The Motives of a Movement

Artist Bios are overrated. Describing what the artists want you to know, a bio generally serves as a glorified self-serving synopsis of a much larger, more intricate story. We do, however, understand that a little background info is always a good thing so here goes. As the name suggests, There are four emcees in the squadron. We all met, vibed, and began our musical endeavor during our freshman year at Hofstra University. We've only grown from there, releasing 3 cds, putting together our own benefit concerts, and performing countless times all over NY, even opening shows for Lupe Fiasco and Estelle. We live together, eat together drink together, break bread together, laugh, cry, ride and roll together, and though we don't always see eye to eye, we're always there for each other, together. C-write Crills hails from Brooklyn NY, Alpha from White Plains NY, Googie from West New York, NJ and A-Web from Block Island, RI and Vermont. Though one might say that each individual 'represents' his respective hometown, don't get too caught up in man-made spacial barriers; we all come from the Earth, so we prefer to represent the whole World rather than one small plot of land. The members of the group host ties to myriad cultures Including Jamaican, African, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Irish, Danish and Native American, but again, don't get hung up on illusory and divisive racial barriers, we represent the human race, plain, simple and beautiful.

That seems sufficient background, anything else you can find out if you truly desire but let us spare you the rest of the usual biographic ego-trip.
Here's what you really need to know... C-4 is a movement, but we can only fulfill that title and truly make the movement move with your allegiance and support. We represent 4 dimensions and you are the missing piece: help us reach the 5th dimension as one. Here's what you can do to be involved.

1. Listen to our music. We are passionate about what we do; we pour incredible amounts of effort (heart soul and time) into making it and we have fun doing it. If you like how it sounds, turn the volume up a little bit louder and roll your windows down as you cruise. Spread the music to your friends and family and tell them to do the same. Come see us play live, and bring some friends. Our energy is always over the top and we guarantee you'll have fun with us.

2. Listen to our Message. We don't care how many times you have to rewind a song or a verse to understand the lyrics, as long as you make an attempt. We don't do this to say nothing at all. We are opinionated, impassioned by the issues of OUR people living on OUR planet, and we put deep, immense thought into scribing our own individual ideas into our lyrics. We feel that we have something to say, and whether you agree or disagree with what is said, let our words help to expand your basis of thought and opinion to unseen depths while we all grow together as human beings.

3. Keep listening. Our lyrics have many layers to their meanings: double, triple, quadruple, infinite meanings, however you wish to perceive them! We use metaphors, we tell stories and use intricate rhyme patterns along with lots of vocabulary (get a dictionary). We know that the words we use and the things we say are not always easy to comprehend, but the more you listen, the more you'll catch the hidden gems, woven throughout our wordly webs. We like to say that most commercial music, which gains instant popularity and is overplayed before quickly burning out; those fartists are like a one night stand: brief, carnal, often ugly and never truly fulfilling. Our music is the type that you take home to meet the family, introduce to your closest friends, fall In love with and eventually marry: alluring but hard to get, and once 'understood', always surprising you, enticing, exciting and pushing you in your own life. Please keep listening. We are always growing, so the more material that comes, the deeper you can travel with us.

4. Don't be a follower. Although we know that it is often difficult, in this fast paced world, to sit down and really search your soul for your own thoughts and opinions, NEVER adopt someone else's belief without thorough self examination. We believe strongly in what we say but we don't want our fans to complacently agree. We want you to hear what we say and then think about it for YOURSELF and nobody else. Besides, time changes everything, even opinions, so while we hold strongly to our beliefs now, we must be willing to let go and change to enable the advancement of mankind along with the world as it advances forward at every passing moment.

5. Evolve. While darwin's evolutionary model may be stalled on our human forms, it is our minds that must continue to evolve. Learn about the ego and how it effects others, but most importantly yourself. Learn to accept yourself, love yourself and be open and willing to change. Learn to accept others, learn compassion, learn to love them and help them to change. Let us evolve together. War is a never-ending cycle, peace is permanent, eternal.

Peace and Love
C-4

Some words of inspiration

Here is a poem I heard read earlier today by the poet Staceyann Chin.  The poem is entitled, "The Low Road" and was written by Marge Piercy.  I couldn't find a video of the powerful rendition of the poem so I decided I would post the verse and let you take a shot at reciting it.

The Low Road 

What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..

They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can’t walk, can’t remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you can’t stop them doing.

How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion

Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.

Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.

Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.

It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.

The 2010 Movement Draft!

So 2009 is coming to a screeching halt in roughly 2 weeks and we wanted to layout a platform of the takeover to come in 2010.  I will just make a list to make things easier to read.  These entries are in no particular order.

