If hip hop should die before I wake
I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK
Roll to every station, murder the DJ
Roll to every station, murder the DJ" - Nas

"Corporate Americas interest is to separate people
Turn people into product, consumers...
and have whatever package goes their way
You gotta remember as black folk we were all sold just like product too
So often there's gotta be some kind of separation
between what's business versus what kind of really keeps us going as family" - Chuck D


First off thanx and much respect to all the world-wide warriors and myspace-outs who've been giving us x-cellent feedback/words of encouragement and positively vandalous vibrations ref the X-Vandals and our war of art.....

In the spirit of snatching back the beat, we have now started a small INDEPENDENT DIY (Do It Yourself) D4S (Do For Self) record label to support our militant music/art/mess-age, so right now we are in the process of getting our thang together (ref web pages, itunes, paypal, videos/youtube, booking, etc, etc etc), so bare with us in terms of making our X-Vandalisms available to all of yall in a way that works world-wide..... There's just a few of us underground underlings tryna do it all our-selves (without the support of SONY or Mickey Mouses money either) so we don't/can't always meet even our own (self imposed) dead-lines.....

But we will post info up here (and elsewhere) soon as we got things poppin' (and lockin') in the right direction.....

We been building (and destroying) a lot lately, and we feel that (now, more then ever) with todays anarchic computer technology (finally) at the disposal of the dispossessed and entering more and more into the hands of the Hip Hop have-nots who are ready to swipe it, it's finally the perfect time to try to dispose of the bizness/as-usual and try to take Hip Hop back from the (currently crumbling) machine/bizness that has co-opted/controlled/con-tame-inated/capitalized on it for the last couple decades. X it out... for good.

I've been doing defiantly anti-corporate DIY music for the last ten years (I wasn't just raging AGAINST the machine, but also outside of it and in spite of it), but only now (with the advent of this inter-net thang) and the accompanying dissent/down fall of the major (players) have we been able to create X-Vandals and reach people everywhere from South Africa, to Northern Ireland, Basque to Paris, Havana to Venezuela to the Philippines to Puerto Rico and anywhere/everywhere else that is "at war" in their own way and/or is looking for real(ity) Hip Hop MUSIC (but not muse-sick) that is not an employee of the machine, working in the fascist factory, afraid to talk back to the fore-man...... or afraid to fight!

We on a mission, ya'll......

Yeah, X-vandals is not only X-perminetal (hip hop) music, but also an X-periment in how/if we can further destroy the already burning/condemned carcass/building known as "the hustle" by hitting it with a vandalizing wrecking ball called Real(ity) rebel music......

If "hip Hop" is a "hustle" (and to many of us it is/has become JUST that), where there are no (real) artists (and no real artistry), but only bizness men/hustlas/playas/pimps tryna figure out how to best "work" Hip Hop culture (and specifically rap music) like you would any other ho/prostitute, to get paid in dead presidents/pesos/yen/euros, then we say, yeah, if it ain't dead yet, then it's most certainly dying.... strapped to it's death bed only waiting to be trans-de-formed into todays stocks and blonds, (blood) diamonds and pearls, plati-numb (slave) chains down to our ankles, and big old (fools) gold crucifixes around our necks (that look oddly like the lynching rope of old). Why make music at all when you can just strap rap right to the banks umbilical chord and be fed intravenously? Right?....

But, if that is the case, then yeah, every-body say "let it die/let it burn, baby, burn!!!"......

But Hip Hop wasn't always a "hustle" though (some of us already know this and some don't seem to or don't want to know, you know).... But, once upon upon a time it was a really rather radical reaction, a rebel resistance, a counter (and sub) culture move-ment coming from/by a people in a little place called the Boogie Down Bronx who had nada and nuthin' besides their will to live/survive, and the ingenuity/genius to create something from all that that whole lot of nothing...... It's very x-sistence was an act of revolution, ya'll, because the nationless nation of (poor) people who/that created it were not supposed to have anything..... besides the mind numbing misery of the desolate and destitute ghetto(s) they was placed/dropped in to live and die... quietly

Don't get it twisted, the creators of Hip Hop culture were NOT the suns and dawters of the ones who created this corporate/capitalist mess that we been living (or surviving) in and under for the past few centuries. The originators of this Hip Hop thang were the ones who Frantz fanon referred to as "the wretched of the earth" and the bible called the meek. Hip Hop really WAS "ghetto" when that meant something.... politically.... But, of course, wherever their is need/want, there will be a culture vulture capitalist-in-waiting or in-the-making just a waitin' to pounce..... So, it didn't take long before Hip Hoppers were taught to sell their blood for bounty, they muse for milk, and they culture for cream (and an ikea catalogue)......

and that's where we been for eva eva since.....

So, if Hip Hop is just one more capitalist venture, then X-Vandals says, every-body.... "let it burn with blood and fire!".... and let it die like a dirty (under)dog in the very shitty streets and ghetto gutters where it was born (and razed)..... But also, let it be cleansed in that same furnace, with the fire and the fury.... and, let us all remember not to forget, that where there is fire, there is the possibility/myth/reality of a phoenix that can rise (from the projects) again and again.....

and for those sort a spiritual folks among us..... always re-member that what dies CAN (and will) be resurrected......

And, oh yeah being that kind of straight up "vandal" that we be, we are quite down with the idea of bootlegs, black markets, bombing the boosting back of beats, and basically any and all avenues that beat back the shitstem-status-quo, yo.... all in the name of this new/old revolution that's just begun, but was always here. So, yeah, illegalize it, every-body.....

but we also advocate a greater consciousness/overstanding (in this day of defiance) of the difference between robin hood and just plain ol' robbin' the hood..... The difference between SONY and sheer survival, the difference between EMI and i and i, the difference between Warner bros and the Ghetto brothas...... if you gonna rob a bank, you rip the register, not the teller, and if you gonna hit mcdonalds, you rip off ol' Ronald himself, not the kid who works the french fry machine...... There IS a difference. For real.

So, effective today, all we who be B-Boys/girls, bombers, and (ghetto) bastards of young (and old), will be boycotting bizness as usual.... Hip Hop is more then just words (as weapons), but if words is all we got (for now), then the word for today is WAR!.....

In other words..... This means WAR!!!.....

Yeah, WAR!!!!!

Hip Hop is dead.... Que viva Hip Hop!!!!!

N4P