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==Musical career==
==Musical career==
Andre Adams attended the [[Galileo Academy of Science and Technology]] but dropped out; he claims to have had a D average.<ref name="sfweekly">{{cite news|last=Amter|first=Charlie|title=Money, Power, Day Care|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-12-03/music/money-power-day-care/print|work=SF Weekly|date=2003-12-03|accessdate=2008-05-19}}</ref> He released two albums under the stage name Dre Dog: ''[[The New Jim Jones]]'' in 1993 and ''[[I Hate You With a Passion]]'' in 1995. ''I Hate You With a Passion'' peaked at #79 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers chart. In 1997, Adams changed his stage name to Andre Nickatina, and released the albums: ''Cocaine Raps'' under his own label, Filmoe Coleman Records and ''Raven in My Eyes'', which was released under the Bay Area Independent Rap Label Dogday Records.<ref name="all music"/> Unlike his albums released under the name Dre Dog, ''Cocaine Raps'' had deeper production values [First Collaborations with Producer Nick Peace]. The album ''Raven in My Eyes'' was noted for its production quality and songs that combine "[[music sequencer|sequencers]] and keyboards that buzz and whine" with live instrumentation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Inoue|first=Todd S.|title=Andre Nickatina - Raven in My Eyes|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.08.98/audiofile-9801.html|work=Metroactive|date=1998-01-08|accessdate=2008-05-19}}</ref> That year, he founded his own record label, Filmoe Coleman Records. Nickatina explained in an interview with ''Strivin'' magazine that his name change was "for the better" and that he raps because he feels that he is talented enough to do so but not for the sake of popularity.<ref name="strivin">{{cite web|author=Doxx|title=Classic Interview - Andre Nickatina (formerly Dre Dog)|url=http://strivin.com/2005/08/19/classic-interview-andre-nickatina-formerly-dre-dog/|work=Strivin|date=2005-08-19|accessdate=2008-05-31}}</ref>
F U C K T H E N I G G E R S

