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NYC's X-Vandals "The War of Art" Out Now
The two Uptown / Underground rebels known as X-vandals are street saviors
from the slums, gutter gods from the ghetto, and poor mans prophets from the
projects; and just might be the musical messiahs you've all been waitin' and
anticipatin' for. With their debut release, The War of Art, they have crafted,
created and RICANstructed a truly incendiary and incite-full, dangerous and
danceable, modern-day militant music made and played to move theMasses.
The War of Art is a semi-autobiographical real(ity) Bronx (fairy) tale of
two city's in a time of terror(ism). The 13 songs on this volatile act of
vandalism utilize sonics, soul and spit to tell (of) a conceptual
culture-shock story of struggle, stealth and survival, straight from
somewhere/anywhere in the streets of El Barrio, Babylon or both and beyond
and on...
Not4prophet was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised on the streets of East
Harlem, NYC. As a teen-ager he was homeless, and (then) a squatter,
surviving the american system through stealth, stealing and subversion,
while passing the time by scrawling on private property and throwing stones
through chain store windows. He went on to form(ulate) and front the
underground anti-corporate political punk / hip hop / salsa / reggae fusion
band known as RICANSTRUCTION, that one magazine referred to as "the most
dangerous band in the underground", and another called "the official
soundtrack for the revolution that's coming", and later founded the outlaw
art and agitation collective called RICANSTRUCTION NETWERK that has over the
years organized and mobilized political rallys, revolts and riots throughout
the U.S., Latin America and other bombed out barrios and ghetto autonomous
zones.
DJ Johnny Juice was raised in the Bronx, NYC, and witnessed the birth of Hip
Hop right on his doorstep. The boogie down bred Turntableis t/ B-Boy /
Graffitti writer, first displayed his break dancing skills at the age of 14
in the mid '80s classic Hip Hop film Beat Street, and by the time he was 17
he was working with Public Enemy as a member of the Bomb Squad on their
debut release Yo Bum Rush the Show and their classic album It Takes a Nation
of Millions to Hold us Back. Over the years he has also lent his production
and scratching skills to projects by other legendary Hip Hop artists such as
Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, The Beastie Boys, DMC, LL Cool J and Leaders of
the New School.
Together they have crafted, created and (Rican)constructed a truly
incendiary and incite-full, dangerous and danceable, modern-day militant
music made (and played) to move the Masses.
X-vandals are street soul saviors from the slums, gutter god griots from the
ghetto, poor man prophet poets from the projects, and (maybe) just the
man-made musical messiahs you've all been waitin' and anticipatin' for.
Track listing
- There Goes The Neighbor-Hoods
- Sweatshop Basquiat
- Signs Of The Surface
- Ghetto Superman
- Up In The Bronx
- Terror Wrists
- Life Is Warfare
- Masters Of War
- A Poem For Black Boys
- Beat The Shitstem
- An I For An I
- Todos Somos Macheteros
- Revolution Party
Buy Digital Album Right Now at www.beyond.fm available In CD Format December 2007
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