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JC. Naledge

JC. Naledge

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Ethnicity: Salvadorian..... Born & Raised: Washington, D.C., Maryland..... I was brought into this world on November 16, 198???. Since the death of whom I consider the greatest rapper of all time The Notorious B.I.G. March 9, 1997, I was destined for greatness in the Hip Hop world. I began my creativity in music by making beats and sounds with my mouth called Beat Boxing, and eventually started writing creative metaphoric freestyles that I would memorize and rap at school at our daily “Syphers” that the crowd would start at lunch. My early life full of rebellious wrongdoings eventually got me into an Outdoor Therapuetic Juvenile Rehabilitation Facility on November 19, 2003. Where I learned to take my time with rhymes, metaphors, and punch lines and eventually convert them into verses with which then would lead to whole songs. In this facility is where I was dubbed “Knowledge” (that I eventually wrote out “Naledge”) because my knowledge of the street was equal to my intellectuality, which has always made me a double threat. Immediately after my successful termination of that facility, I registered and currently attend Montgomery College in Rockville, MD with a Major in Business and a Minor in Music Theory, and began recording songs over radio melodies which later became my first Mix Tape, Sangre. Sudor. Y Lagrimas. (Translation: Blood, Sweat, and Tears). In my first Open Mic ever, that included more than almost 30 Emcees in the D.C. Tri State area, I won the title of Emcee of the night, which eventually caught the eye of The Washington Post. I and Three other Emcees were exclusively interviewed and showed up on the Front Page of the Style Section in The Washington Post’s Sunday paper(( The Article Is Featured On This Page To Your Left)). My First Mix Tape, First Open Mic, and First Major Interview all got immediately recognized with a major Buzz in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. But honestly, the worst part about it is................................ I’m just getting started.............. I Am ............................................................ .....................................JC. Naledge real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools
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Member Since: 11/18/2007
Band Website: Contact Me [email protected] or AIM jcdotnaledge
Band Members:!!!!!!MY WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!..................... "Rap Opportunity, Only Just Across El Rio Potomac" -----By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 9, 2008; Page M01------------- Reggaeton is the closest Spanish-language form that gets airplay. With the zero-sum ferocity of sub-subcultures dueling within subcultures, the rappers disdain the reggaetoneros. That's party music, they sneer. Hip-hop is message music. The words are in Spanish. Or Spanglish. Or English peppered with Castilian. There's now a critical mass of fans who don't need a dictionary. True, some of the song subjects are staples in any language. Give an MC a mike, chances are he'll bray and boast, and celebrate chicas moviendo las caderas (girls shaking their hips). Because that's what MCs do. But these local rappers and the kids who follow them have found another theme that charges them up almost as much as chicas: immigration. Beyond the switched-on outrage and rebel posing, the raps take a surprising turn. They end up being personal, from crossing the Rio Grande to taking English-as-a-second-language classes. These are family stories, lived firsthand by the rappers, or handed down from parents and grandparents, passed around the community. At bottom, it's generational music. More talkin' 'bout my generation, again. There's a generation gap, too, all right, but not the one you expect. The parents don't care much for the music -- they're into Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles, if not salsa and merengue -- yet the lyrics bring tears to their eyes. On a Saturday at midnight in Gaithersburg, one of those parents, Neftali Granados, is closing one of his three Morazan Grocery stores after another long day. Now 52, from El Salvador, he crossed the Rio Grande on a tire 26 years ago. He washed dishes, built a home improvement business, started the groceries, raised a family, became an American citizen. His son Juan Carlos, 20, is a business major/music minor at Montgomery College. He's also a rapper known as JC Naledge, who recorded a CD called "Sangre, Sudor y L¿grimas" -- "Blood, Sweat and Tears." "There's nothing I can say bad about this country," says Naledge, who was born in D.C. "But I don't think 50-50 is fair at this point. I feel like I'm 100 percent Salvadoran and 100 percent American, you know what I mean?" He played his rap "Our Struggle" at home and saw his father cry for the first time. “My father crossed over Rio Grande on a tire/ trying to look American with Levi's attire” It was the whole story -- the founding of an American family -- the way Granados had told his children over the years, always wondering if the embedded lessons of sacrifice and gratitude meant anything to the younger generation. In the second verse, Naledge pictures himself in a cool car at a stoplight in Langley Park, a Latino who's making it, feeling glares from those still on foot, desperate. “Awkwardly ashamed like what they thinking of me/” "You feel your son know your history," Granados says in his store, his face sagging with fatigue. "He understand. He feel it."--------
Influences: Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Nas, Rakim
Sounds Like: Nas with his knowledge.....Biggie with his swagger
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None