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Soon afterwards, his following three albums, ''Tears of a Clown'' (1999), ''Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 2'', The Unreleased [Sold Exclusively at shows and appreances] and ''These R the Tales'' (the latter three in 2000) gained him notoriety in the West Coast underground rap scene.<ref name="all music">{{cite web|last=Gabriel|first=Robert|title=Andre Nickatina - Biography|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p296557|pure_url=yes}}|work=Allmusic|year=2003|accessdate=2008-05-19}}</ref> Mosi Reeves of the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' noted Nickatina's popularity at a CD release party for another underground Bay Area rapper/producer, Smoov-E; Reeves called Nickatina "a quick-witted rapper who spits as hard as [[Kurupt]] does".<ref>{{cite web|last=Reeves|first=Mossi|title=Smoov-E CD-release party, with Andre Nickatina, First Degree the D.E., and Be Gee|url=http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_local_live.html|work=San Francisco Bay Guardian|date=2002-09-18|accessdate=2008-05-31}}</ref> A combo CD/movie project, ''Conversation with a Devil'', followed in 2003.<ref name="all music"/> Lindsay Welnick, a music critic for ''[[SF Weekly]]'', regarded the film as a knockoff of the classic gangster movie [[Scarface (1932 film)|''Scarface'']].<ref name="sfweekly"/> Nate Denver for the ''SF Bay Guardian'' praised the album, though.<ref>{{cite web|last=Denver|first=Nate|title=Local Grooves - Conversation with a Devil: Cocaine Raps No. 3 (Fillmoe Coleman)|url=http://www.sfbg.com/38/05/x_local_grooves.html|work=San Francisco Bay Guardian|date=2003-10-22|accessdate=2008-05-31}}</ref> Another album, ''The Gift'' followed in 2005, when the newspaper ''SF Weekly'' named Nickatina the "Best Local Hip Hop Legend" of that year. In 2005, Nickatina also won the first annual Bay Area Raps Awards for Best Underground Artist. In 2008, he released ''[[A Tale of Two Andres]]'' with [[Mac Dre]]. Although they released only two songs together, they were close friends and the album was a tribute to his memory.<ref name="legend">{{cite news|title=Best Local Hip Hop Legend (2005) - Andre Nickatina|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/bestof/2005/award/best-local-hip-hop-legend-66923/|year=2005|accessdate=January 14, 2011}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
!rowspan="2" align="center"|Year
!rowspan="2" align="left"|Title
!colspan="2" align="center"|Chart Positions<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r216147|pure_url=yes}}|title=I Hate You with a Passion > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums|publisher=allmusic|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref><!-- Billboard removed references to the Heatseekers chart unfortunately. -->
|-
!align="center" width="40"|<small>[[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|U.S. R&B]]</small>
!align="center" width="40"|<small>[[Top Heatseekers|U.S. Heat (Pacific)]]</small>
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|1993
| '''''[[The New Jim Jones]]''''' <small>(as Dre Dog)</small>
*Released: June 17, 1993
*Label: In-a-Minute
*Format: CD, cassette
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|1995
|'''''[[I Hate You with a Passion]]''''' <small>(as Dre Dog)</small>
*Released: April 19, 1995
*Label: In-a-Minute
*Format: CD, cassette
|align=center|79
|align=center|7
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|1997
|'''''[[Cocaine Raps]]'''''
*Released: April 1997
*Label: Filmoe Coleman Records
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|1998
|'''''[[Raven in My Eyes]]'''''
*Released: June 23, 1998
*Label: Dogday
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|1999
|'''''[[Tears of a Clown (album)|Tears of a Clown]]'''''
*Released: May 18, 1999
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align="center" rowspan="2"|2000
|'''''[[Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 2]]'''''
*Released: June 6, 2000
*Label: Million Dollar Dream
*Format: CD, cassette
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|'''''[[These R the Tales]]'''''
*Released: November 14, 2000
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman
*Format: CD, cassette
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|2003
|'''''[[Conversation with a Devil|Conversation with a Devil: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 3]]'''''
*Released: April 22, 2003
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman
*Format: CD/DVD
|align=center|—
|align=center|3
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|2004
|'''''[[Bullets, Blunts In Ah Big Bankroll]]'''''
*Released: May 18, 2004
*Label: Nicky Rose
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|2005
|'''''[[The Gift (Andre Nickatina album)|The Gift]]'''''
*Released: January 25, 2005
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|2007
|'''''[[Booty Star: Glock Tawk]]'''''
*Released: September 18, 2007
*Label: Nicky Pearl
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=2|2009
|'''''Ugly Money, Vol. 2: Love It and Count It'''''
*Released: May 19, 2009
*Label: I-Khan
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|'''''Cocaine Inc (Cocaine Raps 1, 2, & 3)'''''
*Released: September 1, 2009
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman Records
*Format: CD
|align=center|—
|align=center|—
|-
|align=center rowspan=1|2010
|'''''[[Khan! The Me Generation]]'''''
*Released: April 20, 2010
*Label: Fillmoe Coleman Records
*Format: CD
|align=center|
|align=center|
|-
|}
===Collaboration albums===
*''[[Midnight Machine Gun Rhymes and Alibis]]'' (with Equipto) (2002)
*''[[Horns and Halos (album)|Horns and Halos]]'' (with Equipto) (2005)
*''[[Gun-Mouth 4 Hire: Horns and Halos 2]]'' (with Equipto) (2005)
*''[[Bullet Symphony: Horns and Halos 3]]'' (with Equipto) (2006)
*''[[A Tale of Two Andres]]'' (with [[Mac Dre]]) (2008)
*''[[The King And Mr. Biscuits]]'' (with [[Smoov-E]]) (2010)<ref name="hiphopdx.com">http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.13337/title.rap-release-dates-diddy-sheek-louch-camron-the-un-jay-rock</ref>
*''[[My Middle Name Is Crime EP]]'' (with [[The Jacka]]) (2010)<ref name="hiphopdx.com"/>

===Compilations===
*''[[Unreleased (Andre Nickatina album)|Unreleased]]'' (2001)
*''[[Hell's Kitchen (Andre Nickatina album)|Hell's Kitchen]]'' (2002)
* ''Rules of the Game'' (circa 1998)
*''Green Eyes'' (Compilation Album) (2003)
* ''The Chicken Hill Project'' (2012) (Will be the Biggest comp since WEST COAST BADBOYS! <ref>http://lockerz.com/s/131731244</ref> <ref> http://mim.io/09f451</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Andre Nickatina}}
*{{imdb name |id=1381102 |name=Andre Nickatina}}
*{{facebook|andrenickatinamusic}}
*{{Twitter|andrenickatina|Andre Nickatina}}

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Andre Nickatina
Performing at UCLA that's Mac dre FYI.
Performing at UCLA that's Mac dre FYI.
Background information
Birth nameAndre L. Adams[1]
Also known asDre Dog
BornSan Francisco, California, United States
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper
Producer
Years active1992 - present
LabelsIn-a-Minute, Dogday, Fillmoe Coleman, Million Dollar Dream, I-Khan
Websitewww.andrenickatina.com

Andre L. Adams (born March 11, 1970), better known by his stage name Andre Nickatina, is an American rapper from San Francisco, California. He previously performed under the stage name Dre Dog.

