Music:
Hip-Hopper since the get...
A Tribe Called Quest
Beatnuts
Big L
Big Pun
Biggie
Blackstar
Bootcamp
Born Jamericans
Brand Nubian
Common
Defari
Dilated Peoples
dead prez
Gangstarr
Ghostface
Immortal Technique
Jean Grae
Joell Ortiz
J-Live
Kaze
Little Brother
Murs
Pete Rock
Pharoahe Monch
Planet Asia
Outkast
R.A. the Rugged Man
Ras Kass
Royce
Slum Village
Styles of Beyond
The Pharcyde
The Roots
Tupac
Visionaries
Wu-Tang (All of Em) other stuff...
Al Green
Ben Harper
Beny More
Billie Holiday
Black Jack Johnson (The REAL Jack Johnson)
Bob Marley
Buena Vista (All of them)
D'Angelo
Donny Hathaway
Erykah Badu
Joao Gilberto
John Coltrane
Juanes
Jr. Gong
Marvin and Tammi
Miles Davis
Rage Against the Machine
Sam Cooke
Sergio Mendes
Sly & The Family Stone
Sizzla
Thelonious Monk
The Last Poets
Zambo Cavero
all that good: Reggae, Reggaeton, Cumbia, Jazz, Soul, Salsa, Afro-Peruvian ...and the list goes on...
Movies:
Do The Right Thing,
Motorcycle Diaries,
25th Hour
A Bronx Tale
American History X
American Splendor
Bamboozled
Barbarian Invasions
Big Fish
Better Off Dead
Better Luck Tomorrrow
Boondock Saints
Carlitos Way
Cinema Paradiso
City of God
Crash
Dead Presidents
Donnie Brasco
El Che: Investigating a Legend
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Forrester
Hable Con Ella
High Fidelity
Il Postino
Inside Man
Malcolm X
Mo' Better Blues
My Life as a Dog
Mulholland Drive
Memento
Ojos Que No Ven
Poolhall Junkies
Say Anything
Sideways
Snatch
The Godfather (I & II)
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Tombstone
Y Tu Mama Tambien
...and the list goes on...
Television: my Idiot Box favorites go something like this....
Chappelle's Show
Entourage
Family Guy
Numbers
Seinfeld
The Honeymooners
The Lyricist Lounge Show (that one memorable season :)
annnnd that's about it right now.
Books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
Race Matters
-Cornel West-
Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion deseperada
-Pablo Neruda-
Guerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World
-Jon Lee Anderson-
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
-Jon Lee Anderson-
Ego Trip..s Big Book of Racism
-A Bunch of Minorities-
A Right To Be Hostile
-Aaron Mcgruder-
Che Guevara
-Andrew Sinclair-
Autobiography of Malcolm X
-Alex Haley-
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X
-Spike Lee & Ralph Wiley-
The Bluest Eye
-Toni Morrison-
"I'm an asshole, son of a everything you can think of"
100% Latino (1/2 Salvadoreno 1/2 Peruano). Down for a cause not just because. Nice. Mean. A Vegetarian.
I'm a DJ (A-TRAIN) and an MC (verses with a purpose are very important!) Anything else you want to know, ask away!!
Dope Quotes I appreciate:
"The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this."
-Ernesto Che Guevara-
"The Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans, all dark..skinned Indian people, had a highly developed culture here in America, in what is now Mexico and northern South America. These people had mastered agriculture at the time when European white people were still living in mud huts and eating weeds. But white children, or black children, or grownups here today in America dont get to read this in the average books they are exposed to."
-El Haj Malik El Shabazz-
"Them belly full, but we hungry"
-Bob Marley-
"We get trapped in a cycle of pain and addiction and lose the motivation to change the condition/I blame it on the system but the problem is ours/it..s not a question of religion/it..s a question of power"
--Stic.Man of dead prez
"It..s funny how on the block niggaz will kill you for cash/But never raise the gun and cry out "freedom at last."
--Immortal Technique
the great emancipator
Henry Clay Whitney, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln..s, said the Emancipation Proclamation was "not the end designed by Lincoln, but only the means to the end, the end being the deportation of the slaves and the payment for them to their masters - at least to those who were loyal."
"No other American story is so enduring. No other American story is so comforting. No other American story is so false."
