THE REVIVAL

soul food rite here. i made this apart of me. thank ya'll for making this and doing what you do.

THE REVIVAL from EMERGENCE Media on Vimeo.

new millinium falcon

Sooooooooooooooooooo what a day, what a day, what a day! Well got the first (well not really) video shoot of my very own (again not really that was cloud city) with the hilarious Mr. Wes Goodlife under my belt. It was crazy, frustrating, funny,enlightining and i learned a lot. I wanna thank everyone who was involved. Of course Wes Goodlife of KissKissGoodnight prod. Kitty wu (my manager) Mel Carne who flew up from the bay and played down brown leah, Ryan and B-flat for jumpin me and lettin Mel and I beat them up. the City of Seattle (ID, Seattle Center and the north end). Much love and i aint takin my shirt off for NOBODY!!

the filth part 2

cloud city

this is off my blaq han solo themed ep (which had 10 songs) Cold Hearted in Cloud City. Dir. by Wes Goodlife of KissKissGoodnight prod. enjoy

Khingz- Cloud City from Wes Goodlife on Vimeo.

Shot on a HV30 and edited with Final Cut Pro, for Kiss Kiss GoodNight Films

Khingz
Cloud City
Cold Hearted in Cloud City
Dir: Wes Goodlife

bout time

please enjoy this sublime dedication to the place that raised me.

my brotha daichi!!

how the fucc did i not know about this???!! Daichi is one of my best friends and and I gave the toast at T-bone steaks wedding. I was in cali when this dropped but damn I was slippin! I hella mis these dudes they both moved bacc to japan and left a lil whole in me that wont be filled til i get out there and see them. any way here's the video to fight lullaby off T-bones latest album. (which I'm also on how did i not know about this).

my lil devil!!

kitty wu got one so now so do I!! see it's a compatition hahaha!!!
This is my article off of eldiablito.com. re-copyed in it's entirety. Shout out to the homie Senyor Cullera for writing an article that makes me sound interesting. much appreciated!! Best christmas ever. haha. NOW READ!


From the Maroon Colony to solo debut Mi Vida Negra through his contributions through Absynnian Creole (nee Ab-Knights), on to his latest opus, From Slaveships to Spaceships; the Dominicano/Haitian rapper, Khingz has been pushing forward with artistry and intelligence to places rarely breached by people with such talent and delivery.

While many people would agree with the cause and beliefs of Khingz, formerly Khalil Crisis (Born Khalil Equiano), the majority of those rappers/singers/activists which take up the social causes which Khingz espouses are not nearly as talented; nor do they have an interesting a story. Whether it was when his ancestors were brought over as human chattel to work on the island of Hispaniola or when his family came to the United States, struggle has never been something to set them back. Khingz still fights back against the effect of colonization and slavery. Although not physically in chains, the battle is now in mind and spirit.

As Khingz explains it, the challenge is now to overcome the mentality brought about as the Europeans “taught us we where in no way equal to those who oppressed us.” Just as the people in Mexico are proud to represent La Raza, Khingz is quick to represent his culture proudly, teaching his fellows that theirs is just as valuable and vibrant as any other.

Bespectacled, and polite with a smile, Equiano does not carry himself with the stereotypical angry revolutionary ways. Instead he is focused on empowerment along with finding ways to overcome “the legacy of poverty and disempowerment that comes with having the resources of your people taken away.” Such has not always been a positive effort, when Khalil had not yet earned his crown.

“As a youth my self hate was aimed outward to other folks (who looked just like me but wore a different color or lived on the other side of town) and in some ways violence against them was violence against myself which didn't bother me because I hated my self.”

As he grew in time, Equiano realized that behaving in such ways was counter-productive. He formed the hip-hop crew Maroon Colony and turned his rage in other ways. He became one of the most accomplished and recognized battle MCs this side of Alpha P. Facing down nationwide competition in the Brainstorm Battle, Khalil was the first champion of the esteemed event.

Through forming Absynnian Creole with Ethiopian-American spoken word artist/hip-hop poet Gabriel Teodros, Khingz was able to round out his game. Being able to meld well with the South Seattle neighborhoods of his upbringing, the Latin roots and power and soul of his African ancestry has turned Khingz into a dynamo. While some artists would be proud to be classified as being similar to another pop radio entity, Khingz proudly displays who he is; an original.

To borrow a turn-of-phrase from collaborator Teodros, Khingz is a “cultural chameleon” who can be successful in many different arenas of urban music because he is authentic while still not allowing himself to settle for the status quo. Indeed, we have seen him (and his people) grow up from Slaveships to Spaceships; Khingz is headed to another level of invention that Gene Roddenberry never imagined.

Khingz.com

Por Lo Senyor Cullera

Go see Khingz this Christmas Night as he rocks the party with Santa Claus at Seattle Hip-Hop monthly, The Corner.

*SANTA CLAUS
*KHINGZ
*ORBITRON
*JARV DEE (W/B.A.Y.B. & CLOUDNICE)
*DJ NANINO

THE RENDEZVOUS
2322 2ND AVE(BELLTOWN)

21+ $5 10P
myspace.com/thecorner206
facebook.com/joe corner

HI-Life Sound System

Me and the mad geniuses behind GodSpeed have created a group called HI_life sound sytem (or just Hi-Life) we had our debut with Big World breaks last Friday. it was some epic shit look foward to us releasing a dope album in 2010!! here's a clip from our first time roccin at the nectar. shout out to my homeboy Nam i just made a couple million wit!! hahaha!! much fun.



just relized i spent half this clip jumpin around in the crowd.

Tribal music!!

Aiit these cats where my main main main influence!! that do the math was the reason i really thought i could do some rappin in seattle. 14 fathoms was dope but this really dialed into me.

Boot camp Clicc

Aiiit these guys where my main eastcoast influence. it started wit the shining by smiff and wesson (one of my favorite records of all time) but then i went bacc to black moon and stayed up on everything they did till this day. still a huge fan!!! while lynch and kurupt influenced my cadence (and subject matter to be honest) these guys had flows and had hella fun doing it. made me wanna be in a group.

bro lynch

another influence on me style wise. Look i'm from the south end and you aint grow up in the end in the 90's and NOT fucc with this. season of the sicc was the sound tracc to every summer for a minute!!!

that kuruption!!

ok so wanna the biggest influences on my style was all ways kurupt the kingpen. ever since lyrical gang bang and niggaz and bitches i thought dude was raw. I obviously grew into my own flow and continue to evolve it but you can still hear that cat in me when i get to frre stylin to this day.

