Andre Nickatina

Andre Adams, better known by his stage name Andre Nickatina, is an American rapper from San Francisco, California. He previously performed under the pseudonym Dre Dog.

Andre Nickatina tickets has released two albums under the pseudonym Dre Dog: New Jim Jones in 1993 and I Hate You with a passion in 1995. I Hate You with a passion peaked at # 79 in Billboard Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart and # 3 on the chart Billboard Heatseekers. In 1998, Adams changed his name, then the current stage of Andre Nickatina Cocaine and released albums RAP and Raven In My Eyes, which were released independently under Dogday Records. Unlike their albums, released under the name of Dre Dog, Cocaine Raps had a deep meaning production. Raven In My Eyes was noted Emphasizing “sequencers and keyboards, the hum and howl” over live instruments, considered by Todd S. Inoue of the news magazine Metroactive. In the same year he founded his own label, Fillmoe Coleman.Nickatina explained in an interview Strivin, that his name change, the better “and that he was the RAP, because he feels that he’s talented enough to do it, but not for the sake of popularity.

Shortly afterwards, Andre Nickatina events next three albums, the tears Clown (1999), Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. 2 and R These tales (both 2000) made him better known in the West Coast underground rap scene.Mosi Reeves in the San Francisco Bay Guardian said the popularity of Nickatina’s at a party release a CD with another underground Bay Area rapper, Smoov-E; Reeves Nickatina called “quick-witted rapper who spits out as hard as Kurupt ago. Combo CD / Movie Project, interviews with the devil, and then 2003.Charlie Ämter, music critic for SF Weekly, considered the film as a fake gangster movie classic Scarface.Nate Denver for the SF Bay Guardian praised the album yet. Another album, after the gifts in 2005, when the newspaper SF Weekly them Nickatina “Best hip-hop local legend” this year. In 2008 he published A Tale of Two Andres with Mac Dre. Although they only released two songs together, they were close friends, and the album was a tribute to his memory.