1) New C-4 Album entitled, "C-4-C:Combustible 4 Cavemen."
2) C Write Crills and Samurai Banana (1/2 of Sarcasmo reppin' Karma Kids Studio) mixtape entitled "Ninja vs. Samurai"
3) Alpha and Headtrip (the other 1/2 of Sarcasmo reppin' Karma Kids Studio) mixtape entitled "Domewrecker vs. Rahzilla"
4) Alpha presenting "Ain't Nothin' Plain About Us", an LP featuring some of the best artists conceived and coagulated in White Plains, NY.  914, Westchester Stand Up!
5) A new and improved A-Webber
6) "In The Moment" an extended EP effort from Alpha
7) "Coon 2 Some" an extended EP effort from Alpha and C Write Crills
8) We will be DJ Ducktaping wack MCs
9) The Movement to begin in-house producing
10) The webpage to end all frivolous internet usage,  WWW.4PROSE.NET.
....

Along with several other plans for world domination that can not be displayed at this moment, but everyone is invited to join when our stratagem is revealed.

2010 Beware!  Long Live The Lost!

The Anrgy Blogger on Education

Our generation has been vitiated due to the debt everyone is accruing just from going to school.  Plain and simple.  I know many individuals who have racked up over $100,000 in debt while they are still no older than 22 in most cases.  I believe it goes without dispute that educating the public is the paramount strategy to ensure a prosperous future where people are more inclined to make decisions that have the best positive outcome for society as a whole.  However, the cost and strain that education places on students makes one think twice about getting a diploma.

Let's take recent history for an allegory.  During this current recession one factor which influenced the events of the past year were the inability of individuals with mortgages for their homes to pay back these loans.  Whether they should have received mortgages is a question that I am no expert to answer and does not pertain to my overall general argument.  The inability of individuals to pay back their mortgages led to a downward spiral of financial institutions going bankrupt and people losing every asset they owned.

Now to parallel this with education.  With such a massive amount of students in their early 20's gaining such titanic amounts of debt in hopes to establish a positive and fruitful future, one must take a step back and wonder can this many college graduates really pay back this debt.  One advantage college graduates had in the past was the significantly lower number of individuals attending college and graduating.  Therefore, the ones who graduated held much more cultural capital and had a stronger hold on bargaining for employment and their income.  This falls in line with the  facets of  supply and demand.  Generally, the reduced supply of a certain commodity or good (in this case college graduates), the greater the demand will be for said good, therein making the value of said good appreciate.

Can we as a college students be confident and assured enough that the investment we are placing upon our education and future will pay off?  The banks which give out the money are fervent and unrelenting in pursuing the repayment of their loans, regardless of how successful or financial stable a student has become.

Society pressures us that going to college is the only vehicle to secure a prosperous future where you can contribute to the upbuilding of our communities.  After continually maintaining a reflection eternal upon this system I'm beginning to think twice.  It almost seems there is some clandestine plan which promotes students striving for an education and telling us education is the only way to secure a future, only to place a dollar value on our efforts to restrict individuals without the financial capital to educate themselves.  Which in turn, only perpetuates stagnation in the social hierarchy and establishes a caste system that doesn't allow every individual to increase their status and cultural worth.

The Random House Dictionary's definition of education is thus; the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

I previously stated that the larger amount of college graduates may decrease our worth and ability to procure financial stability.  However, to place a dollar value on one's growth and evolution is futile and preposterous and only pushes individuals further away from education as a whole.  Consequently, potentially ensnaring our social mobility and placing those in poor financial shape in shackles and chains.  Education, in my opinion will lead to the enlightening of our generation and generations to come, due to the ills and imbalances of society we have seen in the past and present.  We have no choice but to establish an approach that will allow us to nurture and develop new methods to allow every human to sustain their growth mentally, physically, spiritually, and economically through the rigors of socialization, regardless of one's culture, creed, or belief system.

Alas, we are already absorbed within the game that has subdued many of my colleagues and classmates, and there is not much we can do to change the past.  However, with the knowledge and experience we have gained over the years of our schooling, and the growing ambiguity and unascertainable nature of the future, one thing for sure is certain.  We stand in the 21st century with the cultural capital we have purchased, clutched by the throat and wallet, only to be manumit by the idiosyncrasies and double standards of universities,employers, and financial institutions.

As always, the one who attempts to align all ways as always.

-Alpha-

Peace to all the Nihilistic cavemen

Shout out to Lt. Headtrip for coining the above phrase.  What makes your head trip?  There's too much nowadays to try to solve everything or fathom everything at once.  Step by step, piece by piece I suppose.  If everyone does their part can things be better?  But then we have to figure out what everyone's part is.  We have to agree on what is "right".  Signing out before I fall too deep into my own rabbit hole.  It will occur soon enough and I will keep all of you posted out there in TV land.  Maybe the revolution will be televised, or better yet Youtubed.

