tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24396574985022948792024-03-08T00:37:47.146-08:00ChicanoALTo my homies, this is ChicanoAL and I'm here to tell you what chicano rap is all about. Chicano rap is the new wave storming hip hop. Just as hip hop started a cultural revolution, chicano rap is becoming a way of life. Don't be fooled though into thinking that chicano rap is just a bunch of cool songs sung by Mexican rappers. Chicano rap is a movement, a movement that embodies the spirit of Aztlan. We can't say we're Mexican, nor can we say we're American, we're chicano!Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-22274573966736906332008-04-28T05:16:00.000-07:002008-04-28T05:21:56.756-07:00CHICANOAL!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/500/3880396mainvc8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/500/3880396mainvc8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">HERE COME THE FLYING LIBRE!</div>Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-83472511393598397312008-04-24T18:21:00.001-07:002008-04-25T06:22:03.005-07:00Brown & Proud<a href="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/sema800/brownPrideTanDecal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/sema800/brownPrideTanDecal.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />The West Coast and Southwest Mexican American culture is embodied in the cultural phenomena of chicano rap. Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip-hop, that is dominated by chicano rap artists. Chicano has definately made <a href="http://www.chicanorapmagazine.com/">mainstream</a>. A chicano rapper is an artist of mexican (chicano) descent. Chicano rap has been alive and growning since the 1989, with <a href="http://www.mellowmanace.com/">Mellow Man Ace's</a> release of first major bilingual single. Mellow Man Ace is actually not chicano, he's Cuban-American, still many consider him to be the "father of chicano rap". The title of "first major chicano artist" eventually went to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theoriginalkidfrost">Kid Frost</a> who debuted in 1990 with his hit single, La Raza. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://b6.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00406/69/11/406941196_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://b6.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00406/69/11/406941196_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />There is a heavy influence of Mexican heritage on chicano rappers, and many references or themes that relate to the United States, or Mexican-Americans. Eventhough chicano rap's major following is here in the United States, chicano rap's popularity is not growing in both South America and Asia as well.</div>Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-1730229026429760272008-04-24T18:20:00.001-07:002008-04-27T18:31:13.075-07:00Lil Rob Puttin It Down 4 Da Brown SideIn this <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-8wvytqn_fQ">interview</a>, Lil Rob reaches out to his fans and his chicano community. Chicano is different from your typical African-American hip hop artist, in the sense that there is much more of a focus on portraying the chicano community as a whole.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070610/images/arts-lilrob.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070610/images/arts-lilrob.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Most of the chicano artists rap more about their community, than they do about themselves. In this interview with <a href="http://lilrob.com/">Lil Rob</a>, he talked about how much he cares for and tries to cater to his fans by rapping about his upbringing in california and the hardships he had to face as a chicano artist in the making. In the end he even directly addressed his fans saying that he hears them, and its time for somone to keep representing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Raza">La Raza</a>.Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-70245467364188088612008-04-24T18:19:00.001-07:002008-04-27T18:18:16.119-07:00I Am In My Homeland!<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MN3tS-S5hU0&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MN3tS-S5hU0&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ridersagainstillegalaliens.com/images/aztlan_map2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ridersagainstillegalaliens.com/images/aztlan_map2.