughter of hip-hop producer Dr. Dre recently revealed in an interview with Daily Mail that she has been living out of a rented SUV, working as a Door Dash driver, while her children. He even rented a limousine to transport Mac Dre to and from the Atlantic Star. Police investigators say Hicks, 34, was shot in a financial dispute, but the rumor mill said something sexier: that a West-Midwest rap war had flared and that a notorious Kansas City rapper dubbed "Fat Tone" had taken out Hicks. Dre got jumped into The Crest. Detective Babcock went to The Sheraton to search the room belonging to Mac Dre. She knew Antwine and said hed given her rides in the black Infiniti in the month before Mac Dres murder. When Detectives first spoke with Davila, he maintained that he saw Mac Dre at the Atlantic Star on Halloween night, but left early to take his kids trick or treating. Now a resurfaced 2010 interview with Dre's baby mama Lisa Johnson, 53 . The news station contacted Kansas City police and the car was located by 6 p.m., about 15 hours after the shooting took place, and it, too, was totaled. In March 2014, local news reported that Antwine had been found dead in an upside down SUV riddled with bullets. After he was shot and wounded in 2003, when he was 22, his next album cover showed him sitting up in a hospital gurney flashing a middle finger. he specializes in writing about prison, street crime, and how-o books for prisoners and hustlers. Photos courtesy of Kansas City Police Department / Patrick Johnson. Subscribe to the newsletter to get the latest updates! [16] At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions. Mac Dre and Suga Wolf recorded a song with him for his 2002 album, Only in Killa City, titled Cut Throatz. They were friends and they stayed in touch enough for Fat Tone to know that Mac Dre was coming to town for Halloween weekend. Laursen, who came from the small town of Payson near Provo, Utah, might have been turning tricks for Mathis, police said. The source of the story was Alonzo Washington, a Kansas City activist who has led numerous anti stop snitching campaigns, including one he did after Mac Dres murder, titled Hip to give Tips., I received a tip about a gun that was connected to the murder of Mac Dre, Washington tells me in August 2020. (Despite multiple attempts to reach out, Piersey could not be found for comment). [15] The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History. I told him we expected retribution, Babcock says. In March 2006, Bell told detectives that Antwine and Smith had been bragging about the murder, saying that Smith had told him that hed been paid $10,000 to perform the hit. However, in a brief phone interview from January 25, 2021, Detective Babcock said that the media department within the KCPD wouldnt approve detectives to speak publicly about the case. But Whitmill was a first-time promoter, and likely might not have known the amount of organization it takes to plan an event of this magnitude. Fat Tone had a reputation, says Kansas City activist Alonzo Washington. Young, 38, said in an interview with the Daily Mail published on August 4 that she's living out of an SUV rental in Tarzana, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He wanted more from me. She is also a single mother to four children and spoke to the Daily Mail about her . A San Francisco rapper imprisoned for killing two men in retaliation for the slaying of hip-hop legend Mac Dre is seeking his release based on new evidence uncovered by the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin. His San Francisco attorney, Eric Safire, says his client isn't capable of murder but admits that Dow is capable of basking in the negative publicity. Hill would later ditch the Infiniti, telling Taylor that he sold it to a man named Papoose.. 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. Motherfuckers would try to beat him up because they were jealous of him. A notorious ecstasy enthusiast, Dre began rapping about the drug and coined the term thizz, a slang word for ecstasy, and he pioneered the hyphy movement. A day later, a white 2000 Pontiac Sunfire convertible was found burning in Vallejo. I never discussed anything with anybody at Leavenworth. 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. The Clark County District Attorneys Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. So listening to that, it kind of opened up my eyes that maybe I do need to do this. Fair use is ause permitted by copyright statutethat might otherwise be infringing.Full Live https://youtu.be/oJTx9wOcFuUfull video Intro / Outro Song https://m.soundcloud.com/buttahfreshctmg/say-hoeFor Promo Contact me on Ig or my Email Buttahfresh@yahoo.com FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM @WE_IZ_GANGPost daily Be Sure To Hit The like button COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE 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. It didnt take long for the streets to start talking, and they were saying a notorious Kansas City gangsta was behind the murder of the Bay boss: Fat Tone. 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. The victims left arm was slightly across his body and his right arm was out straight, he wrote. Still, as his driver moved through Kansas City in the dark a year ago, a stolen black Infiniti G36 pulled alongside and someone opened fire, police said. Later that night, Dre, Diggs, and Curt played dice in their motel room and hung out with girls. The KCPD has declined to comment on the documents. To my knowledge MD was never married, but he definitely has a daughter; that implies that he was likely close to the daughter's mom at one point in his life, however, I can't find anything about her mom with a quick Google search, and we can't really be sure how close they really were - really not unheard of for famous or rising (in MD's case) Antwine is no stranger to the legal system himself. His image as a violent gangster helped him sell records, which is ironic, considering that music was probably one of the few hustles helping Fat Tone escape a life of crime. "If Andre were here, he'd be shaking his head.". There is a mural of Mac Dre in the Ivy Hill section of Oakland, California, the place where he was born on July 5, 1970. His body was found May 23 in an unfinished housing development in Las Vegas. Davila is hispanic, with brown eyes and black hair. That appeared to be a type error, wrote KCPD Detective Mike Jones in an investigative report dated November 4, 2004. I did seen Mac Dre on the turn knock out a cat three times his size. [2] In October of 2004, a Kansas City man named Damon Whitmill hoped to capitalize on Mac Dres popularity by bankrolling and promoting a rap show at what was then the Kansas City National Guard Armory. On November 4, just two days after Minister and Corleone were indicted, Fairfield police responded to reports of gunfire in a quiet neighborhood. Dow is now trying to have his convictions overturned, citing new evidence that a witness who testified against him fabricated his testimony. 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