-- Lerone Bennett
FUCK Democracy... it's all about the money
John F. Kennedy said that we would be in favor of decent democratic regimes, as he put it, but, and then comes a rather big but: if there is a danger of a Castro we will always support a Trujillo.
Well, what do those terms mean? It is important to understand that by a Castro he did not mean a Communist or a Russian ally. As for Trujillo, we know what he meant by that. Trujillo was the murderous and brutal dictator of the Dominican Republic who was installed with U.S. support and who tortured, murdered, and robbed for thirty-five years with American support until we finally turned against him because his robbery began to extend to U.S. corporations and their local clients.
--Noam Chomsky
"The primary goal of kindergarten is to teach children to be students-so they can participate in conformity. If this is what education really is about, where are intellectual stimulation, the excitement of discovery, and creativity-long associated in the public mind with education? The answer is that they may occur so long as they are noncontroversial. In other words they, too, are expected to reflect the conformist nature of the educational institution."
--James M. Henslin
"The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T-Shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience."
--Ariel Dorfman
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
--Marcus Garvey
can't keep quiet this time it'll be more then a riot!
"I dont do drugs, I am drugs" - Salvador Dali
As featured on LatinRapper.com:
Music is my essence. As a kid I used to listen to old 45’s with my pops, everything from Marvin Gaye to Oscar de Leon. It’s only natural that I mixed my love for music and a love for my people to create my own brand of hip-hop. Politics and the collective community consciousness have always been of utmost importance to me.
I’ve always been the go to guy for hip-hop. In high school, I staged battles at lunch time with special permission from the security guards and principal. I was the only one with Tony Touch’s 50 MC’s mixtape so I hooked everyone up. I remember I got my hands on Nas’ “I Am” 2 months before it dropped and hooked my whole school up. I always wanted to be that dude. I’m the cat who will argue hip-hop all day everyday with anyone who will listen. I started DJing at 13 and began writing lyrics casually later throughout high school.
In college I hosted my own hip-hop radio show for a few years and kept DJing as well. The college I went to taught me a lot because of the disproportionate racial demographics at the school and the inequality in the surrounding community. I love the time I spent at Salisbury University because it showed me the real United States . As I began to learn more about politics, history and modern day problems that plague our community like poverty, mis-education and racism, I began to really come full circle with my lyrics and music. I started performing, battling and speaking out more and more. By the time I graduated I had performed up and down Maryland ’s Eastern Shore , DC , Pittsburgh and Florida . I’ve collaborated with Cypher Street Music, Tribes of Africa (my Nigerian soldiers!) my own Spic Spit Movement (Latinos Stand Up!), Dash down in Florida and countless mixtape djs. I’m down to move with people who are “down for a cause, not just because”.
I try to combine lyricism with pertinent issues that everyone can understand. You can sum up my music by one of my quotes from “Geek Down” (Welcome to the Revolution Vol.1): “People don’t listen to the message if the music is wack”. I truly believe that and so I’m going to continue to keep elevating the music, crushing all that ignorant minstrel show, snap music nonsense. In 2006 I dropped “Welcome to the Revolution Vol. 1” and followed that up in 2007 with “RE:Evolution”. “Resurrecting the Champ” EP is scheduled for 2008.
Hey Alex,what's going on??? Just thought I would come and drop a line and let you know I am going to start reading the book you recommended 1984. I'll let you know how it goes, and keep me posted on any other books you recommend. : )
Yo, gonna see if I can't stop by today! Been really hectic lately! No work, so been everywhere trying to find some and shit..... Holla @ you later Bro --ONE
Thanks for the request! Definitely sounding good. Great quotes and knowledge on your page. Let the truth be told! Come back through anytime to visit or take a listen.
"Bloody Sunday" a song about what is occurring to us as a generation. About all the unrest that exists today and how we can't be afraid to empower ourselves to believe we can cause a change. The song is free, no catches. Politics, war, money, all equal another Bloody Sunday.
count down time bro! 68 more dayz til the U. S. of A. gets a new one! what side r u on? Imma a BaRock the the vote..... We need somsthing new, not gonna say "better" until I see it, but SHIT GOTTA GET BETTER!
So now I know the truth, Jess told me about some of your Punta Cana pics last night....I thought they looked familiar, LOL!!! So are you already brainstorming for costume ideas for halloween?
The Makings of ME