-As always it is the Altruistic ANIMALLLL, Alpha-

I bid you adieu.

Woke Up Early On My Born Day

Thank you, thank you, thank you to whatever force was behind me turning 22 this past weekend and having a great time celebrating it with those in my circle. Another wild weekend at Walton where pong balls we're being pursued in tenacity by our mangy mutt Lola Monsta Movement! She has become a force to be reckoned with if you miss your pong shots for she will catch any ball in midair that does sink a cup. That's right, move on over Air Bud! We have a pong playing dog in the making. You don't realize how many people you are friends with until they all come together at once and then you realize that you are probably loved. All in all it was a fun weekend, plus I finally have jumped back on the mic after a slight hiatus of recording. Don't know if the lack of recording was caused by a lack of Motiv8-ion, being lazy, not having all the Quarter-Martyrs of the Squadron in each others presence at one time in one location, or a mixture of all these variables and more. I recorded 2 free-form songs this weekend.

DISCLAIMER: these are not what some artists like to deem as a "freestyle". A freestyle is the process of creating a song and/or rhyme scheme at that very moment from the thoughts that fire into your mind through the synapses with occur at minutest unit of minute measurement.

What I recorded was just some cohesive thoughts about the current state of the world we live in today and the ability or perceived inability we have to make a difference. All in all we must learn to Puff, Puff, Pass, Struggle Struggle STRIVE!

Here is a link to the song. It is named "Mighty Healthy" performed by yours truly, Alpha, the Avatar of the Anonymous, the Anti-Acquiesce, the Always Asking, the Allusive to All Allegory.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wy1zjoynnqc

And I decided to be nice and type of the lyrics for ya, so you can better understand my perspective. As long as we can agree to disagree that's all I'm asking for.

They say that I'm photogenic
The mode of menace
That I'm trying to attain is like a vampire no image
No mirror fear no norms revoke terror
As the smoke clears up, I like to view the vultures cheer us
While very few of the youths culture hears them
No joke, we choke on purpose to draw you near us
::Gag, gag:: I don't wanna be a-
Nother trapped onomatopoeia
Trying to find his freedom
Away from the associations they lead us
A fetus at default? Nah!
I'd rather be fecal matter with the shit stains of revolt
Why we living passive in this day and null?
We gotta find a way to PULL
And not get PUSHed back cause some get discouraged from the fall
SURVIVAL of the fittest than I guess
...
I should bust my nut over your mic make you rest.
You ain't giving shit to the world but-fucking stress
By leading the illusion that is ludicrous at best
And,
As you jest I transcend from the crest just to walk on air and crush the barometric press!
If done I'd accomplish much less!
As we spirit bomb the game to tear away the flesh!
And put back the SOUL,
Believe you me, there is much to it than just cooked crack and gold....
Then I hesitate,
And let that resonate, etanoser, resonate.

I set the pace for us facing reality,
Puff, Puff, Pass, Struggle Struggle STRIVE!
Puff, Puff, Pass, Struggle Struggle STRIVE!
I set the pace for us facing reality,
I set the pace for us facing reality,
Puff, Puff, Pass, Struggle Struggle STRIVE!
PUFF PUFF PASS STRUGGLE STRUGGLE, strive.

Happy Turkey Day?

Greetings and good holiday cheer from the Movement! We are wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Despite the historical background of the holiday, where Native American communities and cultures were destroyed, we should still take this day (and every other day) to give thanks for those that we have in our lives. It's similar to the N-word in my opinion. It originated as a slur but now some see it as a term of endearment. This "negroswap" as I like to dubb it can be applied to any word, concept, or situation. Meanings are all based off of one's identity/ies and associations. To the extent where a nihilistic observation may occur to all events. However, with nothing given meaning one can argue that nothing can bring joy, pain, humor, or any other of the complex emotions which are present in our psyches. Therefore in the crazy temporal society that we live in there is nothing wrong with applying positive associations and ideals to events which bring people together in a manner where they can break bread and express graciousness for what they have. So the next time you say Fuck Thanksgiving it's not a real holiday or does not deserve to be celebrated, keep in mind the very few things that brings societies together in a positive manner. Just negroswap your previous beliefs and attitudes for one in which you can enjoy the day and piggggg outtttt. Grub On! Movement Out!

-Alpha/Double A/John Ra/Juan Verdad/Abu Danza/The Avatar 4 None

The Survivorvolution

We can start the Revolution just by walking up to them and saying.... Hello! Just some thoughts from Alpha the always anonymous yet analogous.

New Track

Check out the concoction conjured up not consisting of cacophonous creativities. This track hails from the minds of C Write Crills and Alpha. It was produced by the up and rising producer Max Apollo...maddd heat for all the haters out there. Download it here at http://public.me.com/alphagmg. The track is title Hate In The Ieez. Peace and Thank.You.

