A-TRAIN

The Makings of ME
I'm an asshole, son of a everything you can think of
Who I is... 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.
as always: peace and REspect