PROCLAIM

Bio

PROCLAIM is a Hip Hop music artist born and raised in East Los Angeles, California. In his early teen years he became involved in the Chicano gang culture that has plagued East L.A. for many generations. As a result, he eventually ended up having a short incarceration in the juvenile hall system, which led to a year and half long rehabilitation process at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas. While there, he was able to transcend his gang mentality through a newly found passion for knowledge. This passion has led him to complete two bachelor’s degrees in psychology and philosophy at the California State University, Fullerton.

Even though he had listened to mostly West Coast rap his whole life with strong a influence from Tupac Shakur, it was during his time at CSUF that he discovered the conscious more positive side of Hip Hop music rooted in the East Coast underground tradition. Being exposed to this motivated him to start writing his own verses, producing his own beats, and eventually to record his debut album “Question Everything” released in 2006. His studies in philosophy and psychology had a big impact on the album and continue to influence his music to this day.
After “Question Everything“, he became deeply interested in politics due to the pro-longed Iraq war and the continuous deceptions of the Bush administration, which inspired him to record his 2nd album titled “Necessary Dissent” released in 2008.

In addition to his music, PROCLAIM has worked in the mental health and social service field for the past 7 years. In 2010, he graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. It was during his last year of graduate school that he began recording his latest album titled “Free Associations”. Continuing in his passion for knowledge and desire to struggle with certain philosophical questions, PROCLAIM moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Liverpool where he resided during his course.

He has now returned to Cali and is working as a Psychotherapist. He also represents the AIM Clika on the West Coast with his fellow AIM Cali soldados for justice. Moreover he has the honor of being the first ever MC to be selected for The AIM Raptivist Collective by AIM President AK47. He has recently released the album “Free Associations.” You can find alll his music available at all good online music stores. PROCLAIM is the emcee that brings Hip Hop and Philosophy together with outstanding results. 


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Discography
Question Everything (2006)   
Necessary Dissent (2008)   
Free Associations (2011)
 
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Division 
AIM West Coast

Contact Details
 Proclaim on Facebook
Proclaim on Reverbnation

AdeKwit

Bio

Jae Davis, aka AdeKwit, was born in Miami Florida in the heart of the hood. He had an obsession with music from a young age and was bumpin real Hip Hop since Middle School. Writing poetry has always been his other passion in life and in only Grade 8 he was writing incredibly profound and existential material about his life and the universe that housed it. By the age of 11 or 12 he began to combine his two passions and started putting his poetry to beats. Davis had a talent that was apparent to all those around him even if his material would challenge their mental starch mentality about religion and politics.

Davis has suffered from depression throughout his life and his poetry and music has acted not only as a form of creative expression but also as a means of catharsis. His music expresses his personal struggles and deals with issues like atheism, politics, growing up in the hood and conquering the demons which have often lead him towards self-destruction. However his creativity not only serves as a form of self-healing but it also acts as a powerful tool of education for others.

Davis, now known by his emcee name AdeKwit, has been a long time AIM member and is now part of the collective Grand Unified Theory run by fellow AIM member Greydon Square. Through The Anti-Injustice Movement AdeKwit endeavours to utilize his music to combat injustice, fight for equality and raise awareness about the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Furthermore through Grand Unified Theory he will use his music to raise people's consciousness about the importance of science and rational thinking. AdeKwit is a dedicated atheist and this comes across potently in his music. However like many other members of The Anti-Injustice Movement his AIM is to raise awareness about the dangers of fundamentalist religion but without persecuting liberal theists. Nevertheless his music demands that we should all question everything.

AdeKwit is working on his first mixtape 'The A.L.B.U.M.' and will soon be contributing to the second album by The AIM Raptivist Collective 'Lyrical Warfare Volume 2'. This up and coming emcee may be a new contender in the world of underground hip hop but there is no doubt that his lyricism, flow and music packs one hell of a punch. He is certainly destined to be a Hip Hop heavyweight.

