My version of the Most-Hard-Bodied MC in the Game

by iconoclastic.



We ain't forget bout you...we patiently waiting!


About a week or two ago I came across an editorial article from XXL on 'The Most Hardbody MC in the Game' and to much of my approval, i agreed to a certain extent. Sean P should be considered one the hardest emcees in the game to many, whether it's just him or his days with Heltah Skeltah, O.G.C & the Boot Camp Clik. But truly, in my opinion, I have yet to hear anybody fuckin' with Immortal Technique. You want to talk about Hard-Bodied? Try having a whole activist movement behind your back, dedicated to Prison Reform and legalizing the Mary Jane, or a grassroots organization named G.A.M.E dedicated to providing health care to underground rappers (thoro!).

No sir, dude is definitely not your typical 'Political/Jehovah Witness/Public Enemy' type rapper (nothing wrong with that). He'd probably break your face in, considering he did spend 3 years and few months behind bars. That, and a good friend of mine that went to school with him remembered Felipe as a 'not so nice muthafucka that would not want to fuck with'.

Emcee wise, I thought dude was okay for a while, considering I'm a Huge Lox fan, so nothing he could've said was going to warrant a debate. Plus I had issues with a some of his political beliefs, mostly issues with political conspiracy theories and certain aspects of religion. But I can't knock his overall philosophy towards poverty, racism, classism, and just life in general because it's something I completely can fuck with to a degree. But it wasn't until I heard a track that wasn't even his own (was a collabo, but he ended it) that made me dropped jaw (no homo!).

Outerspace ft. Immortal Technique - Angels of Death (I shit you not, this man destroyed this fuckin' track. This is how you literally kill someone else's track.)

After hearing this, I went back, re-listened to majority of his material, everything from Revolutionary V. 1 to 2, and everything in between with the mixtapes. Till this day, I ain't fucking with anyone talking bout hard-body until they hear this man. Till then, keep a look out for his long-awaited for album, The Middle Passage!

From Revolutionary Vol. 1:
Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil (My dude, Joe Budden did a somewhat similar version to this, which I liked--3 Sides to a Story--but it ain't fucking with this)

From Revolutionary V. 2:
Immortal Technique - Point of No Return

Some dudes just be about being hard...and some dudes ARE just hard.


Peace and Hip-Hop!

Psychedelic....

Finding Forever's album cover...looks tough as hell. Hopefully it carries over to the album itself....keep a look out for the tracklistings!

"Life is Like a Movie"

Rest in Peace Rayquon Elliot bka Stack Bundles bka The Gorgeous Gangsta


Condolences goes out to his family and friends. Many people are saddened by this lost, while others like myself are more angry that something like this continue to happen among us as people.

As an artist, based off potential, and material he been dropping, he was Truly one of the best Queens rappers I heard since Ali Vegas, and one of the up-N comers of NY rap. The "I'm not here to play, I'm here to spit" type rappers, he was up there with the Lox as some of the hardest rappers I heard from this city in a long time. Lyrically, he had the potential, but to the eyes of his peoples in Far Rockaway, dude was already the best.

If you ain't know him, never heard of him...then you better find out!

"Ain't nothing but Guns N Roses out there...So what I'm doing is like the impossible...I'm like the Great White Hype, the fuckin New Hope"

(2004)Stack Bundles - NY Giant Freestyle
(2004)Joe Budden ft. Stack Bundles & A-Team - Freestyle
(2004)Joe Budden ft. A-team, and Stack Bundles - Bang out Freestyle
(2004)Stack Bundles - Freestyle
(2005)Stack Bundles feat. Rell - Why Would She
(2006)Stack Bundles - You Yont Luv Me
(2006)Stack Bundles - Tipsy Freestyle
(2006)Stack Bundles - Run This City
(2006)Ransom Ft. Fabolous & Stack Bundles - What Ya Hood Like
Joe Budden, Stack Bundles, Jae Millz - 6 Minutes of Death

You Tube Videos.

The Anti-Paris Appeal

By iconoclastic

One of the biggest "news" this week, if not, the biggest, has been the Paris Hilton Jail Saga. Now honestly, it's good to see a feel good, comedic story among news such as war threats from Russia and terrorist plots on JFK. But quiet frankly, I, like probably the rest of the world, don't really care about her situation.



Politically though it has showed that not all upper class individuals can get their way--including the law, but it shows that they sure can try and almost get away with it at that.

But the biggest non-violent related, felony-charged, court case appeal decision of the week will come with a more tremendous penalty--10 years. And this court case happens to be one that has fallen under the radar. It is a case, and an appeal that holds more weight that Paris' 45 day "struggle" for violating probation, because it's deals with a common situation--"what if the law was wrong for condemning me as a felon and it cost me years of my life?"


