He started his career as Dre Dog in 1993 and even scored a modest single, "Situation Critical" in 1995 that fell somewhere between '90s gangsta rap and we-funk party rap, with just a dash of '80s throwback production style. The music quickly evolved when he changed his name to Andre Nickatina in 1997. While his rhymes and vocal styles have always been strictly old school, with no fancy tricks, his music became a playground for experimentation, mixing up bizarre live instrumentation loops, screeching keyboards, orchestra bursts and plain old gangsta rap. With 18 albums under his belt, he's proven he has something that only a select group of rappers have managed: staying power.
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He started his career as Dre Dog in 1993 and even scored a modest single, "Situation Critical" in 1995 that fell somewhere between '90s gangsta rap and we-funk party rap, with just a dash of '80s throwback production style. The music quickly evolved when he changed his name to Andre Nickatina in 1997. While his rhymes and vocal styles have always been strictly old school, with no fancy tricks, his music became a playground for experimentation, mixing up bizarre live instrumentation loops, screeching keyboards, orchestra bursts and plain old gangsta rap. With 18 albums under his belt, he's proven he has something that only a select group of rappers have managed: staying power.
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