Not really "new artists" as you will read from their bio. This group embodies all the true elements of hip hop. Shout outs to Johnny Juice. Read below and check the video.
Sweatshop Basquiat is the latest video from the debut album by X-Vandals "The War Of Art". (Check out photos from the video shoot) The video was directed by Omar and was shot in Long Island CIty, Queens, NY at the world famous 5 Pointz. The 5 Pointz is an old warehouse and artists studio that allows graffiti artists to work without the usual legal repercussions that come with being a graffiti artist.
The Sweatshop Basquiat video is an homage to the early daze of graffiti and features graffiti artist icons Jean-Michel Basquiat and LEE from such classic downtown NYC 80's films as Downtown 81 and Wildstyle.
MC Not4Prophet and DJ Johnny Juice are X-Vandals, and together they have rican-structed a truly incendiary and incite-full, dangerous and danceable, modern-day militant music made and played to move the Masses.
MC Not4Prophet was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised on the streets of East Harlem and the South bronx in New York City. As a teen-ager he was homeless, and (then) a squatter, surviving the american system through stealth, stealing and subversion, while passing the time by scrawling on private property and throwing stones through chain store windows. He went on to form(ulate) and front the underground anti-corporate political punk/hip hop/salsa/reggae fusion band known as RICANSTRUCTION, that ipropaganda magazine refered to as "the most dangerous band in the underground", Bad Azz Mofo magazine called "the official soundtrack for the revolution that's coming", and Frontera magazine called "a political timebomb", and later founded the art and agitation collective called RICANSTRUCTION NETWERK that has over the years organized and mobilized political rallys, demonstrations, benefits, fundraisers, and occasional riots for worthy political causes throughout the US, Latin America and other barrios and ghettos around the world.
DJ Johnny Juice was raised in the Bronx, NYC, and witnessed the birth of Hip Hop right on his doorstep. The boogie down bred Turntableist/B-Boy/Graffitti writer, first displayed his break dancing skills at the age of 14 in the mid '80s classic Hip Hop film Beat Street, and by the time he was 17 he was working with the iconic instigators, Public Enemy as a member of the (in)famous Bomb Squad on their debut release Yo Bum Rush the Show and their classic album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back. Over the years he has also lent his production and seditious scratching skills to projects by other legendary Hip Hop artists such as Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, The Beastie Boys, DMC, LL Cool J and Leaders of the New School.
Check out their site
http://www.x-vandals.com/
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