PTBTV aka Pushin’ The Bay EXCLUSIVE! In this exclusive / raw video (Part 2 of 2), Mac Mall brings the Pushin’ The Bay staff to Hawaii. This is PART 2 at Waikiki Beach (speaks on Mac Dre), with crazy rare footage at Wash House Music aka Rappers Island, drunk freestyles / singing, custom tats / tattoos artwork, beautiful blue shores / seas and most importantly, showin’ the viewers how true playas / macks get down.
Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is the shoreline fronting Waikiki.
The neighborhood extends from the Ala Wai Canal (a channel dug to drain former wetlands) on the west and north, to Diamond Head on the east. The name means spouting fresh water in Hawaiian for springs and streams that fed wetlands that once separated Waikiki from the interior. Waikiki has long been a place of relaxation. In particular, the area was a retreat for Hawaiian royalty in the 1800s. Much like the locals and tourists of today, Hawaiian royalty enjoyed surfing at Waikiki on early forms of longboards. Although not royalty as his name might suggest, Duke Kahanamoku, a local surfer born at the turn of the century and credited with popularizing the sport of surfing, is immortalized in a statue near the main strip of the Waikiki Beach. The statue, along with the numerous lei visitors to the beach place in the statue’s outreached hands, can be viewed in real-time through the Waikiki Beach Webcam.
Andre Hicks (July 5, 1970 November 1, 2004), better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was one of the originators of hyphy and is generally considered the creator of Thizz music. He worked with well-known artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Richie Rich, Keak da Sneak, E-40 ,Daz Dillinger, Baby Bash, B-Legit, San Quinn, Yukmouth, Andre Nickatina, P.S.D, Mac Mall and Too $hort. He also provided an uncredited hook to the track “Gotta Survive” from Young Lay’s Black N’ Dangerous album.
His lyrics were largely based on his neighborhood known by those around him as “The Crest”, short for Country Club Crest, a particularly rough area on the Northside of Vallejo, California. His music under the record label Young Black Brotha gained popularity throughout the Bay Area in the early 1990s. In the mid to late 1990s, he received national recognition through his independent record labels Romp and Thizz Entertainment. During his music career, he released many hit singles, such as “Too Hard for the Fuckin’ Radio,” “California Livin,” and more recently “Feelin’ Myself” and “Get Stupid”. His music continues to be released posthumously. He was the creator of the “Thizzle Dance”, as well as many other popular dances which were referred to as giggin’. The song that ignited this new underground party movement was called “Thizzle Dance,” which appeared on his album entitled Thizzelle Washington.
Editing & Production by Shaun Tai for SHAUN TAI Films, 2009.
Duration : 0:8:16
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