Macclemor x Ryan Lewis VS EP

do yourself a mighty favor and get this!!!!!

get it here

kitty wu eldiablito interview

So kitty wu didnt wanna post this cuz she thought it would be weird to post it her self. so here it is.

Kitty, Kitty Wu!!! Who are you?
Written by Senyor Cullera

Judi Rafaela “Kitty Wu” Martínez, the bubbly and cute-as-a-button face of the Coolout Network will be turning 21 this coming week (we tease, but it would be wrong to reveal a lady’s age), so we decided to get to know the hija de Zacatecas a little bit more. As of late she, along with Coolout collaborator and fellow NW luminary Georgio Brown, has been focusing on a documentary film of 30 years of NW area Hip-Hop music and culture. She’s no one-trick-pony though. She can strut and chew gum at the same time; while also running things in the leadership of the 206 Zulu and Managing Accounts with Devastator Management. As told to Lo Senyor:

What was your “oh shit! Welcome to the industry” moment?
[D]riving up to Bellingham to hear Chuck D speak at the college up there and out of the blue there is a blizzard and our VJ cancels. Georgio looks at me and says, ‘You gotta do it.’ I am looking at him like he is crazy. This is Chuck D of Public Enemy, you know? I was terrified. I remember shaking my head and just repeating no when Chuck D comes over all calm and says something to the affect of ‘it's gonna be good, we'll get through it,’ and of course we did (no thanks to my great interviewing skills). I learned real quick that in this medium it is all about the eye and the edit.

How did you fall in love with Hip-Hop?
When I fell in love with Hip-Hop I had no idea it was Hip-Hop. To me it was dance music. My girlfriends and I would sneak out and drive….to this club in the U District called the Underground. Donald Glaude and Randy Schlager would be spinning things like "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock, "I'll House You" by the Jungle Brothers and "Paid in Full" by Eric B & Rakim, that type of thing.

And Seattle Rap?
My besty Michelle had a tape that our guy Todd Krake had made. The last song on the tape was "Squaredance Rap" with that crazy voice that Mix was using on that
track. I think we must have rewound and listened to that song 10x before we got out of the car. I just remember thinking...who is THIS guy...this sounds like nothing I have ever heard in my life.

What is it like for your children to grow up with a ‘Cool Mom?’
Good question. Mi hijos have differing views on whether or not their mom is cool. My oldest child and my middle child both work with me for our all-ages programming for 206 Zulu. They have grown up immersed in a love for the culture. Now, my youngest is very much into rock. The only time I am cool to him is during Bumbershoot. This year one of his favorite groups, Modest Mouse was performing on my stage. The look on his face that day after seeing them is one of my favorite memories. One weekend a year I get
to be cool in his book, other than that I am just Mom.

If (INSERT SONG TITLE HERE) is not played at my birthday party at Nectar, my night will not be complete!!!
"Blaq Han Solo" by Khingz!!!

Kitty’s Birthday Party will be a lovely, lovely event. Please feel free to buy her favorite drink, a Champurrado, for her and enjoy the jams as everyone parties with the most talented DJs the NW has to offer.

Sunday Dec 20th FREE @ 8pm

Nectar Lounge
412 N 36th St
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 632-2020
www.nectarlounge.com

For Coolout’s Coverage of the history of 206 Zulu, please don’t neglect yourself; visit:

http://vimeo.com/4664125 (part 1)
http://vimeo.com/4649381 (part 2)

Devastator Management Group
khingz.com & shabazzpalaces.com

!!GO MACHINE!!!!!

if you where in seattle and no showed to this.... you fucced your self.

Cloud city ATS

lil somethin from after the shoot for cloud city by wes goodlife of kisskissgoodnight prod.

cloud city the making of feat. Wes Goodlife from khalil equiano on Vimeo.

quicc lil wsup after we finished the shoot for the video for Cloud City the intro to my last ep.

Look strait up, I don't like how mudede writes and that's the truth (to much self aggrandizement and not enough focus on the actual music). Though I must admit I agree with more of this article then any other he has ever written. My guys from HellaDope are just that and I'm happy they got a positive write up it's been long over do. so with out further delay direct from the pages of a blog you could read yourself(the stranger ) HellaDope by charles Mudede

Rocket Science Diction Seattle Hiphoppers Helladope's Space Race to Planet Rock

If I were to rate the 20 best local hiphop albums of all time, 25 to 30 percent of the music on that list would come from 2009 alone. Since Dyme Def opened the year with the Panic EP, there has been a deluge of remarkable recordings by a wild variety of rappers and producers. Indeed, there is so much good music coming out that it's hard to keep up with it. These days, it goes like this for Seattle hiphop fans: While enjoying and trying to fully absorb a new recording by some young cat or established veteran, a newer and equally interesting recording drops. For example, on the day before Thanksgiving, I received THEESatisfaction's latest, "Icing," a gem of a tune produced by OC Notes in his Pioneer Square studio. But the day before receiving "Icing," I was listening to Helladope's Return to Planet Rock and trying to come to terms with yet another contender for the best local hiphop recording of the year. When it rains, it pours.

Helladope are a rapper/producer duo from Blue Scholars' land, Beacon Hill. Consisting of 29-year-old rapper Jerm and 22-year-old producer/MC Tay Sean, Helladope are part of a larger entity that came into existence in 2007, Cloud Nice. This collective includes acts such as THEESatisfaction, Jus Moni, Thaddeus, and Mowglii. The collective's reason for existence is to promote and consolidate the "culturally diverse Beacon Hill community." Helladope are also part of what I call, and will continue to call, the third wave of local hiphop, whose leading figures are They Live!, Mad Rad, Champagne Champagne, and GMK. Third wave, which also includes albums like OOF! by the Blue Scholars and From Slaveships to Spaceships by Khingz, is defined by a robust eclecticism, producing albums around themes, and a postracial attitude to fashion and fusion of cultural elements. (Indeed, the Go! Machine shows at the Crocodile can be seen as a celebration of this new movement in local hiphop.)

