2017年6月10日（土）
The core group consisted of Jamal Diggs
Federal authorities would highlight the Thizz Entertainment connections when they announced their big takedown in April 2012. But in the end, hundreds of pages of court records reveal that most of the people arrested in the operation had no connection to the label. A few were Thizz rappers and friends from the Crest.
Michael Lott was not, in fact, CEO of the company, Hicks' mother said. And as a businessman and a drug dealer, he was pretty much a failure. Vallejo's Musical Roots During the heyday of funk in the 1970s,international stars like Con Funk Shun and Sly Stone had connections to Vallejo and its Crest neighborhood. "We always have been a neighborhood where we get down with each other.
We come from a city that has nothing," said Jamal Rocker, a Vallejo-born rapper known as Mac Mall and a contemporary of Hicks. "Like, when you hear the word 'cuddie,' it means cousin and friend. Even 'cutthroat,' that's a term of endearment." Both Macs — Mac Dre and Mac Mall — are named in honor of one of the area's first musical successes, Michael "The Mac" Robinson, a rapper with a pimp persona who was shot and killed in Vallejo in 1991. According to Rocker, Robinson provided the mold for many kids from the Crest — "it all started with Michael Robinson" — and fondly remembers once getting a ride in Robinson's white Cadillac, where "there was so much bass I could barely breathe." It was within that small world in the mid-'90s that a group of around a dozen kids who grew up together became known as the Romper Room crew, first for general neighborhood mischief and then later as a criminal enterprise.
The core group consisted of Jamal Diggs (J-Diggs), Simon Curtis Nelson (Kilo Curt), Andre Cawthorne (Dre from the Bay), Troy Reddick (Coolio Da'Unda'Dogg) and Hicks. Hicks, lean and outgoing, had been known as a rising star from a young age, making waves with a cassette tape featuring a standout single, "," in 1989 as a student at Hogan High School. His flow was fast and confident, and he built upon the bouncy bass that had its roots in the linsheng
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Michael Lott was not, in fact, CEO of the company, Hicks' mother said. And as a businessman and a drug dealer, he was pretty much a failure. Vallejo's Musical Roots During the heyday of funk in the 1970s,international stars like Con Funk Shun and Sly Stone had connections to Vallejo and its Crest neighborhood. "We always have been a neighborhood where we get down with each other.
We come from a city that has nothing," said Jamal Rocker, a Vallejo-born rapper known as Mac Mall and a contemporary of Hicks. "Like, when you hear the word 'cuddie,' it means cousin and friend. Even 'cutthroat,' that's a term of endearment." Both Macs — Mac Dre and Mac Mall — are named in honor of one of the area's first musical successes, Michael "The Mac" Robinson, a rapper with a pimp persona who was shot and killed in Vallejo in 1991. According to Rocker, Robinson provided the mold for many kids from the Crest — "it all started with Michael Robinson" — and fondly remembers once getting a ride in Robinson's white Cadillac, where "there was so much bass I could barely breathe." It was within that small world in the mid-'90s that a group of around a dozen kids who grew up together became known as the Romper Room crew, first for general neighborhood mischief and then later as a criminal enterprise.
The core group consisted of Jamal Diggs (J-Diggs), Simon Curtis Nelson (Kilo Curt), Andre Cawthorne (Dre from the Bay), Troy Reddick (Coolio Da'Unda'Dogg) and Hicks. Hicks, lean and outgoing, had been known as a rising star from a young age, making waves with a cassette tape featuring a standout single, "," in 1989 as a student at Hogan High School. His flow was fast and confident, and he built upon the bouncy bass that had its roots in the linsheng
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