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Music

Discography

The A.L.B.U.M. Mixtape (Coming soon!)

Lyrics

Piece of Rhyme

Where in the hell can I go to find piece of rhyme?
To give my mind some peace.
So I can spit it how I live and every beats defined.
To shed reality.

Where do I go?
Turn on the radio and all I hear is self indulgence
And people talking nonsense
I’m wondering where is all the substance
A place where money, clothes and cars are not the only options of topics for you
to discuss, just to make a profit.
While gas prices are rising
Homes are foreclosing.
Religious fanatics trying to stop your right to an abortion
Our troops still overseas
And we just murdered Bin Laden
Plus we’re arrogant if we think that’s the end of all our problems
It’s 2011 and people are still homophobic
Claiming it’s contagious to children
That’s absolutely bogus
And everybody’s a “Real Nigga”
I just ignore it
Plus “M.O.B. and Get Money”
Cliché rhetoric’s
I’m not downing anybody I just don’t endorse it
Struggling to make it to the top like a broken forklift
Trying hard to find the picture like a lost portrait
I’ll keep fighting to reach my goals
And never forfeit
I slept through the rapture that was miscalculated
What would you expect from a book that’s outdated?
Camping say’s October 21st would be the worst day
That’s pretty ironic
Because that’s my fucking birthday
So I’ll be drinking and chilling while you wait on an earthquake
Even advanced technology can’t predict when the Earth shakes
So be stupid and follow prophets that’s horrible at adding
And I think it’s actually sad people want this to happen
That’s why I want to find Piece of Rhyme
No limits in rapping
Display pictures with words
Exploiting my passion
Hope my music touches your heart
And reaches the masses
With rhymes that make your body rock
I call it lyrical action.

Division
AIM Florida

Contact Details
AdeKwit on Facebook
AdeKwit on Reverbnation

Greydon Square Drops His Latest Baby

This is a very excited AK47 here because not only have I booked two excellent UK venues for Capital-'X's I Want Justice Tour but AIM emcee Greydon Square, aka The Black Carl Sagan, has given birth to his latest genius baby, The Kardashev Scale. He's even payed his respects to his AIM familia by including a really sick track called A.I.M. Anti-Injustice Music. I was fortunate enough to have previewed many of the tracks on Skype with Greydon himself a few months back, which was a great honour for me. Nevertheless I can't wait to see the download bar stop processing so I can bump the finest godless empirico-rationalist Hip-Hop album on the planet since The CPT Theorem.

This is a moment us hardcore Greydon fans have been anticipating for many months but Greydon wisely did not rush his art because he is satisfied with nothing less than perfection. This album is not only for atheists because even though you may not agree with everything Grey says about the noun 'God' you can not deny the escalating dangers of the more extreme factions of religion. The album has something to offer to everyone regardless of whether you're an atheist, an agnostic or a theist, or a Hip-Hop head or not because it's undeniably intelligent, covers a variety of relevant issues and is also beautifully executed both lyrically and musically. It also features some dope collabs from well known emcees like Canibus to lesser known emcees like Gripp who both hold their own with our lyrical titan Greydon Square.

I'd love to talk more about The Kardashev Scale but I think I've waited patiently long enough so I'm going to lay back, pop a can of Dr Pepper Zero and listen to what I know will be one of the best underground Hip-Hop albums of the year. The time has come for AK47 to completely marinade herself in The Kardashev Scale's beautifully godless futuristic technological quantum flava. Some of us like it hot.

You can buy The Kardashev Scale at any good online music store or through Greydon's sleek new website.

I have more super sick news coming your way with regards to The AIM Raptivist Collective but right now I have some serious Hip-Hop head nodding to do so I'm going to bounce.