Can't stop won't stop gotta keep movin....

Hello to all of you out there in ear box land. We haven't forgotten about any of you or about the music and great things we do. Well we got Federalism of the Forces 4 Eardrums coming at you soon. What's that you ask? Its a joint venture of several projects in the post-brainstorm stages, which will begin to take effect in the next several weeks leading to the release of several CD's through the efforts of The C-4 Movement, Karma Kids Studios, and a blossoming new Brooklyn based media magnate S.U.R.E. Music Group. Look out for "Domewrecker vs. Rahzilla" by the megalomaniacal efforts of Alpha and Lt. Headtrip of Sarcasmo. "Coon To Some" from the 2 quarter cuatro residents C. Write Krillz and Alpha. "Samurai vs. Ninja" the Asian salamander sounding sword swinging swine flu through your spine through thought shogunical sounds of Samurai Banana of Karma Kids Studios (Samurai) and C. Write Krillz (Ninja). As, well as a solo LP effort from Alpha titled "In The Moment: Eye Am Hear". Can't stop won't stop gotta keep movin....

A.C.T. (Also Consume This)

We will be shooting a video within the next couple weeks along with constructing a website....All leading up to the eventual release of our 4ourth EP "C-4-C: Combustible 4 Cavemen"....

Pitta-Patta Porkchops coming to a PiffSteak near you!

alpha and web created this masterslice last night

stuffing Ingredients:
1each: green/red pepper diced
2 small hot red chili peppers minced
3/4 cob fresh native sweet corn shaved
1/2 ripe banana in penny slices
5oz hot Italian sausage
1/4 white onion finely diced
2 leaves each Thai and Italian basil
pinch o' parsley and spearmint
¹teaspoon of Cajun seasoning
salt and pepper to taste.

sweat these ingredients in olive oil over a low flame until sausage is cooked and flavors have merged.. add 1/2cup breadcrumbs, 1/2cup dry stuffing mix, 4 crumbled ritz crackers and a healthy slab of butter. next add 1/2 cup of "hard" apple cider and stir till absorbed. let cook five more minutes being sure not to turn stuffing to mush.

slice pockets into the middle of 2 large porkchops as well as diagonal 'flap' inscisions on top. stuff middle pockets and top flaps and pile more on top

bake for 45 mins at 350F
puff something silly
enjoy

perceiving paranorm

another shot of the painted rock. there was no order in our paint pour but check out the curling crow skeleton fetus that appeared through the random drip. eerie coincidence? we think not. question everything with counter-conditioning. peace

say no to norms

web alpha and f-150 have been on block island for the summer and on franks last night we decided to partake in an ancient block island tradition. the painted rock is a popular tourist spot where visitors and islanders alike paint a sizeable rock on the southside to mark important news or their travels in general. this has been going on for many years and the rock has actually grown larger with the millions of layers of colorful paint over time. when we arrived, there was a painting of a newlywed couple's names and the date and after a brief moments hesitation we decided that people get married every day and that there was no room for sentiment in the movemental conquest so we painted a layer of white over any and all inscriptions. after the Rock was made a blank slate, we three held the can of red paint and poured it over the canvas and let the paint drip down the sides. the finished project was a gory representation of the movement's "death to norms" adventures, so beware society

Datpiff Mixtape Drop!!!!

This is it people, the Datpiff realease of "Prepare 4 The C Sons". The goal is to push 500 downloads by tomorrow to boost our visibality. When said # is reached we'll be placed on the welcome screen of Datpiff thus available to a wider audience who may not know of your favorite movemements' movements. Any how here's the link, check the shit and enjoy http://www.datpiff.com/The_C4_Squad_Prepare_4_The_C_Sons.m62131.html

The OMG'S @ Mr Beery's

Introducing a sub sect of the C-4 Squad, THE OH MY GOD's. Something like the R.A.G.U of Wu Tang with Rae and Ghost but instead its Crills and Googie. Debuted @ Mr Beery's in Bethpage NY last night in collaboration with the Karma Kids Studios. The OMG's tore the spot down doing new renditions of tracks off the newly released Prepare for the C Sons and the upcomming Ninjah VS Samurai mixtape feat Samurai Bannana and C. Write Crills. Shouts to the Shogun on the ones and two's, Sarcasmo, the Broosevelts and Dennis Nedry and Marlbros and others of the Karma Kids collective.

