Andre Nickatina

About Andre Nickatina

ANDRE NICKATINA a.k.a. DRE DOG is a San Francisco rapper known for his smoothly aggressive delivery. He has made a name for being a self-enforced underground artist. Andre Nickatina burst onto the Bay Area rap scene in 1993 with The New Jim Jones on the strength of two individual singles, The Ave and Lips. Andre Nickatina has also dabbled in film, releasing a two-disc set containing his amateur movie and the CD Conversation with a Devil and his latest film, a documentary, critically acclaimed film The Gift as a CD - DVD- an up close and personal conversation with legendary players that have made the Bay Area scene what it is today. The Gift provides an intimate look at the game from all angles of street life and culture with the unique perspective of the Fillmoe Coleman team and director Shane Ruggieri. The stories of true life hustlers are unwrapped carefully as The Gift leaves no stone unturned in a series of gritty and candid interviews. Experts in the arenas of Hip-Hop, street life and the game sell captivating tales to the viewer about how game is developed, manifested and applied by people with whom the word hustle is synonymous with life. Andre Nickatina is considered one of the most successful rappers to have come out of San Francisco, and heads his own label Fillmoe Coleman Records. He has released a multitude of albums, most recently Bullet Symphony, Horns and Halos III with Equipto. His most acclaimed album Bullets, Blunts, N Ah Big Bankroll. In 2005, Andre Nickatina won the Bay Area Rap Scene Award for Underground Artist of the Year and up for 2 nominations for the 2006 Bay Area Rap Scene Awards. Being a common name in the underground rap scene in the U.S. and abroad, this humble rapper is also proof of how word of mouth can be more valuable and cost effective form of advertising than traditional methods Clout Graffiti Magazine Andre Nickatina is loved in Canada, Ayo was a hit and Nickatina Says is a classic definitely one of the most slept on voices in Hip-Hop he's a lasting testament to the Bay Area Hip-Hop He needs to come on up to Canada The Beat 94.5 FM Andre Nickatina is in a league of his own in that he is able to combine the hardness of gangster rap with innovative and socially conscious lyrics. Not to mention doing so, all the while, with unsurpassed rhyme and style with one of the most distinctive voices in rap, Andre Nickatina aka Dre Dog has been attracting listeners to rap and Hip-Hop since 1993. Clout Graffiti Magazine