Keep It Underground!
~AK47~

Greydon Square

Bio

Greydon Square (born Eddie Collins on September 28, 1981) is an American hip hop artist. He is a veteran of the Iraq War and an outspoken atheist who promotes discussion on philosophical issues, as well as studying full time. His music deals with philosophical issues (particularly with regard to atheism and science), political issues, the war in Iraq and his experiences as a soldier who had to fight in this war, and his childhood which he had to spend in group homes.Collins, grew up in Compton, California, where he was raised as an orphan and became immersed in gang culture. In May 2001, he enlisted in the United States Army. He went on to serve in the Iraq War in March 2004. After returning from Iraq, Collins began attending college in Phoenix, Arizona as a physics major. It was at this time that he began questioning his prior religious beliefs and became an atheist, posting videos on YouTube. He has appeared in several television documentaries and radio shows, and his music has attracted fans such as Penn Jillette and Richard Dawkins.[1] He is also a member of the international secular hip-hop activist movement, The Anti-Injustice Movement (aka The AIM) and may be planning a UK tour.

Collins has been expressing himself through rap under his stage name of Greydon Square since 2001. Among his influences are Phil Collins, DJ Quik, Dr Dre, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, Cedric Williams, and The Bee Gees. His first album, Absolute, was released in 2004 and is no longer available.His follow-up album The Compton Effect, was released in 2007. After being approached by several independent record labels and one major one, Collins created his own company to distribute the record. In 2008, he released his next album titled The CPT Theorem. These two album titles provide references to the city of Compton (also called CPT) where he grew up, and to the Compton effect and the CPT Theorem from physics, which he studies.The Kardashev Scale, set to release August 10th, 2010 is his 3rd studio album as Greydon Square. It is a title comes from the Russian Scientist, Nikolai Kardashev, who In 1963 Kardashev upon examining cosmos came up with the idea that some galactic civilizations would be perhaps millions or billions of years ahead of us, and created the Kardashev classification scheme to rank such civilizations. With the Kardashev Scale, Greydon employes creative samples from respected astrophysicists like Michio Kaku and Carl Sagan, a feature track with Canibus, and (19) new songs to add to his expanding catalogue of music.

Greydon equates lyrical ability to the ancient practice of Martial Arts. Hip-hop is in everything you do, and your ability is not something to be taken lightly or shelved.

Greydon is not only a member of The Anti-Injustice Movement but he also runs a creative collective dedicated to reason, atheism and science called Grand Unified Theory. 
 
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Discography

Absolute (2004)

The Compton Effect (2007)

The CPT Theorem (2008)

The Lyrical Warfare Volume One Mixtape (2010)

The Kardashev Scale (2010)
 

Lyrics

Anti-Injustice Music

Name another emcee unwelcome in a church

that if he ever shows up they'll stuff em in a Hearse
Drive his ass away, a funeral reversed
all because I spit shit that hits em where it hurts
they'll know i'll just stand up, go lyrically berserk
whether its either that or physically assert
that you don't need no master, you were free at birth
and damn the bastards that didn't let you see it first
weird research, the gravitational effects of two suns
we found the missing the links, they kept inventing new ones
now it's all lyin pseudoscience
who gon' lay down in the den with the lions, me
if you ever want me debate me then try and see
call up ya local radio station and ask for me
make sure you have all the pre-approval of faculty
otherwise you might not understand it
Anti-Injustice Movement we're here to liberate the damn planet
and we dont we need a grand standing
we do it because its right
you troll because you can't stand it

We don't need your god, keep Allah
we're for the separation of church and state, damn Sharia Law
and you'll never live to see us fall
only die like humans while our message of freedom lives on
either get knowledge or get gone
keep gettin shit on by the church and islam,
ask em to share all the wealth they sit on
they'll laugh in your face in either hand you a bible or quran,
...turns out freedom of speech is the worst offense
...our purpose is to peek under the circus tent

They wont let us
then want to take over the world
we wont let em
this is about one law for all
we wont let up
until all the injustice is gone
we all fed up
you and I are not alone
we're all together
this the theme song for the fight
so get em
gradually you will come out of acting so bashfully
 
Division
 AIM West Coast

Contact Details

Greydon Square on Facebook 
Greydon Square on Reverbnation