Mac Mall

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Mac Mall
Birth name Jamal Rocker
Origin Vallejo, California
Genre(s) Gangsta Rap, Hyphy
Years active 1993-Present
Label(s) Thizz Entertainment

Mac Mall, (born Jamal Rocker in Vallejo, California) is a West Coast rapper who became known in the mid/late 1990s, as one of the local artists bringing the Bay Area on the hip hop map. Mac Mall was discovered by Mac Dre[citation needed] and was signed to Young Black Brotha Records.

One of Mac Mall's first singles was a song called "Ghetto Theme", and the music video directed by Tupac Shakur in 1993. He was also longtime friends with the Mac Dre, who was his mentor early on in his career/ repairing their friendship a couple of years before Dre's death.[clarify] He is one of the premier artists on Dre's Thizz Entertainment label. He is also cousins to E-40 and B-Legit.

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In 1993 Mac Mall released his debut album Illegal Business? on the Young Black Brotha label. Khayree Shaheed worked as the producer and the album featured Ray Luv, Mac Dre and The Mac. In 1996 he signed a record deal with Relativity Records, which released his second album Untouchable.

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