With Helladope's Return to Planet Rock, the theme is space travel, rocket science fiction, distant galaxies, stars, and moons. On this album, a rapper is not human but an alien who happens to be in the form of a human. We also hear a race of rappers declare: "This is my planet!" But we do not know on which planet they dwell. There is also a chill "Cosmic Voyage" with THEESatisfaction on a pimped-out spaceship. And on "We Come in Peace," dark energy makes an appearance and throws down a rap to a disco beat: "We are the energy causing your planet to rotate." Musically, Helladope keep it low-tech, with cheap-sounding synths, old-school drum-machine rolls, and electro-funk beats. Theirs is not the future as we see it today (which is a biotech future), but as it was seen in the past, in the '70s and '80s (man-machines, space suits, radio transmissions). This is the future of yesterday; this is a return to Planet Rock.

Let's go back to the early '80s and think for a moment about two groundbreaking tracks—"Clear" by Cybotron and "Computer Age (Push the Button)" by Newcleus. Both tracks, which the theorist Kodwo Eshun would call works of "sonic fiction" (the black form of science fiction), are very serious. "Clear" is about an army of machines that is clearing, erasing everything to create space for a new tomorrow. "Computer Age (Push the Button)" fears the eradication of the human past by machines. With Helladope's sonic fiction, all of the anxieties and nihilistic drives are removed, and what we have instead is a future that's all about play. "You boys and girls get on the floor and show me something new," raps the cheerful and encouraging robot on "The Soul Electric." The age of "Pro Tools, and YouTube, and MySpace, and Google" does not fear the power of machines.

One more point about Return to Planet Rock, and also THEESatisfation's Snow Motion (these two locally produced albums interlock). The father of this dusty, low-tech, science-fiction funk is veteran producer/­rapper Specs One. Back in the late '90s and early '00s, he released a series of CDs (which are now very hard to find) that contained beats and raps that sounded as if they were transmitted from another world. Helladope have, of course, a much cleaner sound than Specs's early recordings, but the space mode/cosmic mood is one and the same. The "original space neighbor" now has a lot of company on his far-out street

what up black!!

love this guy enuf to spell his name right. THATS REAL.

Souls is bacc!!

i remeber drivin to oakland in a car fulla crips and ending up smoking and freestyling with pep love over at a-plus' house over this beat he made off wanna the scores on tenchu. good memories.




aye at the end of the video on the cover, whose the 5th guy? is that jesus? is jesus in souls of mischief? i could believe that.

dame-

word dame dash and ill-literacy are redefining my vision for my career. They're giving voice to alot of the half formed ideas churning in my head. checc out this interview wit street level.

StreetLevel.com Presents: On The Level Ep. 6 with Damon Dash from streetxlevel on Vimeo.

lets not do this to eat lets do this to feed.

fresh espresso

what up rik!!

it's a northwest classic

BOOM Baby my next show is going down. i will be performing with be flat as part of the hi-life sound system get redu folk!!

making some filth part 1

decided to document the making of my next album. I'm calling it the filth right now but that is subject to change. here's the first installment of the series james lipton you have permission to love this now.

khingz-the filth part 1 from khalil equiano on Vimeo.

i make music, this is how.

maclemore bts for The Town

yea so Zia has a new blog called loveandshoestrings.com.
pretty cool huh?

guy marries game... foreal!!

That Nene Anegasaki, she's a charmer. She's also a video game character from extreme dating sim Love Plus, now wedded to a flesh and blood gamer.

The two were married when a man brought his DS along with a copy of Love Plus to a church in Guam. There's no word on honeymoon plans, but the two will be holding a small reception for family, close friends and the internet on November 22nd. (Seriously, there will be a webcam and stuff.)

It just goes to show, the power of Woman has no bounds. Stick her in a digital fortress, simplify her beauty to Nintendo DS rendering limits and give her a shrill, anime voice. Woman will triumph all the same. [Tiny Cartridge via technabob]

Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at mark@gizmodo.com.

TOWN SHIT!!!!!!!!

Kam Moye speaks the truth

so this off of Kam moye's journal witch was on some hip hop game blah blah blah site here's the link.

thouth this was funny, well thought out, and witty so i repost here in its entirety enjoy.

Nowadays, the line between artists and fans are completely blurred. Fans and listeners now have a platform to voice their complaints and make as many demands directly to the artists. Sometimes it's a great idea but it also leaves room for some serious WTF moments. Imagine if you could've emailed Rakim back in the day and told him personally that 'Chinese Arithmetic' was the worst song on Paid In Full? Just imagine the emails that Big Daddy Kane would've received when 'Prince of Darkness' dropped. With that in mind, I decided to make a list of the 10 Things to Never Say to an Indie Artist. These are responses that your favorite indie artists wants to tell you but probably doesn't. This list was written from a sarcastic, humorous standpoint so PLEASE don't take offense. I know how sensitive and defensive people get about these type of things. There's just as much truth as there is humor in this list though.

1. How are the album sales so far?
We're INDIE! If the sales were worth raving about then we'd be sitting in Jimmy Iovine's office right now. Asking an indie artist how his/her album is selling is like asking someone with bad credit how much they are paying for their monthly car note. No matter how you answer it, it still sounds horrible to the average person.

2. I'm a big fan of your music. We need to do a collabo...
*pump the brakes* This is a very confusing moment for an artist because you have officially crossed into that Grey area between fan and businessman. Let me just break it down for you in Layman's terms. I am probably one of the biggest DJ Premier fans on the planet. Do you honestly think that because I bought every Gangstarr album that Primo will be that more interested in working with me? Trust me, if that method was effective then I'd be CCing Alchemist, Pete Rock, and Just Blaze the exact same message right now telling them how much I love their production. You can not be a fan and artist all in the SAME conversation. And for the record, you don't get discounts just because you're a fan. I have eaten at this one restaurant almost every week for the past 5 years and they have never once given me a discount on my bill....ever!

3. I like your new stuff but your first album is still your best work...
That's a backhanded compliment for someone who has multiple albums. Imagine your girlfriend telling you that you're good... just not as good as the first guy she slept with. Kind of stings the ego a lil' doesn't it?