His Video

In 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, Genarlow Wilson, then 17, was convicted of child molestation for having consensual oral sex with a 15yr old. According to a out-dated criminal statute (dated 1776 mind you); any person under the age of 16 performing oral sex, the person receiving it is guilty of aggravated child molestation, no matter how old they are. This comes with a minimum sentence of 10 MANDATORY years in prison. 10 cot-damn years. What's worse is, he has no past criminal or violent history, but yet he's placed among murderers, rapist, and other sick-ass criminals. But the one thing that truly hurts the most is, if he would've had sex with the girl, it would have only been a misdemeanor. If that's not the most horrible shit you ever heard in terms of the law, I don't know what is.

It gets even better from there, because as of 2006, that law was modified to prevent something like this from re-occurring, but it didn't save Wilson at all because it can't be applied to the 2003 decision. Supposedly this week, a Judge will take a look at this appeal, and hopefully make the correct decision to this unfair situation.

This is what Paris (and others that have taken advantage of their celebrity of status to benefit from jail-sentencing) don't understand. That there are more important fights against the law out there. They want to talk about how the law in unfair to them? Try being poor, of ethnic background, with no social power at all. Those battles are far more important, not because jail time will ruin their image, or endorsement deals, or get them suspended by their league, nah! It's because they clearly shouldn't be in jail.

Here's some common sense advice to those with celebrity status, whether socialite, movie star or athlete--stop doing dumb shit.

From everyone at Bka, G Keep ya head.

For more on Genarlow Wilson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genarlow_Wilson
http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php

Blast from the Past…

By iconoclastic

I came across some break-dancing videos on youtube the other day. Funny thing was, as much as a hip-hop fanatic I am, break dancing has been my least favorite element to be a spectator of. Number 1 reason being is probably because I’m pissed off for never trying the shit. It’s that ‘Nigga stop hatin cuz you can’t do that shit!’ Complex. Which it most likely is, but lately I’ve been heavily watching the shit, and might I add, its fuckin’ dope.

But the one thing I do hate bout watching break-dancing on youtube is they don’t have a soundtrack listing on that bitch when it comes to videos like this. It’ll leave your ass wondering ALL week what the song is. You’ll be sitting at work, in class, throughout the day thinking hard about the shit nonstop. You’ll even Google the fuck out of it whenever you come across a computer. And best of all, you can get a decent 3 minute conversation with ANYONE on some “what the hell is this song (lyrics here and expect potential laughs)?”

Well eventually after trying to keep myself entertained, I finally came across a cot-damn clip—which was dope I might add—that left me on a searching frenzy. Can you guess the song? (Answer at the end.)


Ladies and Gentlemen, The 'incroyable talent' Salah of The Vagabond Crew

After playing the hell out of it on repeat for a couple days, it had left me thinking, ‘where the hell are all the b-boys?’ And like the rest of Hip-Hop culture, the answer would be ‘it relocated’. In this particular situation however, it relocated overseas (mind you we're being dominated by their talent). I mean don’t get it twisted, b-boys are still doing their damn thing here in the states, especially considering that someone of expertise pointed out to me that it’s thriving in areas like Nevada, California, Arizona, & New York . But with an ever-growing popularity to be the thug, the hustler, the pimp and the rapper in Hip-Hop, there seems to be little room for the once great, feared ‘The B-boy’.

Internationally thought, break-dancing( popping, locking, and all that B-boy shit) is a cultural phenomenon, and personally, I should have seen this coming especially from the foreign students at my school coming through with the kangols to the side, fresh pair of addidas, and a affinity to the cardboard. Even break-dancing contest are super thoro, ranging from all types of sponsors including Red Bull. And by the looks of them on video, those shits have to be fuckin’ poppin’…literally.

Even with a growing internet world, where the elements of Hip-Hop are finding equivalents on the computer, a B-Boy cannot be duplicated through that means. How could you? It involves elements of body movement—dance, strength, co-ordination, creativity and of course flexibility. It is literally the one element that has no equivalent when it comes to an internet persona.

It is also the one Hip-Hop element that has died down because it has been looked at unfavorably as either un-cool, ‘ol school, or just too much damn work to do. But hey, real do real things…so Here’s to really living Hip-Hop.


Answer: Theres 2 versions actually...After doing some research, I found out the song is pretty famous...so much for me being a Hip-Hopist.

Bar-Kays - Freak Show On the Dance Floor
Dazz Band - Freak Show On the Dance Floor


Many 'ol Schoolers probably remember this jam from the movie 'Breakin'.

Peep close at the end, your boy Jean-Claude Van Damne got Hip-Hop on mufuckas!