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Showing posts with label native guns. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Bambu - When Will The Time Come


Bambu


Bambu has released a song about the current Israeli-Gaza conflict called When Will The Time Come. The sample of this song comes from the late Chris Iijima, who was an early Asian-American activist and song writer in the 60's and 70's. This song will be on a album mixtape for a documentary film called A Song For Ourselves which is dedicated to Chris Ijima and his life's work.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bambu: Artist of the Week on HHO


Bambu - ...Exact Change...

Congratulations to Filipino rapper, Bambu for being featured as the Artist of the Week on Hip Hip Official on November 05, 2008!

Bambu grew up in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California and he was invovled in "gang-banging" around the early 90s. Gang-banging lead him to a prison sentence for armed robbery. After Bambu got out of jail, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and after he got out, he decided to persue rapping. Bambu became part of a an Asian American rap group known as Native Guns which also included Kiwi and DJ Phatrick. In the inteview Bambu talks about his new solo album called ...Exact Change.... released on September, 11 2008, which is about making a specific change about the current system that is not working for Americans. Bambu also mentions about the youth and student group he is a part of called Kabataang maka-Bayan (KmB) or Pro-People Youth which aims to educate the youth about socio-economic issues in the United States, The Phillipines and the rest of the world.