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Chicano rap is more than just music, it the voice of our movement, the voice of Aztlan. Before America became a nation of immigrants it was our land, it was Aztlan, and now we want it back. For too long have we been called illegal immigrants in our own land. We are not the illegal immigrants, they are, they are the ones who came in the late 1880's and conqured our land. <a href="http://www.aztlan.net/la_gran_marcha.htm">"The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened"</a>, The chicano people are reproducing faster than all the whites in America, and the chicano people continue to flood America at roughly 3 million new immigrants per year. A few decaded ago, the image of couple of high school kids hanging out eating hot dogs was an image that many felt familiar with. Today, that hot dog stand is now a taco stand and the kids aren't even American anymore, they're chicano!Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-57598979323262612462008-04-24T18:18:00.000-07:002008-04-27T17:38:58.358-07:00M.E.Ch.A<a href="http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/suh/mecha_root/images/goldeagle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/suh/mecha_root/images/goldeagle.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/MEChA_Logo.png"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.nationalmecha.org/">M.E.Ch.A </a>is the organization that will liberate Aztlan. We are M.E.CH.A, we are all the chicano who have bounded tougher to work towards our goal of one day reclaiming Aztlan. M.E.Ch.A stands for "El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlán" (The Chicano/a student movement of Aztlán). It was us Vicente Fox was refering to when he said in 2004, "We are Mexicans that live in our territories and Mexicans who live in other territories. In reality we are a hundred and twenty million people that live tougher and work tougher to construct a nation". Unlike the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/war1.html">La Raza Unida Party</a>, we use nonviolent student tactics such as protest and petitions to unify the chicano people under the banner of Aztlan. We are a student organization and we are found at high schools and Universities around the United States.<br /><br />We have had leadership conferences held at universities the following universities:<br />1994: Arizona State University<br />1995: University of California, Berkeley<br />1996: University of Texas, Pan-American<br />1997: Michigan State University<br />1998: University of California, Los Angeles<br />1999: Phoenix College<br />2000: El Paso Community College<br />2001: San Diego State University<br />2002: University of Houston<br />2003: University of California, Berkeley<br />2004: Oregon State University<br />2005: California State University, Northridge<br />2006: Northern Arizona University<br />2007: Metropolitan State College of Denver, Auraria<br />2008: California State University, Sacramento<br />2009: University of Oregon<br /><br />Unifying Aztlan, one chicano at a time!</div></div>Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2439657498502294879.post-55219623973209301632008-04-24T18:12:00.000-07:002008-04-27T16:46:57.129-07:00Chicano Rap, Like No Other<div style="width: 430px; height: 350px; text-align:center;"><embed width="426" height="327" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="mixwit_mixtape_65b9c5bd5930889a5d7c3fd9c0a30348" src="http://www.mixwit.com/flash/widgets/shell.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="env=embed&widget=65b9c5bd5930889a5d7c3fd9c0a30348&playlist=1f6c278f0135b06df10034927e999904&vuid=embed" align="middle"></embed><div style="text-align: center; margin: auto;"><a href="http://www.mixwit.com/create?refer=embed"><img src="http://mixwit.s3.amazonaws.com/public/resources/img/embed/make-a-mixtape.gif" border="0" style="border:0px;"></a></div></div><br /><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/Jmx*PTEyMDg5MTI5NzQ1MDAmcHQ9MTIwODkxMzA3NTU2MiZwPTE4NDMzMSZkPSZuPQ==.jpg" /><br /><br />Lean Like a Cholo- Kilo<br />Lil Rob- Neighborhood Music<br />Kid Frost- La Raza<br />Akwid- Los Mexicano<br />Molotov- Here We Kum<br />Mr. Capone-e- The New West Coast<br />West Side Connection- Gangsta nation<br />2MEX- Mosh To Da Sun<br />Tha Dogg Pound- Cali Iz Active<br />Lil Rob- California<br />Mr. Shadow- Open Up The Cell<br />Mr. Capone-e- These Soldiers<br /><br />This mix tape consists of songs that I feel represent the various areas in the spectrum of chicano rap. Many of the tracks hold sentimental appeal to the chicano community such as <span style="font-style:italic;">Neighborhood</span> Music by Lil Rob. Or like <span style="font-style:italic;">La Raza</span> by Kid Frost, which is considered to be one of the pioneering singles of chicano rap. Other tracks- such as <span style="font-style:italic;">Lean Like a Cholo</span> by Kilo- are showing chicano artists as hip rappers that go had and hand with your typical African American rapper. Almost all the tracks however, represent the nature of chicano rap by either aiming to bring a greater sense of unity among chicanos, or by rapping about their own hardships as a chicano.Chicanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03755054064814980243noreply@blogger.com0