4. Why don't you ever do shows here?
Indie artists don't pick where we choose to do shows. Hell If the money is right, we will perform in front of pack of hungry lions in the Sahara Desert. Don't get angry at the artist when your city is left out of the tour schedule. If an artist doesn't come to your city then your local promoters are responsible. If there is no demand for an artist in your city then you can forget about it. Showing up to perform for you and all 5 of your homies sounds like a good idea but does not warrant a show in your city. That's a loss that nobody is trying to take. How about you and all of the fans in the area put your money together and book the artist yourself? You'd probably do a better job then some promoters.

5. Do you want to come to the car/studio and listen to my beats/production?
NO....we don't. This is just a confidence booster used by people who need it. To see your favorite rapper nodding his head to your music might be a dream of yours but it's surely not one of his. DO NOT believe half of what people tell you when you meet them in person. Sometimes we say what you like to hear just to end the conversation quicker. This trick was invented and mastered by women who will take your number with no intentions on ever calling you. Give us a beat CD and keep it moving (make sure you put tags on them). Please do not send constant emails/messages/tweets asking if they have listened to your beats or not. I don't know of one artist who will like your beats and not contact you...well then again, unless they are going to ante up the beat for themselves. No pun intended.

6. So what REALLY happened between you and _____?
Asking about someone's personal differences or beefs is just in bad taste especially when you don't have anything to do with it. Just because there aren't thousands of people reading it on the Internet doesn't mean that it's going to be kept confidential. Fans will go home and post everything you tell them on a message board or blog. Cyber-snitching is reaching its peak! Contrary to popular belief, everything shouldn't be aired out publicly via CL Smooth-style. I know the Perez Hilton in you wants to know the real story but kill that TMZ shit, homie!

7. Your album was the album of the year next to _________.
Well go and swing your poms poms in front of that glorious dude! Nobody likes to be second best. The proper response from an artist should be..."You were almost the fan of the year... but the guy before you actually bought something before he talked my head off for 15 minutes".

8. What was it like working with _________?
It's 2009 and the chances of artists actually being in the studio together is very rare. I get asked what it was like working with KRS One or Stoupe all the time. It was wonderful....I recorded it at my studio, uploaded the files via Megaupload, and they downloaded them. I waited months (sometimes years) to hear the final version and then I bought a copy just like everyone else. Yep, it's definitely something to tell the kids about.....

9. Why do they always play bullshit like ______ on the radio?
There's no golden answer other than the simple fact that a lot of people like to buy that 'bullshit'. (Insert Hated Rapper here) fans don't sit around analyzing every kick and snare or expect every album to be a hip hop classic before they buy it. There's no measuring stick used to see if an album is too long, too short, or the next Illmatic. To some people, music is....just music. Plus, this is a business. The local pizza parlor is 10 times better than Domino's but Domino's still remains more popular (even though it's god awful). The commercials on the radio are what pays the bills so the music on the radio is just an interlude in between the next commercial. If given enough money and advertising dollars, a radio station would play a song about having wild sex on your birthday. Oh wait..... *LOL smiley face*

10. Track # ____ on your CD is AMAZING!
So amazing that you never even bothered to look at the credits and learn the name of that ONE song that you love so much? We don't recognize songs by track #'s or descriptions. “You know, the song about getting old...”. Imagine if we just got lazy and started naming our projects, Album #1 and Album #2. Oh yeah, Album #3 is in stores now BTW!!!

11. You should have _____ on your next album..
1) Whose to say that the artist you're recommending even likes our music or vice versa. 2) These things cost money and believe it or not, nobody successful truly does it 'for the love'. 3) It's your taste and opinion but it's not YOUR album. You can tell McDonald's to add extra pickles to your sandwich but do you really think they are going to change it permanently just because you like it? Not a chance. Sometimes music works the same way.

12. Could you please upload the ________ song to your Myspace/Reverb Nation/etc...? It's my favorite song.

Listen here, buddy. It's good to know that it's your favorite song but we are not your personal Hibachi chefs! We do not do whatever you like, whenever you like. We do not function at the push of a button or at the request of everyone. Life just doesn't work that way. This is the false hope/friendship that social networks have built up between artists and fans (I'll speak on that on my next blog). And secondly, do you really think that someone will go through the trouble of uploading a song on a website just for ONE person... other than themselves???? Here's an option, play the CD or iTunes player while you're on the Internet. It has the same effect *ba dum TSSSSSH*

-KM

go head moye!!! his new joint splitting image is out now buy here

and here's a video off that very joint please support smart black people!!!

army suicides

well joining the army is kinda an act of suicide if your dad isn'ta millionaire but shiiiit. shout to the homie adrian for hippin me to this. Just anopther reason to end war.
from yahoo news.

By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 3 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make progress in stemming them, officials said Tuesday.

Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli said that as of Monday, 140 active duty soldiers were believed to have died of self-inflicted wounds so far in 2009. That's the same as were confirmed for all of 2008.

"We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year ... this is horrible, and I do not want to downplay the significance of these numbers in any way," he said.

But Chiarelli said there has been a tapering off in recent months from large surges in suspected suicides in January and February.

"Our goal since the beginning has been to reduce the overall incidence of suicide and I do believe we are finally beginning to see progress being made," Chiarelli told a Pentagon press conference.

He attributed those hints of a turning to some unprecedented efforts the Army has made since February to educate soldiers and leaders about the issue.

Officials are still stumped about what is driving the historically high rates across the military force. When asked whether the rates reflect unprecedented high stress from long and repeated deployments to provide manpower for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chiarelli said he didn't know.

"The reality is there is no simple answer," he said. "Each suicide is as unique as the individuals themselves."

The rising suicide rate is not unique to the Army. Marine Corps suicides also are higher again this year — there were 42 reported as of Oct. 31 compared with 42 for all of 2008, 33 in 2007 and 25 in 2006.

Though the two ground forces have borne most of the fighting in the two current wars, both the Army and Marines have found that about a third of the self-inflicted deaths were among troops that had never deployed to the battles.

Chiarelli said that on top of the 140 suicides reported from the active duty Army force, there were another 71 suicides by troops in the National Guard and Reserve.

All of the numbers are preliminary in that investigations into some of the deaths are still ongoing. Of the 140 so far this year among active duty troops, 90 have been confirmed as suicides and 50 are suspected but the probes are not yet finished.

Each year, nearly all suspected suicides are eventually confirmed. For instance in 2008, there were 143 suspected and 140 were eventually confirmed.