C.Write Crills

Thoughts

Do you ever look at life and say 'damn, i don't know who i am or where i'm going?" Well, the common response would be "fuck that, i know exactly WHO i am and where I am going," but thats societal. See, it's expected in our society that those who are "strong" know where we are going and that we are firm in our beliefs and our individuality, which we manifest as a certain persona in interpersonal relations with others. This is the ego that is so studied and discussed and misunderstood, as it has taken over human kind. We feel like we need to behave and act and react in a certain ways so that others take note of how we are and learn to respect, and ultimately fear us in everyday life. We grow older and we stop evaluating life at its every turn because we recognize patterns and become conditioned by past experiences. We become lazy and develop beliefs, and its not that believing is lazy, its just that sticking to certain beliefs as they pertain to the 'alternating pictures in life' and behaving in accordance to outcomes of past experience is lazy and it leaves us unable to grasp the essence of life, (which seems to me to be the adventure as opposed to the experience, THINK ABOUT IT) as we're too busy developing a false sense of self that could be crushed any moment by the slightest change in the environment of our lives. This may all seem too deep and philosophical but get over it and attempt to understand what i'm kicking because i'm flowing right now and nowadays i dont have much chance to flow.

I just graduated college at hofstra and i"m on block island working my ass off for my father who is almost three times my age and working even harder than me to make ends meet and to keep the restaurant afloat. I know that this is something that i could do as a source of reliable income, but i also know that it is not what i want to do with my life. I'm a poet, or so i think, and working this much makes it almost impossible to sit down and think about life. However, if i wanted to, i could assume the role as a full time chef and do the damn thing wherever i so chose to do it.

And this brings me back to my original point: I grew up with my mother and sister and I'm a momma's boy who loves the women in his life more than anything else, we moved around somewhat and i adjusted wherever i went. I spent time with my father during the summers but have only recently begun to develop an authentic relationship with him as i have worked by his side for the past few years. Through all of this, i have learned to understand the truth about perceived identities and the impermanence of our concepts of self in the lives that we live. However firm we are in our beliefs or in our definitions of who we are and the lives we live, there are always different things that arise that can force us to change our definitions or perceptions. WE (our egos) are forced to change in accordance to those "alternating Pictures" and we develop new relationships and form new interests in response, and thus adopt new definitions for who we are and what life is meant to be. Certain people have had the priveledge, or should i say misfortune, to have grown up in the same, unchanging situation, and they might have a hard time understanding the impermanence of percieved identities because their perception of who they are has never truly changed. I am not trying to say that this is wrong, because in our society, like i have said, a strong self identity is valued, but i stress that identity is not the 'be all and end all' of our existence, and since it is so maleable according to what surrounds us and what influences us, we must be even more dilligent in finding what really calls us in life as opposed to what becomes expected of us.

I'm rambling, and it is hard to hammer home this point in writing, besides, i have to get to work in the morning, but what i am trying to say is: if you ever wonder to yourself: 'who am i and where am i going in life,' don't worry and don't be ashamed because society expects your definitive understanding of these questions. They take a great deal of learning and soul searching, but we4 must keep an open mind and not become lazy and hung up on our beliefs from past experiences. Evaluate every sutuation as it comes to you from a fresh perspective. let our conditioning be shampooed and cleansed and become truer to life than we ever believed we could be. Us humans have been granted the greatest gift in minds that are capable of deep thought, so please, learn to use it, but don't take yourself too seriously. Develop a method of understanding that works for your purpose and then recognize and respect the different ways of others. We can coexist on this earth, and we can ultimately learn what makes us individual but also what makes us the same, as life courses through our veins. Peace and Love to all
A.Web

Yall Heard This Shit!!!!

Ayo, It's ya man Senor Crills. I just got that new chef mixtape, and it think i speak for all of the WU faitful when i say their return is surely needed. All these candy corn crap rappers need a lil r&r. On another note, this shit is hard, but not only that, Lex Diamond does alot more talking than usual giving the listener a little insight into his state of mind. Overall i give the mixtape a 4 out of 5 hollow tips. . there's always room for improvement. Outstanding tracks are "Letter to BIG" and "Trenchmen" along with some others. But imma end it hear, yeah, it's ya man Crispy Crills signing out. Keep ya ear to the streets, Peace!!!!

Artful Dodger

Ayo!! It's ya boy Crills aka Aphillyated aka Vic Vega aka Mr Blonde . .and im here with an update. In the process of ironing out the art work for the much anticipated "Prepare 4 The C Sons" mixtape we got a draft done of a potential choice. Art work is done by Sue Works google him. Feel free to leave your comments. And check for any other aesthetic updates.

Peace!!

