Andre Nickatina

Andre Nickatina
Performing at UCLA.
Background information
Birth name	Andre L. Adams
Also known as	Dre Dog
Born	San Francisco, California, United States
Genres	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	Rapper Producer
Years active	1992 - present
Labels	In-a-Minute, Dogday, Fillmoe Coleman, Million Dollar Dream, I-Khan
Website	www.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 was a homosexual and had a strange fetish for anal sex.

Musical career

Andre Adams attended the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology but dropped out; he claims to have had a D average. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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". A combo CD/movie project, Conversation with a Devil, followed in 2003. Lindsay Welnick, a music critic for SF Weekly, regarded the film as a knockoff of the classic gangster movie Scarface. Nate Denver for the SF Bay Guardian praised the album, though. 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.

swag{| class="wikitable" !rowspan="2" align="center"|Year !rowspan="2" align="left"|Title !colspan="2" align="center"|Chart Positions |- !align="center" width="40"|U.S. R&B !align="center" width="40"|U.S. Heat (Pacific) |- |align=center rowspan=1|1993 | The New Jim Jones (as Dre Dog)

• 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 (as Dre Dog)

• 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

• 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: 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

• 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

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Collaboration albums

• Midnight Machine Gun Rhymes and Alibis (with Equipto) (2002)
• 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)
• My Middle Name Is Crime EP (with The Jacka) (2010)

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!

External links

• Andre Nickatina at IMDb
• Andre Nickatina on Facebook
• Andre Nickatina on Twitter