Music from BRWN BFLO's New Album

I've written about BRWN BFLO a couple times before and now it looks like others are catching on! Just recently they were featured on the SF Guardian's website and The Smoking Section. Writer & 415 representer Ms Krish begins:

Oakland-based Hip-Hop group BRWN BFLO is just as much as an anomaly as their namesake: a progressive Chicano Hip-Hop group with bottomless hyphy 808s and an immense stage presence. So while the carnales in SoCal are making you “Lean Like A Cholo”, you can find Somos One, Big Dan, Jacinto and Giant collar-poppin’ in their sets, fully decked in Dios de los Muertes face paint and scaring the beejezus out of the nearest Federal Agent lurking in their audience. You get the feeling that anything is possible when it comes to their dynamic appeal...

So read up and digest a few dope cuts from their new album.

DL: "Apeshit"- BRWN BFLO


DL: "Wheels Keep Spinnin"- BRWN BFLO feat. Zion I & Bambu


DL: "Corazon"- BRWN BFLO

Oakland's Finest Live in SF Tonight!

It's Friday and The Town will be thick in The Cty tonight! Zion I, Trackademicks, The Kev Choice Ensemble and BRWN BFLO will all be tearing down Slims, while Goapele is over melting the crowd at The Independent with her "Milk & Honey" delivery. Basically, if you have a few cheips stacked and waiting for a good cause, check out one of these shows—you won't be disappointed!

BRWN BFLO Album Release Party feat. Bambu

So after you peep the Hip-Hop in the Park event in Berkeley and watch the Pacman-Hatton fight, head over to see my homie Big Dan and the rest of BRWN BFLO tear down The Uptown. Bambu will also be in the billin' and feelin' himself. Be there or be a Sponge Bob. I'm just sayin

Previously:
BRWN BFLO: ChicanOakland Pride
BRWN BFLO: "The Re-Appearance" Video

BRWN BFLO: "The Re-Appearance"

If you aren't up on BRWN BFLO, then read this post I wrote awhile back to get a little background. Then dive headfirst into their latest video, "The Re-Appearance," produced by the homie Samm Styles. The dope video features a few of their songs and gives you a pretty well-rounded understanding of who they are and what they represent, namely ChicanOakland pride, the streets and progressive politics.

A lot of "conscious" groups can seem preachy, but BRWN BFLO reaffirms that there is nothing inherently preachy about hood intelligence or cultural pride. We have to remember that a rebellious militance with social awareness at its core is nothing new to Oakland (think Panthers). Hopefully the group, who range in age from 19 to 30, can succeed to capturing the imagination of the Oakland Bay Area and hip-hop in general.

Check out this bonus clip of my homie Big Dan preparing to speak to youth at Juvenile Hall- a place his past has landed him in all too often.

Must See Hip-Hop Showcase Tuesday Night!

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If you are in the Bay Area tonight, then you are absolutely required to check out this concert. There is no need repeating what's on the flier, but you will be taking an L should you choose to pass on this. What better way to celebrate the Bay's activist history, present and future, than with a multi-cultural collective of rebel-rousing rappers? So sad I can't attend, but if you go, take flix and film.

BRWN BFLO: ChicanOakland Pride

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. . .