Chiarelli said officials will continue to focus on things that are symptoms of high-risk individuals such as undiagnosed brain injuries like concussions; on Post-Traumatic Stress, and on risky behavior such as poor diet and sleep habits as well as more serious behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse.

The Army widened its suicide prevention in March in an attempt to make rapid improvements. In October, the service introduced its Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, which Chiarelli called "the biggest step ... taken to enhance wellness in the entire force through prevention rather than treatment."

The program aims to put the same emphasis on mental and emotion strength as the military traditionally has on physical strength. Basic training now includes anti-stress programs as part of a broader effort to help soldiers deal with the aftereffects of combat and prevent suicides.

Also last month, the Army started using a new screening questionnaire to try to determine preexisting or current mental health issues among troops as part of the enlistment process.

Despite those campaigns, another jump in suicide figures for 2009 would make it the fifth straight year that such deaths have set a record within the military. Last year's 140 record erased a high 115 in 2007 and 102 in 2006.

Chiarelli said officials are concerned with increases this year at Fort Campbell, Fort Stewart and Schofield Barracks and are trying to learn why suicides rates are down at Fort Hood, Fort Bragg and Fort Drum.

At Fort Campbell in Kentucky there were 18, while at Fort Bragg, N.C., which has almost double the population, there have been six all year.

Using some bases as examples of the trend downward, Chiarelli said that of the 18 suicides reported this year at Fort Campbell, 11 of those were in the first four months of the year. At Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, there were seven all year so far — five in the first five months of the year and only two since.

The numbers kept by the service branches don't show the whole picture of war-related suicides because they don't include deaths after people have left the military. The Department of Veterans Affairs tracks those numbers and says there were 144 suicides among the nearly 500,000 service members who left the military from 2002-2005 after fighting in at least one of the wars.

The true incidence of suicide among military veterans is not known, according to a report last year by the Congressional Research Service. Based on numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the VA estimates that 18 veterans a day — or 6,500 a year — take their lives, but that number includes vets from all previous wars.

IB4the1.1

Here's a lil the Ill-literacy album IB4the1. i been bumpin it all morning. Kool-Aid!! Shout out to my west brethren livin in the belly of the east love ya'll!!


get it herrr

Little dragon

they recently came to the northwest (or southwest for those of us in VAN) and i missed them. i knew that there would be to many hipsters at this show and i can't live my life around them but here's a video for me to pretend i was there (tho not sure where this video was shot.)

mad to live - little dragon (episode 1) from DGinandTonic on Vimeo.

NO man's land - bobby ray

no shit talk just video.

what i like too do all day

I wish I had more homies who where in to this stuff. I am nowhere as dope as this kid but i get inspired by this shit. It's why I ride bmx. You can do trix on street bike (or fixie to those who think it's a bike frame) or a mountain bike but you look retarded. I also like black folks with old english sounding names SUP NIGEL!!!

Escape From Tomorrow (A Day In the Life With Nigel Sylvester) from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.

aboveground shows some love

I'm highly ignorant as to the nature of this magazine (my friend thinks i was in it too haha ) but they throwin love to 8 rymers from my city that people mite not be up on. If you from Seattle and don't know these cats YOUR TRIPPIN. If from other parts well checc em out!!




Eight Seattle MCs You Might Be Sleeping On

from @6fingers

These are a couple songs I got off this cat @6fingers twitter from my homie @bambudepistola and one of my favorite emcees Hopie Spitshard (who i saw rocc in the bay onetime SHE KILLED IT!). enjoy.

Hopie Spitshard


Bambu

Zia is a genius.

no lie i once got 165 butterfingers off this guy that he won in a video contest and i sold each for like 2 bux. made a lil profit, but fucc nestle. He is also being recognized by the stranger as a genuius checc it out!!



Has made music videos for:

Blue Scholars, Gabriel Teodros, Jake One, Common Market, and Macklemore.

Wants to make:

A short film about Yesler Terrace (before it gets torn down).

Is the first genius award winner who:

Is a practicing Baha'i.

Filmmaking is almost never an exciting process. In fact, the more boring the shoot is, the higher the chances that the director is doing respectable work. Actors waiting and waiting, producers fretting about the schedule, the director ignoring the pressure as he or she slowly searches for the best possible image, pulling only a few shots at a time—these are all good signs. Great film is not the product of luck. It is the product of patience and persistence and boredom.

It is boring up on the roof of the Kawabe Memorial House (the K building), where Zia Mohajerjasbi is on the set for his music video of "The Town," a new tune by local hiphop star Macklemore. (The video will premiere on November 13, the day of the Genius Awards party.) Mohajerjasbi is absorbed by his camera, checking and rechecking the image on the miniscreen for the exact point to place Macklemore. The rapper is waiting and waiting, talking to DJ DV One, who had arrived only to learn he would not be needed until the next day. Mohajerjasbi's producer, Sam Toloui, is fretting about the schedule: Dusk is quickly approaching, the city is under heavy clouds, and the shoot is three hours behind.

His shoots may be boring, but Mohajerjasbi's music videos and short films are the opposite of his slow and dull process. More than anyone else, his images have captured the new energies of Seattle's emerging hiphop scene and the vibrant colors of its 21st- century cosmopolitanism. Mohajerjasbi is only 24 years old, and he is already redefining not only filmmaking in Seattle, but the image of Seattle itself.

There are three reasons why Zia Mohajerjasbi won this year's Genius Award in the film category. The first and leading reason: Through a technical knowledge of film production and sharp artistic instincts, he has been able to democratize "the beautiful image" (described by Roland Barthes in his essay on Greta Garbo's face) and make it accessible to the people. The second reason: He is developing a new cinematic language for the city. The third: He is the first filmmaker in Seattle with a cosmopolitan project that's authentic rather than superficial, realistic rather than ideological.

Mohajerjasbi's career began three years ago with a music video for Gabriel Teodros's classic "No Label." In that video, we find all of the elements that have come to define his work: the democratization (or distribution) of the beautiful image with a focus on neighborhoods, locations, and buildings that have not been a part of the city's dominant visual vocabulary. Forget the Space Needle, the Pike Place Market, and so on—"No Label" is set on and around the Dr. Jose Rizal Bridge, a fresh and cinematically unfamiliar view of the Seattle skyline—not from a ferry in the middle of Puget Sound or the heights of Queen Anne hill, but from the city's working-class and immigrant neighborhoods. "No Label" also inaugurated Mohajerjasbi's visual affair with South Seattle's thriving cosmopolitanism—African immigrants, black and white Americans, and Asian Americans, unified by the beat.