Personal Life

Andre Nickatina is from the San Francisco Bay Area

Musical career

Andre Adams attended the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology but dropped out; he claims to have had a D average.[2] He released two albums under the stage name Dre Dog: The New Jim Jones in 1993 and I Hate You With a Passion in 1995. I Hate You With a Passion peaked at #79 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. In 1997, Adams changed his stage name to Andre Nickatina, and released the albums: Cocaine Raps under his own label, Filmoe Coleman Records and Raven in My Eyes, which was released under the Bay Area Independent Rap Label Dogday Records.[3] Unlike his albums released under the name Dre Dog, Cocaine Raps had deeper production values [First Collaborations with Producer Nick Peace]. The album Raven in My Eyes was noted for its production quality and songs that combine "sequencers and keyboards that buzz and whine" with live instrumentation.[4] That year, he founded his own record label, Filmoe Coleman Records. Nickatina explained in an interview with Strivin magazine that his name change was "for the better" and that he raps because he feels that he is talented enough to do so but not for the sake of popularity.[5]

Soon afterwards, his following three albums, Tears of a Clown (1999), Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 2, The Unreleased [Sold Exclusively at shows and appreances] and These R the Tales (the latter three in 2000) gained him notoriety in the West Coast underground rap scene.[3] Mosi Reeves of the San Francisco Bay Guardian noted Nickatina's popularity at a CD release party for another underground Bay Area rapper/producer, Smoov-E; Reeves called Nickatina "a quick-witted rapper who spits as hard as Kurupt does".[6] A combo CD/movie project, Conversation with a Devil, followed in 2003.[3] Lindsay Welnick, a music critic for SF Weekly, regarded the film as a knockoff of the classic gangster movie Scarface.[2] Nate Denver for the SF Bay Guardian praised the album, though.[7] Another album, The Gift followed in 2005, when the newspaper SF Weekly named Nickatina the "Best Local Hip Hop Legend" of that year. In 2005, Nickatina also won the first annual Bay Area Raps Awards for Best Underground Artist. In 2008, he released A Tale of Two Andres with Mac Dre. Although they released only two songs together, they were close friends and the album was a tribute to his memory.[8]

Year Title Chart Positions[9]
U.S. R&B U.S. Heat (Pacific)
1993 The New Jim Jones (as Dre Dog)
  • Released: June 17, 1993
  • Label: In-a-Minute
  • Format: CD, cassette
 — —
1995 I Hate You with a Passion (as Dre Dog)
  • Released: April 19, 1995
  • Label: In-a-Minute
  • Format: CD, cassette
 79 7
1997 Cocaine Raps
  • Released: April 1997
  • Label: Filmoe Coleman Records
  • Format: CD
 — —
1998 Raven in My Eyes
  • Released: June 23, 1998
  • Label: Dogday
  • Format: CD
 — —
1999 Tears of a Clown
  • Released: May 18, 1999
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman
  • Format: CD
 — —
2000 Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 2
  • Released: June 6, 2000
  • Label: Million Dollar Dream
  • Format: CD, cassette
 — —
These R the Tales
  • Released: November 14, 2000
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman
  • Format: CD, cassette
 — —
2003 Conversation with a Devil: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 3
  • Released: April 22, 2003
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman
  • Format: CD/DVD
 — 3
2004 Bullets, Blunts In Ah Big Bankroll
  • Released: May 18, 2004
  • Label: Nicky Rose
  • Format: CD
 — —
2005 The Gift
  • Released: January 25, 2005
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman
  • Format: CD
 — —
2007 Booty Star: Glock Tawk
  • Released: September 18, 2007
  • Label: Nicky Pearl
  • Format: CD
 — —
2009 Ugly Money, Vol. 2: Love It and Count It
  • Released: May 19, 2009
  • Label: I-Khan
  • Format: CD
 — —
Cocaine Inc (Cocaine Raps 1, 2, & 3)
  • Released: September 1, 2009
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman Records
  • Format: CD
 — —
2010 Khan! The Me Generation
  • Released: April 20, 2010
  • Label: Fillmoe Coleman Records
  • Format: CD

Collaboration albums

Compilations

  • Unreleased (2001)
  • Hell's Kitchen (2002)
  • Rules of the Game (circa 1998)
  • Green Eyes (Compilation Album) (2003)
  • The Chicken Hill Project (2012) (Will be the Biggest comp since WEST COAST BADBOYS! [11] [12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Andre Adams search". California Birth Index.
  2. ^ a b Amter, Charlie (2003-12-03). "Money, Power, Day Care". SF Weekly. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  3. ^ a b c Gabriel, Robert (2003). "Andre Nickatina - Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  4. ^ Inoue, Todd S. (1998-01-08). "Andre Nickatina - Raven in My Eyes". Metroactive. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  5. ^ Doxx (2005-08-19). "Classic Interview - Andre Nickatina (formerly Dre Dog)". Strivin. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  6. ^ Reeves, Mossi (2002-09-18). "Smoov-E CD-release party, with Andre Nickatina, First Degree the D.E., and Be Gee". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  7. ^ Denver, Nate (2003-10-22). "Local Grooves - Conversation with a Devil: Cocaine Raps No. 3 (Fillmoe Coleman)". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  8. ^ "Best Local Hip Hop Legend (2005) - Andre Nickatina". 2005. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  9. ^ "I Hate You with a Passion > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  10. ^ a b http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.13337/title.rap-release-dates-diddy-sheek-louch-camron-the-un-jay-rock
  11. ^ http://lockerz.com/s/131731244
  12. ^ http://mim.io/09f451
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