Independent Hip Hop

Tonight, 12/21 at 7:30pm Pacific time, tune in to Stacks TV with hosts Toquon & DJ Icy Ice. Bamm Tronics will be there for an interview, and Stacks TV will broadcast a sneak peek of the upcoming video for Jungle of Ones & Zeros, directed by Patricio Ginelsa and produced by Kid Heroes & Xylophone Films

If you miss the show, Stacks TV still has your back – you can watch replays at StacksTV.net!

Jungle of Ones & Zeros premieres Jan 4, 2011 at BammTronics.com

Bamm Tronics will be opening up for the world renowned Long Beach group Ugly Duckling. It’s goin down live in Fullerton @ Commonwealth Lounge, Sunday, Dec 19th. 21 & over, $5 at the door. Come show your Illamental fam some love!

What does that mean? I’m not sure exactly but it sounds badass, doesn’t it? But I don’t come to you with nonsensical, overly-technical phrases without reason. If you’re a Triple Helix listener then you may have wondered where the new music has been in the last several years.

We had to take an unexpected hiatus due to circumstances beyond our control. We won’t bother you with the details. But what we WILL bother you with is more music from The Blocks, which is already in preparation and will be ear drum ready before you know it. Scouts honor.

Sunday, Dec 4th at 4th & B in San Diego, join The Vox Merger and the Illamental fam as they perform with the legendary Wu Tang Clan during the kick off of their reunion tour.  Tickets are on sale now!

We got so much to do these days. It’s amazing how this whole music thing ebbs and flows.

But we’re about our business though. Got two releases coming up this fall, including the anticipated Vox Merger project. I think y’all will be pleased with the outcome after such a significant wait. We took it back to the drawing board a few times, but it’s finally ready to go.

While we’re on the topic of business…we couldn’t help but notice a few folks out there in the music sphere using the term “Illamental”. Well, aside from the fact that I’ve had a grasp on the word Illamental since maybe 96-97, to quote The Stones, “it’s all over now”.

We’ve trademarked the term. We are Illamental. Adjust yourselves accordingly…

Anthony “Akim” Kim is currently a full time law school student who also happens to be one half of the independent hip hop duo Vox Merger.

Born to a Korean father and Filipino mother, this Southern California born and raised MC is relatively new to the hip hop industry but has already worked with many well known Asian American artists and producers such as the Far East Movement, Chan, Bambu and Illmind.

Read the full interview @ HalfKorean.com

You come to where we are, but we also go to where you are. We’re stepping up our networking game, so don’t forget to use the fresh new links on the right to friend up with us at you favorite social spots.

“Tweet-tweet, mutha f*****!”

San Diego – we’re coming back to our “home away from home” Friday the 20th. Live show with Vox Merger at The Onyx Room. Click the flyer for more info and guestlist.

I’m sure I speak for the Illamental fam when I say that we have lost an inspiration and a giant that will never be replaced or surpassed. Every musician looks up to you Michael. You are the pinnacle. You are the legend.

I’m sure I speak for my father, mother, sister, and brother when I say we have lost a member of our family. I can’t explain how much the music of you and your family was a part of our lives. The Jacksons are in our blood. Your music will live but it still hurts to lose you.

I don’t know how we can continue with you gone. The world will miss you endlessly.

Taken from blackfacts.com

1. 1999 – White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black since slavery ended….

2. 1991 – Adrienne Mitchell, first African American woman to die in combat in the Persian Gulf War is killed in her military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia

3. 1987 – Edward Daniel Nixon, former president of the Georgia NAACP, died at age 87.

4. 1978 – Death of Daniel (“Chappie”) James Jr. (58), retired Air Force general and the first Black promoted to four-star rank, at the Air Force Academy, Colorado.

5. 1975 – Death of Elijah Muhammad (77), leader of the Nation of Islam, in Chicago. He was succeeded by his son, Wallace D. Muhammad.

6. 1971 – President Nixon met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and appointed a White House panel to study a list of recommendations made by the group.

7. 1964 -Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight boxing champion.

8. 1948 – Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister

9. 1870 – Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

10. 1839 – Seminoles and their Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, Florida, to the West.