There's a cool new group out of Seattle called Blue Scholars. They're a Filippino crew that's into political and community activisim--a lot of the grassroots stuff that more artists need to get into. They spit it then live it.
I first heard about them from David Meinert over at fuze music. he's at: davemeinert [a] fuzemusic [dot] com. he hit me up after reading a couple articles that i'd written for Davey D over at Daveyd [dot] com--a strong industry/community brother out of the Bay who's been carrying the torch for hiphop for 25 years now.
Anyway...
I'm not into hyping random folks unless i think they're making a difference or at least trying to. Trying never hurt nobody, but not trying hurts a little bit of everybody sooner or later.
Anyway, if you want some more info on 'em, check out the following links:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/0625/massline.php
http://www.seattlemag.com/spotlight.asp
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=37586
http://www.nwasianweekly.com/20062444/blue20062444.htm
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/underground/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002802578
here's another video from their BumberShoot gig. I think they opened for Kanye West too.
