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PRoCLaiM

Wake Up from dogmatic slumber & join the dissent!!

About Me

********New Album "Necessary Dissent" is now available for purchase!!! For a short time you can buy the album for only $6.66. My last album "Question Everything" will also be on sale for $6.66 for the next two weeks. Bush and his cronies better watch out cuz it's time for a regime change and the revolution has begun! Hopefully this album will send a message to the many people who have turned a deaf ear to the war in iraq and fail to see the reality of Vietnam part 2. This album is a musical score to the realities of todays war in Iraq and the problems we neglect here in our nation. Please check back as I will be posting new songs from the album from time to time and am interested in your input. Thanx for listening and supporting my music. PRoCLaiM-ation of Purpose and Life Bio:My Musik erupts out of the spirit of will. The strive and perseverance of the human epic. My existence and message is but a flinch in the grand scheme of the cosmos. In realizing this I become a being in my own time. The literal center of my conscious universe. A willer and a creator of my environment and surroundings in the time of now. In undergoing great stakes and pains in my journeys through Life, Philosophy, Psychology, and Hip Hop I have been able to write, produce, and record my first full-length album, “Question Everything” 20 trks/74min, now on sale. My upcoming album "Necessary Dissent" is currently available for pre-order. My name ?PRoCLaiM!, which appears with a question mark before the name and an exclamation point afterward to signify that we must always ‘question everything’ before we ?PRoCLaiM! it as true. My music portrays the natural evolution of man in this bewildered age of postmodernism where we still have not found peace and unity on Earth. I was born and raised in the East Los Angeles/ Montebello area where drug trafficing and gang violence have existed for many generations. In my youth I was involved in a variety of clicks and crews joining a multiplicity of Hip-Hop sub-culture organizations first with b-boying, graffiti, before I digressed to join the gang activity in the community. After a long host of trials, tribulations, and an almost a year stay in jail as a juvenile I was fortunate enough to attend a reformatory military academy where I was able to find truth, joy, and a sense of accomplishment through education. I have since been on a life-long quest of knowledge of self in learning the thoughts of others, examining the evidence of the sciences, and most importantly learning how to think for myself in creating my own truths. I have combined what was has been known as philosophical thought with music in a way completely new to man. My music is a culmination of culture and thought from the urban evolution of Hip Hop music in the South Bronx NY to the history of philosophy as far back as the Ancient Greeks. I have attained two bachelors degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from California State University, Fullerton. During that time I fell in love with the consciously positive underground movement of hip hop that was still staying strongly at the time with a host of leaders and acts from Nas and Common to Dead Prez and Gangstarr. With my deep-rooted passions for Philosophy and helping people through Psychology, I decided to combine all my academic inquires into conscious musical lyrics with both of a positive message and a an accurate depiction of the history and times we live in today. I have since been rocking the mic and making beats for about 5 five years. I produced 17 of the 20 tracks on my first album as well as solely wrote, recorded, arranged, mixed, and mastered the entire album virtually all on the solo in my own studio known as ThaBeatCave. I am currently booking shows, hosting debates, and trying to get my music out to the world by any means necessary. I try to inscribe a message of some sort in every song I write to make people think about the world we live in and perhaps aid them in coming up with their own ideas to make a change to better the earth for all mankind. My lyrics also emphasize the importance of education, the glorification of science to better life, the use of human reason to guide conflict, and a realization of the harm religious indoctrination has caused the world now and throughout the ages. A better understanding of Humanism then, is the key focus of my music in aiding my fellow man throughout daily existence with dope beats and thoughtful rhymes. Take a minute to cleanse your soul, open your mind, and support true quality free-thought Hip Hop music! “The unexamined life is not worth living”- Socrates. Much love and thanx to all my fans that have supported me all throughout the years in promoting quality free thought hip hop music! Peace 2 all, “Hip Hop is Life”- - -PRoCLaiM ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????"The Overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment" - Friedrich Nietzsche!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Span style="text-align:center;position:absolute; background-repeat:no-repeat; height:32px; width:100%;left:0px;top:200px; background-image:

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Member Since: 8/30/2005
Band Website: proclaimcreations.com
Band Members: I am what you might call a one man band...I create and record all my music from scratch. From the beats to the rhymes, I do it all on the solo tip with no assistance whatsoever! The new album: "Necessary Dissent" is now on sale for only $6.66!!! The price will go up to $10 in a couple weeks so click below to buy now!The debut album "Question Everything" is now on sale for only $6.66!!! Get one now before the price goes back up in a few weeks, peace 2 all and thank you for supporting my music! click below to buy now: Album: "Question Everything" is now on sale for a short time for only $6.66!!!click here to below to buy now:You can also buy some of the songs from the album below for $1.50 each!!!.. Start http://MessageBot.com --Enter your Email to join List:

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Influences: My influences are from both the scholarly worlds of philosophy and psychology as well as the musical worlds of Hip Hop and Soul. - Therefore, my influences from academics come mainly from Frederich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhaur, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, Leo Tolstoy, Plato, Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, Jacques Derrida, and of course Bertrand Russell.- My musical influence are primarily 2pac (spiritual mentor), Common, Gangster, The Roots, Early 90's Hip Hop, RBL Posse, Sage Francis, Little Brother, OutKAST, Group Home, KRS ONE, NAS, 2mex, Wu-Tang, Lootpack, Reflection Eternal, Mos Def, Jedi Mind Tricks, and a number of other REAL Hip Hop Artist list as time goes on...****The PRoduCErs I appreciate most are: Dj Premier, Hi-Tek, Pete ROck, 9th Wonder, Large Professor, Diamond D, Alchemist, Mad Lib, and Jay Dee.***
Sounds Like: Nietzsche Meets Nas & Prometheus meets Pac
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PRoCLaiM is an honorary member of the Rational Response Squad and does all the music for the world famous internet show. Please visit the Rational Response Squad @ www.rationalresponders.com for more info. PRoCLaiM is also a member of the Council for Secular Humanism and an advocate for the Center for Inquiry in Hollywood CA. For more info and a list of events please visit www.cfiwest.org. For more info on PRoCLaiM products, bio, news, philosophy, etc, please visit www.proclaimcreations.com... width="425" height="350" ..********How the process of "EVOLUTION" really works: Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution to explain the means by which species originated and acquired their adaptive characteristics. The cornerstone of how it works involves cellular mutation by means of natural selection. Darwin noted that members of a species were not all identical and that some of the differences they exhibited were inherited by their offspring. If an individual's characteristics permit it to reproduce more successfully, some of the individual's offspring will inherit the favorable characterisitics and will produce more offspring. As a result, the characteristics will become more prevalent in that species. He observed that animal breeders were able to develop strains that possessed particular traits by mating together only animals that possessed the desired traits. If this artifical selection, controlled by animal breeders, could produce so many varieties of dogs, cats, and livestock, then perhaps a natural selection could be responsible for the developement of all species. In other words, it was the natural environment, not the hand of any animal breeder or intelligent designer, that shaped the process of evolution.
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My Blog

Truth, Faith, and the Unconscious Mind- Nietzsche $ Freud

Nietzsche says "Faith means not wanting to know what is true". A few years after he died, Freud came along to say that we each have unconscious aggressive and sexual instincts which we learn to repre...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:00 PST

New Album "QuesTion EveryTHinG" Almost Finished

Yo my new album "Question EVerYthing" is almost finished and should be available this summer, be on the look out for a widespread propaganda campaign, for real!- The cover of the new album can be seen...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST

PRoCLaiM's 2nd New York Hip Hop Pilgrimage

word up, word up...I recently got back from my 2nd hip hop pilgrimage to the Mecca New York. I travelled there not only to revisit the beautiful city of hip hop but to check out a grad school I am in...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:20:00 PST

On Nas quote "TimeChanges&BestFriends Become Strangers"

'Another one bites the dust' is sadly how I have come to know many of those who were once called 'friends'. As stated in the Nas quote from his song 'the message' ...(TIME) sets the stage for the cha...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:12:00 PST

'Brainwashed' and 'Wake Up' thought forum

Yo -word up to all my fans...these two songs have turned out to be the my most asked about songs to date so I've posted the lyrics and created this forum to allow people to let me and others know what...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:54:00 PST

is hip hop dead now or what?

I recently saw on BET the supposed 100 hottest videos 2005. I think i started watching around number 36 and then I saw most of them down to ..1. To be quite honest, they were mostly all wiggity whac...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:16:00 PST

For The BroKen Hearted

The hardest part of breaking up with someone is not realizing that you are now alone once again, but truly realizing that by nature you always were. Adaptation can be a painful process, but by nature...
Posted by PRoCLaiM on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:40:00 PST