UNDER NEw Management

Hey y'all it's tha Smelly Goat Elli-Oat, and im taking over tha C-4 Blogspot. I am going to be posting videos and pictures of THE MOVEMENT, as well as keeping the rest of the faithful updated on summer shows and parties that the members will be participating in. Keep your eyes open for the C-4 Beer-B-Q summer jump off. Now for a summer update: Alpha and A Webber have left THA ISLAND only to end up on another land challenged mass known as Block Island. They are on that paper chase out there as well as grindin out more lyrical voodoo for the masses. C. Write Crills AkA. Aphillyated has, as usual, pulled some ultra smooth jizzob off in the Big Apple doing what he does best, persuading the people with his wordz. He is able to not only come up with new hits like every single day but he is also making guap persuading people to purchase things they dont even need. Googie GO HARD is goin hard pumpin out cracktastik lyrics as well as holdin down tha deerty jerzeey AnD Strong Island. Alpha, Crills, and Mr. Go-Hard did a mind-numbing 24 hour mix-tape grind out session with the ever clever HeadTrip. Laying verbal crack over many HeadTripalistic beats that are destined to blow the average listeners mind. WARNING: ONLY TRUE MOVEMENT FANS CAN HANDLE. Aight folks, time to get outta here, and remember to DL your copy of the new mixtape PREPARE 4 THE CSONS....KeEp iT BrEeZy Y'all

Some views of the west coast experience...

The Sun sets in the west...

Yeah so the Movement has been dispersed across this great land of ours for the past week.  With the 5-Mile Island Problem Webb holding down the northeast in VT and the other 3/4 of the faction soaking up some left coast action.  Googie (the artist formerly known as Nyce), and C Write Krillz were up in the San Jose area, while I the Double A with Life in the Middle...ALPHA!...just roamed around the Golden State for the past week.  If y'all have never been out to the west it must be done, just to get a change of scenery and refresh your view of life by escaping the concrete jungle, for all of you in the NYC metropolitan area or any other urban center.  Flew in to LAX to the city of lights on Monday and ran into Donald Faison from Scrubs and Clueless, that dude is hilarious right haha.  After LA had to get out of the city cuz shit I wanted that environment I wouldn't have gotten the hell outta dodge and left NY.  Took a beautiful scenic 7 hour drive up to the Land of Oak (Oakland) where Krillz, Googie, and I celebrated our dude Jeremy's 21st with our boy Elliot and some of Land of Oak individuals.. Almost got some Cougars Jenny and Ginger RAWRRR!!  But it was a sick night of swishas and E-40 (never thought I'd say that haha).  Also had the most behemoth burrito of my being and it was banggggin, big ups to the Mexicans killing out in the West (California technically is Mexico just so you know, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which we stole California, Utah, Nevada, as well as parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,  and Wyoming, but I drift).  Decided to stay in Berkeley the next day due to a crazy chain of events, mainly resulting from the mad laid back, non-judgmental atmosphere of the city.  Met some chill folks out there specifically my concierge who tried as hard as possible to find me herb, a beautiful bartenderess from Jersey, a cool ass Sikh cab driver named Gary, and some fine ladies in a salsa club.  Go to Berkeley you'll love it I promise you.  The next day I went to Sequoia National Park to go see General Sherman, the oldest living organism on this fucking planet.  Pardon my french but it was ineffable.  Being a foot away from a piece of life that has been around for roughly 2300-2700 years rejuvenated the soul.  You know Alpha had to meet THE Alpha, funny thing is its about an hour long drive up Generals Highway, which in my opinion was the most beautiful drive in the US, and I videotaped the whole ride, and as I reached General Sherman and tried to take a picture my wouldn't let me.  Sort of eerie isn't it.  But somethings aren't supposed to be controlled or put into a fallacious permanent state such as a photo.  I'm glad my camera didn't work, because nothing is stronger than the human memory, and the image and feeling of the tree is forever burned into my soul.  After that went and had the first filet mignon of my life.  I've always been a t-bone or porterhouse type dude and didn't understand all the hype behind a filet mignon.  Boy was I wrong, that shit was sooooo krillz, the meat just melted in my mouth (FUCK SAYING NO HOMO for all you homophobic queers out there).  The Sierra Nevada with it made the meal perfect.  The entire trip one of my main goals was to play some beach volleyball, thats all I wanted to do.  Made the 4 hours and change drive from Sequoia to Santa Barbara in about 3 and a half hours, putting the pedal to the metal literally.  I was a little worried because all weather forecasts predicted rain, but I knew it wasn't going to.  Just one of the gut feelings you can just rely on.  Got there and played a couple of sick game with some folks in their golden years and it was everything that I could ask for.  After that took a nice like jog through Santa Barbara which was gorgeous and decided to hit up a seafood restaurant the individuals I played with recommended.  Got there and ended up sitting at a random table with 2 dudes in their 20's and these 2 random milfs, since the place was so packed we just stole a hodge podge table together.  A little while later a friend of the 2 dudes came through who happened to be from Boston, so there was that east coast connection (about half the people I met during the week were east coast natives and have been living out in California for several years).  The fellas then took me to this sick restaurant/bar right on the Pacific Ocean called the Boat House which was stunning.  Of course gave them all mixtapes and they were bumping it on the drive to the Boat House haha sick life.  After the Boat House the one dude from Boston, Adam, brought me to a friends house so I could get my last taste of some Cali herb and it was banging, more natural tasting than anything I see on the east coast.  After that I went to back to Enterprise Fish Co. the restaurant where I started my night off and had an ill convo with the bartendress who happened to be from Long Island.  Of course left her with a mixtape, I had to plant a few seeds while I was out there yadadamean.  Probably slept for 3 hours after that and woke up at 4 AM to drive back to the Enterprise car rental in Los Angeles by 6 AM.  As I pull up to the rental return window I see our neighbor from 2 years ago who always loved our music, and the crazy part was my mind had just ran across him minutes before that, coincidence I think not, just the power of thought and the mind in my opinion.  Got to LAX and decided to give up the seat on my flight for a voucher for another flight, so it couldn't have worked out better.  Got on the plane and engaged in the most stimulating conversation I've had in a long time with the lady next to me about life.  Everything that had been on my mind for the past couple of months was all brought up just through the course of natural dialogue.  Almost as if the woman had been stalking my thoughts for the past couple of months.  California was amazing and I loved it and I would definitely consider moving out there one day to just slow things down, but there's no better feeling than returning to your HOME.  All in all...Californicated.

