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- Artist: Mac Dre/Mac Mall
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- Release Date: March 22, 2005
- Type: Contains explicit content
- Genre: Rap
Review
Young Bay Area rapper Andre Macassi was murdered on November 1, 2004. A collaboration with fellow Vallejo native Mac Mall, Da U.S. Open was the album Mac Dre was finishing at the time of his death, and as such, it stands, a mite unsteadily, as his last will and testament. Mac Dre's oddball, laid-back delivery (think Snoop Dogg back before he slipped into easy self-parody, but weirder, with deliberately odd inflections and heavy doses of seemingly made-up slang) is the most unique thing about this album; Mac Mall is a more straightforward rapper, and the beats are tough and minimalist without being particularly innovative. The highlight tracks are the two most idiosyncratic: "Willingly," which features a long freestyle rap by Mac Dre over a hypnotic acoustic guitar loop, and the album closing "Dreido," a thoroughly modern updating of the classic 1983 12" "Radioactivity (Let's Jam)" by Royalcash, featuring guest raps from E-40. The latter is the best song on the album by some distance, an instant-classic hip-hop single that pays tribute to the golden age while updating it. It's a fitting sendoff. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Da U.S. Open | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (2:24) | |
| They Ask for It | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (3:12) | |
| Cuddies Say "Yee" | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (4:03) | |
| Giggin' | Mac Dre, Mac Mall, |
(4:22) | |
| Heat & Head | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (4:04) | |
| The Nation of Thizzlam | Mac Dre, Mac Mall, |
(4:18) | |
| Murda I Wrote | Mac Dre, Mac Mall, |
(4:02) | |
| Willingly | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (3:21) | |
| I Got... | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (3:24) | |
| Klyde, Mall & Dre | Mac Dre, Mac Mall, |
(3:19) | |
| Mac-A-Frama-Lama | Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (4:21) | |
| Dredio | E-40, Mac Dre, Mac Mall | (3:00) |
