Aztlan Nation - My Huaraches

Chicano Activists from Northern California.
Berkeley,Cali

Band Bio Preview: Aztlan Nation is a Chicano hip-hop group. Cricket (Esteban Zul) and Smiley (Motez Mostafa) founded Aztlan Nation in the West Berkeley Flats of the San Francisco East Bay area in 1989. Following the lead of such politically and socially inspired contemporaries as Public Enemy, X-Clan, and N.W.A., the group took on the mission of spreading Chicano nationalism and "Brown Pride". The group's objective was to give voice and a presence to the often marginalized Latin American segment of American society. They were one of the first Chicano rap groups to emerge on the musical scene. Aztlan Nation's first release was a four-song homemade cassette tape they sold at local shows and record shops. Their first album, Beaner Go Home, was released during a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. The album was distributed widely across the United States, particularly in the Southwest and was welcomed for its anti-establishment attitude, aggressive lyrics, and Chicano style. With thundering hardcore street tracks such as "Born to Play the Bad Guy", and political parodies with songs and skits like "Dead Gringo Malt Liquor" the group made a distinctive mark in the world of Hip Hop. The album's success resulted in tours and performances with the likes of Cypress Hill, Tupac Shakur, Arrested Development and televised appearances on FOX, NBC and Univision. After passing the torch to a new generation of Latino rappers Aztlan Nation is back. Today new groups of bigots like the vigilante group calling themselves the Minutemen are harassing Latinos at the U.S. Mexico border. Meanwhile a new wave of anti-immigrant politicians, who have no regard for the basic human rights of immigrants trying to feed thier families, pander for votes and power by attacking the disempowered. The members of Aztlan Nation have seen this all before. In the song "Wetback" recorded in 1992 Aztlan Nation predicted the current Latino population explosion warning a zenophobic American public that "in the year 2000 jack, we're gonna see who's the real wetback." As one of the first hip hop groups to tackle Latino issues like this head on over a decade ago, Aztlan Nation has regrouped with renewed determination to fight the forces of evil. The group is reportedly recording a new album in an underground bunker somewhere in the Greater Aztlan Area. Sources close to the band say the new tracks are so slamming and politically volatile that it will take more than an act of congress to stop the eminent domain of the Aztlan Nation... y que!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Chicano
• Mexicano
• MexicaMovement
• Rap
• Activist
• Aztlan
• Nation
• Norteno
• OldSkool
• HuelgaBird
• Revolutionaries
• RunDMC
• MyAdidas

[UnknownSoldierMX]

No Son Ni Sureños Ni Norteños, Son Activistas Politicos Que Luchan Por La Unión De Mexicanos Y Chicanos En Estados Unidos (Concretamente En California). Son Del Norte De California, No Recuerdo Bien De Que Parte, Pero Sus Canciones Ya Son Viejas.

[Nohtut]

son de BERKELEY FLATS en el NORTE de CALIFORNIA, HOMIE!

pero nos as visto su video de musica son chidos kon los del Norte pero no son NORTENOS comprendes HOMIE!???....

[bigchuco74]

i'll take my huaraches over air jordans anyday!!!

[Nohtut]

SIMON!!!

Ponle HOMIE...

[707norcalchicano]

@jimj122680 You're an ignorant, pathetic waste of life and I feel sorry for you.

[hugoestr]

@Nohtut Son del Norte de Oakland? ;)

[HxABrownPryder]

like me HxA!

[SILENTWSDC88]

no they were brown priders dumb fuck

[HxABrownPryder]

@mexman48

LOL at u

[dueone]

all races are fucked ...you got niggers well theyre all the same ..but you got good whites then white trash you got mexicans then you got the illegals everyones fucked....

[mexman48]

These aztlan nation guys are a bunch of losers. I am also a mexican but I am not a loser. Fuck you losers.

[jimj122680]

Everyone I know hates spics. Every black I know hates spics. Every Asian I know hates spics. Every White I know hates spics.

Calling someone a "Mexican" is a huge insult. "Mexican" is like a four letter word, a foul dirty word. That's why Mexicans started calling themselves "latinos". But now "Latino" = shit. Because when shit is shit, you can't hide it by calling it a different name. Same with "chicano". It's a dirty filthy name because it's associated with the same human waste.

[jimj122680]

Beaner "culture": gangs, spraying graffiti, destroying public property, dropping out of school (a favorite amongst spics), vandalizing cars, shoplifting, car jacking, leeching for food stamps and welfare checks, littering, parking on lawns, packing 20 cockroaches in a 3 bedroom apt, complaining about how they are "oppressed", etc. That's beaner "culture".

These filthy cockroaches have been in CA for 160 years and they still live in barrios. Filthy dirty spics.

[RazaRider12]

They aint Nortenos dumbass!!! Chicano activist and against all that gang bullshit.