Angry Blogger 1

Corey and I have been meaning to kick off this angry blogger shit, but we've just been super peaceful recently and haven't felt the need to rant about anything. Right now, im sitting in my 3 hour forensic anthro class and im livid! I need that rant so here goes..
'Fuck wack rappers' is a common phrase round here, but right now im saying 'fuck wack professors.' Im paying, I should say, borrowing ridiculous sums of money every semester to get a good education at Hofstra University. I was fortunate enough to have been accepted with several scholarships that help to ease the pain, but as most of us are aware of, these loans are gonna stick with me for years to come. I understand that the best investment you can make is in yourself, so I don't stress too much about it while im here. However when I feel that my money is going to waste, it gets to me, I feel the pain in my stomach, and right now I feel like hurling my overpriced, coliseum beef and barley soup all over the projector.
This professor is god-awful. She barely knows how to pronounce the majority of terms that she skips breezily through as she teaches exclusively from powerpoint. slides, scratch that, she falls short of teaching, merely giving slight supplements to the vague slides she hurries through and then expecting us to learn the rest from our books. Im broke, I didn't get the books, my fault, I know, but when im doing an inclass activity and I ask for your help on how to measure a humerus bone, and you're my professor, you don't tell me to look in the book, you get your fat ass up, come over and show me hands-on how to measure that shit. I mean, I know the book is necessary to supplement the class lessons with further necessary knowledge, but when im payin a couple thousand yuckos for your time in this blooodclott class, when I ask for your help, you better fuckin help me! If it were the other way, as the professor seems to see it, I could have just spent a hundred on the book, taught myself (which is ultimately what we have to do in this shithole) and saved myself the time and money and all the pain that goes along with losing either one if not both.
I know you might be thinking 'if you're so worried about wasting your time and money, why are you blogging in class?'' first of all, fuck you hahaha nah, but seriously I feel like im doing more for myself and my life by getting this shit off my chest right now. Otherwise im listening to this woman blabber about what she barely knows for 3 hours, when in the end I will have to teach myself. Also, everytime I look at this 'doctor' I can vividly imagine my borrowed money carelessly floating down and bursting into intense, fleeting flames and settling into the nothingness that permeates this proLesser's measly mind. Time to raise some hell and take my eductaion back out of her flubbering hands. Thanks for listening people.
Angry blogger out
Peace and love
-W

Estelle and C-4

It's all LOVE but Just in case you forgot, Hofstra, The C-4 squadron and the MOVEMENT Run shit around here! Shouts to all the other competitors who came through and did their thing at the competition last thursday. It was a fun night with a lot of good music and in the end when they announced the winner, of course the 4 kings were crowned and we will be opening for Estelle tomorrow, Monday feb 23 8pm at Hofstra USA. Come through and support us! And not to forget...MAJOR shout outs to everyone in the movement who came on thursday and helped us get that spot rockin! PEACE

Jazz. . . So influential

Yesterday was a good day, aside from the good vibes of the movement and the ground hog foreshadowing change by taking a bite out of the system (Bloomberg specifically)Ha! But i got the opportunity to check out some live music. I recommend every one check out some live music at some point in their lives. The vibrations emitted from the instruments can resonate through the soul and bring divine inspiration I SWEAR!!!
Jazz is such a sick art form there's one specific style called Avantgarde, excuse the misspelling, where each section of the set plays completly sporadic and improvised. Its Freedom in its purest form, No adherance to rythm or beat, truly disciplined freedom.
C.Write Krills

Violence destroys

So we know everyone was souped for the show on the sixth, but we just heard news that a senseless fight broke out at the spot, B. Stone the other night; a cop was hit in the foray and apparently, the club has since been shut down. Our peoples at Team Vicious are currently looking for another venue, so as soon as we have something locked down, we'll let you all know the time and place. Stay tuned, stay informed and stay sensible. This is just another instance of violence and violent acts by egotistic idiots destroying the possibility for future positivity. WE ALL NEED TO GET SMART AND START LEARNING TO BUILD WITH ONE ANOTHER PEOPLE!! I tell no lie I boost no war. Peace and LOVE!
-W.

