The new BIG DAN and LOS RAKAS collaboration ‘CRACKIN’ is here. It’s a story line of enjoying life in the inner city (in this case in Oakland, CA) performing at clubs, kickin it at backyard parties, car displays and more.
As many of you may already know, this is A BIG DAN and LOS RAKAS Second video collaboration. In 2005, they collaborated on MI BARRIO which has well over 350,000 youtube views and has gotten international media attention.
New Debut Album ALL OR NONE in all music stores including Best Buys, also available on iTunes now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/big-dan/id260813498
Several features in the album are: Los Rakas, Chingo Bling, Los Novillos Del Norte, Deuce Eclipse, Favi, Ise Lyfe, Cutty Boy, Beeda Weeda, Bambu, and more.
Booking and Contact bangforchange@gmail.com
http://officialbigdan.com/

Leslie "DYME" Lopez is having her debut artist reception Saturday Septmeber 24th in East Oakland's community center, East Side Art's Alliance. It will be a good night for folks from the area and not from the area to network and touch base. It's also of course the celebration to DYME's solo exhibition. Come and support. Full information is on the flyer. Many guest artist and local activist will be in the house.

IN RESPONSE TO THE RECENT POSTING OF KAT WILLIAMS. His first mistake was performing in Phoenix, Arizona in the first place. Williams is apparently not aware to the Sound Strike that arose after the passage of anti-immigrant legislation in the state. Our concern is that he may not be in a circle of folks who keep him politically/socially aware of things. So with this Mr. Williams, BRWN BFLO is not only going to check your a** but we are also extending an invitation to educate you anytime you are concerned or questioning raza politics.

It is absolutely obvious that Mr.Williams is not clear about what all happened in Mexico's past? That the person involved in selling the land was certainly not in representation for the people, nor was he even Mexican but rather some Spaniard making business with his own People. And should it have been a Mexican, was most likely tortured like the great Aztec Emperor Moctezuma and Cuauhtemoc who had their feet burned and were torchured after refusing to give up their treasures to the conquistadores. Or like our native ancestors, who watched their children get killed and wives rapped in front of them for not cooperating. Army’s like that of Pancho Villa fought back in the North, and Army's like that of Emiliano Zapata fought in the South.

Our question to Mr. Williams is " are you truly intergrated and accepted into USA? Is USA truly integrated into you and your people? are you an individual or a represention of other blacks or that of people of color? Is it Obama that makes you feel a deeper investement to chanting U.S.A? What about USA are you intrigued about? Hmmmm, maybe a white racist paid you thousands to not only perform in THE MOST ANTI-MEXICAN state, but gave you extra cash to go in harder against Mexicans?"

Bottom line is this, black and brown folks got to stick together. We don’t need more coconuts and oreo’s. no more puppets for the money or the white man. and certainly, no more hate against eachother, we need unity.

So, What do we do next? Do we Sound Strike him? Do we take this and learn from it? At what point do we hold each other accountable or not? One thing for sure is that He clearly made an informed historical perspectives and should be accountable for it because to us, it was clearly not a quick racial joke but rather a long 7 minutes of racist remarks fueled with anger.

It's time to base our actions and words on our unified histories, our real interests as working people, and not fall into the traps of blaming one another due to race or other nonsensical reasons. Any energy spent by Africans Americans against Mexicans--or Mexicans against African Americans, since this is equally wrong--