![]() He cares about three things: doing drugs, having sex, and messing people up. Calling yourself the new Jim Jones is only a few degrees less offensive than calling yourself the new Adolph Hitler, especially for a San Franciscan like Dre Dog.ĭre Dog doesn't have any of the megalomania of the real Jim Jones, but his hip-hop persona is an evil bastard. In short, Jim Jones was an evil motherfucker. The result, according to Wikipedia, was the largest loss of U.S. When a senate investigation into Jonestown resulted in the murder of a senator, Jones realized the gig was up and ordered his followers to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. The church started out as an idyllic multicultural community,but turned into a cult that moved to Uganda to set up a new paradise on earth, called Jonestown. Andre "Dre Dog" Adams chose to proclaim himself the second coming of the late Reverend Jim Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple in San Francisco, and ultimately responsible for the death of 900 people. The Jim Jones referenced in Dre Dog's 1993 debut is NOT the Harlem rapper. I'm going to refer to him as Dre Dog for this review, but you'll find most of his records under the Nickatina moniker. ![]() Dre Dog is still named on the cover, but it was filed under Andre Nickatina, which is what Dre Dog changed his name to after two albums. I found it on Emusic on what I believe is Andre Nickatina's own label I-Kahn. The album was re-released in 2006 on Mo Beatz Records with a different cover. The In A Minute version, which both Amazon and Amoeba Records in San Francisco have for sale, has a picture of a Dre Dog crucified on the cover. Posse, I.M.P., and some of Too $hort's early work. One was released in 1993 under the name Dre Dog on In A Minute Records, a Bay Area label which was also home to R.B.L. ** RapReviews "Back to the Lab" series **įirst off, there are two versions of this album. ![]() Andre Nickatina (Dre Dog) :: The New Jim Jones :: In A Minute/I-Kahn/IODA
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