Unfortunately, things return to their normal form with "The God and the Stripper." Complete with 808 drum machine shuffles and a poorly strummed Latin-style guitar, it's a love story about a powerful man in his community and a woman who does certain things for a living. Things get better, thankfully, as Nickatina hits his stride on "Soul of a Coke Dealer," where he shines and keeps going without breathing until the last beats. Even LFO was more poetic when reminiscing about girls in Abercrombie & Fitch. "Dice of Life" is like a bad Irish jig/pirate tune straight out of a three-star theme restaurant, with some wretched lyrics bragging about hanging with Shaq and how Mike Tyson loves custom autos. The production is mediocre at best, with the vocals being about 4,000 decibels louder than the music within the mix. This delivers a smattering of cottage cheese and water when expecting a sirloin steak. The monotone delivery is reminiscent of some old-school MCs, but even old schools delivered with flair and style. Rhyming Sugar Ray with Sade is a bit shy of genius, but right from the get-go it is blatantly obvious that Madonna recruited Nickatina to write the lyrics for her rap in "American Life." With such bouts of prose as "It was 1984, I was on a plane that was about to soar" and "my girlfriend drinks Coronas and knows about the Ayatollah," Eminem and Nas can rest peacefully at night, knowing that their crowns will not be challenged by Nicky. The first song is just absolutely repulsive, made up of rhymes that could have been taken from a middle-school poetry workshop. Unfortunately, that's about as good as it gets. In 2005, he was nominated for Underground Album of the Year (2004's Bullets, Blunts In Ah Big Bankroll) and won an award as Underground Artist of the Year at the Bay Area Hip Hop Awards.On Conversation With a Devil, Andre Nickatina returns to center stage with an ambitious "concept" record recording the life of our protagonist, Dre Dog. Nickatina heads his own record label, Fillmoe Coleman Records.
He also contributed significantly to the film and soundtrack for the 2005 documentary, The Gift. He has since released nine solo albums, an amateur film, and several albums with fellow local rapper, Equipto. Raven in My Eyes was the first album that he released under the name Andre Nickatina. Shortly after the release of I.M.P's Back in the Days, Nickatina released The New Jim Jones, a solo album, still under the " Dre Dog" moniker. Andre Nickatina is an American underground hardcore rapper from San Francisco, California who has been an active participant in the underground hip hop scene since the early 1990s.Īndre Nickatina first appeared on the Bay Area rap scene in 1993 under the name Dre Dog as a member of the group I.M.P.
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