So far, Mohajerjasbi has made three local masterpieces. The first is the video for Jake One's "Home" (2009), which begins on Broadway, at Dick's Drive-In, as an homage to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "My Posse's on Broadway." (Mix-A-Lot has a cameo, playfully and contemptuously flicking a $20 bill at the new generation of Seattle rappers.) The camera then gets in a van to explore the post-gentrified Central District. No other director has filmed this area with so much affection and emotion—its homes, streets, corner shops, and young rappers hanging out together at barbecues. His second masterpiece is "Joe Metro" (a 2008 collaboration with Marty Martin), which is set on a Metro bus running northward from Beacon Hill to the financial district. Mohajerjasbi arranges images of Beacon Avenue South, the storefronts of the International District, the civic brick buildings of Yesler Way, and the glass towers of corporate prosperity into a new logic of power and counterpower, moving from the outside to the inside, a germ of musical resistance slipping into the center of domination. His third, the short film Manoj (2007), is a parody of racism in standup comedy starring comic Hari K. Kondabolu and the natural light of Seattle, which slants sharply in autumn.

Mohajerjasbi is a former student of English and architecture at UW, an Iranian American, and the brother of Sabzi, the producer behind Blue Scholars and Common Market, two of Seattle's biggest hiphop acts. Blue Scholars have a growing national reputation and sell out shows at A-list venues. In the way Sabzi has built a new sound for the current decade of hiphop, Zia has built a new visual vocabulary for that scene. But whereas Sabzi built the new sound on a long and rich history of underground local hiphop (Vitamin D, Jake One, BeanOne), Zia's videos were made on (or even from) pure air. Zia has invented a local hiphop film tradition.

Mohajerjasbi's work also aligns with the emerging independent Seattle cinema whose leading representative is Lynn Shelton, last year's Stranger Film Genius and the maker of Humpday, which won a jury prize at Sundance. This film movement is characterized by Seattle's growing recognition of itself. Before this decade, Seattle did not exist in any real way in independent cinema. For example: Gregg Lachow's film Money Buys Happiness, which was completely shot in Seattle and completed in 1999, is not set here but in a generic city.

"You know, the people in this building have an average age of 72," Mohajerjasbi says as he prepares to shoot Macklemore's video on the roof of Kawabe Memorial House. Mohajerjasbi picked the location because it has yet another view of downtown that had never been filmed before. "And they throw a barbecue on the roof when the Blue Angels are in town. The jets fly right over the building, and you can see the pilots in the cockpits. I had no idea that old people are that courageous. You'd expect them to be timid and worried about their hearts." Kawabe, a 10-story building, dominates a neighborhood that has its roots in the Japanese-American experience. Not far away is a park with a stoic statue of the 13th-century Buddhist monk Shinran Shonin, a Buddhist temple, and a Japanese-Christian church. Many of the elderly in Kawabe are immigrants: So we have the pleasing situation of the son of immigrants making a hiphop video on a building that houses aging, Blue Angel–loving immigrants.

"When I asked the managers of the building if we could shoot on their roof, they did not even think twice. They gave us complete access. I mean, it is a hiphop video and they had no problem with that." Mohajerjasbi operates with a small crew, four to six people, and does everything he can to keep costs low, but not at the expense of the beauty. He only shoots in digital, but does everything he can to reduce the sharpness of digital reproduction. "I really strive for a dirty image," he says. "Sharp images are just not emotional enough for me." He loads his digital cameras with all sorts of lenses, adjustments, and attachments to produce the kinds of images that would usually cost an arm and a leg. In this way, Mohajerjasbi fulfills the founding promise of digital filmmaking: to liberate the beautiful image from the confines of big budgets.

Many filmmakers are happy with the cheap look of digital reproduction because it helps to shorten the distance between the content and the viewer. The photography in Shelton's Humpday has few enhancements or manipulations and prefers to maintain the directness and sharpness of the digital image. The camera is to a viewer what the eye is to a person. Mohajerjasbi goes in the opposite direction; he wants the dreaminess of film, and he enhances and manipulates his cameras to achieve his dusky worlds.

"I may one day shoot with film," Mohajerjasbi says, looking into his camera, downtown behind him. "But right now it's all digital. Which is fine because there is lots to learn about digital. And that's important to remember. I'm still learning. Learning lighting—that's another monster—learning new things about cameras, like the Red. One day I will get to where I want to be, but I'm not there right now."

Where he is now, what he has made, has pioneered a new direction and discourse for Seattle cinema. Zia Mohajerjasbi has already come so far.

courtesy of the mutha fuccin stranger

T3am Av3ng3rs go hard!!!

I like TA cuz they be at my shows killin the floor hard all the "hip hop" muhfuccaz be holdin up the wall cuz they dance like white people.. when did it become un hip hop to dance. whatever to the lame watch my lil homies tho! They go IN!!

Jerkin from Mike Kane on Vimeo.

more ill-lit!!

here's my guys EPK checc it out and book them for shows and book me to open!!

iLL-Literacy Experience: The Live Show from ill-literacy on Vimeo.

Toggling between daydream and full-blown hallucination, iLL-Literacy is a music and performance collective that fuses elements of funk, hip-hop, spoken word, and interactive theatre for a sound and live experience that draws as much from the rich artistic and political history of its Oakland hometown as it does from the experimental and imaginative inclinations of its current Brooklyn base. In their recorded debut "iB4the1" members Dahlak, N.i.C, and Drizzletron work everything from the ground up – from in-house production, to self-directed music videos, to the development of a new approach to musical interaction that intimately involves the listener throughout the inception, production, and promotion of the final product.

Although 2009 marks iLL-Literacy's first studio release, the group has been touring globally since 2006. With contributing efforts of live digital producer Ada Clock, this year's live production – directed by Kamilah Forbes (director of "Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" and internationally-acclaimed play "Scourge") – assertively invites the audience not only to participate in the experience, but to shift the process and outcome of each show through an "open-sourced" exchange of sound and motion that the group has dubbed "digit.iLL.Funk."

The first chapter of iB4the1 releases November 2009, with subsequent chapters unveiling in the spring and fall of 2010.

rose city homies!!

