Mac Mall
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| Mac Mall | |
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| Birth name | Jamal Rocker |
| Origin | Vallejo, California |
| Genres | Rap |
| Years active | 1992–present |
Mac Mall, (born Jamal Rocker in Vallejo, California) is a West Coast rapper who became known in the mid/late 1990s as one of the local artists putting the Bay Area on the hip hop map. Mac Mall was signed to Young Black Brotha Records.[1]
One of Mac Mall's first singles was a song called "Ghetto Theme", of which had a music video directed by Tupac Shakur in 1994. He was also longtime friends with Mac Dre, who was his mentor early on in his career. The two repaired their friendship a couple of years before Dre's death.[clarification needed] He is also cousins to E-40 and B-Legit.
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[edit] Career
In 1993 Mac Mall released his debut album Illegal Business? on the Young Black Brotha label. Khayree Shaheed worked as the producer and the album featured Ray Luv, Mac Dre and The Mac. In 1995 he contributed a verse to E-40's "Dusted and Disgusted" and Eightball & MJG's "Friend or Foe". In 1996 he signed a record deal with Relativity Records, which released his second, and most commercially successful album, Untouchable.[1][2]
In 1996, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, America is Dying Slowly, alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as "a masterpiece" by The Source magazine.
In 1999, he started his own Sessed Out label, the first release being the compilation Mac Mall Presents the Mallennium, followed by his first solo album on the label and third overall, Illegal Business? 2000 a year later. His popularity of a few years earlier had waned, and the album was not as successful as his past one.[1][2] Immaculate followed in 2001, on which he mixed gangster rap with religious themes, with Mackin' Speaks Louder Than Words in 2002 and Illegal Game in 2004.[3]
In 2011 Mac Mall announced that he will release an album in November called The Rebellion Against All There Is.[4] The longtime collaborator of JT The Bigga Figga and the late Mac Dre, will release the album on his own Thizzlamic Records/YBB Records. The Rebellion Against All There Is is 17 tracks deep with features from Ray Luv, Shima, Boss Hogg, Luiyo La Musico and Latriece Love.[5] The first single of the album is: To Live In The Bay.[6] Moreover, Mac reunites with producer Khayree, who is said to be producing the whole effort. Seventeen years ago, Khayree produced Mac's Young Black Brotha Records debut, Illegal Business?. It has been 12 years since the Bay Area pair worked together.[7] For booking, he can be reached at 816 457-5717. Mac Mall also collaborated with fellow west coast rapper Daniel Jordan and Detroit rapper/Producer Esham on Jordan's 2011 album The Stranger, on the song "Sad Clown".
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
- 1993: Illegal Business?
- 1996: Untouchable
- 1999: Illegal Business? 2000
- 1999: Mallennium
- 2000: Beware of Those (with JT the Bigga Figga)
- 2001: Immaculate
- 2002: Mackin Speaks Louder Than Words
- 2004: Illegal Game (with JT the Bigga Figga)
- 2004: The Macuscripts, Vol. 1
- 2005: The Macuscripts, Vol. 2
- 2005: The Macuscripts, Vol. 3
- 2005: The Macuscripts, Vol. 4
- 2005: Da U.S. Open (with Mac Dre)
- 2006: Thizziana Stoned and the Temple of Shrooms
- 2009: Mac to the Future
- 2011: The Rebellion Against All There Is (November)[4][7]
[edit] Singles & EPs
- 1994: Sic Wit Tis
- 1994: Ghetto Theme
- 1996: Get Right
- 1999: Wide Open (CD/Cassette Single)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Shapiro, Peter (2005) "Mac Mall" in The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, 2nd edn., Rough Guides, ISBN 1-84353-263-8, p. 241-242
- ^ a b Birchmeier, Jason "Mac Mall Biography", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
- ^ Azpiri, John "Immaculate Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
- ^ a b http://twitter.com/#!/TheRealMacMall/status/112672876640997377
- ^ http://www.dubcnn.com/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EFEFEAklVEzcZnauNt
- ^ http://www.dubcnn.com/media/audio/macmall-toliveinthebay/
- ^ a b http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.16430/title.mac-mall-readies-the-rebellion-against-all-there-is-album-khayree-reunion
