at a venue called Velvet Jones at 423 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 on August 28th, 2017 with Jason Cinikill (Horrorcore) and more. Visit again for more details.
Author: Ten-Headed Skeleton
I Invented New Wave Rap a decade before Pharrell Williams
My Next Show is in Echo Park, CA
at The Gallery on 1162 Glendale Blvd 90026 between August 17-20 during Echo Park Rising
My Next Show is in Long Beach, CA
July 28th at a hole in a wall called Sound and Sea Gallery in Long Beach, CA I am playing a set at 9:30PM.
Going? FB Event Page click on Flyer below
Fresh Kid Ice: The 1st Asian-American Rapper Dies at 53
I got into hip-hop when I was in middle school in 1988. Fresh Kid Ice (Christopher Wong Won) was the only Asian-American face in hip-hop. He wasn’t the most brainy M.C. that existed, nor did he say or do or wear anything that made me want to emulate him, but I appreciated that he was accepted in the black community for what he was. I related to that. As an Asian-American male with no one in mainstream anything and almost zero other Asian males in my classes. I also, was accepted into the black community. I slightly hoped he’d do a solo and maybe introduce other Asian-American rappers. It never happened. And now it never will. To me he and most likely every American was the first Asian-American rapper. I’m trying to think of how many years it took to see another Asian-American in the hip-hop scene on that level, and I think M.C. Jin is the next to get our attention. And that took hip-hop 17 years to reach. 2004 was 13 years ago. And we still have not had an Asian-American hip-hop act with that much influence that was a household name like 2 Live Crew. 
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LIVE@Saturation Fest
May 28th, 2017 LIVE@Saturation Fest in RIVERSIDE, CA
EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1247043365421618/
The last time I performed in Riverside, was 7 years ago.
Saturation Fest is a participant-created DIY art and music festival that occurs annually in Riverside, CA. Events are held at venues around downtown Riverside, with a majority of the participants based in the Inland Empire. Saturation includes concerts, films, workshops, exhibitions, handcrafted art and much more. As a mostly all-ages and largely cost-free festival, Saturation pushes for the de-commodification of culture, concentrating instead on the value of the experience.
Details coming soon
New Remix “Be Afraid Of The Old”
Original version appears on 2013’s “Onslaught” album
Click On Photos
Coming Soon: Split In Half EP
Even the perfect White Dad and Asian Mom can have a Son like me
Sometimes I feel a little guilty saying my parents are “not that bad”. Maybe I’ve been “bought off” by reparations. Its funny, in my teen years when I would through my enraged tantrums and wreck the house, as early as 15, my dad told me if he couldn’t control me, he’d get rid of me. Now many, many years later. At a time when my peers have begun to marry and start families. I’m less functional and more dependent on him than I was at 15. During one of my rants I went on and on about how horrible it was being a Hapa man, but that I’d live off of my “reparations” from my White dad. And this enraged him, and he said no one would stop him from throwing a full grown man, my age out of the house. Hes sarcastically brought up my “reparations from my white…
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