I been away for a minute trying to figure out my life and my next couple of moves. I'm making my plans to move bacc into the city that raised me so if you know about apartmenets and shit holler at me!!
but this post ain't about me its about a couple of my fam bams from south of Van WA (waaay diffrent then where I'm at). Sleep been a freind of mine for a minute since the mid 90's (damn i still feel like that just happened) and Tony Hill is related to me at ths point this video is off my guy's latest record called "Hesitation Wounds" get it now!!!!

I swear!!!!!

A lil video we conjuered up in the Central and southend a couple months bacc. Happy Birfday to @jacktheripper3 sorry i missed your shindig!
well without further ado..

Fucc heathrow !!!

aint this about a mutha fuccin ... what ever. i'm cold pissed at this shit right here. I never liked the UK but now... Lemme stop and let gabe explain this is off his blog. Please help my guy get some money for his trip.

First off, Rest In Peace to the homie TalkSick. A face you knew if you went to any hip hop show in Seattle in the last 5 years, a town historian, and he also ran this blog - The War of the Words. Words can't even express it... you will be missed, homie.

The show at Chop Suey last Thursday was a smashing success. I never felt so loved and so vulnerable at a hip hop show before... the new songs can be a little hard to do, i found out! I suppose that's just what happens when you push yourself to write something your scared of talking about every day for a month. Premiered 10 new songs off of Colored People's Time Machine that night while the homie Jonathan Matas started doing the coverwork live on stage. The homie-for-life Toni Hill came up from Portland to open up the show and to join me for a few tracks, Khingz killed it with new material off his Cold Hearted In Cloud City EP (look for that online soon) and we ended with a surprise: Abyssinian Creole as Sexual Chocolate! Much love to everyone who came throo, and helped make the show such a success: Amos Miller, EarDrumz, WD4D, Massiah, Rahwa, Lulu, Canary Sing, Dume41, Kitty Wu, Daniel Lint, Scott, Andria, and every single person in the audience that night! It was almost too much to handle. The next night, Rogue Pinay, Khingz and myself smashed up to Bellingham for a small show at Western. The new songs feel so good to do.

The weekend hit and i found myself caught between interviews and drowning in a million little details to wrap up before my flight to Europe on Tuesday... so of course i got sick and bed-ridden. Ugh. Determined to knock the flu out in one day i ate cloves of garlic, 5000mg of Vitamin C throughout the day, drank lots of fluid, had lots of rest.


On Monday i needed to run a couple errands so i left the house for a couple hours with my sister WongWeezy and in the 2 hours or so we were gone, the house i was moving out of caught fire and almost burnt down! It was a grease fire that started while one of the homies was cooking, the fire travelled up to the vent above the stove which then burst into flames, and it could only be put out with a fire extinguisher (which we conveniently stored right above where the flames were). My friend was able to keep the fire contained to the one part of the kitchen (and really risked her life to do that) before the fire truck came and put it all the way out. By the time we got home all the walls in the kitchen were another color from the smoke. My friend who was home alone, moving in the next day, and who basically saved our entire house from burning down was cleaning with my other roomie and friends, while coughing up smoke.... and i just had to pack. Horrible feeling.

Tuesday rolled around and it was time to go too soon... the flight to London was 11 and a half hours with a really quick change of flights in Reykjavik, Iceland. I had already heard my share of horror stories regarding UK Customs at the London-Heathrow Airport, and i've had a couple pretty crazy experiences crossing into Canada over the years for shows, so, i felt like i was prepared for it all. I had a family member meeting me at the airport, address and phone number of who i was staying with while in London, I wasn't carrying any merchandise, and i had a receipt from a $1000 deposit into my bank from earlier in the morning. "It should be all good" i thought.

Got to the customs check around Noon on Wednesday. The series of questions seemed to be pretty routine, except this guy didn't seem to believe that i was just in London to visit family, even though there was family in the hallway. He got to the question of who purchased my plane ticket, and indeed, the University of Kent did purchase that plane ticket, as well as my flight that was scheduled to leave London and go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on December 1st. So it was my fault for not being completely honest about the fact that i was performing in the UK. I got detained, fingerprinted, arrested, for the first time in my life. I was in the holding room for 8 hours before being told that i'm getting sent back to the United States. But what's really frustrating? Is that since i was invited to participate in an academic conference, i didn't even need a work visa for the performance i was scheduled to do, and the University of Kent actually got UK Customs all the paperwork that was needed in the time i was being held. Apparently, i was kicked out because they didn't believe i had enough funds to support myself while in the UK, yet no one working there could tell me exactly how much money would be sufficient. So i didn't know why i was being held for so long, and the reason they gave for kicking me out is sketchy. The 2nd time i was interviewed the guy had a huge file on me, i couldn't see everything in it, but i noticed printed versions of my wikipedia page and other materials off the internet were in there.

What else i can tell you about my experience at London-Heathrow is that it was only people of color in the holding room, that they separate us from all of our belongings, phone numbers etc. And there is a pay phone in the room. The seats are uncomfortable... no windows, just flickering fluorescent lights... and it feels like jail for real. Everyone else i met throughout the day seemed to be really cool people with no ill intention whatsoever, just unprepared to get treated like a criminal when they come halfway around the world to see their loved ones. The first person i met was a younger Eritrean brotha from Toronto, who came to surprise his girlfriend who is attending school out there, for her birthday. The most surreal moment of the day for me was when this brotha realized who i was and he knew my music, and he said it was an honor to meet me... all i could say was, "likewise," and "i wish it was under better circumstances". Him and his girl coincidentally have the same last name... they are not married... this happens a lot in our countries, it's different because our last names are passed down from our fathers first names. Well the UK couldn't believe this (they looked at me like i was crazy when i didn't know my moms cousins last name too) and ended up sending that boy home. I wanted to cry they were so cold to him.

My next cell mate was an older Black woman from Chicago, who was coming to visit her niece who actually serves in the military in the UK. More then anything, it seemed like she was being held for not understanding the questions, they actually gave her a 2 day pass to see her niece before deporting her too.

