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Millitant? Yes. Afrocentric? Well, lets just say that Brooklyn’s X-Clan made Chuck D look like Ned Flanders. “Yes, it gets blacker.”

So you’re asking yourself, wow did a super-whitegirl from Kentucky get locked into a very heavy X-Clan thing? Only one explanation: Yo MTV Raps! No I didn’t have the map of Africa shaved into my head (but I knew a white kid that did!) When I was 13 and X-Clans’s first (and best) album hit my television, I didn’t have a clue what lyrics like “Come into my oven devils come and you burn. I can always catch a fire when my stregnth is Black word. Yer pissin me off because you swear yer higher level. Back to your cave. Get yourself together. Silly and Magilla. Chocolate and vanilla. How could polar Bears swing on vines of the gorillas. Please.” No…for real. Those are the lyrics. I just knew it was funky. With flagrant layers of samples from Parliament and all the usually funky suspects, I got hooked. I didn’t know what they were talking about. I didn’t know where those beats came from. But whatever it was…I wanted it.

Grand Verbalizer Funkin’ Lesson Brother J, Professor X the Overseer, Paradise the Architect, and Sugar Shaft the Rhythm Provider were in heavy rotation for at least 2 years before I figured out what the hell they were talking about. But the magic couldn’t last forever. Sugar Shaft tragically died of AIDS. Then Professor X passed from spinal meningitis in 2006 and remaining members ended up ironically warming up for certified white devils, Insane Clown Posse. Check out a few choice tracks from their original classic courtesy of the Xclan website, where you can permanently download all of these songs FOR FREE!!!!. These tunes still rule and clearly predate the worst of the samplin’ crackdown.

Funkin Lesson

Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It?

Verbal Milk

Heed the Words of the Brother

And one unreleased new track!

Weapon X

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