This piece in the Trib seemed like a nice segue from the last post on our prideful obsession with oppression. BRWN BFLO is on something quite different. They definitely come from the street, but they are also claiming their Mexican heritage and progressive politics. I gotta shout out the homie Big Dan- A Young OG from YU! days I've been up on Dan's stuff for a few years, but I must admit that I was sleeping on the crew. They remind me of a mexcla of Bambu, Deuce Eclipse and Rico Pabon, Check out their Myspace, dudes is nice blood. Also peep the vid below and an excerpt from the Trib article below that.Bay Area rappers BRWN BFLO took their name from the 1972 autobiography by Oscar Zeta Acosta, "Brown Buffalo" — a tale of an alienated Mexican-American lawyer in Oakland whose Chicano pride and sense of history are awakened.
The story is a familiar one to the quartet of first and second-generation Mexican Americans who go by the stage names Somos One (Julio Magana, 30), Giant (Luke Soriano, 29), Big Dan (Daniel Mora, 23) and Jacinto (Jacinto Mingura, 19). Except their barrio story is set to a hip-hop beat. . .
Calling themselves "edu-tainers" and block educators, they try to stay close to their community roots and preach the gospel of violence prevention, cultural pride and La Raza resistance that they said students in dysfunctional schools learn piecemeal — if at all. Only they do it through music and multimedia. . .
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