Hours later when they were finally ready to pass judgement on me it was so sudden... dude just burst in the room, barked that he's sending me home and that there will be no further discussion. Before i could even have time to ask anything he was telling me how i'd be on the next plane to Iceland, and that there were no more flights to Seattle from Iceland for 3 days. At the time i didn't know if he meant i would be in an Iceland jail or just sitting at the Airport so i said "Send me on the first flight to anywhere in the States then..." and i started listing cities: "Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles..." I ended up not having a choice in the matter, but they did put me on the next flight to New York City and i only had to spend one night in Keflavik, Iceland... which wasn't so bad because they didn't lock me up there, and i found a hotel right next to the airport.

That hotel in Iceland was the first time i got to access the internet... if your following me on Twitter or Facebook you know whatsup. Before I had even arrived in New York City on Thursday night the homie Jonathan Cunningham already had an article written that was circulating all around the internet. To welcome me back to the United States, I had my bags literally taken apart and every single t-shirt examined while the rest of my flight passed me by. Only person of color on the flight, only one searched. What's hilarious is that i know i was also the only person on the flight that hadn't really left airport security in 3 days. Way to keep us all safe, amerika...

In New York, i was fortunate enough to crash at the good homie Budo's house the first night, and have been staying at him and Grieves studio since then. Grieves is already out on tour and Budo's about to join him after an A.R.M. listening party in Minneapolis this week. I checked out a few CMJ events, got to see a bunch of family... DJ Ian Head, Geologic, Adebe D.B., Isabella Du Graf, Grynch, DJ Nphared, iLL-literacy, Devon & Jen from Sportn' Life, One Be Lo, Karim, and much more... i got to make some new music... but have really just had some hard choices and am left feeling like "what am i supposed to do now?"

Imagine waking up in a city you didn't plan on going to, 3000 miles from home and 3000 miles from where you planned to go... that's where i am now. I moved out of my apartment in Seattle... everything is in storage, i planned on being gone til January, there's no reason to go back now. I missed the one show in Europe that was paying enough for me to get to the rest of the shows i had booked there... If i were to buy another plane ticket to somewhere else in Europe to catch the tour, it would all just be a huge financial loss. And i can't use my ticket from London to Ethiopia anymore. The University had to get a refund on that ticket since they lost money by not doing the show with me.

So obviously i'm still trying to get to Ethiopia in December with The Arba Minch Collective but now i have to fundraise all over again! I'm sub-leasing this apartment in Brooklyn until we go to Ethiopia, and i will be based here in New York... making as much music as humanly possible.

A lot of people have been reaching out this past week to lend support, i really truly appreciate every single message... i've just been really stressed out and wasn't able to respond to everyone yet. I want you to know how heartening it is to hear everyones support, and because of this experience, now more then ever i feel like this music and this work i do is something so much bigger then me... so thank you for even taking the time to read this. My faith isn't shaken and i know there's a blessing somewhere in all of this.

To answer everyones question: what i really need now is work. Some beats to write and record to... some paying gigs... any fund-raising ideas? anyone down to sponsor a trip to Ethiopia? holla!

i'll keep you guys posted.

til we free...

-- gt

I fux wit these guys

one of my favorite crews (that Cloud Nice/ Hella Dope connection) decided not to waist one of Seattle's few cloudy days and make a quicc video. like see it here it goes.

iil-lit up!!

I took this whole post from blind i cuz i'm too lazy to write my own rite now and cuz dan diggity knows them pretty well (i met Dan and them all at the same time so i think he knows them better than me) and becuz i want you to know about them cuz they're the homie you really should checc out blindiforthekids tho. 1 of my favorite blogs.


ILL-LITERACY IB4THE1

As the saying goes you can accomplish much in life if you just put your mind to it and my boys from Ill-Literacy have proven that over and over again. Since 2005 they have been putting in some serious work. From an Emmy Award-winning short film, two features on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, a solo album, two poetry books, and rocking over 200 shows collectively and individually around the world Dahlak, N.I.C, and Drizzletron are just getting started.

After years of doing shows and educating the masses this trio decided it was time to release their poetic talents into the realm of music. The end result of their time in the lab is a sonic adventure of future funk and intellectual verbal dexterity in the form of their forthcoming album iB4the1.

So feast your ears on these two songs off of iB4the1 after the drop and holla at the Ill-Lits when they hit your hood next.

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we were once a fairy tale

kinda sux so i aint posting the video.
Kanye IS an asshole no doubt.. but i still can't stand to see black folks in bad situations. I have to anytime i open my eyes and i don't want to for entertainment. It's kind of an ill concept but doesn't work for me. I like spike jones shit tho no lie! what ev thats my 2% of a loony for ya. if you need to see it (and havent like everyone else) checc here

Cloud City is here

Sooo Cold Hearted in Cloud City is now a reality. This makes me very happy. Sales of all physical copies of this joint will go to Gabe while he's on the road (and more if he needs it). The music on here is inspired by my Blaq Han Solo persona, the great city of Seattle and me nerding out with Dume41 at the studio! haha. Crispy from GodSpeed (and our nu crew with B-flat called High Life) produced all the trax. This really was an exploration of different parts of my personality i was unable to indulge in on Spaceships. I'm still searching for my "true" sound (which will change the second i find it but hey) and this is the next step. This is more smoothed out and relaxed more representative of the Seattle hip hop i listened to in high school.
Very much made for chillin on rainy days or driving down Rainier on a cloudy day on your way to no where. enjoy

Itunes and cd baby links when they send them to me.

Peace to Europe I never been a fan of colonization

SOOO my guy is going to do European tour starting on Tuesday!! We had a lil going away party for him at chop if you didn't go you suk!! Haha all jokes aside I am extremely proud of the work that his guy has done on himself and his music and the lacc of limitaions he places on himself. Gonna miss him so here is a video we did rite before i left bacc to Canada.

Khingz Sol Teal and Jacc the ripper

Went up north to Harcastle with Sol and Jack the Ripper. We're gonna get Grynch on here to its gonna be fire.

RePost gabe and khingz heart Africa

Be at this tonite!!!

Native Gunz reunion After Cypher

Shouts to Drewkillum.
Shouts to mic phenom and my guy LA. We got it in during the cypher after the NG's reunion show where Bam and Kiwi killed it. Eyeasage also murdered the stage that night they got us hype and we went outside and did this.





In this one Canary Sings Hops in and kinda clowns us for all the testosterone we was throwin around. It was a much needed checcing.





LA is a beast!!!! Rival Gang for life!!