X-Clan - Funkin' Lesson

From 1990 Album: "To the East, Blackwards"

X-Clan's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/xclanmusic

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http://www.amazon.com/X-Clan/e/B000APYOC0/ref=ntt_mus_gen_pel
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Known for its Afrocentrism and militant activism as member of the Blackwatch movement, X-Clan soon gained fame for the controversy its music aroused, though commercial success was sporadic. X-Clan's debut was To the East, Blackwards (1990), followed by Xodus (1992) and a temporary break-up. Both albums peaked at #11 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. It also coined the made-up word "vanglorious," not to be confused with vainglorious, as a way to say thanks but no thanks to Noah Webster.

Other artists who were affiliated with X-Clan and Blackwatch include Isis, Queen Mother Rage, and YZ. X-Clan's affiliates released a string of titles throughout the early 1990s: Professor X released a solo album titled Years of the 9, on the Blackhand Side in 1991 and a second solo album titled Puss N' Boots: The Struggle Continues in 1993; Queen Mother Rage released Vanglorious Law in 1991; Isis released Rebel Soul in 1990; and YZ released his debut Sons of The Father (noted for the song "Thinking of a Master Plan"), in 1989, followed by The Ghetto's Been Good to Me (which included his modest hit "Return of the Holy One") in 1993. It should be noted that YZ became affiliated with the group after releasing his first album, and that Isis is also the MC known as Linque Ayoung. Linque, at one point, was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated group Deadly Venoms.

In 1994 Brother J formed a new group, Dark Sun Riders, that released the full-length Seeds of Evolution in 1996. In 1995, long-time group member Sugar Shaft died from complications of AIDS. X-Clan reunited in the late 1990s but did not release any new material. Brother J assembled a new crew that he calls X-Clan Millennium Cipher and released a vinyl single for "The One/Blackwards Row" in 2004. Professor X died from complications of spinal meningitis on 17 March 2006.

A new X-Clan album, titled Return from Mecca (originally titled The Trinity), was released in 2007, featuring Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, RBX, KRS-One, Daddy X of Kottonmouth Kings, and Jacoby Shaddix, lead vocalist of the rock band Papa Roach. Also, Tech N9ne is featured on a hidden bonus track titled "Respect."

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Clan

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[Lashid4u]

@Bouchon211 Whites "listening", is like how the hippies and phony white liberals "studied" black culture ...It's all just "fascinating" to them - they learn it, but they don't, necessarily, LIVE it (nor absorb it) ...You had many of those whites, in the late 80s, who were, supposedly, "down" with Public Enemy ...But many of them, now, are going around here, talking about how "rap is crap"..Remember, it is whites that hype "Weezy" to black kids, while blocking the X-Clans from receiving exposure

[chicagocold312]

More Black conciousness gottdammit, i'm tired of these new school coons!!!

[wanniator]

@Lashid4u You're wrong. You are stereotyping as a response to stereotypers. I am white, I have this on vinyl. I own a large collection of old-school hip-hop, all of which is black music exclusively, except Peanut Butter Wolf. I own every Funkadelic album on vinyl, and have seen them live. I study African history and accept that I could never live it, but surely it is better to learn what I can. By taking the approach you do, you're cutting your nose off to spite your face. Welcome any progress.

[UserKim30001]

RIP Professor X!!

[IG8E8]

XClan is not some withheld secret. Their videos got the same airtime as anyone else at the time, they were in all the magazines, they were part of every dj mix on sat night hiphop radio (I still have the recordings). To say they were "blocked" because of their message is pure conspiracy fantasy. If anything their message helped their success, ESPECIALLY at the time when that's what was hot. If it's not hot now, it's not because of some "white" industry execs but rather how kids are raised.

[donhajike]

@Lashid4u

You're not entirely right. I was raised by a black man from Alabama in a very poor area in Oakland - I was one of the only white kids at Oakland tech when I went there. I lived this. my skin just happened to be white. I always felt love from everyone in my neighborhood. ...I had this album on repeat. I understand what you're saying though, it sucks that you're mostly right, but we can all be God's children.

[Lashid4u]

@jiw1330164 Yep! yep!

[Lashid4u]

@ksizzle1016 You said it!

[able76]

Professor X was a modernday philosopher; pure genius. We are in dire need of his influence in this day. He will be greatly missed... Brother J is a lyrical intellectual whose rhymes are masterful. You would think his lyrics were inspired by heavenly host because they transcend anything heard on this plane

[ksizzle1016]

@Lashid4u I also enjoy generalizations to stitch together a tired "us vs. them" mentality.

[jiw1330164]

@Lashid4u i like my coffee like i like youtube commenters, black and bitter, cause u know all us white folk just love lil waynes faggot ass