Everything you never knew about Bay Area rapper Andre Nickatina as he visits Monterey.

Andre L. Adams, aka Andre Nickatina (aka Dre Dog on his first two records), isn’t trying to be metaphorical or ironic in his NSFW anthem “Powda 4 Tha Hoes.” Over a sample of Credence Clearwater Revival’s version of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” he spits, “Chewy for my niggas, powda for the hoes/ When they panties come down, bitches, anything goes.”

Following in the footsteps of East Oakland hip-hop pioneer Too Short, Nickatina’s prose is fueled by excess: drugs, sex and violence. His lyrics are over-the-top and completely lack empathy, which naturally yields – consciously or subconsciously – satire and social commentary on everything from addiction to the welfare system.

Nickatina’s lucid rhymes, mostly set in the seamier side of San Francisco’s Fillmore District, paint portraits of the streets that are unforgiving and unapologetic. It’s a world where everyone’s hustling, doing what they need to do, acting the way they need to act – not necessarily doing what’s morally right – just to make it to another sunrise.

Nickatina’s been surviving for over two decades of sunrises, having released more than a dozen records. If the 6-foot-4-inch rapper’s verses were autobiographical, he’d be locked up by now. Then again, he wouldn’t sell any records if he wrote about his real life, which includes picking his kids up from daycare. Here are some other facts about Nickatina that you won’t find in his lyrics.

• Nickatina told SF Gate’s Kimberly Chun that he can find inspiration in everything. “I can walk into a liquor store and get inspired. A can of Spam on the ground can get [me] inspired.”

• Only 2,000 copies of Nickatina’s 1997 Cocaine Raps were released, which has made it a high-demand item for underground rap fans. On Amazon, a used cassette tape is currently selling for $200; in April, a used CD sold for $104 on eBay.

• A pair of Nickatina’s regular collaborators were both killed by gunfire: Mac Dre and The Jacka, who was fatally shot in East Oakland last February.

• In addition to hitting No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart, Nickatina’s 11th record, Conversation with a Devil, was named a top album in Rhapsody’s “Album Guide to Coke Rap.”

• Nickatina detests interviews “for the most part.” “A lot of the time they’re boring to me,” he told The Village Voice in one of the rare interviews he’s granted. “Not always though. But honestly I usually get corny cliché questions. So that’s why I don’t always [grant] interviews.”

ANDRE NICKATINA 8pm Friday, May 29. Planet Gemini, 2110 N. Fremont St., Monterey. $20. 373-1449.