X clan

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X clan
General information
Genre (s) rap
founding 1990, 2006
resolution 1995
Website http://www.xclanmusic.com/
Founding members
DJ
 Sugar Shaft
rap
 Brother J
rap
 Professor X
Manager
 Paradise The Architect
Current occupation
rap
 Brother J
rap
 Master of China
rap
 Cumu
rap
 Ultraman
rap
 ACL
rap
 Lord Cza
DJ
 DJ Fat Jack
rap
 Zulu
former members
rap
 Professor X († 2006)
DJ
 Sugar Shaft († 1995)
Manager
 Paradise the Architect

The X-Clan is a music group that performs in traditional African clothing. The music can be described as political rap music that deals with the issues of racism, world politics and injustice. X-Clan was founded by Sugar Shaft who acted as the DJ for the group, Paradise The Architect who performed the duties of the manager, Brother J who worked as the MC and Professor X who took on the role of the front man. During their career they toured with Public Enemy, among others .

founding

The X-Clan started in Brooklyn . Sugar Shaft met Brother J in high school in the early 1980s. They got together to make rap music together. Shaft and Brother J were both members of Blackwatch, an organization that monitors and denounces human rights violations against people of color around the world. Through the organization, the two came into contact with Professor X and Paradise The Architect. The four of them recorded their first demo in the studio of the Ultramagnetic MC's .

Career

In 1990 the X-Clan released their first album, which was entitled To The East, Blackwards . In scene circles, the group's debut album is considered a classic due to its samples and political, explicit lyrics. In the course of the years 1990 to 1992, numerous rappers from the X-Clan environment published solo projects. Even Professor X In 1991, a solo album titled Years of the 9: On the Black Hand Side .

After only two albums, Brother J left the X-Clan in 1994. J gave reasons for artistic differences. After the split he founded the group Dark Sun Riders, which released the album Seeds of Evolution in 1996. In 1995 Sugar Shaft died of complications from AIDS. The death of Shaft and the departure of Brother J initially led to the end of the X-Clan.

In the late 1990s, Brother J assembled a new team called the X-Clan Millennium Cipher . In 2004 The One / Blackwards Row was produced by the newly formed group. After the third X-Clan album, which ran under the working title The Trinity , was scheduled for 2006, Professor X died on March 17th of cerebrospinal meningitis . Despite the death of the rapper, who had been in financial distress for a long time, the album was released under the title Return From Mecca . With a guest contribution, KRS-One and Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 can be heard on the album. The X-Clan, whose driving force is now Brother J, went on tour with Jurassic 5 in the same year.

Discography

Albums

  • 1990: To The East, Blackwards
  • 1992: Xodus
  • 2007: Return From Mecca
  • 2009: Mainstream Outlawz

Singles / EPs

  • 1989: Heed the word of the brother
  • 1989: Raise the flag
  • 1991: Funkin 'Lesson
  • 1991: Grand Verbalizer
  • 1991: Fire & Earth (100% Natural) / Fire & Earth (90 & Juice, 10% Spring Water)
  • 1992: Xodus
  • 1992: ADAM
  • 2004: The One / Blackwards Row

swell

  1. ↑ a b c September issue of Juice (2006)
  2. ↑ X-Clan with a new album despite the death of Professor X ( Memento from July 19, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

literature

  • X-Clan: Black Is A State Of Mind . Report on a visit to the X-Clan in Brooklyn. In: Günther Jacob : Agit-Pop. Black music and white listeners , Edition ID-Archiv, 3rd edition 1993, Berlin / Amsterdam, p. 102 ff.

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