Mixtape Movements

So yeah, we know there's been tentative dates set for the next mixtape to drop, and yeah, those dates have not been met, but listen, since there's so much anticipation for this project and since it is our definitive masterpiece to date, we are in no rush to put out anything less than epic and we still have a few tracks to finish and touch up before we can put the final product together. I'd say the mixtape is about 93.5% complete and our MC engineer extraordinaire Alpha is currently wrapping up his final verses while mixing all the tracks to make them sound smoooove as butta. IN this picture, you see Aphillyated and Alpha scribing their verses for the final track on the disc. The song's called survival and it's lyrical manslaughter over an insanely intricate beat blessed by my dude Felli, AKA Keenan Fel. This kid is on some whole other inventive shit with his sound and it's absolutely refreshing to hear, so check him out on myspace and see why we're in a different realm these days. Other than that, No more release dates but its coming so soon you should really just stop worrying, Prepare 4 The C-Sons and know that when they arrive, your worlds will never be the same. This shit is EPIC people! Peace & Love
-W

Team Vicious and C-4 Movement

The Mystical minds of the Movement will be tearing shit down as we squad up with Team Vicious for a performance and afterparty on Friday, February 6th. Come through, celebrate and hear all new music from the C-4 camp as well as Special Guests Performances by: Young Menace, Nikko, and DJ Sets all night long. Hope to see you there. Details are as follow
Place: B.stone (121 Fulton St & Nassau st ny,ny 10038)\

take trains: 2,3,4,5 to Fulton St or A,C,J,M,Z to Broadway-Nassau st

Concert Time: 8:30pm
Party Time: 10:00pm-4am
adv tix: $10

18 to Party 21 to Drink

Cheap drinks all night!

Music By: Dj Scoop"The party Lifesaver"
Dj ME a.k.a "The main Event"
Headache
Mr.Gyaliss "The voice of queens"

Photography by: www.jiggytime.com/Team Vicious Photo group

www.myspace.com/c4movement
www.myspace.com/djhylite718
www.myspace.com/1djme
www.myspace.com/bronx2harlem

Chase the book with the documentary

So some local up and comming videographers chose to do a peice on yours truly. Take a look, see if you can learn something about us that you previously didn't know. Shit is pretty hot though. Remember prepare for the C-Son!!!. Peace and Love.
C.Write.Krills a.k.a Aphillyated

Emptiness- Tao Te Ching

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living"
-Socrates

Today is tuesday, the 13th day of the New Year and while we are gearing up for the 9:00 show at the Annex in NYC tomorrow, we're also taking the time to question life and the mental construction of perceived realities which govern our society.

We here at the movement would like to encourage everyone to join us for the sake of yourselves and to read, examine, converse about, and question the eternal, intuitive energy that we call life and also our concepts of reality, that is to say, observed "life" filtered through the imagination of the individual and interpreted to the cohesion of the collective.

We feel it is important to think, or more accurately, to identify with the incessant streams of thoughts in our heads and to guide those rivers towards the vast sea of understanding and knowledge and ultimately, past the surface and into the infinite depths of being. If you take everything at face value, accepting the common, constructed consensus of reality, how can you be in control of your life if you don't even control your own interpretation of that life. Wake up from your naps people. SHouts to the homie Navpreet Tung, it's been too long my dude.

My present stream of thought flows like so: The structure stands to support content. The content of those structures varies and no two are completely identical. The tallest structure with the greatest content is perceived to be the most powerful, but ultimately, all structures are unstable. Content is important but superfluous, for what will you have left when your structure eventually crumbles?

Let it marinate.

And also, I just bought the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. It is translated as the "book of the way and it's power" and it is profoundly beautiful in the simplicity and depth of it's texts. I encourage everyone to find this book at some point in your lives and to read it with an open mind. It could change the way you see the world if you let it. Here is an excerpt discussing the importance of emptiness. It speaks to space-consciousness as opposed to our usual object-consciousness and it's SO REAL!


We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.



And let that marinate until you come to the show tomorrow! Be there or be elsewhere but wherever you are, just be PEACE!
-A.WEBSTER