![]() Most of the events are benefiting the Gray Area Foundation's fundraiser, including perhaps the biggest event, a concert at the Fox Theater tonight featuring numerous popular Bay Area musicians like Primus, Hieroglyphics, the Coup, Beats Antique and Rogue Wave. Meanwhile, fundraising events held throughout the Bay Area have raised well over $23,000 with dozens more events planned just this week. Just how much money has been raised for five victims is impossible to determine since some popular fundraisers, such as one established by the Trans Assistance Project, have not disclosed how much they have raised. San Francisco photographer Amanda Kershaw's husband Andy discontinued his fundraiser after exceeding his $20,000 goal by more than $12,000.įundraisers have also been set up to specifically assist the people displaced by the fire and others to help roommates and friends of the victims cover bills or take time off of work to grieve. More than $44,000 has been raised in separate fundraisers for the family of Chelsea Faith Dolan, a DJ who was performing at the Ghost Ship that night under the name Cherushii. Ghassan, the father of twin daughters, had recently moved to Oakland from New Jersey and died in the fire along with his fiancée, Hanna Ruax. The family of filmmaker Alex Ghassan has raised more than $39,000. Askew, 22, was a member of dream pop duo Them Among Us Too and attended the University of California at Santa Cruz from 2012 to 2014. ![]() So far, the most successful of these include more than $75,000 raised for the family of transgender musician Cash Askew. In addition to the massively successful general fundraisers, fundraising efforts have been underway for the families of the 36 individual victims killed in the fire. It also includes a $75,000 donation from Sutter Health and will likely grow in the coming days as other promised donations come in, A's spokesman Ken Pries said on Tuesday. The A's fund includes matching donations of $50,000 each from the A's, Golden State Warriors and Oakland Raiders. He said all of those funds will be distributed to the families of victims and those with medical expenses. The Oakland A's are working directly with the Red Cross to determine the best distribution for the funds, Red Cross CEO Trevor Riggen said during a news conference on Tuesday. Although they released only two songs together, they were close friends and the album was a tribute to his memory."As an organization, we have had to shift our operations to focus fully on fielding inquiries, processing contributions, and communicating effectively-all while grieving ourselves," Gray Area Foundation officials wrote. ![]() In 2008, he released A Tale of Two Andres with Mac Dre. Another album, The Gift followed in 2005, when the newspaper SF Weekly named Nickatina the "Best Local Hip Hop Legend" of that year. Nate Denver for the SF Bay Guardian praised the album, though. Charlie Amter, a music critic for SF Weekly, regarded the film as a knockoff of the classic gangster movie Scarface. A combo CD/movie project, Conversation with a Devil, followed in 2003. Mosi Reeves of the San Francisco Bay Guardian noted Nickatina's popularity at a CD release party for another underground Bay Area rapper, Smoov-E Reeves called Nickatina "a quick-witted rapper who spits as hard as Kurupt does". 2 and These R the Tales (both 2000) made him more well-known in the West Coast underground rap scene. Soon afterwards, his following three albums, Tears of a Clown (1999), Daiquiri Factory: Cocaine Raps, Vol. Nickatina explained in an interview with Strivin magazine that his name change was "for the better" and that he raps because he feels that he is talented enough to do so but not for the sake of popularity. That year, he founded his own record label, Fillmoe Coleman. Raven in My Eyes was noted for emphasizing "sequencers and keyboards that buzz and whine" over live instrumentation, as reviewed by Todd S. Unlike his albums released under the name Dre Dog, Cocaine Raps had deeper production values. In 1998, Adams changed his then current stage name to Andre Nickatina, and released the albums Cocaine Raps and Raven in My Eyes, which were released independently under Dogday Records. I Hate You With a Passion peaked at #79 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. He previously performed under the stage name Dre Dog.Īdams released two albums under the stage name Dre Dog: The New Jim Jones in 1993 and I Hate You With a Passion in 1995. ![]() Andre Adams, better known by his stage name Andre Nickatina, is an American MC and producer from San Francisco, California.
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