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"We need a self help program, a-do-it-yourself philosophy, a do-it-right-now philosophy, a it’s-already-too-late philosophy" - Malcolm X
November 2008
So, in the past couple of months (including on Nov 4th, selection day), X-Vandals has released four (fire!) videos that are all up on youtube. You can check them all out here:
Life is warfare
Created by Vagabond
Life is Warfare
An excursion on the version created by a compa in Germany
Sweatshop Basquiat
Created by Omar
Mother/land
Created by Vagabond
and....
we are currently working on new tracks for our next salvo/cd/release, which will be coming out in Feb of 2008. Be on the look out and stay awake and alert and alive.....
and finally.....
We've got a few DIY shows/screenings/speaking engagement on the left coast lined up for Nov (see the schedule below):
"This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody" - Malcolm X
X-vandals ballot or the Bullshit Left Coast Tour:
Wed., Nov. 12th, 2008
Black Bag Series
12- 1:30 PM @ SMU 333
3nd floor, Smith Memorial Union
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway St., Portland, OR
Free
A Black Studies Department/Multicultural Center at PSU discussion with Not4Prophet and Vagabond of Ricanstruction Netwerk.
Wed., Nov. 12th, 2008
2 Coasts, 1 Show!
6-9 PM @ Portland State University Ballroom
Smith Memorial Union, 3rd floor
1825 SW Broadway St., Portland, OR
Free
Featuring: X-Vandals, Mic Crenshaw, Syndel, DJ Gen.Erik
Hosted by Good Sista/Bad Sista
Thurs., Nov. 13th, 2008
University of Oregon Show
8 PM @ University of Oregon Living Learning Center
1575 E. 15th St., Eugene, OR
Free
Featuring: X-Vandals, Mic Crenshaw, Syndel
Hosted by Good Sista/Bad Sista
Fri., Nov. 14th, 2008
Screening of the independent film Machetero
www. machetero-movie. com
starring Not4Prophet from X-Vandals
7 PM @ Laughing Horse Bookstore
12 NE 10th Ave
Portland, OR
Screening will be followed by Q&A with Not4Prophet and Director Vagabond.
Nov 15th 2008
6PM @Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Present
Screening of Independent Film Machetero
www.machetero-movie.com
Starring Not4Prophet from X-Vandals
East Side cafe
5469 huntington Dr., El Sereno, CA
Cost: Donations
Screening will be followed by Q&A with Director Vagabond.
Nov. 15th, 2008
Mic Crenshaw’s CD Release
8 PM @ Blue Monk
3341 SW Belmont, Portland, OR
Cost TBA
Featuring: Mic Crenshaw, Hungry Mob, X-Vandals, DJ Gen.Erik, Good Sista/Bad Sista, and more
Nov 16th, 2008
8PM @ Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Presents
Benefit Show for RAC featuring X-Vandals
Los Angeles. CA
Nov 18 - 21, 2008
Latin rap Conference, music, panels, politics y mas
Los Angeles, CA
if anyone (anywhere on the black planet) is interested in seeing the (in)famous X-Vandals at a college/club/celler/squat near you, please get in contact.....
stick em up, MFs!
(N4)P + the X-Vandals Squad
September 2008
Sample: "You always know where the X-Men have been, because it's always on fire..." - Pete Wisdom
Stick em up, muthafuckas!....
Hola/Holla to all ya'll netbacks, compu-sinos, and broadbandits, and well-come in to the neighbor-hood(s).....
You've entered into the X-Vandals cyber safe house, which is ifficially up (and running) and ready for (re)action. Forthose of you who don't know, X-Vandals is the autonomous anti-pop can't stop (won't stop) terror wrists DJ Johnny Juice, and yours truthfully, the incorrigible i and i, Not4Prophet.... Now you know.....
Sample: “What we're going to do is shake this country up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head...” - SubComandante Marcos
DJ (Bring the) Juice has been bringing the bomb beats straight from the crates and (w)right to the streets for years, and i, well, i been majoring in makin' musical mayhem with a militant message to move theMasses thru the modern day middle passage for as long as we been second class slaves.... to the rhythm.
Sample: "It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution..." - Che Guevara
After studying the science/struggle/survival of the streets and the politics/plight/picture of our peeps, Juice and i came to the ultimate overstanding that it was NOW (more then ever) necessary to create/cultivate a kick (in the) azz culture/chaos that could change the course of (dis)course and turn the slave ships around or (at least) help us reach (a) higher ground of rebellion, riddim and sound....
Sample: "My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning..." - Huey Newton
"Hip Hop is dead!" R.I.P RAP.....Or so it's been said.... Listen to your (top forty) radio (which you shoulda turned off long ago) and you can hear the funeral dirge of its demise; turn on your blur vision black and white tv and watch the (third world) war widow wailin' and a-weeping as the palm reader preacher at his pawn shop pulpit offers last rights (and wrongs). Yeah, the beats been beat down, the (cut) creators been crucified, the emcees got a fatal(istic) dis-ease, the visionaries have all been victimized.... and the beast/babylon/bizness (as usual) man is still living large and in charge. Yeah, rap is a rap, and the body (politic) is being fitted for it's final see-er sucka straight jacket as we speak/spit/sleep/shoot/shout......
Sample: "Respect me, or put me to death..." - Malcolm X
So, with so much talk/debate/wishful thinking(?) about the death of Hip Hop and the murder of the mighty force of musica ona move, X-Vandals have surfaced from beneath the underdog, below the underground and from under the (govern-mental) gun, like sub-versive slum super (anti-)heros slinging arte de abajo made to save the boogie down sound and perhaps our very own spent and stolen slum survivor souls while we at it.
Sample: "Music is the weapon....." - Fela kuti
But X-Vandals ain't no machine manu-fractured product place-mat over the counter revolutionary keep it real(ity) show reject rhyme for the sake of a riddle. X-Vandals is the reality of your surroundings, the truth (that must be told), no longer put on hold, the symbols beneath the scratches, a way to get up, get get down, and never be let down, the re-birth of a reason.... X-Vandals is something to believe in..... again. Believe it!
Sample: "Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill them before they grow..." - Bob Marley
Check back with us here (and there) often and always because in the coming daze/months, we will be seizing the time (and a piece of your mind) to re-draw the lines and rise up from this (w)reck-age with rebelution reasoning, radical rhymes and riot (starter) sounds that ain't heard on ya regulated (regurgitated) radio (un)free-quency or seen on your (anti)terror tell-lie-vision screen, nah mean?
X-Vandals have arrived with no jive, live and in living color(ed)... direct from the dark side.... by side. The question is, are YOU ready to (take) a ride?
we stealin' back what's ours!,
N4P + Juice